by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 6 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
Under the new law passed today, the thousands of surviving victims of Japan’s forced sterilization program from 1948 to 1996 will each receive 3.2 million yen ($28,700). About twenty victims have challenged this amount in court, considering it to be...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 6 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
“ The reason I shared her story is to tell people not to lose hope on their loved ones. Do not consider them dead when they are in such a state”. Munira Abdulla, a woman from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), miraculously recovered from the coma she had been in for...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 6 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
Quadriplegic since the age of 17, a young woman explains: “for most of my life, I have been for assisted suicide.” But during the debates on a bill to legalize this practice in New Zealand, she denounces a society that offers no other choices to the...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 6 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Researchers at Columbia University in New York say they “have created embryos” for four patients and are ready to implant them. However, “they face a legal impasse”. The law prohibits the FDA from examining “any application for human research involving a human...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 6 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
In Japan, the five patients with age-related macular degeneration, who received the first induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS) transplant in March 2017, “have all endured the surgery well”. The announcement was made last Friday by the team of researchers...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 6 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Older women in the United Kingdom are reportedly being exploited by in-vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics “trading on hope”. These conclusions by the fertility observatory at the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) warn against certain...