by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Apr, 2007 | Gènéthique informs you
Innovative therapies On 25 April 2007, European MPs approved a regulation harmonising marketing authorisation (MA) procedures for innovative therapies: from now on, products resulting from gene and cell therapies as well as those resulting from tissue therapy...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Apr, 2007 | Gènéthique informs you
In Great Britain, the government authorised on May 17 the creation of hybrid human-animal embryos for research. The law authorises a duration of life of 14 days for these embryos and prohibits their implantation in the uterus. In 2004, this country was the first in...
by Alexis DUPORT | 28 Feb, 2007 | Gènéthique informs you
Life as a challenge “The doctor who practices the ultrasonography, a woman, seems to be worried: – There is a problem. Immediately I understand and as instinctively that it is serious, and I heard: – Is she going to die? (Why did I speak first about...
by Alexis DUPORT | 28 Feb, 2007 | Gènéthique informs you
The euthanasia lobby On last 15 March, after a highly publicized trial, the Court of Assizes of Dordogne condemned a doctor to one year suspended prison and discharged a nurse. Sued for euthanasia by injection of lethal substance to a terminally ill patient...
by Alexis DUPORT | 28 Feb, 2007 | Gènéthique informs you
Consciousness objection Consciousness objection consists in refusing to obey a civil law judged in consciousness as seriously unfair. If a general agreement existed for centuries on essential values which founded political authority and social balances, today...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Jan, 2007 | Gènéthique informs you
Extermination of a human group? Does exist, in the world, people, ethnic or human group scorned and denied to the point that we could broadcast about it a documentary announcing that hundred million of its members have been eliminated, without arousing...