A SCOTTISH consultant called for a fresh debate on “end-of-life decisions” facing the medical profession yesterday as he left a disciplinary hearing without a stain on his career after being cleared of the mercy killing of two terminally ill babies.  Dr Michael Munro, a consultant neonatologist at Aberdeen Maternity Hospital, escaped any form of sanction [...]

A serious injury leaves a loved one in a coma. Relatives may face the hardest decision of their lives: to wait it out or turn off the life-support machine.
But now, that critical decision may be turned over to a sophisticated computer program. New software should soon be able to predict more accurately than loved ones [...]

COPENHAGEN, July 2, 2007-Novo Nordisk is taking the lead in communicating with the public through the launch of two new websites dedicated to clinical trials and bioethics respectively. Both sites are aimed at a wide target group including patients, doctors, investors, experts and the general public.
“The new clinical trials portal will provide an overview of [...]

A growing legal movement to recognize a new fundamental right — ‘medical self-defense’ — could bring jarring social changes
GIVEN THE MAKEUP of the Supreme Court, this is supposed to be a time when conservative judges are reining in some of the “rights” established by liberals over the past four decades.
Yet there is a growing push [...]