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Informed Consent
Researchers propose drug-trial on non-consenting patients
Xavier Symons | 15 June 2013 |
A controversial drug test on non-consenting patients has been proposed by doctors in Massachusetts.
Indian women victimized in sterilization camps
Michael Cook | 15 June 2013 |
Sterilization of poor Indian women is still a major tool used by state governments to slow population growth.
New study identifies five ways to make consent informed
Xavier Symons | 08 June 2013 |
Health experts have long lamented the complexity of patient consent forms. A new University of Michigan study may provide a solution to this barrier to achieving genuine informed consent.
Fear factor: first pre-emptive removal of prostate
Michael Cook | 25 May 2013 |
Following the highly publicised pre-emptive double mastectomy of Hollywood celebrity Angelina Jolie, it has emerged that a 53-year-old British man has become the first in the world to have a pre-emptive removal of his prostate.
Guantanamo Bay hunger strikers are being force-fed
Michael Cook | 11 May 2013 |
Of the 166 detainees at Guantanamo Bay, about 100 are on a hunger strike. About 20 are being force-fed, according to the New York Times. About 40 medical staff have arrived to ensure that the detainees are fed.
Wannabee amputees going to Asia for secret surgery
Michael Cook | 27 April 2013 |
A feature story in the new online magazine Matter gives an exclusive account of how an American man found a surgeon in Asia who was willing to amputate his healthy leg.
Should prisoners donate organs?
Michael Cook | 27 April 2013 |
Utah has become the first state to allow prisoners, even prisoners on death row, to donate organs.
Doctors failed to disclose risks in study of baby blindness, says US agency
Michael Cook | 13 April 2013 |
Scientists at a number of top American universities failed to inform parents of the grave risks of enrolling in a clinical trial on blindness in premature babies, says the federal agency overseeing the welfare of people in research projects.
Commission urges caution with child anthrax vaccinations
Xavier Symons | 22 March 2013 |
The threat of bioterrorism is terrifying thought, and the US government is set on minimizing any risk. But should they go as far as testing a potent anthrax vaccine on young children?
Key stem cell guideline ignored in US
Michael Cook | 22 February 2013 |
A review of human embryonic stem cell lines in the US has raised concerns about informed consent amongst gamete donors.
The true “immorality” of test-tube babies
Michael Cook | 07 February 2013 |
However, a journalist for the American financial magazine Forbes has once again raised the issue of IVF ethics. Its "original sin", says Peter Ubel, was lack of informed consent in the birth of Louise Brown, the first "test-tube baby".
Israel halts underhanded contraceptive injections for Ethiopian migrants
Michael Cook | 02 February 2013 |
Years of rumours that Ethiopian women were pressured into having contraceptive injections by Israeli officials have finally been confirmed.
“Diabolical” Cold War experiments in US class-action suit
Michael Cook | 13 December 2012 |
At 81, retired Colonel James S. Ketchum is still mulling over the morality of chemical warfare tests he carried out on US soliders during the Cold War at Edgeworth Arsenal, a research facility near Baltimore.
After winning the right to die, NY woman wants to live
Michael Cook | 08 October 2012 |
After winning the right to refuse life-sustaining treatment, a young Korean woman in New York has decided that she wants to live.
US doctors’ stand on circumcision changes again
Michael Cook | 01 September 2012 |
For the fourth time in 40 years the American Academy of Pediatricians has changed its tune on the controversial topic of infant circumcision. It now says that “preventive health benefits of elective circumcision of male newborns outweigh the risks of the procedure”.
Germany moves towards a compromise on circumcision
Michael Cook | 24 August 2012 |
A row over circumcision in Germany has escalated after a formal complaint was lodged against a rabbi in the city of Hof.
Parents who await miraculous cures could be “torturing” their dying children, say UK doctors
Michael Cook | 17 August 2012 |
What should doctors do if deeply religious parents want to keep a child alive at any cost, even if the child is suffering and has no chance of survival? In a controversial article in the Journal of Medical Ethics, two paediatricians and the chaplain of Great Ormond Street in London call for changes in the law.
Dangerous experiment in foetal engineering alleged
Michael Cook | 11 August 2012 |
A new paper just published in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry uses extensive Freedom of Information Act findings to detail troubling off-label prescription in the US on pregnant women to intentionally engineer the development of their fetuses for sex normalization purposes.
“Never say die”: the surgeon’s motto?
Michael Cook | 04 August 2012 |
HIV+ women in Namibia sterilised without consent
Michael Cook | 04 August 2012 |
Three HIV-positive women in Namibia have been awarded damages after a court found that they had been sterilized without their consent.
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