by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 6 Mar, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis
Using artificial intelligence, scientists at Google’s Health Tech subsidiary, Verily, can predict the risk of heart attack or stroke by looking at images of a patient’s retina. They claim that they can predict with 70% reliability which individuals could...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 1 Mar, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Last week, the ECHR ruled as inadmissible the case of Charron and Merle-Montet v. France, in which “two women demanded a ‘right to a child without a father’” (see “MAP for all”: case deemed inadmissible by the ECHR). This judgement...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 1 Mar, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
President Ogirima of the African branch of the WMA [1], has announced that “Africa rejects medically assisted suicide and euthanasia,” describing them as “contrary to the medical oath”, which states that “I [doctors]will not use my...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 1 Mar, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Prenatal diagnosis
A team from the Beijing Genomics Institute in China has sequenced the genome of two foetuses in utero, in an attempt to detect their genetic risk for a certain number of diseases. To do this, they collected blood samples from pregnant women in which foetal cells were...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 1 Mar, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis
More and more companies are investing in technology designed to help them predict the future, especially in terms of employee behaviour: productivity, interactions and even emotional states. These algorithms, which promise increased profitability, represent a soaring...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 1 Mar, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
The law has just been adopted by the Dutch Parliament. From now on, all citizens over 18 years of age will be automatically included in the donor register unless they explicitly refuse tos participate. This law is aimed at increasing the number of donors. The...