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Organ donation

An increase in transplants in Ontario, Canada, using non-heart-beating donations

In Ontario (Canada), a recent study published in the CMAJ[1] showed that the new policy to harvest organs from non-heart-beating donors has contributed to the 57% increase in organ donation

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9 October 2017
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Organ donation

Head transplant: questions but no answers

Repeated comments from neurosurgeon, Sergio Canavero, about head transplants are raising a certain number of questions and creating a  “legal headache”. This “mad project”, which first came to light in 2013, will

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9 October 2017
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End of life

An Englishman wakes from a coma just before the life support machines are switched off

Martin Jervis, a 61 year-old British man, sustained a stroke that required extensive surgery. Doctors believed that he had “little chance of recovery” and his family, in agreement with the

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9 October 2017
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End of life

Patient in a vegetative state for 15 years regains minimal level of consciousness

A 35 year-old man who has been “awake but unresponsive” [1] for 15 years, has showed signs of regaining consciousness following electrical vagus nerve stimulation. An article on this case

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9 October 2017
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Elective abortion: medical risks incurred by women

During the European seminar held in Brussels at the COMECE[1] last 22nd June on “Preventing abortion in Europe”, Cherline Louissaint, lawyer, backed by a number of studies on the subject,

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4 October 2017
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End of life

An increasing number of patients with psychiatric disorders or dementia undergo euthanasia in Belgium

A study published in the BMC Psychiatric describes regular developments in euthanasia, between 2002 and 2013, for individuals with a psychiatric disorder or suffering from dementia. The EBI[1] comments as

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27 September 2017
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MAP – Surrogacy

A decision taken by the Family Court of Australia does not recognise children born through surrogacy

Three investigating judges presiding over the Family Court of Australia and a plenary session have held that: Mr. and Mrs. Bernieres whose child was born abroad through surrogacy using Mr.

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27 September 2017
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MAP – Surrogacy

Surrogacy: A new controversial Men Having Babies Exhibition

For the second time, the American association, Men Having Babies, is organising a European conference in Brussels on 24 and 25 September 2017 in order to “bring male homosexual couples

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27 September 2017
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