Most Australians are missing out on an opportunity to influence where and how they die, says a study that shows a serious lack of end-of-life planning…

A Sydney father has won the right to vaccinate his children after a drawn-out legal battle with their mother, who is strongly opposed to immunisation…

A QUARTER of the nation’s health budget is devoted to futile end-of-life care that strips patients of a dignified death and means healthier people have their surgery delayed…

As Gough Whitlam’s attorney general, he was Australia’s first law officer. Today he and his wife keep his and hers jars of the banned drug Nembutal for the day they decide they want to die..

Critical ethical points have been raised by Britain becoming the first country in the world to allow mitochondrial transfer, or – to give it its proper name – “babies with three parents”. The technique was pioneered to combat a range of mitochondrial disorders with a pretty high incidence – they afflict one in 6,500…

A group of Australian doctors opposed to the introduction of euthanasia and assisted suicide has written to all South Australian House of Assembly MPs condemning Hon. Bob Such’s ‘Ending Life with Dignity Bill’ 2013…

The justice system is unprepared to deal with aggressive behaviour by sufferers, writes Paul Bibby…

The parents of a severely disabled NSW boy have lost their $10 million damages case against an IVF specialist who failed to properly warn them of the likelihood their son would inherit a rare blood clotting condition…

A decision on whether to give people conceived from sperm donors clues about their genetic origin on a separate page of their birth certificate has been shelved by the NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell. Donor-conception support groups said people had a …..

There have been a number of recent cases where parents have requested abortions on gender grounds. Obstetricians want ban on parents knowing child’s sex. Senate inquiry has been set-up to probe gender-based abortions…