Health Care Analysis has published a new study on gender transition, entitled Gender Transition: Is There a Right to Be Forgotten? The privacy of citizens of developed countries has been affected by access to personal data for marketing, politics and [...]
“Scientists warn tackles, not just concussions, are to blame.” In previous articles, we have talked about the prohibition of different rugby and soccer federations in North America and the United Kingdom (read HERE), to play with the head. The main [...]
The risk of hypertensive disorders in an IVF pregnancy is not a new topic, but a systematic review published by BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth on June 26, 2021 (read HERE) provides new evidence in this regard. IVF pregnancy hypertensive disorders [...]
News recently published has reported the existence of a protocol for sedation and harvesting organs for donation in patients diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) -a neurological disease that mainly involves neurons responsible for controlling voluntary muscle movement – in [...]
The emergence of the concept of brain death at the end of the 1960s was a controversial fact, although today it is widely accepted in most developed countries. Nevertheless, there are still some issues for discussion in this regard, including [...]
Until now, brain tissue donation for scientific studies was done after the death of the patient. Now, some patients are donating parts of their brain obtained when they undergo neurosurgery, especially those who are operated on to treat epilepsy or [...]
The Netherlands wants to open a euthanasia center for children under the age of 12 years. Professor of pediatrics Eduard Verhagen has proposed the creation of a special center to be able to apply euthanasia to children, and hopes that [...]
We quote a New York Times article published on May 21 2019, “French medical professionals said that Mr Lambert’s condition had been stable for ten years and that gauging his state of consciousness was too complex to reach an undoubted [...]
When the transplant team and anatomy laboratories in search of corpses come knocking… A relevant ethical issue in transplant procedures is the autonomy of the donor and respect for the peace and privacy they need as they approach the end [...]
A British Medical Journal (BMJ) article titled Will an opt-out organ transplant law save lives? referred to the English legal initiatives explains in few words the state of the art in Spain (read the entire article HERE). The authors affirmed, [...]
The state of the “art” of Euthanasia, the so-called “medical aid to die” shows a lack of a universal protocol, shortage of doctors willing to help people die and many patients have been exposed to lethal drugs. A widespread myth [...]
What should happen when doctors and parents disagree about what would be best for incurable children? On April 23 a case added a new impulse to Charlie Gard parents, Bambino Gesu and bioethicist fight to find an adequate medical protocol legislative [...]
