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There is growing acknowledgement of the fact that the backgrounds, ideas, and of American are out of step with the b...
16/05/2024

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.

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. Coura...
15/05/2024

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.

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. ...
14/05/2024

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

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 pro...
13/05/2024

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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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 cast...
11/05/2024

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.

“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 n...
10/05/2024

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.

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 th...
10/05/2024

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.

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 informatio...
02/05/2024

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

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 no...
02/05/2024

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.”

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, head...
02/05/2024

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.

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...
02/05/2024

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

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 dea...
02/05/2024

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.

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 again...
02/05/2024

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 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...
01/05/2024

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

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...

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