by Collectif | 10 Sep, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Deemed to be too expensive and a source of spin-offs, Quebec’s programme of medically assisted procreation (MAP) will be modified “in depth”, according to Health Minister, Dr. Gaétan Barette. In fact, the programme turned out to be far more costly than...
by Collectif | 10 Sep, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Marie Gaille, philosopher and head of the CRNS mission, published a letter in the on-line journal of the CNRS. She argues that social and human sciences should grasp the topic of MAP given its multidisciplinary nature and the moral, political and legal issues that it...
by Collectif | 10 Sep, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
On 10 September, the scientific journal, Nature, revealed that a team of Japanese scientists would soon be attempting to treat a patient suffering from age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) with iPS cells. This would be the first person to be treated with iPS...
by Collectif | 9 Sep, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
On 3 September 2014, the scientific journal JAMA – Journal of the American Medical Association – published the results of a study carried out between 1998 and 2011 involving 189,734 women living in California and diagnosed with breast cancer. Globally,...
by Collectif | 9 Sep, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
In the British newspaper, The Telegraph, a scientist at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, Dr. James Mumford, referred in an opinion column to the results of a recently published study relating to the viability of premature...