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There is growing acknowledgement of the fact that the backgrounds, ideas, and of American are out of step with the backgrounds, ideas and politics of the American public.

How liberal are American bioethicists? - BioEdge There is growing acknowledgement of the fact that the backgrounds, ideas, and politics of American academics are out of step with the backgrounds, ideas and politics of the American public. “Tenured and tenure-track college professors are drawn from a narrow and idiosyncratic slice of society,”....

Elliott is scathing. He says that students and can be socialised into accepting morally indefensible situations. Courageous whistleblowers are essential to shatter the bubble of self-assured expertise.

Doctors can be socialized to cooperate in morally despicable evil, says bioethicist  - BioEdge Bioethicist Carl Elliott seems to relish stirring up fellow bioethicists and the medical profession. In his latest book, The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No, he examines the role of whistleblowers in uncovering medical scandals. He knows from experience...

Three men in from the same family have fathered more than 600 children by offering free s***m on the internet.

3 s***m donors from same family in Quebec have sired 600 children - BioEdge Three men in Quebec from the same family have fathered more than 600 children by offering free s***m on the internet. A documentary by Noovo Info, a Quebec news outlet said that they posted ads on Facebook – “an online ‘parallel universe’ of free s***m donation not regulated by Health C...

The is one of the few countries where s*x selection is legal – and it is a US$500 million market, according to a provocative feature in Slate.com.

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American IVF clinics are happily offering s*x selection - BioEdge The United States is one of the few countries where IVF s*x selection is legal – and it is a US$500 million market, according to a provocative feature in Slate.  One of the leading practitioners, Dr Jeffrey Steinberg, of the Fertility Institutes in Los Angeles, says that its potential is unlimi...

A Norwegian national living in has just been found guilty of several counts of grievous bodily harm for running a castration website catering for men who want to be “nullos” – males without ge****ls.

Owner of castration website in UK found guilty of grievous bodily harm  - BioEdge “Enhancement” normally connotes adding powers beyond normal human functioning. However, there are dark kinds of enhancement which remove them.  A Norwegian national living in England has just been found guilty of several counts of grievous bodily harm for running a castration website catering f...

A 75-year-old man has been charged with the of his wife after allegedly strangling her in a bed because he could not care for her properly or pay her medical bills.

Missouri man killed wife because he couldn’t afford her medical bills  - BioEdge A 75-year-old Missouri man has been charged with the murder of his wife after allegedly strangling her in a hospital bed because he could not care for her properly or pay her medical bills. Police say that Ronnie Wiggs visited his wife Ellen earlier this month. She was in hospital to change the po...

Rates of people identifying as were more than twice as high in the most socially and economically deprived areas as they were in less deprived areas, the analysis of data from 2000 to 2018 shows.

Is poverty a cause of the rise of trans identity in the UK? - BioEdge UK rates of transgender identity have risen at least 5-fold since 2000, with the highest rise observed among 16 to 29-year-olds, although the overall numbers are still small, suggests an analysis of nearly 20 years of anonymised general practice records in BMJ Medicine. Rates of people identifying a...

Female may communicate better with their female , making it likelier that these patients provide important information leading to better diagnoses and treatment.

Female doctors’ patients may have lower mortality and hospital readmission rates  - BioEdge Patients have lower rates of mortality and hospital readmissions when treated by female physicians, with female patients benefitting more than their male counterparts, new research suggests. The mortality rate for female patients was 8.15% when treated by female physicians vs. 8.38% when the physici...

Is this noble aspiration working?

Writing in STAT, bioethicist Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Matthew Guido contend that it is not. “Unfortunately, on training primary care physicians or sending graduates to underserved areas, tuition-free medical school gets an F.”

Will poor American neighbourhoods be better served if doctors can attend tuition-free medical schools? - BioEdge In February Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in the Bronx, in New York City, received a US$1 billion donation –the largest gift ever made to any American medical school. The benefactor, Ruth Gottesman, said that the funds would ensure free tuition in perpetuity to all future students. Several ...

A powerhouse at generating controversial bioethical ideas has closed its doors. The Future of Humanity Institute, headed by Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom, opened in 2005 and was wound up earlier this month.

Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute shuts its doors  - BioEdge A powerhouse at Oxford generating controversial bioethical ideas has closed its doors. The Future of HumanityInstitute, headed by Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom, opened in 2005 and was wound up earlier this month. A valedictory message on the FHI website said the institute had made a valuable cont...

