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'Make me comfortable but don't resuscitate me'
Rare disease research – Moving from study participant to research partner
Bariatric Surgery for children in the U.S: Weighing up the risks
Euthanasia in advanced dementia
Ethics News Archive
US court ruling: 30 year old anorexic & bulimic woman removed from life-support
March 29 2017
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and his ‘pediatrician wife’, Pricilla Chan have pledged $3bn to 'rid the world of all disease.'
October 12 2016
Child euthanasia in Belgium
October 12 2016
Persistent vegetative state: A family's agony
October 12 2016
Woman wins appeal to use dead daughter's eggs
July 25 2016
Human organs grown in pigs may help transplant patients
July 25 2016
The United Nations Human Rights Committee states that Ireland’s abortion laws violate human rights
July 25 2016
Zika and the Olympics
July 25 2016
High court ruling that doctors must consult the family of patients who lack capacity before placing a DNACPR order
December 14 2015
Mother loses bid to use dead daughter’s frozen eggs
December 14 2015
Assisted Dying Bill: MPs reject 'right to die' law
December 14 2015
Perhaps an even bigger game changer is CRISPR/Cas9
December 14 2015
Stem cell trial aims to cure blindness
December 14 2015
Outcome of enquiry into mother and baby deaths at Morecambe Bay Hospitals
March 30 2015
New RCPCH Decisions to Limit Treatment framework has been launched replacing its previous Withholding and withdrawing life sustaining treatment in children a framework document.
March 30 2015
Overriding an adolescent’s refusal of life saving treatment: A US case reminds us of the ethical issues at stake.
March 30 2015
Assisted Dying Bill debated in the House of Lords
August 05 2014
In 1996 Brazier and Bridge raised the question ‘is adolescent autonomy truly dead and buried’ following judicial decisions, which had seemed to rather reverse the Gillick-inspired trend for greater children’s decision making in their healthcare.
July 16 2014
The Court of Appeal ruled that there should be a presumption in favour of patient involvement if there were convincing reasons not to do so.
June 30 2014
Euthanasia for children in Belgium is now legal, (http://rt.com/news/belgium-king-sign-euthanasia-bill-566/) and of course has been permitted in the Netherlands for some years.
March 18 2014
Court of appeal to decide whether heavy drinking while pregnant is a crime
March 12 2014
A simple blood test might soon be able to predict the risk of Alzheimer's'
March 12 2014
Controversy over Belgian child euthanasia policy
January 21 2014
Brain death controversies from the US
January 20 2014
UK Personal Genome Project Launched
January 20 2014
High Court Judge Orders Daughters to have MMR vaccine following parental dispute
November 15 2013
Supreme Court judgement on best interests and life sustaining treatment
November 11 2013
Arrest over alleged assisted suicide highlights difficulty with current legal position
September 02 2013
Court sanctions sterilisation of man with learning difficulties
September 02 2013
Welsh assembly passes law for organ donation that presumes consent of donors
July 05 2013
Three-person IVF for mitochondrial diseases
July 01 2013
Preferential treatment of adults over children in organ donation amended by US legal challenge
July 01 2013
Two men in right-to-die cases at Court of Appeal
May 20 2013
Over 30% of GP commissioners have potential conflicts of interest according to a BMJ investigation
March 22 2013
BBC World Service documentary on assisted death in countries around the World
March 22 2013
Confidential enquiry finds that people with learning disabilities die prematurely because of inequity in provision of care
March 22 2013
The final report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry published
February 06 2013
The Institute of Medical Ethics (IME) launches new website to improve education and understanding of medical ethics
November 03 2011
BMA publishes new guidance for doctors and medical students on using social media
September 12 2011
Greater transparency in Deprivation of Liberty Proceedings by Court of Protection heralded by landmark legal ruling
September 12 2011
GP given warning by GMC for administering lethal dose of diamorphine to terminally ill patient
September 12 2011
Care Quality Commission publish review of Castlebeck hospitals following BBC exposure of abuse at private hospital for people with learning disabilities
September 12 2011