by Alexis DUPORT | 29 Feb, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
With three judgments pronounced on 6th February 20081, the Court of Cassation has just reminded that drawing up a record of a lifeless child is not subordinated to the foetus weight nor to the pregnancy duration. The facts Three mothers having...
by Alexis DUPORT | 29 Feb, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
Whereas the debate on the end of life is relaunched in France, Mgr Jacques Suaudeau, member of the Pontifical Academy for Life, granted Zenit a long interview about euthanasia. Definition of euthanasia Forged in the 18th century by Francis Bacon, the...
by Alexis DUPORT | 29 Feb, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
Supported by the Association for the right to die with dignity (ADMD), Chantal Sébire, a 52-year-old patient with esthesioneuroblastoma (progressive and incurable tumour of sinus and nasal cavity) asked the justice, on 12th March, to be able “to benefit from a...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Jan, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
Evaluation of the Biomedicine Agency On 29th January 2008, the Biomedicine Agency drew up a balance sheet of the medically assisted procreation (MAP) in France. In 2005, 19,026 children were born with a MAP, which represents 1 child out of 40. 1,293 of them...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Jan, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
A recent study by P. Revidi and B. Beauquier-Maccotta, child psychiatrists, one in the CECOS of Cochin, the other at Necker Hospital, took stock of the actual situation of the medically assisted procreation (MAP) and psychic problems it generates1. It proposes...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Jan, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
From 31st January to 2nd February 2008, the first international congress about human embryonic stem cells took place at the Genopole of Evry. This congress was sponsored by the Genopole of Évry, the national institute for health and medical research (INSERM), the...
