by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 12 Feb, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
Every year, 1,000 Belgians are given a lethal injection without requesting it. This point was highlighted on 29 January by Doctor Marc Cosyns[1], during the trial of Ivo Poppe, the nurse accused of murdering about twenty people (see Belgium: former nurse accused of...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 9 Feb, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
On Wednesday, Ontario’s Divisional Court made its initial decision on “extending conscientious objection in a medically assisted dying context” following an appeal lodged by several Christian Medical Associations [1] contesting the obligation to send...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 9 Feb, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
MinION, a portable device the size of a smart phone, can sequence human genomes with unparalleled precision. Published in Nature Biotechnology, the work of scientists at nine universities (Great Britain, United States and Canada) have developed a new sequencing...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 9 Feb, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
In Japan, a Ministry of Science Commission is requesting authorisation for chimeric research in an attempt to culture human organs in animals. This work should probably lead the Japanese Ministry for Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology to revise the law...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 9 Feb, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
In 2015, the ban by German Parliament on professionally assisted suicide forced the Verein Deutsche Sterbehilfe, the only assisted suicide association in Germany, to temporarily stop its activities. However, the association seems to have found a way of circumventing...