Medical ethics/Bioethics

South Korea jails doctors for killing baby delivered at 36 weeks

South Korea has decriminalised abortion but political deadlock has prevented governments from passing laws to regulate the practice.

Pakistan battles legions of fake doctors

Mr Abdul Waheed (left) trying to diagnose a minor in his unlicensed clinic on the outskirts of Hyderabad city in Sindh province on Jan 8. Clinics like his are often the first point of care for poor communities.

Over 3 million South Koreans opt out of life-sustaining treatment

Debate over the scope of so-called dignified death remains active in South Korea.

Singapore’s bioethics advisory committee urges caution on heritable gene editing

The Ministry of Health has also not approved heritable gene editing for these purposes as there is currently insufficient evidence of its safety.

Living with dignity after stoma surgery

Moving forward, we need ro talk more openly about stomas to help patients feel less isolated, writes a nurse.

Just when you thought you were ready for adulthood, the learning begins

As a student, life was much simpler, says the writer.

They inhaled a gas and scaled Everest in days: Is it the future of mountaineering?

Some climbers have inhaled xenon, an odourless gas, has been known for years to activate a molecule called the hypoxia-inducible factor, to help them climb Mount Everest.

Every doctor faces this dilemma

Doctors have to acknowledge the power differential between us and our patients, who are away from their homes, in many ways helpless as they face the most difficult moments of their lives.

Ex-Harvard Medical School morgue chief to plead guilty in sale of body parts

A general view of the Harvard Medical School in Boston in 2022. Between 2018 and 2023, a former manager at its morgue allegedly stole body parts that had been donated for research and sold them.

The terrifying possibility that an unresponsive patient is ‘still in there’

Research on covert consciousness suggests the reality of some patients with brain injury is complex.

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