
Is Professor Basky Thilaganathan deliberately misleading parliament over the results of NIPT for Down’s syndrome?
Here's a new story involving disabled people, taxpayers' money, apparent scientific deception, a biotechnology…

Mother permitted to give birth to her dead daughter’s child
Following a Court of Appeal battle a 60-year-old woman has been granted permission to take her dead daughter's…

Halfway Through this Journey: Talking about dying
Benjamin Franklin is widely credited with the pithy aphorism 'in this world nothing can be said to be…

Rise of the Healthcare Robots: Five Ethical Issues To Consider
Once considered the subject of our imagination, best left in the realm of science fiction, robots are…

My right to have non-politically correct views
Two years ago I posted a blog about the censuring of debate and free speech which is probably more relevant…

In five years time (or less), expect to see the UK permit the creation of GM babies
There has been a flurry of news reports (and here) in favour of a new technology that could edit…

Time is not money: learning to value relationships
Life as a missionary doctor certainly has its unique challenges, and one of those is trying to fit…

Freedom of conscience in medicine is under sustained attack but is worth fighting for
I have previously highlighted the case of two Glasgow midwives who were disciplined by their NHS…

Do you know what happened to the girl in this iconic Pulitzer prize winning photo from the Vietnam War?
On 8 June 1972, a plane bombed the village of Trang Bang, near Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) in South…

Christians: inherently generous?
New research shows that Christians are more generous than the general population when it comes to donation,…