Professor Des O’Neill, a consultant geriatrician, has expressed his anger over the allegedly flawed process by which the change in policy was made.

Ireland’s medical council gears up for legal assisted dying - BioEdge In March, a committee of Ireland’s parliament recommended that “the Government introduce legislation allowing forassisted dying”. If this is approved, Irish doctors will be ready to implement it. In the latest edition of its Guide to Professional Conductand Ethics, the Medical Council has dele...

A anaesthetist has been convicted on charges of injecting patients’ IV bags with dangerous drugs, which led to the death of a co-worker and several cardiac emergencies.

Texas doctor found guilty of poisoning patients  - BioEdge A Texas anaesthetist has been convicted on charges of injecting patients’ IV bags with dangerous drugs, which led to the death of a co-worker and several cardiac emergencies. On April 12, 60-year-old Raynaldo Riviera Ortiz Jr was found guilty of four counts of tampering with consumer products resu...

In an article in the Canadian blog Impact Ethics, three bioethicists have called for their profession to speak out against the violence and suffering.

We should react to atrocities in Gaza, says bioethicists  - BioEdge The war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza is creating tensions within the bioethics community. In an article in the Canadian blog Impact Ethics, three bioethicists have called for their profession to speak out against the violence and suffering.  The point out that some leading medical and bioethic...

A quadriplegic man has chosen because of a bedsore he acquired when a hospital failed to give him a special pressure mattress.

Quadriplegic Quebec man chooses assisted dying rather than live with bedsores - BioEdge A quadriplegic Quebec man has chosen assisted dying because of a bedsore he acquired when a hospital failed to give him a special pressure mattress.  In January Normand Meunier went to the emergency section of a hospital in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, for a respiratory complaint. He lay in a stretche...

England has announced that a second review will take place into adult gender clinics. Professor Cass told the Times that she would not take part in the adult report after the abuse she suffered in recent weeks.

Transgender medicine critic Hilary Cass given police protection  - BioEdge The author of the recent review of Britain’s gender identity services for children and young people has told The Times (of London) that she needs police protection after the release of the report. Professor Hilary Cass said that she had received online abuse and had been told not to use public...

A British charity working with victims of modern has reported that it had received three reports of “forced ” for the first time.

‘Forced surrogacy’ reported in the UK  - BioEdge A British charity working with victims of modern slavery has reported that it had received three reports of “forced surrogacy” for the first time.  Unseen said that calls to its anti-slavery hotline in 2023 had reached a record high – 11,700 contacts. . The number of potential victims in t...

The European Parliament has described “the exploitation of ” as a form of in a legislative resolution on April 23 in its Human Trafficking Directive.

European Parliament describes surrogacy as a form of human trafficking  - BioEdge The European Parliament has described “the exploitation of surrogacy” as a form of human trafficking in a legislative resolution on April 23 in its Human Trafficking Directive.  Campaigners against surrogacy were jubilant at the news. However, scrutiny of the resolution shows that it is relativ...

A committee of the has heard shocking testimony about alleged forced from and practitioners in .

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China accused of sequencing Tibetan and Uyghur DNA to supply organ transplant market - BioEdge A committee of the US Congress has heard shocking testimony about alleged forced organ harvesting from Uyghurs and Falun Gong practitioners in China.  The chairman of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), Congressman Chris Smith, has been studying this issue for years. He is firml...

A company marketing its “at-home insemination kit” on social media is encouraging women to use the semen from a partner’s used condom to become pregnant without his permission.

Shady American company advertises kit for semen theft  - BioEdge A Texas company marketing its “at home insemination kit” on social media is encouraging women to use the semen from a partner’s used condom to become pregnant without his permission.  According to a report in the New York Post, the company, MakeAMom, advertised its US$250 “semen stealing....

Adrienne went through eight rounds of and countless attempts with artificial insemination.

Finally, 20 months ago, a boy, Adam, arrived. With the help of an “angel surrogate”, that is.

How much did it all cost? North of US$1 million.

Million dollar surrogacy baby - BioEdge I cringe with shame as I write this, but before I read her interview in People magazine, I had never heard of Adrienne Bailon-Houghton. There, I’ve said it. I got it off my chest. On to business.  Ms Bailon is a 40-year-old American actress, singer, television personality, and businesswoman. She...

An Ontario man has won the right to government-funded gender-affirming surgery in the United States which will give him both a va**na and a p***s.

