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End of life

The World Medical Association is still vehemently opposed to euthanasia and assisted suicide

The World Medical Association (WMA) and its national member medical associations including the Australian Medical Association, have strongly reiterated their long-standing opposition to physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia on the basis

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13 November 2017
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End of life

United Kingdom: Treatment stopped for a female patient in a minimally conscious state

In the United Kingdom, a judgement has just been passed on a 72 year-old “paralysed” woman whose care has been the subject of a family feud. The guardianship judge in Preston

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13 November 2017
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Preimplantation genetic diagnosis

MAP (medically assisted procreation): New generation embryo sequencing would serve no purpose

A study presented at the Annual Congress of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in Texas, has shown that new generation sequencing (NGS), “deemed to be the future of in-vitro fertilisation”, would “not

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13 November 2017
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Committee on Disabilities: the prenatal selection of disabled babies is discriminatory

In a General Comment originated from the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) concerning the principles of equality and non-discrimination, the UNO committee in charge of disabilities

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6 November 2017
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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

United Nations: abortion on disability grounds denounced

The United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has stated in an official document that abortion on the grounds of foetal disability is contrary to the Convention

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6 November 2017
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End of life

Euthanasia: Criminal investigation in the Netherlands against a doctor

For the first time since euthanasia was legalised in the Netherlands, a doctor who administered a lethal injection against a patient’s wishes – an 80 year-old female with dementia (see

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6 November 2017
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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

In England – clinic staff forced to encourage women to undergo abortion

This month, fifty years on from the legalisation of abortion in England in 1967, the Care Quality Commission[1] (CQC) published the results of a general inspection of the Marie Stopes Clinic

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6 November 2017
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Organ donation

Carmat: first artificial heart implantation in Kazakhstan

On Monday, 23 October, Carmat announced that it “had successfully carried out  […] the first artificial heart transplantation” in Kazakhstan, “without giving the precise date of the operation“.   This

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6 November 2017
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