Assisted deaths are in the forefront of bioethics - Trump's restriction on traffic and experiments of fetal tissues - Venezuela's health crisis affects the entire region Nº 78

INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES nº 78  Contact us HERE     31/07/ 2019

SPECIAL REPORTS

Bioethical assessment of the Noa Pothoven euthanasia case. Is it a case or a trend? Are patients diagnosed with incurable mental disorder being left starving in some countries? Noa Pothoven, a Dutch 17-year-old, was left to die of starvation … Read more.

Cardinal Elio Sgreccia, recognized founder of applied personalist bioethics, dies Cardinal Sgreccia was one of the greatest representatives of personalist bioethics in recent decades… Read more.

Reflections on Vincent Lambert paradigmatic case. Death of starvation promulgated by law Our Observatory at the Catholic University of Valencia considers that the death of Vincent Lambert following the withdrawal of hydration and nutrition is an objectively euthanasic act since, … Read more.

NEWS

Promising experiment with CRISPR. It corrects a lung disease in mouse fetuses One step forward in the possibility of applying CRISPR in utero to correct diseases. These experiments, published recently in Science Translational Medicine, are a new proof of concept of the possibility of applying CRISPR in utero… Read more.

New possibilities increase the identification of fetal chromosomal anomalies New possibilities open up in the study of the fetal genome In a recent Editorial in The Lancet, the author discusses  fetal genome to detect if there are abnormalities t… Read more.

Our bioethics statement on Trump's cuts on research with aborted fetal tissues The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has taken a new step in the fight against abortion, announcing the end of research with tissues from aborted fetuses in federal laboratories… Read more.

A short review of negative and positive effects of Trump's restrictions on fetal tissue research As we published recently  the American Administration has placed restrictions on research using fetal tissue, giving rise to a fierce debate among researchers. In this respect, Judd Deere… Read more.

IN BRIEF

Artificial Intelligence (AI) bursts into the field of global health There is no doubt that Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be very helpful in the field of biomedicine. On 1 April 2019, “The Artificial Intelligence in Global Health”  report was published… Read more.

United States has the highest drug overdose mortality rates. Other Western countries in risk A recent study piblished in Science Daily   found that drug overdose death rates in the United States are 3.5 times higher on average when compared to 17 other high-income counties… Read more.

Venezuela’s regional healthcare emergency. A recent article published in The Lancet makes a summary of the effect of the crisis on regional health, which… Read more.

Fetal gene therapy technique to prevent neurological damages In hereditary genetic diseases, the possibility of using gene therapy before birth has opened a new possibility for treating these serious diseases. Now… Read more.