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Embryo research and alternatives

“The trivialisation of genetically modified embryos is gaining ground”

Jean-François Bouvet, Doctor of Sciences and author of  Bébés à la carte (designer babies), has just published an article in Le Point in which he highlights the  “trivialisation of genetically

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28 November 2017
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End of life

Assisted suicide is rising sharply in Switzerland

Switzerland is recording a considerable rise in assisted suicides: 965 individuals “took a lethal substance” in 2015 compared to 742 in 2014 and 86 in 2000. These figures only take

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28 November 2017
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End of life

A Russian cryogenics company wants to freeze people before they die: utopia?

Freezing a living person is tantamount to murder but a Russian company, KrioRus[1], is fund-raising to build its laboratory in Switzerland. It aims to offer people, who want to die,

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28 November 2017
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MAP – Surrogacy

A fertility clinic sued for failing to carry out genetic tests on eggs

Two couples have initiated legal proceedings against a New York doctor and his fertility clinic. They underwent MAP (medically assisted procreation) with egg donation but these gametes transferred fragile X

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28 November 2017
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Organ donation

In Switzerland, transplantation legislation changes the conditions for determining death

On Wednesday, 15 November, in Switzerland, the Transplantation Act changed the guidelines of the Académie suisse des sciences médicales (ASSM) (Swiss Academy for Medical Sciences) on “Determining death with regard

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28 November 2017
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End of life

Pope Francis: “Euthanasia is always wrong”

At a meeting of the World Medical Association (WMA) held in the Vatican, the Pope reaffirmed that euthanasia “is always wrong in that euthanasia ends life and causes death“.  

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28 November 2017
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End of life

The withdrawal of food and water is “assisted suicide”

In some countries where euthanasia or assisted suicide is banned, the withdrawal of food and water is deemed to be “ethically and legally accessible”. However, one article published in BMC Medicine relates

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20 November 2017
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End of life

Sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment with a suspended sentence for murdering his wife with Alzheimer’s disease

81 year-old Hubert Ougier, who was married to Nicole for fifty-four years, suffocated her with a duffle bag on the morning of 28 October 2015 before attempting to commit suicide.

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20 November 2017
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Bioethics News - News and insight on bioethics today

News and insight on bioethics today

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