Who is right about the benefits or harms of family life: Harvard University or the Catalan MP? Recently, several media have reported statements made by the Catalonian member of parliament (MP) Anna Gabriel (CUP, a pro-Catalan independence party), who believes [...]
Cell reprogramming is revolutionizing the biomedical world, not only because it can obtain cells of different tissues from pluripotent cells, but also because these cells can be genetically modified to be used for the treatment of serious illnesses or to [...]
The request to the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) goes against a landmark judgment in 2017 that ruled seriously ill patients in extreme and exceptional circumstances should not be denied access to euthanasia drugs. In view of [...]
More than 4,000 Swedes are being implanted with a microchip that contains details about their identity and between 2,000 and 3,500 people in Germany have implanted a microchip under their skin — but not all sales come from him; Germans [...]
See video below Extreme China’s air pollution is so that independent research group Berkeley Earth estimated it contributed to 1.6 million deaths per year in the country. The smog is heaviest in northern industrial provinces such as Shanxi, the dominant coal mining [...]
Isaiah had defied medical expectations by managing to breathe unaided for eight hours, and had vindicated his parents’ legal battle to keep him alive, he said. (The Guardian, 31 May 2018). Alfie Evans and Charlie Gard are not specific and [...]
Three children are among thousands of people to have died under Belgium’s radical euthanasia regime, figures reveal. They were euthanised under the world’s only law that allows children of any age to choose to be put to death – a [...]
An ethical issue raised by experimentation with human embryos would be that modifying the genome could alter that of their descendants. A book entitled “Experiments in Democracy. Human Embryo Research and the Politics of Bioethics”, has just been published by [...]
First healthy child born to leukemia survivor after a cryopreserved ovarian tissue transplant More than 80 children have already been born worldwide after cryopreserved ovarian tissue transplant in women who, due to disease or medical treatment, could lose the chance [...]
Brussels March 22, 2018.- On March 20, 2018, the European One of Us Federation has celebrated the Ordinary General Assembly in the European Parliament, in Brussels and has participated in the Week for Life Session. Once again, representatives of the [...]
The United States is starting to lose the war against sexually transmitted diseases who appears to be a West trend. The main issues are syphilis and gonorrhea. Syphilis rates increased by roughly 18 percent from 2015 to 2016. The majority [...]
Public opinion associates brain death with organ harvesting which could affect physician credibility
“The medical community should improve understanding through consistent, simplified language, dissociating brain death from organ donation” and resolve the controversy about the different criterion of brain death. A recent study published by Elsevier – Science Direct (see HERE) “revealed a significant [...]
