medical trends

Will pigs usher in the next medical revolution?

Peter Cowan | 14 December 2011 |

tags: organ donation, stem cells, xenotransplantation

Transplanting organs from pigs could be the answer to the shortage of organs for desperately ill patients.

A hospice in the womb

Carolyn Moynihan | 09 December 2011 |

tags: abortion, perinatal hospice, prenatal testing

When prenatal diagnosis brings bad news about their child, parents deserve a real choice of paths. Happily, there is a beautiful option available.

Organ donation: crossing the line

Nancy Valko | 06 October 2011 |

tags: donation after cardiac death, euthanasia, organ donation

Linking the "right to die" with organ donation has opened a terrible Pandora's Box.

Too much information?

Margaret Somerville | 23 August 2011 |

tags: censorship, euthanasia, patients' rights

The PR department of a hospital thought so, but patients are entitled to consider all sides of an issue such as euthanasia.

After the war on tobacco - a campaign for self-control?

Carolyn Moynihan | 01 July 2011 |

tags: public health, smoking, virtue

Is it really more difficult than fighting multinational corporations on every front?

Your Constitutional right to be crazy

Theron Bowers | 24 February 2011 |

tags: human rights, insanity, law

The man who killed six people and seriously wounded a Congresswoman in Tucson was crazy. But not crazy enough to be locked up.

Taking childbirth home

John Bambenek | 16 February 2011 |

tags: childbirth, freedom, hospitals, medical insurance

Thanks to the risk management brigade, a woman in an obstetric ward is little more than a potential plaintiff.

A tough call

Cristina Alarcon | 12 February 2011 |

tags: abortion, conscientious objection, pharmacists

Does conscience protection excuse a health professional from providing after-abortion care?

Pre-natal screening: where is the debate?

Stella McLeod | 16 December 2010 |

tags: Down syndrome, New Zealand, prenatal testing

At the very least there should be a democratic debate on targeting Down syndrome babies for destruction.

Enough of ethnic cleansing in the womb

Mike Sullivan | 16 December 2010 |

tags: Down syndrome, genocide, prenatal testing

A group of New Zealanders are calling authorities to account for a genocidal campaign.

Pre-natal diagnostic techniques pave the way to eugenics

Manuel and Sophia Corpas | 18 November 2009 |

tags: eugenics, genetics, prenatal tests

Ever-more sophisticated technology allows us to detect ever more genetic anomalies. What will we do with this knowledge?

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