by Collectif | 13 Oct, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Prenatal diagnosis
On 13 October, the Roche and Ariosa Diagnostics Laboratories, leaders in the NIPS market [1](Harmony Prenatal Test®), announced that they had obtained a licence from the Sonic Healthcar Company to carry out the Harmony® prenatal test in Australian and English...
by Collectif | 11 Oct, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
The first clinical trial involving the injection of stem cells into babies whilst in the womb is scheduled to begin in January. This trial is supervised jointly by the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and Great Ormond Street Hospital in the United Kingdom. ...
by Collectif | 11 Oct, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Two Chinese sperm banks at the Ruijin Hospital Clinic in Shanghai and the clinic in the Hubei Province have introduced a new way of attracting donors, namely by giving them an iPhone 6S in return for gamete donation. In fact, the sperm banks are giving amounts of...
by Collectif | 8 Oct, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
In the Netherlands, the 2015 euthanasia statistics revealed a 10% increase in the number of cases of euthanasia in 2014 compared to 2013. The Control Commission “received 5306 reports of euthanasia or assisted suicides in 2014”. 41 people “underwent euthanasia on the...
by Collectif | 7 Oct, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Transhumanism
Progress in the field of neuroscience is raising new ethical questions. Neurologists and philosophers are climbing on board, following along the lines of the Institut du cerveau et de la moelle épinière (ICM) (Brain and Spine Institute), which has organised an annual...
by Collectif | 6 Oct, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
A study entitled “The 2015 Quality of Death Index. Ranking Palliative Care across the World” published on Tuesday and managed by the Economist Intelligence Unit in eighty countries, has shown that the United Kingdom is the first in the world in terms of palliative...