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Dr Peter Saunders2011-08-05 16:04:472024-01-22 09:23:15Japanese stem cell sperm study opens Pandora’s box of unethical possibilities
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-08-05 16:04:472024-01-22 09:23:15Japanese stem cell sperm study opens Pandora’s box of unethical possibilities
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-08-05 16:02:352024-01-22 09:23:14Scientists make nerve cells directly from human skin bypassing stem cells altogether
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-08-03 13:05:252024-01-22 09:23:09Another poll from the Voluntary Euthanasia Society (aka DID) to grab headlines
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-08-03 13:04:052024-01-22 09:23:11Nitschke announces his latest scheme to help more Australians kill themselves
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-08-03 13:03:092024-01-22 09:23:12Surrogacy raises complex ethical issues
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-08-03 09:42:492024-01-22 09:23:09Medical Defence Union finally publishes full version of new guidance on praying for patients
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-08-01 09:29:432024-01-22 09:23:08£200k of lottery money spent on Reiki like therapy in West Midlands Hospital a waste of time and money
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-07-31 09:18:302024-01-22 09:23:08Three exciting news stories about ethical stem cell treatments this month
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-07-31 09:14:432024-01-22 09:23:07Two women in their 50s with serious brain damage whose relatives want them dead. One judge has said ‘yes’ but the other is still thinking. Why?
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-07-31 09:08:392024-01-22 09:23:03Animal-human hybrid embryos – now the government doesn’t even know how many there are
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Dr Peter Saunders2011-07-29 13:07:152024-01-22 09:23:03One baby adoption in the UK for every 2,235 abortions – seven times worse than the US
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Philippa Taylor2011-07-27 09:51:302024-01-22 09:23:02What is the true cost of IVF?
Altruistic kidney donation – the opportunities and challenges
Giving a kidney can be one of the greatest gifts one can offer to another person. The first successful human kidney allograft was carried out between the identical Herrick twins in Boston in 1954, Ronald giving a kidney to Richard and in so doing becoming the world’s first living organ donor. Richard lived another eight […]
How Christians can end the waiting list for a kidney
When I gave my kidney in 2019, it felt like a simple decision: someone might die without a kidney whilst I had a spare. Far from seeing it as the epitome of saintly generosity, I was convicted that it was an effective way of doing good and glorifying God. By giving a kidney, I enabled […]
Jany Haddad – surgeon, pastor, leader, mentor and family man
Jany Haddad (born Teheran, Iran, 13 March 1954, died Aleppo, Syria, 14 August 2020) ‘Doctor, we plead with you, please do not leave Aleppo, you are the salt of this land. You are the light of this city.’ So spoke Dr Jany Haddad’s Muslim patients during the dark days in Syria when hundreds of thousands […]
Three ways COVID-19 has changed me as a doctor
COVID-19 has changed the world, the medical profession, and the NHS in ways we are only beginning to understand. In my A&E department, we have seen patients with oxygen saturations lower than we previously thought were possible, treated our own hospital colleagues – some of whom went to ITU, broke more bad news down the […]
Priceless but penniless: The ‘heroes’ denied a pay rise
On 21 July, the Treasury announced a pay rise for almost 900,000 public sector workers. Months into a pandemic, this was surely a perceptive move by the government to cultivate a positive relationship with its valuable ‘frontliners’. However, not everybody embraced the pay rise, because the pay rise did not embrace everybody. In the NHS, […]
COVID-19: God in the gaps
One of my favourite things to do is walk in the mountains of Snowdonia. I spent many a day off in its breath-taking hills during my time working in Bangor a few years ago. One memorable day out was when a friend took me scrambling up the side of Tryfan, notorious not just for its […]
Bad news for the unborn
The latest figures from the ONS reveal that by the beginning of June, 47,820 people in England and Wales had died as a result of contracting COVID-19. Half a million had died worldwide. Yet there is a greater killer at large, one whose death toll, worldwide, was forty times that. In England and Wales, last […]
COVID-19 exposing global health inequalities
Last week, I looked at how COVID-19 was disproportionately affecting people of colour in the UK, and how existing social and health inequalities were being brought into the light once again by the pandemic. But while the rich world grapples with its legacy of social division, racism and systemic injustice, the other two-thirds of the […]
The NHS quietly changes its transgender guidance
Last week in The Spectator, James Kirkup revealed that the NHS had amended its transgender guidance for children. It is unclear whether or not this is directly related to the legal challenges currently being mounted by children, parents and young adults who say that transitioning has adversely affected them, but it is certainly interesting timing. […]
COVID-19 is exposing UK health inequalities
Recent figures from theDepartment of Health and Social Care (DHSC) show the UK death toll from COVID-19 was nearly 40,000 by the start of June. This makes the UK’s death toll among the worst in the global pandemic. Black and minority ethnic (BAME) communities make up a disproportionally large part of that figure. For the last couple […]
God, ethics and COVID-19
‘Oh – and by the way, I’ve recommended you for chairing the Covid Ethics Committee. Hope that’s OK.’ Really? Me? Why? God – Help! I had known, of course, that there was a plan to put together an Ethics Committee. It was necessary. With COVID-19 gathering pace and some immediate decisions to be made – […]
From the mouths of children…
In the old fairy tale of The Emperor’s New Clothes, a tailor tells a king that he has invented a wonderful new kind of cloth, that can only be seen by the wisest people. He makes a beautifully-tailored outfit for the Emperor, who proudly goes out into the streets, showing off his garments and, as […]