by Collectif | 13 Nov, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
In the United Kingdom, a judgement has just been passed on a 72 year-old “paralysed” woman whose care has been the subject of a family feud. The guardianship judge in Preston believes that the treatments “keeping this patient...
by Collectif | 13 Nov, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
A study presented at the Annual Congress of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in Texas, has shown that new generation sequencing (NGS), “deemed to be the future of in-vitro fertilisation”, would “not be...
by Collectif | 6 Nov, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has stated in an official document that abortion on the grounds of foetal disability is contrary to the Convention relating to the rights of persons with disabilities[1]. In the same document, the...
by Collectif | 6 Nov, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
For the first time since euthanasia was legalised in the Netherlands, a doctor who administered a lethal injection against a patient’s wishes – an 80 year-old female with dementia (see the Netherlands: female patient “given euthanasia against her...
by Collectif | 6 Nov, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
This month, fifty years on from the legalisation of abortion in England in 1967, the Care Quality Commission[1] (CQC) published the results of a general inspection of the Marie Stopes Clinic in Maidstone[2]. The report suggests that staff at the establishment...
by Collectif | 6 Nov, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
On Monday, 23 October, Carmat announced that it “had successfully carried out […] the first artificial heart transplantation” in Kazakhstan, “without giving the precise date of the operation”. This procedure was performed in...