by Collectif | 7 Sep, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
At 5 months, a baby named Gabriel “has started to develop worrying symptoms such as spasms and fainting”. No treatment was administered to this child – a victim of significant bouts of epilepsy. So a team of doctors at Boston’s Children’s Hospital...
by Collectif | 4 Sep, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
On 20 April 2014, Mr. Tom Mortier learned that his mother had been given a lethal injection at the Dutch-speaking university hospital, UZ Brussel. The patient had been suffering from chronic depression. In this case, euthanasia was administered by Dr. Wim Distelmans,...
by Collectif | 3 Sep, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
Journalist and film-maker, Carl Gierstorfer, has worked on the subject of violence against Indian women through a documentary broadcast by the following TV channels – ZDF (Germany), Discovery Channel (United States) and the BBC (United Kingdom). He explained the...
by Collectif | 3 Sep, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Doctor Laurent Janny, a specialist in reproduction biology and Head of Department at Clermont-Ferrand CHU (University Hospital Centre), refers to the “feat” announced in the United Kingdom and broadcast by the BBC. It is the story of a little girl, Alana Saarinen,...
by Collectif | 2 Sep, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
According to the Federal Statistics Office, the number of couples accessing in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment in Switzerland is decreasing but more and more women are travelling abroad “to countries that are more liberal than Switzerland”. The...
by Collectif | 2 Sep, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
A study published this month in the Epidemiology journal shows that, during pregnancy, exposure “to certain phenols, especially parabens and triclosan, could disrupt the growth of baby boys [girls were not included in the study] in the womb and during the first...