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 [...]
The diagnosis of death by neurological criteria, often called brain death, has been contentious since its conception in 1968 through a publication entitled “A Definition of Irreversible Coma. Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School to [...]
The Supreme Pontiff once again insists on the non-negotiable duty of the faithful to oppose abortion. Doctrine reiterated by Pope Francis in continuity with the previous pontiffs, which is part of the Magisterium of the Catholic Church. In a recent [...]
An article published in The New York Times (October 6, 2021, and on CNBC October 14), comments the Alaska COVID-19 crisis management and the specific case of two patients who needed to be admitted to the intensive care unit of [...]
In medical ethics, could the patient’s right to don’t know limitation affect the patient’s autonomy? On 28 June 2021, Ben Davies published an article entitled Compromising on the Right Not to Know? in which he described and explained the different [...]
Sweden’s Karolinska Hospital has issued new guidelines for the treatment of children with gender dysphoria. This policy, which affects pediatric gender services at Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital (ALB), has abolished the puberty blockers prescription and cross-sex hormonal therapy to gender-dysphoric [...]
Assisted suicide in Germany, the federation of doctors change their medical code to allow it. Stealth steps to legalize assisted suicide: Last year, the German high court ruled that a law banning assisted suicide services was unconstitutional. German lawmakers presented two [...]
Boys born with low birth weight (ELBW) age faster than their peers Babies born with extremely low weight (ELBW) are in the increase. The current trend is that older mothers have their first child and the great advances in the [...]
We have often addressed the medical and bioethical challenge to obtain more organs for transplantation. The global organ shortage and the need to obtain them in the best conditions could jeopardize the dignity of the end of life of the [...]
The Catholic Medical Association, the largest association of Catholic individuals in health care and leader in the field of ethics in biomedicine, has published the JOINT STATEMENT: VACCINES AND CONSCIENCE PROTECTION. As we know, some of our rights have been [...]
The end of life care is a bioethical issue of great relevance, even more, in the current crisis of Covid 19 (read HERE and HERE). A study published last December in BMC Medical Ethics entitled Barriers in implementing the dying [...]
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 [...]