Canadian man wins right to a government-funded 'penile-preserving vaginoplasty' - BioEdge An Ontario man has won the right to government-funded gender-affirming surgery in the United States which will give him both a va**na and a p***s.  A three-member panel of judges of Ontario’s Divisional Court ruled unanimously that refusing to cover the procedure would infringe his constitutiona...

lawmakers have made it easier for , *x and people to change their official . A controversial Self-Determination Act passed easily last week.

Children under the age of 14 can also change their gender, but the parents would have to apply to the registry office.

14-year-olds will be able to change their gender legally in Germany - BioEdge German lawmakers have made it easier for transgender, inters*x and non-binary people to change their official gender. A controversial Self-Determination Act passed easily last week.  People aged 14 and older will now be able to change their first name and gender entry by making a declaration to the...

Fallout from the of medical treatment in the continues. The Guardian interviewed doctors and researchers who complained that mere discussion of their could often trigger virulent abuse.

UK doctors fear toxic abuse over their research on trans issues  - BioEdge Fallout from the Cass review of transgender medical treatment in the UK continues. The Guardian interviewed doctors and researchers who complained that mere discussion of their research could often trigger virulent abuse.  In her report, which was released last week, Professor Hilary Cass said that...

Momentum is growing in for a global ban on surrogacy. ’s Prime Minister has blasted as an “inhuman practice”. Addressing a government-sponsored conference on boosting her country’s below-replacement birth rate, Meloni said “I support the bill that makes it a universal .”

Commercial surrogacy hammered in Rome - BioEdge Momentum in growing in Europe for a global ban on surrogacy. Italy’s Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni has blasted surrogacy as an “inhuman practice”. Addressing a government-sponsored conference on boosting her country’s below-replacement birth rate, Meloni said “I support the bill that make...

An Israeli shell hit the clinic’s five liquid nitrogen tanks, destroying more than 4,000 embryos and a thousand vials of s***m and eggs.

Gaza's IVF embryos have been destroyed by Israeli bombs - BioEdge One of the many casualties of the war in Gaza has been the embryos and gametes stored at the Al-Basma IVF Centre.An Israeli shell hit the clinic’s five liquid nitrogen tanks, destroying more than 4,000 embryos and a thousand vials of s***m and eggs. According to a Reuters-commissioned journalist ...

The president of ’s biggest fund, Christian Mutualities, has called for a radical solution to the problem of an . Luc Van Gorp told Belgian media that people who are tired of life should be allowed to end it.

Belgian health care boss says euthanasia is the solution to an ageing population - BioEdge The president of Belgium’s biggest health care fund, Christian Mutualities (CM), has called for a radical solution to the problem of an ageing population. Luc Van Gorp told Belgian media this week that people who are tired of life should be allowed to end it. Like all other European countries and,...

Addressing the affected by her findings, Professor Cass says, “ has let us all down, most importantly you.”

Guidelines on gender related treatment let children down, says major UK report - BioEdge A long-anticipated review has delivered a savage blow to guidelines for transgender medicine in the United Kingdom. The final report of the Independent Review of gender identity services, chaired by paediatrician Hilary Cass says that widely accepted guidelines are built on sand. Addressing the chi...

Former president has finally unveiled his policy on , which promises to be an incendiary issue in the campaign.

Trump plays it safe on abortion - BioEdge Former president Donald Trump has finally unveiled his policy on abortion, which promises to be an incendiary issue in the 2024 election campaign.  In a video posted on Truth Social, his own social media network, Trump said that he would follow the lead of the US Supreme Court decision in Dobbs and...

Earlier this week, the published a 16,000-word document reaffirming condemnations of a wide range of moral issues, from to and .

Vatican reaffirms critique of surrogacy and transgenderism in new document  - BioEdge Earlier this week the Vatican published a 16,000-word document reaffirming Catholic condemnations of a wide range of moral issues, from war to surrogacy and human trafficking. Dignitas Infinita, or “Infinite Dignity”, is both a philosophical and a theological essay, appealing to open-minded peop...

Some bioethicists question the importance of a genetic relationship between and children. What matters, they argue, is a supportive environment, not genes.

What’s all the fuss about genetic parenthood?  - BioEdge Some bioethicists question the importance of a genetic relationship between parents and children. What matters, they argue is a supportive family environment, not genes.  In the Journal of Medical Ethics, a Swedish bioethicist, Daniela Cutas, and a Norwegian colleague, Anna Smajdor, say that ass...