Last Friday morning, just past midnight, a 24-year-old dressed in combat gear had opened fire in a crowded movie theatre…
Should deep, continuous sedation at the end of life really be treated as normal medical practice in the Netherlands, ask three Dutch authors in the Journal of Medical Ethics.
Almost two years after she died, no one involved in the death of 17-year-old Mumbai woman Sushma Pandey is facing charges. She was unmarried, working in a scrap depot, and had donated eggs three times in 18 months at an IVF clinic. Two days after the third donation, she complained of severe abdominal pain.
IVF clinics are already offering clients the possibility of sifting their embryos to ensure that they will not inherit the breast cancer genes BRCA1 and BRCA2.
The new government of French President Francois Hollande has announced that it will move soon to legalise same-sex marriage and same-sex adoption. With pressure building up in countries like the US, Australia and the UK, perhaps it is time to ask where the children for male couples will come from.