by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 27 Jun, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
Hormonal contraception, whether in the form of the pill or IUD, is not harmless for women aged 40 and over. Danish researchers followed up 1.8 million women aged 15 to 49 between 1995 and 2012. To avoid distorting the results of the study, the women selected had...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 27 Jun, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
The FDA[1] has not approved a clinical trial request for CTX001, an experimental drug that uses CRISPR technology. This drug is ex-vivo[2] gene therapy which would be used as first-line treatment in the management of sickle cell anaemia[3]. It is being developed...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 27 Jun, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
On Monday, researchers at the University of Cambridge in Great Britain and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden warned against the risks of genome-editing technology currently being explored by scientists around the globe. It could inadvertently increase the risk of...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 27 Jun, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
Whether for or against abortion, 85% of Irish doctors believe that “medical abortion is not part of routine general practice”. To trivialise abortion by likening it “to the treatment of asthma, heart disease or diabetes” would “be full of...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 27 Jun, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Transhumanism
For Jacques Testart, transhumanism is “an infantile ideology that takes advantage of the extraordinary progress of technoscience over the last decade, to bring to light old, archaic myths about the super-intelligent, immortal, invincible human”. Facing Laurent...