by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Sep, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
The 2007 annual report of the Agency of Biomedicine has just been issued and presents the conditions of the medically assisted procreation, on the eve of the revision of the bioethics law, in 2009. In 2006, the different techniques of medically assisted procreation...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Sep, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
State of the researches The 2007 report from the Agency of Biomedicine reminds that French teams have started research on human embryos from 2005, year of the first authorisations. At the end of the year 2007, 27 teams held an authorisation to research on...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Aug, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
New statutory instruments Two decrees (completed with two orders) enabling registering the lifeless foetus with the registry of birth and the family record book and organising funerals (the foetus under 22 weeks were often incinerated with the operating room...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Aug, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
The criteria of death questioned An article published on 3rd September 2008 in the first page of the Osservatore Romano, the daily newspaper of Vatican, caused a bit of a furore questioning that the current concept of the brain death is sufficient to declare...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Jul, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
“Individual choices or medical strategies?” Under the direction of Elise de La Rochebrochard, this issue of the Cahiers de l’INED 1 proposes an analysis on “the explosion of medical consumption” in the field of the...