by Collectif | 10 Apr, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
On 28 March, a sixty year-old Japanese man with age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) received an injection of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS), obtained from the skin cells of an anonymous donor. This was the first procedure of its kind as, up until this point,...
by Collectif | 10 Apr, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
On Thursday, after a close vote, “and a rare tie-breaking vote from Vice-President, Mike Pence, empowered to do so as President of the Senate”, the American Senate repealed an Obamacare directive “aimed at protecting the public financing of...
by Collectif | 10 Apr, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Conscientious objection
On 14 March 2017, the European Parliament adopted the Ernest Urtasun report which focuses on “equality between men and women within the European Union”. This document includes “an obvious obstacle to conscientious objection”in paragraph 47....
by Collectif | 10 Apr, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
The Dutch Medical Federation representing 59,000 practitioners and students has branded as “undesirable” the draft law aimed at authorising assisted suicide for elderly people who “feel that their lives are ‘over’ even if they are not ill”....
by Collectif | 3 Apr, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
In Japan, Masayo Takahashi is carrying out a clinical trial using iPS cells to treat ARMD, age-related macular degeneration – a”very debilitating disease that can cause partial blindness”. For the first patient, the injection of skin-derived iPS...