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Background On April 15, 2015, the postcoital contraceptive ellaOne®, manufactured by HRA Pharma, became a prescription-free medicine, following a change in policy by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). The Spanish Association of Social Pharmacy (AEFAS) then requested a change in the information in the product's package insert based on its mechanism of action, given the significant biases it allegedly contained. …
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This Friday, 21st March, is “World Down Syndrome Day", an annual celebration introduced by the United Nations in 2012. The date 21/03 is highly symbolic, referring to the three copies of chromosome 21 related to Down syndrome. Its objective is to raise awareness and provide information about this genetic abnormality that affects one in every 700 live births, causing intellectual disability …
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A theoretical analysis by Australian authors and the newly created Uehiro Institute in Oxford has just been published in Nature, which we consider merits special attention. The article discusses gene editing in germ (gamete-generating) cells or human embryos using the CRISPR-Cas9 technique . The study, whose first author is Professor Peter Visscher, is co-authored by the transhumanist philosopher Julian Savulescu, attached to the …
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In the trial, which took place in Virginia, a cancer survivor sued her ex-husband because she wanted the sole ownership of the two embryos they had frozen after an IVF cycle or divide them as jointly owned personal property. The woman, who has a daughter with her ex-husband, argued that implanting the embryos they froze in 2015, when they were still married, …
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