Jared Yee

Medical journal calls for debate on “therapeutic homicide”

Jared Yee | 30 Jun 2012 |

tags: assisted suicide, Canada, euthanasia

The Canadian Medical Association Journal says that euthanasia is "therapeutic homicide" which requires extremely robust arguments to justify it.

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Compensation for victims of North Carolina eugenics program abandoned

Jared Yee | 23 Jun 2012 |

tags: eugenics

North Carolina's effort to compensate victims of a widespread and decades-long eugenics program that extended into the 1970s was derailed in the State Senate this week.

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Hungarian “racial purity” genome test slammed

Jared Yee | 23 Jun 2012 |

tags: genetic testing, genetics, racism

The Hungarian Medical Research Council (ETT), which advises the government on health policy, has asked public prosecutors to investigate a genetic-testing company that confirmed that a member of parliament was of pure Hungarian stock and did not have Jewish or Roma heritage.

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Swiss canton to get first assisted suicide law

Jared Yee | 23 Jun 2012 |

tags: assisted suicide, Switzerland

The French-speaking Swiss canton of Vaud will become the first to introduce a law which explicitly allows assisted suicide.

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Bioethicist denounces silence on Taliban polio vaccine ban

Jared Yee | 21 Jun 2012 |

tags: polio, politics and bioethics

Bioethicist Art Caplan has denounced international silence after a powerful Taliban leader in northern Pakistan banned the vaccination of 161,000 children against polio.

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Serial killer dies in Irish jail after three years in a coma

Jared Yee | 16 Jun 2012 |

tags: criminal activity

A notorious serial killer and rapist died in an Irish jail last month at the age of 69 after spending more than three years in a coma.

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Canadian man wants sperm deal with lesbian couple voided

Jared Yee | 16 Jun 2012 |

tags: sperm donation

A Canadian man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple has said he signed a deal with them "under duress" is now demanding the courts recognise him as a father with liberal access rights.

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Euthanasia campaigner fights for job while attending right-to die congress in Zurich

Jared Yee | 16 Jun 2012 |

tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia, Philip Nitschke

Euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke, founder of Exit International, fears he will lose his medical licence over his involvement in the death of an Australian woman suffering from motor neuron disease.

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Man donates kidney, gets no insurance

Jared Yee | 16 Jun 2012 |

tags: organ donation, organ transplants, US

Radburn Royer, of Minnesota, donated his kidney to his daughter Erika after her lupus caused kidney failure. Now 31, Erika is fine, but her physically active 53-year-old father has been unable to obtain private health insurance.

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European crisis boosts illegal trade in body parts

Jared Yee | 9 Jun 2012 |

tags: organ market, organ trafficking, organ transplants

The financial crisis in Europe has sparked an increase in the trade of human body parts, as families and individuals scramble to put food on the table.

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New Jersey surrogacy bill could allow paid surrogate “carriers”

Jared Yee | 9 Jun 2012 |

tags: law, surrogacy, US

The landmark Baby M case -- a messy affair in which a surrogate refused to give away her parental rights to the child she carried -- swung an international spotlight on surrogate mothers' rights in New Jersey.

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Children with 3 parents could become a reality

Jared Yee | 9 Jun 2012 |

tags: genetic diseases, genetic parentage, genetic screening, genetic testing, UK

Children with three genetic parents could become reality in the UK.

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“Human barcode” could organise society, erode privacy and civil liberties

Jared Yee | 9 Jun 2012 |

tags: genetic privacy, privacy

Science fiction writer Elizabeth Moon has rekindled the debate over whether it's a good idea to "barcode" infants at birth.

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Spanish doctor ordered to pay child support after failed abortion

Jared Yee | 2 Jun 2012 |

tags: abortion, Spain

A Spanish doctor has been ordered to pay child support after a failed abortion.

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Organ trading, donation make headlines

Jared Yee | 2 Jun 2012 |

tags: organ market, organ trafficking, transplant surgery

A worldwide illegal trade in kidneys is sharply expanding, according to the World Health Organisation.

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