This article raises interesting questions relating to medical tourism and a continual search for legal go-arounds.
[ABC News] Concerns are being raised about the use of surrogates in Thailand as a growing number of Australians look to the country in th…
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This study raises an important ethical question dealing with death and coping with the loss of loved ones. Should we allow family members to witness life saving efforts if they ask? What happens if they become part of the percentage that regrets watchi…
[The Sacramento Bee] Five years ago, Alice Crisci froze her eggs, knowing she could be left infertile after chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer.
Now, cancer-free and 10 weeks pregnant, Crisci is a passionate donor advocate and a vocal critic of a …
02/12/2013
Mutant virus sparks bioethics debate
[The Star] In a storage facility in the Netherlands, a mutant virus has been locked in a freezer for more than a year, unaware of the global debate swirling around it.
As far as scientists know, this virus cannot be found anywhere else on Earth; it was…
[Washington Post] In Richmond — E. Lewis Reynolds was just a boy when his cousin hit him in the head with a rock, nearly killing him and triggering epileptic-like convulsions that lingered for some years.
His condition didn’t stop him from enlistin…
01/14/2013
Mass donor organ fraud shakes Germany
[The Guardian] German medical authorities are calling for an extensive overhaul of the country’s organ transplant programme after transplant centres across Germany were placed under criminal investigation over allegations that they had systematic…
[The Guardian] Since the completion of the human genome project in 2003, scientific activities that were unheard-of a decade ago, such as sequencing the genes of a newly emerging virus in days, the ability to screen for inherited diseases and the poten…