‘The Right to Build Families Act’ will protect the US IVF industry
“The Right to Build Families Act”, introduced into the US Senate late last year, has flown under the radar but it promises to spark bioethical...
medical journals and climate change
More than 200 medical journals from around the world have written an open letter demanding that governments stop climate change. They believe that a warming...
Biden mandates vaccination of 100 million American workers
US President Joe Biden is mandating the vaccination of 100 American million workers. In a forceful speech on Thursday, he said that all companies with...
Vitamin D clinical trial for kids may be unethical
Could be a manifestation of structural racism A University of Pittsburgh clinical trial on the effects of Vitamin D on children with asthma has come...
Brain organoids grow rudimentary eyes
Challenging research involving human induced pluripotent stem cells Brain organoids with optic cups at day 60 of development. (Gabriel et al., Cell Stem Cell, 2021)...
Bioethicist could be next head of FDA
Ezekiel Emanuel is being floated as the Biden Administration’s choice The name of controversial bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel is being floated as the Biden Administration’s choice...
Should all medical research be regarded as ‘untrustworthy’?
A former editor of The BMJ says Yes The middle of the Covid-19 pandemic is not an auspicious moment to cast doubt upon the reliability...
Is there a vaccine against fake news and misinformation?
Possibly not – for educated people Much of the media is taken up with how close vaccines are to bringing the Covid-19 pandemic to a...
Harvard Law School promotes legal rights for polyamory
Is it just about loving? Harvard University is a greenhouse for thought-leaders. So an initiative promoting polyamory rights at Harvard Law School suggests that a...
Policy shift in Finland for gender dysphoria treatment
Experts are sceptical about the evidence base for puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash The international activist group SEGM, the...
Ukraine clinic seeks to genetically engineer babies
The Medeus Clinic also offers “complex rejuvenation and life extension” The ever-alert stem cell scientist and blogger Paul Knoepfler has flagged a Ukrainian clinic which...
Forcibly sterilized during Fujimori dictatorship, thousands of Peruvian women demand justice
The regime of Alberto Fujimori sterilized 272,028 people between 1996 and 2001, the majority of them Indigenous women The regime of Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori...