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Organ donation

Organ donation and the Internet in Belgium: “Donation must remain a voluntary act”

The Belgian Advisory Committee on Bioethics has just addressed the ethics of a new way of searching for kidneys or a liver with a view to transplantation.   To date,

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9 October 2017
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Myotubular myopathy: launch of the first human gene therapy trial

As part of a French-American joint venture, the first gene therapy clinical trial for the treatment of myotubular myopathy [1] was launched on 21 September in the United States.  A

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9 October 2017
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End of life

American College of Physicians still responds negatively to assisted suicide

On 19 September 2017, the ACP [1] clearly reiterated “its opposition to any participation in assisted suicide by doctors“.    The association believes “that assisted suicide harms the trusting relationship

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9 October 2017
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Conscientious objection

Euthanasia: the conscience clause of Belgian doctors under threat

The National Council of the Belgian Medical Association issued a statement on 6 May 2017 challenging the law on conscientious objection. It is devising an ethical obligation on the part

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9 October 2017
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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

International Safe Abortion Day: One of Us calls for protection of human beings from conception onwards

A press release was issued by One of Us[1] in response to the “so-called feminist movement ‘Abortion: women decide!’ on the right to abortion“, confirming that “equality for all human

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9 October 2017
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Embryo research and alternatives

Cloned human embryos undergo “DNA surgery”

In China, a team of scientists carried out “chemical surgery” on human embryos to “correct an error” in their genetic code. They used “basic editing” for this, i.e. the corrected

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9 October 2017
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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

Ireland: abortion referendum set for spring 2018

Giving in to “pressure from pro-abortion campaigners“, the Irish Government has announced “plans to carry out a referendum on abortion” in the spring of 2018 (see Ireland: heading towards a

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9 October 2017
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Embryo research and alternatives

Umbilical cord stem cells to treat heart failure?

In Chile, an initial clinical trial to test treatment with umbilical cord stem cells in thirty patients with heart failure has proved “encouraging“. The publication in the American Heart Association

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9 October 2017
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