February Archive

Should governments overrule parents who oppose transgender puberty-blockers? Yes, says bioethicist

24 February 2019 | Link

tags: children, transgenderism

Denying kids treatment could be a form of child abuse

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Young blood is probably snake oil, says FDA

24 February 2019 | Link

tags: enhancement, parabiosis, pseudoscience, senescence

It has 'no proven clinical benefits'

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Leading Irish hospital makes willingness to do abortions a condition of employment

24 February 2019 | Link

tags: abortion, conscientious objection, ireland

Government is rolling out abortion services quickly

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Wife who travelled with husband to Dignitas will not be disinherited

24 February 2019 | Link

tags: assisted suicide, dignitas

High Court ruling will make it easier to access assisted suicide

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Should fat stigma be banned?

24 February 2019 | Link

tags: obesity, stigmatization

There is no rational defence for it, argues an American ethicist

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Bioethicists launch ‘Journal of Controversial Ideas’

24 February 2019 | Link

tags: bioethics journals

Peter Singer is one of the founders

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China may be building its massive DNA security database without citizens’ consent

Xavier Symons | 24 February 2019 | Link

tags: china, genetic privacy, privacy

Reports suggest that DNA samples are obtained from free medical check-ups

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Australian doctors in firing line in stoush over asylum-seekers

17 February 2019 | Link

tags: australia, refugees

New law gives medicos a pivotal role

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Controversy dogs ‘assisted dying’ poll of UK doctors

16 February 2019 | Link

tags: assisted dying, assisted suicide, euthanasia, royal college of physicians

Allegations that the Royal College of Physicians has been hijacked

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Singer and Savulescu back germline editing

16 February 2019 | Link

tags: gene editing, germline modification, germline therapy

He Jiankui’s fundamental ethical misstep was exposing children to risk, not gene editing

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Embryo profiling could be a short-cut to ‘designer babies’

16 February 2019 | Link

tags: designer babies, embryo profiling

Technically feasible but ‘repugnant’, says one geneticist

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Latest revelations about sperm donation secrets

16 February 2019 | Link

tags: sperm donation

From The Netherlands, Israel and the US

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Consent not a defence, court tells body modification artist

16 February 2019 | Link

tags: body modification, informed consent

Tongue-splitting is not ‘reasonable’

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34 elderly are dead. Why haven’t you read about it?

15 February 2019 | Link

tags: angels of mercy, serial killers

What may turn out to be one of the biggest crimes in US history is being ignored

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‘Ethics dumping’ taints organ transplant research

10 February 2019 | Link

tags: china, informed consent, transplant ethics

Expert demands that 400 papers be retracted

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