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Cancer during pregnancy: “15 years ago…Lots of abortions were carried out”. That was misguided.
Aurélie, aged 36, was six months pregnant when she discovered she had breast cancer. But doctors reassured her: "Patients often think that they cannot be treated and continue their pregnancy at the same time", explained Christine Rousset-Jablonski, gynaecologist at...
British national who died in Egypt is repatriated without heart or kidneys
David Humphries, aged 62, was on a family holiday in the Egyptian resort of Makadi, when he sought medical advice about chest pains on 13 September 2018. On 18 September, he returned to hospital after a fall and died during the night. An initial autopsy was performed...
“Every minute we spent together was worth the pain” – poignant letter from a mother to her baby who died two days after birth
His parents knew that Ismaël would not live but they allowed the pregnancy to go full-term, to welcome their baby into the world. Born on 8 December, his fragile life lasted all of 48 hours. He died in his mother's arms. She has written him a poignant letter: "I loved...
Yann Le Cun: the biological brain is “way ahead of the digital brain”
It's not a competition, but if it were, "the biological brain would be way ahead of the digital brain", explains Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Facebook. Today, "technologies allow us to reproduce the brain functions of even simple animals such as rats". ...
A man “now a woman” claims mother status
The Montpellier Court of Appeal is dealing with a "complex" case: Bernard and Marie were married with two children when, in 2011, Bernard "made the decision to become a woman but without undergoing surgery". Such a change is legally accepted by the Montpellier court...
Montpellier: Fertility centre project financed by rich Americans
Professor Hamamah, head of the reproductive biology department at CHU Montpellier (University Hospital Centre), plans to open a "fertility centre" he calls I2F in January 2020. The centre is hoping to attract "world champions in the medically assisted reproduction...
More and more transgender individuals want to cancel their sexual conversion
Professor Miroslav Djordjevic, the first surgeon in the world to perform genital reconstruction, confirms that a large number of individuals, especially transgender women over the age of 30, regret their sex change and want to cancel their "sexual conversion". He does...
No assisted suicide for “unbearable suffering” according to Swiss medical ethics
The Fédération des Médecins Suisses (FMH) (Swiss Medical Federation) objects to new assisted suicide guidance. In May 2018, the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS) published new directives concerning access to assisted suicide. These new directives dispensed with...
“Hippocratic medicine is fundamentally incompatible with euthanasia”
Over the past two years, Canadian doctors have spoken out in the World Medical Journal, taking a stand against euthanasia and its harmful consequences in Canada[1]. Euthanasia, which comes under the definition of "medical care", completely resets the boundaries of the...
Palliative care: the intention of care “is never to shorten life but to relieve symptoms”
"It's not the question of euthanasia that should be debated today but that of the patients' right to receive reasonable, positive support, relief for symptoms of discomfort and access to palliative care". In an article, all doctors in the Palliative Unit and the...
In England – premature baby born before the legal abortion deadline
Anita Hyams gave birth to her third child just twenty-three weeks and five days into her pregnancy, i.e. two days before the end of the UK legal abortion deadline. He weighed only 567 g. Little William breathed as soon as he was born before being quickly placed on...
Monsignor Bozo responds to Luc Ferry: flouting the laws of nature is bound to have consequences
No, "to take nature as a model", is not the natural law, neither is ratifying "the cruel competition it imposes". Monsignor Pierre-Antoine Bozo, Bishop of Limoges and member of the Bishops' Working Group on the laws of bioethics responds to the column entitled Nature...