UK lords spar over assisted dying
The United Kingdom is again debating legislation for assisted dying. In late March peers from the House of Lords gave powerful speeches on both sides...
Intended parents should get legal status from birth, says British surrogacy review
In a joint report, the Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission have rejected commercial surrogacy but backed legal parenthood from...
Is Canada’s assisted dying law really in crisis? A UK group says No
A flurry of media reports in the Canadian media is spooking supporters of assisted dying around the world. There are allegations that patients have been...
Bogus psychiatrist in UK evades detection for 20 years
A woman in England has been found guilty of medical fraud after practicing as a psychiatrist for 20 years without a medical degree. Judge Hilary...
‘I felt like a knife had been put into my heart’: Down syndrome woman
The UK Court of Appeal has dismissed a legal challenge brought by a woman with Down syndrome against a provision of the Abortion Act which...
Preparing for the next generation of doctors in the UK
What is the next generation of UK doctors learning about some of the most contested issues of the day? On the LGBTQI+ front, medical students...
English nurse charged with serial killing of newborns
A 32-year-old nurse is on trial for murdering five new-born babies and attempting to murder 10 others at a hospital in the west of England....
UK could revise standards for infant brain death after Baby A experience
Never simple, brain death in UK babies is being reviewed after a 3-month-old baby was declared “brain dead” due to “irreversible cessation of brain stem...
Back from the dead?
Unsettling accounts of dead people who aren’t dead continue to make headlines. On August 17, in the Mexican town of Salinas, a 3-year-old girl named...
Fertility watchdog wants to overhaul UK laws on embryos
The UK’s fertility regulator is seeking to liberalise techniques for manipulating human embryos in assisted reproduction and research. The Guardian describes its plans as “the...
UK babies may have their whole genome sequenced at birth
In the UK, as in many other countries, hospitals routinely conduct a heelprick blood test on newborns shortly after they are born. The blood sample...
Scathing report on English hospital’s maternity care
A damning report on a regional UK hospital system has found that around 131 stillbirths, 70 neonatal deaths and nine maternal deaths might have been...