Bioethics

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Bioethics

Should I keep my medical card online?

Patients already have official rights to possess copies of the results of medical examinations. However, in practice, these rights are often difficult to implement, because it is difficult to obtain paper copies of the results of examinations, appointments and epicrisis, and many doctors still do not use electronic forms to enter medical information, or do not want or are unable to provide patients with information in electronic form.

25.06.2008
Bioethics

Informed consent (2)

Informed consent is a process, an active dialogue between a doctor and a patient (a healthy volunteer), which begins even before the start of the study and ends significantly later than its completion.

23.06.2008
Bioethics

"God's Gene"

The idea of the "God gene" was accepted by theologians with hostility, although this discovery has nothing to do with the question "Is there a God?". It was only about the fact that people are religious for quite physiological reasons related to their hereditary information.

16.06.2008
Bioethics

Informed consent (1)

The term "informed consent" appeared in the English-speaking environment only in 1957, and in 1960 it became widespread.

20.05.2008
Bioethics

Animals save people, and people interfere with this

Today's society reacts painfully to scientists' experiments on animals, but scientists cannot refuse to use experimental animals, simply because otherwise they will have to test new treatments directly on humans.

15.05.2008
Bioethics

Doctors will be offered amulets

Every year there is less and less pharmacoeconomics at the symposium, and propagandists of poorly proven technologies are lining up under the slogans of "evidence-based medicine". Visitors of the congress are invited to purchase various amulets, zirconium bracelets and other occult accessories, of which more and more appear on the stands every year.

15.04.2008
Bioethics

Deposit or lose

The new model of circulation of scientific publications involves both independent depositing of articles by scientists in electronic archives, and the release of peer-reviewed journals that do not charge a subscription fee or for access to their archives.

26.03.2008
Bioethics

Body Parts

The legalization of organ trafficking also threatens serious problems that exist today on the black market: paid donors are primarily representatives of social groups who do not have access to quality medicine and may be carriers of dangerous infections.

21.03.2008
Bioethics

Action "Subscribe for life"

The initiators of the signature collection campaign aimed to achieve the inclusion of a highly aggressive form of breast cancer (with hyperexpression by HER-2 factor) in the federal program "Seven Nosologies".

18.03.2008
Bioethics

Britons will be allowed to use artificial sperm

A number of ministers intend to support amendments to the bill that will allow the use of artificially created gametes - sperm and egg - to induce pregnancy by in vitro fertilization

13.03.2008
Bioethics

Inhumane vivisection

Students of the Timiryazev Academy and a number of other Russian universities will no longer dissect animals. Inhumane vivisection was replaced by videotapes and computer programs.

18.02.2008
Bioethics

The case of Growth Hormone

To date, more than a hundred cases of death have been registered in France in young people who were given growth hormone in childhood. Today, 16 years after the first death, the families of the victims are demanding justice at the trial that began in Paris.

06.02.2008