Informed Consent


Berkeley backpedals on releasing genetic information to college students

Jared Yee | 21 August 2010
California Dept of Public Health criticises, university backs down

May doctors ethically retrieve eggs from comatose women?

Michael Cook | 31 July 2010
Intriguing case at MGH

Man wants to donate his organs, now

Jared Yee | 31 July 2010
Wants to save “five to ten people”

German anatomists confront Nazi past

Michael Cook | 24 July 2010
Is a global debate on ethical use of cadavers needed?

UK schoolgirl wants leg amputated to become para-olympian

Jared Yee | 24 July 2010
Wants to follow dream

Should drug addicts be sterilised?

Michael Cook | 21 May 2010
If women can't be trusted to care for children, why should society allow them to have them?

Should deaf child be forced to wear hearing aids?

Michael Cook | 07 May 2010
Deaf father says that his daughter should make up her own mind

Chinese harvesting organs from other religious groups, says Falun Gong

Michael Cook | 28 April 2010
Chinese harvesting organs from Muslims, Buddhists and Christians, as well

Indian tribe wins legal battle to recover genetic samples

Michael Cook | 24 April 2010
Informed consent for DNA research under a cloud

Compulsory sterilisation drive in China

Jared Yee | 24 April 2010
Relatives coerced as well

BMJ editorial backs castration of sex offenders

Michael Cook | 12 March 2010
Disputed by Italian doctors

Disabled girl should be sterilised, says Australian court

Michael Cook | 12 March 2010
Is it in her best interest?

Where did the bodies come from?

Michael Cook | 25 February 2010
The Lancet asks questions

Consciousness still flickers in some “vegetative” patients

Michael Cook | 10 February 2010
New study with astounding results

Do they want population control in Massachusetts?

Michael Cook | 15 January 2010
Woman sterilised without consent

Inferior organs transplanted to solve shortage

Michael Cook | 17 December 2009
Are patients being informed?

NFL concussion rules could change football culture

Jared Yee | 12 December 2009
NFL releases new concussion regulations

Argentina will force children of “desaparecidos” to take DNA test

Michael Cook | 12 December 2009
Under pressure from Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo
 
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