by Collectif | 21 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
In Poland, a British team led by Dr. Pawel Tabakow at the University of Wroclaw, has succeeded in making a man paralysed as far as his waist to walk again. According to an article published in the scientific journal, Cell Transplantation, the 40 year-old male who...
by Collectif | 21 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
Over the summer, British Prime Minister, David Cameron announced a series of financial investments in the field of genomic medicine. The aim? “To transform the way in which patients will be diagnosed and treated – making the United Kingdom a world leader”...
by Collectif | 21 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
Held for nearly 30 years in a secure psychiatric centre of a prison near Anvers for the rape and murder of a 19 year old female student, Franck Van Den Bleeken requested euthanasia three years ago in Belgium. He has just been given a favourable response from the...
by Collectif | 20 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Female employees who wish to pursue their careers are currently being offered finance by Facebook (soon to be followed by Apple) to freeze their oocytes – a practice deemed to be fairly controversial, (Gènéthique press reviews on October 15th, 2014, on October 17th,...
by Collectif | 20 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Prenatal diagnosis
Before the third commission of the 69th meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on 17 October 2014 on the subject of children’s rights, Monsignor Bernardito Auza, the Permanent Observer of the Holy See at the United Nations (New-York), reminded delegates that...
by Collectif | 19 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
The clinical trial authors aiming to improve the vision of patients suffering from eye diseases by transplanting embryo stem cells have published their results (in English) in The Lancet, a British medical journal. The 18 patients who participated in the...