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New!
2nd Interdiciplinary
Seminar "Basic Principles in Palliative Care"
(26.4.2009-30.4.2010)
Deux
naissances après une autogreffe de l'ovaire
(24.2.2010)
Une femme a
donné naissance à deux enfants après une autogreffe
de l'ovaire, un cas unique au monde.
Study
Finds Cognition in Vegetative Patients
(4.2.2010)
In a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, four
of 23 patients diagnosed as being in a vegetative state showed signs of
consciousness on brain-imaging tests.
Pregnant
Woman's Involuntary Hospitalization Raises Legal, Ethical, Medical Questions
(27.1.2010)
The case of a pregnant Florida woman hospitalized against her will is
raising a legal, ethical and medical storm around this issue: Can a doctor's
order to quit smoking and rest in bed trump a woman's right to control
her own body?
Parents
fight to keep infant on life support
(21.1.2010)
Three-month-old
Isaiah May, who suffered brain damage at birth, breathes on a ventilator
in an Edmonton neonatal intensive care unit...
Nuffield
Council on Bioethics Seeks Views on Biofuels (13.1.2010)
The
UK-based Nuffield Council on Bioethics is asking people to submit their
views on the potential of biofuels.
Les
conséquences de l'avortement sélectif en Chine
(12.1.2010)
119 garcons naissent actuellement pour 100 filles en Chine, là
où le ratio était de 108 garcons pour 100 filles en 1982...
Vers
un nouveau projet sur le prélèvement d'organes en Finlande
(8.1.2010)
Le 29 décembre 2009, le gouvernement finlandais a annoncé
qu'il présenterait bientôt au Parlement un projet de loi
sur le prélèvement d'organes.
The
Medical Milestones That Defined the Noughties (4.1.2010)
In 2000, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair jointly announced that a working
draft of the human genome had been completed, paving the way for genetic
tests and new treatments for cancer, diabetes, heart disease and even
obesity...
Quadriplegic
Mother Fights for Custody of Son
(23.12.2009)
A quadriplegic mother is fighting her ex-boyfriend in court to retain
custody of their son. The ex-boyfriend claims she cannot be a competent
mother because of her disability. It is a case that touches on important
questions about the rights of the disabled.
Irish
Supreme Court Rules Lab Embryos Not Protected (15.12.2009)
Irish scientists who
want to work with human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) got a boost from
Ireland's Supreme Court today, which ruled that human embryos outside
the womb are not "unborn," and therefore are not protected under
the country's constitution.
UNESCO
(IBC): Report on Human Cloning and International
Governance
Within the framework of its work programme for 2008-2009,
the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO (IBC) has focused on the
issue of human cloning and international governance with the aim of exploring
whether there is any scientific, social or political change that would
justify a new initiative at the international level on this area.
Nuffiled
Council on Bioethics Press Release: Lords welcome Council's inquiry on
medical profiling and online medicine
Inquiry: Medical
profiling and online medicine: The ethics of 'personalised' health care
in a consumer age
Official
Statements of the Bioethics Committee of the Church of Greece (In
Greek)-(In
French, Russian and Bulgarian)
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