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  • US Supreme Court reorientation achieved

    The Honorable Amy Coney Barrett becomes the fifth female Supreme Court Justice in its 231-year history

    October 28th, 2020Abortion, Bioethics, BIOETHICS NEWS, Conscientious objection, Marriage and Family, SPECIAL REPORTS, Videos

    Appeals court judge Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed by the American Senate on Monday by 52 to 48 votes, elevating the fifth woman to the Supreme Court in its 231-year history. The American Constitution grants the Supreme Court a decisive [...]

  • women healthcare rights

    Geneva Consensus Declaration Promoting Women’s Health, Life rights and Strengthening the Family signed by 29 countries representing over 1.6 billion people

    October 26th, 2020Abortion, Bioethics, BIOETHICS NEWS, Human Rights, Marriage and Family, SPECIAL REPORTS, Videos

    Women healthcare rights are not in conflict with the right to life of the unborn The U.S., Brazil, Polonia, Hungary, Indonesia, and Uganda on Thursday co-sponsored the Geneva Consensus Declaration with a virtual signing ceremony participating ministers and high representatives [...]

  • Covid-19 airborne transmission

    Covid-19, airborne transmission and information management.

    October 15th, 2020Bioethics, BIOETHICS NEWS, Coronavirus pandemic, SPECIAL REPORTS, Videos

    “The inability to control outbreaks of the pandemic months after its onset…” Introduction The grim epidemiological data regarding the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic in the world, and specifically in Spain, pose a challenge to the work of scientists and [...]

  • generational replacement Fertility rate dramatic drops

    American official figures on fertility. The report shows that it has fallen to its lowest point in the last 40 years

    September 23rd, 2020BIOETHICS NEWS, Demography, Fertility, NEWS and VIEWS, Videos

    Fertility rate dramatic drops year by year with a severe lack of generational replacement The latest report on the fertility rate in the United States indicates that it has fallen to its lowest point in the last 40 years. US [...]

  • Alabama bans surgical and chemical abortion

    May 20th, 2019Abortion, BIOETHICS NEWS, Human embryos, Human Rights, NEWS and VIEWS, Videos

    Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed the state’s controversial near-total abortion ban Wednesday evening. The new law is the most restrictive anti-abortion measure passed in the United States since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973.The legislation — House Bill 314, [...]

  • Rebuild trust between doctors-patients and healthcare institutions is claimed

    February 11th, 2019BIOETHICS NEWS, Medical Deontology, NEWS and VIEWS, Videos

    An article publised in JAMA (January 24, 2019) treats a medical worldwide issue that need for atention. It afirms, Trust matters in health care. It makes patients feel less vulnerable, clinicians feel more effective, and reduces the imbalances of information by [...]

  • Fertility experts call for UK to scrap 10-year limit on egg freezing

    January 23rd, 2019Assisted reproduction and IVF, BIOETHICS NEWS, NEWS and VIEWS, Videos

    Fertility experts have urged the government to overturn “discriminatory” fertility rules that require women who freeze their eggs to use them within 10 years. Beyond this limit, clinics are compelled to destroy the eggs even if this goes against the [...]

  • There are important problems, both scientific and ethical, that must be resolved before newborns genetic test can be used on a broad scale

    Bioethical objections of universal genetic tests for newborns

    November 30th, 2018BIOETHICS NEWS, Genetics and Genomics, NEWS and VIEWS, Videos

    The use of genetic tests for newborns could raise bioethical objections Francis Collins, director of the US National Institutes of Health, stated in 2014 that, in the coming decades, cheap and efficient DNA technology will lead to every baby’s genome [...]

  • Abortions have reached a historic low rate in the United States.The drop was especially pronounced among teenagers

    November 22nd, 2018Abortion, BIOETHICS NEWS, Marriage and Family, NEWS and VIEWS, Videos

    American public opinion trend proves that the pro-life fight could win. See video the of the movement of millennials below in the US, perhaps the first country with increasing youth pro-life. Abortion rates in the U.S. have reached a historic low, according to new [...]

  • Kenya is hereby directed to immediately cease and desist offering any form of abortion says the ban. A new abortion colonialism defeat

    Kenya has banned the American flagship organization Marie Stopes from promoting abortion

    November 19th, 2018Abortion, BIOETHICS NEWS, NEWS and VIEWS, Regulation of human reproduction, Videos

    Abortion colonialism is stopped. Kenya accused the previous US government of causing moral decay by promoting abortion. The Kenya Medical Practitioners Board says it made the decision after investigating complaints that the American group’s adverts – Marie Stopes – were [...]

  • Nurses treating terminal patients occupy a central position because they have the closest relation with patient and family. Requesting euthanasia dilemma

    How does euthanasia affect nurses? Video

    November 16th, 2018BIOETHICS NEWS, Euthanasia, Medical Deontology, NEWS and VIEWS, Videos

    A large study published by the British Medical Journal with the title Involvement of nurses in euthanasia: a review of the literature affirmed “In ethical debates about euthanasia, the focus is often exclusively on the involvement of physicians and the involvement of nurses is [...]

  • Artificial intelligence in healthcare ethical questions. Which role should it play in practical medicine? Dehumanizing, even more, our healthcare systems?

    Ethical questions of artificial intelligence in healthcare

    November 7th, 2018Artificial intelligence, BIOETHICS NEWS, Medical Deontology, NEWS and VIEWS, Videos

    The Nuffield Council on Bioethics examines, in a recently published briefing note, current and potential applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare and research, and the ethical issues arising from its use. Will the increasing use of AI lead to [...]

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