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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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Plan to sell morning-after pill to teenagers online this Christmas will lead to more sexually transmitted disease
A British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) campaign, launched today, encourages women to stockpile emergency contraceptive pills over the Christmas period. According to the Daily Telegrapha poster for the scheme, featuring the word ‘sex’ in fairy lights, asks: ‘Getting “turned on” this Christmas?’ And a dedicated website for the service is titled, rather bawdily, santacomes.org.Women wanting to […]
BMJ publishes Secular Medical Forum ‘advertorial’
On 30 November the British Medical Journal published an article by Colin Brewer, ‘a director of the Secular Medical Forum’ , titled ‘Secularism needs a distinctive medical voice’. The 900 word one page article, which appeared in the BMJ’s ‘personal view’ column, and claimed to be ‘not commissioned; not externally peer reviewed’, is essentially an […]
Is ‘faith healing’ costing lives?
As we approach yet another World AIDS day, it is worth stopping to reflect where we have got to this year. First the good news – new HIV infections are down, deaths are down, and the number of people on antiretroviral treatment is up. The UN High Level Meeting on AIDS in New York last […]
Tony Nicklinson deserves sympathy but hard cases make bad law
A severely disabled man from Wiltshire is to ask the High Court to allow a doctor to end his life. Tony Nicklinson, 57, is paralysed from the neck down after suffering a stroke in 2005. He cannot speak or move anything except his head and eyes and communicates through nodding his head at letters on […]
MDU warns against doctors providing medical reports to suicidal patients
The Medical Defence Union (MDU) in its latest advice to doctors (MDU Journal, Volume 27 issue 2 November 2011, Page 24) has published a case study to emphasise the point that doctors who supply medical records to patients who are intending to commit suicide could well be prosecuted. In February 2010 the Director of Public […]
The ‘new’ guidelines on abortion from the RCOG
Just as the leopard cannot change its spots, nor does it seem that the RCOG can change its controversial stance with its revised guidelines for the care of women requesting abortion. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) guidance on ‘The Care of Women Requesting Induced Abortion’ was first published in 2000. An updated […]
Hospital kills ‘wrong’ twin in selective abortion – both babies now dead
Children with special needs can be a great challenge to care for but a tragic story from Australia this week demonstrates that the search for the perfect child can have devastating consequences. Steven Ertelt in Melbourne relates the story on Life Site News. A hospital in Australia is making news for having killed the ‘wrong’ […]
Industrial Action: How should Christians in the NHS respond?
Many Christian nurses and allied health professionals have been asking me how they should act in the face of a mounting industrial dispute. Next Wednesday (30 November), around 100,000 health workers in the UK will join an estimated 2 million other public sector employees in a one day strike in protest about the government’s proposal […]
Spiritually confused care?
Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, recently spoke of the need to remember the spiritual needs of patients in NHS care – and was promptly accused of bringing back medieval exorcism! In the following week, the Royal College of Nursing published a new online training resource to equip nurses in spiritual care, after a survey […]
Adult stem cell research leaps forward whilst embryonic stem cell work slows
It has been an amazing week in the field of stem cell technology with five big stories hitting the news all at once. New doors of therapeutic promise are opening whilst at the same time other doors are slamming shut. I recently highlighted a New Scientist editorial, ‘In praise of stem-cell simplicity’, which gives a […]
Should ‘gay’ Christians be true to their feelings?
Last Wednesday’s Metro (a London newspaper) (p35) ran the story of ‘a burly rugby player’ who ‘suffered a stroke in training and woke up to find he was gay’ (See ‘Different strokes – 19st rugby player now gay hairdresser’) Mr Birch (pictured) was ‘straight’ and engaged to be married when he suffered a freak accident […]
Why legalising assisted suicide inevitably also legalises euthanasia
The Falconer Commission on ‘Assisted Dying’ is about to be put out of its misery when it reports later this month. Having been suggested by Dignity in Dying (formerly the Voluntary Euthanasia Society), paid for by one of its patrons and stacked full of euthanasia sympathisers by Lord Falconer’s own admission (and also for these reasonsdiscredited by the […]