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INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES
No. 105 - May 2022
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The WHO recommends facilitating abortion without limiting the number of weeks of pregnancy or legal restrictions
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has published a document with guidelines regarding the practice of abortion. It recommends that it be decriminalized, as they say, "access to safe abortion is essential for the health of women and girls." In addition, it includes recommendations on simple interventions in primary care that "improve the quality of abortion care", such as access to …
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Study confirms risks associated with techniques to prevent mother-to-child transmission of mitochondrial diseases
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Mixing mitochondrial DNA from mother and donor may have harmful effects in the medium and long term warns a study published in Circulation. The study was conducted by a team from the Carlos III National Center for Cardiovascular Research in Madrid (CNIC) in collaboration with other Spanish research centers, including the Center for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials (CIC biomaGUNE), the …
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Bioethics is spelled with a "C"
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There is general agreement that the pioneers of bioethics in Spain were Javier Gafo, Francesc Abel, Gonzalo Herranz, and Diego Gracia. Unfortunately, the first three are no longer with us, although their legacy is still very much alive. The last to die was Gonzalo Herranz, in 2021. I would like to take advantage of this forum commemorating the 27th anniversary …
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Study proposes a novel method to predict risks of common diseases in pre-implantation embryos
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Last month, a team of 16 researchers, led by Dr. Akash Kumar, published an article in Nature Medicine dealing with the prediction of risks of transmitting common diseases by testing pre-implantation embryos produced by in vitro fertilisation. Several embryo testing procedures are usually carried out in association with in vitro fertilisation to assure that the eventual conceptus is free from …
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Pharmaceutical Sanofi must compensate women who were treated with the drug Depakine
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On March 17, the insurer of the pharmaceutical company Sanofi was sentenced by the court of first instance number 91 of Madrid, to compensate three families with an amount between 600,000 and 1.3 million euros in relation to the commercialization of the antiepileptic Depakine given the secondary effects observed in pregnant women. Teratogenic effects have been detected such as congenital …
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First complete human genome sequence published
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On March 31, the complete sequence of the human genome was published for the first time in the journal Science. This work was carried out by nearly 100 researchers from the international Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium, belonging to the National Human Genome Research Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health of the United States, the University of California, Santa Cruz …
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Ethical reflection 20 years after the approval of euthanasia in Belgium
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Since 2002, when euthanasia was approved in Belgium, 24,000 people have died using this method, which represents 2% of those who die each year. In that country, certain requirements must be met for a person to request euthanasia: The law contemplates physical and psychiatric conditions. People must suffer constant and unbearable physical or psychological suffering that cannot be cured …
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Is it ethical to give the result of a biopsy through an app?
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The development of new tools in medicine thanks to technology has also produced that their indiscriminate use can cause the relationship between doctor and patient to be lost in delicate moments that would require a more empathic treatment in the case of serious ailments. In this sense, the head of the Bioethics Group of the Spanish Society of General Practitioners …
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The state of Oklahoma passes a bill banning abortion
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The Oklahoma House of Representatives has given its final approval to a bill that almost totally bans abortion, so those who carry out this procedure will face fines of 100,000 dollars and sentences of up to 10 years in prison. The anti-abortion bill, which has passed with 70 votes in favor and 14 against, makes Oklahoma the last Republican state …
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