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Vaccines produced with fetus. Izpisua experiments: our ethical assessment. Effects of euthanasia legalization, etc. Nº 51
Over the last few days, some of the biomedical experiments conducted by Juan Carlos Izpisua and his group — in which researchers from several Spanish universities take part — have been widely reported by various media... Read more.
Can bone marrow really not be obtained from a pregnant woman? Because if it can, there would be no medical reason to have to resort to abortion… Read more.
Some of the vaccines currently used to prevent diseases such as rubella, measles, rabies, poliomyelitis, hepatitis A, chickenpox or smallpox are produced using tissues from human abortions…
Scientists in Japan have transformed mouse skin cells into eggs and have managed to obtain fertile offspring after their fertilisation. This study represents the first production of eggs… Read more.
There is no doubt that a medical and ethical objective is to improve the effectiveness of in vitro fertilisation (IVF), i.e. improve pregnancy rates, but there appears to have been a failure to achieve this for now… Read more.
Euthanasia. Attitudes and practice in countries where they have been legalised
The ethical and legal aspects of euthanasia and assisted suicide continue to be the subject of active controversy. Some countries have recently legalised these practices, while others… Read more.
Knowing the incidence of abortion in different parts of the world is important in order to promote measures to prevent it. In a recent article by our Observatory, we discussed an extensive study in The Lancet that addressed this issue… Read more.
The incidence of suicidal behaviour has risen in Spain from barely 6 cases per 100,000 population at the end of the last century, to over 11 per 100,000 at present, while other regions, such as the Nordic countries, have managed to reduce self-destructive behaviours… Read more.
News spread that euthanasia had been applied to a minor in Belgium for the first time. In 2014, Belgium became the second country — after the Netherlands — to decriminalise this practice for minors… Read more.
Findings of the first phase 3 randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial, in which the authors assessed the safety and efficacy of treatment, have now been published in the Lancet. The… Read more.
A topic that has major ethical connotations is tissues and organs production using the innovative 3D printing technique. A recent article in The Lancet discusses some of its possibilities and states... Read more.
The University of Southern California announced that a team of doctors became the first in California to inject an experimental treatment made from embryonic stem cells. Kris Boesen, a recently paralysed 21-year-old man… Read more.