Spinal cord injury treatments improved Spinal cord injuries (SCI) are the leading cause of disability in the developed world. Trying to find therapeutic solutions is therefore a primary medical objective. Promising experimental studies have been carried out, and several clinical [...]
On April 15, 2021, Juan Carlos Izpisua’s research group published an article in Cell (read HERE) describing the generation of human-monkey chimeras. Chimeras alive in the laboratory Regardless of the technical aspects and the purpose that — according to the [...]
Characteristics of the HIV self-testing kit: The BioSURE HIV self-testing kit is simple to use and provides an easy-to-read result in 15 minutes, with over 99.7% reliability. It is one of the legal methods available for self-diagnosis of HIV infection [...]
We have authored several articles questioning the reliability of IVF clinics, and contested the anonymity of sperm and egg donation, which affect the very identity of a human individual and his or her health (read HERE). In this respect, an [...]
Solid-organ transplantation activity has decreased even in regions where COVID-19 prevalence was low, suggesting a global effect beyond the local COVID-19 prevalence. A recent article published in Nature approaches liver transplantation (LT) programs worldwide during the coronavirus crisis makes a review [...]
Calling for a national debate on euthanasia and mental illness The snowball of euthanasia in countries where it is legal is increasingly expanding the boundaries of the culture of death (see HERE). It began by being permitted for terminally ill [...]
Now are 69,104 Genetic Testing Units available in United States market Of these, 59,531 assays a single analyte. 8,535 are panels that assay multiple genes or analytes for a common indication, and each panel is sold as a single orderable [...]
“Researchers: Medical errors now third leading cause of death in United States” (Washington Post, jun. 3 2016) A problem that fully affects biomedical ethics is medical errors, which can even lead to death of the patient involved. A recently published [...]
American Government ceases to be the international sponsor of abortion The current Government of the United States has presented an amendment to the “Affordable Care Act“, with the result that they will not accept longer award Planned Parenthood 500 million [...]
The disease cannot be cured, as the HIV remains inactive in the patients’ body It is known that AIDS can be treated with new antiretroviral drugs, converting it from a fatal disease to a chronic one. However, the disease is [...]
Recent data from molecular genetics and epidemiology provide evidence that paternal age (sperm quality) is an important risk factor for offspring. When the sperm quality of young men were compared with the sperm of older men, the latter were found [...]
If there is one technique on which biomedicine has pinned its hopes, it is CRISPR, a genome editing technology that simplifies and facilitates the changes to be made in the genome (read our ethical opinion HERE) . This sort of [...]
