by Collectif | 7 Apr, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
On Thursday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the American Family Planning Association of Indiana and Kentucky legally attacked the State of Indiana on the recently approved abortion law (see Indiana is the second US state to ban abortion in relation to...
by Collectif | 7 Apr, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
Scientists hope to use the CRISPR technique to prevent the HIV virus from entering patients’ immune cells or to inactivate the virus once it has infected the cell. However, a recent study on this subject published in the Nature journal has just qualified these...
by Collectif | 6 Apr, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
On Wednesday, during a Governmental session focusing on Russia’s demographic situation, Russian Health Minister, Veronika Skvortsova, stated that the number of abortions ought to be reduced. According to her, this decrease of 8% in 2015 and 24.5% compared to...
by Collectif | 5 Apr, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
A study published in Nature Communications recounts the xenograft experiments[1] conducted by an American team: five pig hearts were transplanted into baboons “with a record graft survival period of 2.5 years”. One of the authors of the study, Muhammad...
by Collectif | 5 Apr, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
Socialist MP, Salima Moyard, has just filed a draft bill to guarantee the right to assisted suicide in private and public medical establishments and in EMS (Medical-Social Establishments) in the Canton of Geneva. Without providing any further details, Federal...