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Arkansas case shows path forward for banning Down Syndrome abortions

Arkansas case shows path forward for banning Down Syndrome abortions

by Michael Cook | January 16, 2021

Forced sterilization policies in the US targeted minorities and disabled – and lasted into the 21st century

by Alexandra Minna Stern | August 29, 2020

Regenerative clinics: strong language from FDA

by Patrick Foong | August 08, 2020

There is a bright side. If you catch Covid-19, you’ve missed out on bubonic plague

by Michael Cook | August 08, 2020

Things you should think about when you hear ‘vaccine by end of the year’

by Gary Schwitzer | August 02, 2020

Covid-19: should we deliberately infect volunteers?

by Patrick Foong | August 02, 2020

Unscrupulous scammers are selling stem cell therapies for Covid-19

by Patrick Foong | June 14, 2020

Mass gatherings: OK. Mass: not OK

by Michael Cook | June 05, 2020

Is seeking ‘herd immunity’ ethical?

by Xavier Symons | May 09, 2020

Coronavirus: should frontline doctors and nurses get preferential treatment?

by Dominic Wilkinson | February 28, 2020

In defence of Peter Singer

by Michael Cook | February 22, 2020

The complicity of health and medical personnel in post-9/11 torture is a stain on my profession

by William Hopkins | February 01, 2020

India continues to struggle with surrogacy

by Pinki Virani | January 18, 2020

Ethical issues surrounding egg donation in genome editing 

by Patrick Foong | January 11, 2020

In defence of conscientious objection

by Daniel Rodger and Bruce P. Blackshaw | September 08, 2019

How should chimeric embryo research be regulated?

by Patrick Foong | August 25, 2019

Doctors fight legislation prompted by sex abuse scandals

by ​​​​​​​Anna Almendrala | August 24, 2019

Fudged research results erode people’s trust in experts

by Gavin Moodie | August 03, 2019

US doctors vote to oppose assisted suicide

by Frederick White | June 20, 2019

Fertility tourism: Australians travelling to US to have ‘designer babies’

by Patrick Foong | June 08, 2019

Misreporting science is unethical and even dangerous

by Cathal D. O'Connell | May 28, 2019

When is dead really dead? Study on pig brains reinforces that death is a vast gray area

by Katharina Busl | April 27, 2019

Elite hospitals plunge into unproven stem cell treatments

by Liz Szabo | April 06, 2019

Could a booster shot of truth help scientists fight the anti-vaccine crisis?

by Lee McIntyre | March 09, 2019

Rights of the dead and the living clash when scientists extract DNA from human remains

by Chip Colwell | February 15, 2019

The brave new world of human genome editing: an Australian perspective

by Patrick Foong | February 04, 2019

3 ethical reasons for vaccinating your children

by Joel Michael Reynolds | December 01, 2018

Frankenstein: the real experiments that inspired the fictional science

by Iwan Morus | November 02, 2018

Is it possible for doctors to be neutral on physician-assisted suicide?

by Michael Cook | October 28, 2018

Is it immoral to watch football?

by Cesar R. Torres and Francisco Javier López Frías | September 29, 2018

Euthanasia in Belgium: updates on a social experiment

by Richard Egan | September 02, 2018

UK Supreme Court decision changes rules about brain-damaged patients

by Clark Hobson | August 04, 2018

I got a hoax academic paper about how UK politicians wipe their bums published

by Gary Lewis | July 27, 2018

Why a London museum should return the stolen bones of an Irish giant

by Thomas L Muinzer | June 09, 2018

We’re not prepared for the genetic revolution that’s coming

by Robert Chapman | June 02, 2018

In Brazil, patients risk everything for the ‘right to beauty’

by Alvaro Jarrin | May 05, 2018

‘Right to try’ bills passed in US Congress: more harm than good?

by Patrick Foong | April 14, 2018

Neanderthals cared for each other and survived into old age – new research

by James Ohman and Asier Gomez-Olivencia | April 06, 2018

What is CRISPR gene editing, and how does it work?

by Merlin Crossley | February 03, 2018

The ‘greatest pandemic in history’ did its deadly work 100 years ago

by Richard Gunderman | January 13, 2018

No, most people aren’t in severe pain when they die

by Kathy Edgar , Sabina Clapham and Samuel Allingham | December 16, 2017

India outlawed commercial surrogacy – clinics are finding loopholes

by Sharmila Rudrappa | December 02, 2017

Untested stem cell therapies finally drawing attention of Australian regulators

by Patrick Foong | November 24, 2017

We need a more comprehensive ethics of disorders of consciousness

by Michele Farisco | November 18, 2017

We need to address questions of gender in assisted dying

by Rachael Wong | October 28, 2017

When a ‘good death’ was often painful

by Caitlin Mahar | September 30, 2017

The hidden stories of medical experimentation on Caribbean slave plantations

by Londa Schiebinger | August 19, 2017

‘Digital dust’

by Johann Roduit | August 12, 2017

Interview: Lydia S. Dugdale on death and dying

by Lydia S Dugdale | August 04, 2017

Only in Sweden? But why?

by Thomas Jackson | July 24, 2017

Update from the UK: Noel Conway can challenge assisted dying ban

by Clark Hobson | June 24, 2017

Caution needed with multipotent stem cells

by Jill Johnson | June 02, 2017

Dear Mr Trump, isn’t it about time to announce your bioethics commission?

by Craig Klugman | May 26, 2017

Belgian Catholic group explains switch on euthanasia

by Raf De Rycke | May 06, 2017

Head of Belgian order explains shock move on euthanasia

by Rene Stockman | May 06, 2017

Stronger, faster and more deadly: the ethics of developing supersoldiers

by Adam Henschke | March 01, 2017

Why the media need to tread carefully when reporting research findings

by Hannah Brown | February 07, 2017

Has the UK reached a tipping point on assisted suicide?

by Clark Hobson | February 03, 2017