by Collectif | 22 Oct, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
On 9 October, Andrea Lago Ordonez “died at 12 years of age after having been deprived of food and given minimal amounts of water for 4 days at the University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela in Spain”. This case incited numerous doctors and...
by Collectif | 22 Oct, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
The 23andMe Company has “been given the green light” by the FDA[1]to sell its genetic tests once again in the United States. This start-up, created in 2007 by Anne Wojcicki, a biologist married to Serge Brin, co-founder of Google, was given formal notice by the FDA in...
by Collectif | 21 Oct, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
An announcement was made last Monday at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Congress: a new study has just confirmed the “slight increase in the risk of ovarian cancer in women having undergone IVF – of the order of one-third (37%)”. This worrying...
by Collectif | 20 Oct, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Since Greek surrogacy legislation became more lenient in 2014[1], the fertility business has exploded and surrogacy requests are on the increase(cf. Gènéthique du 11 aout 2014). This leniency is not the only reason behind this soar in the surrogacy stakes: the “cost”...
by Collectif | 19 Oct, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
A young American woman, Jessalynn Speight, has just published a book [1]in which she describes her journey in life up to and after the adoption of her new-born baby. Having fallen pregnant “by accident”, 19 year-old Jessalynn had to make a decision about her...