Bioethics

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Bioethics

Chimpanzees received additional rights

The new legal status almost completely excludes any invasive research on captive chimpanzees, which outlaws the vast majority of biomedical experiments with them.

16.06.2015
Bioethics

Genome Editing: Pros and cons

Perhaps when we accumulate more knowledge about the role of genetics in some diseases and there is more evidence of the safety of the technique, retrogrades who believe that editing should be banned for ethical reasons will remain in the minority.

19.03.2015
Bioethics

The Law on the End of Life

436 members of the National Assembly voted for the bill "on the end of life". 34 deputies spoke against it. The law will be submitted to the Senate in May-June of this year.

18.03.2015
Bioethics

Human genome editing: wait, colleagues!

Geneticists have called on colleagues to suspend experiments on human embryos, spermatozoa and eggs using the latest technologies for precise gene editing until a strict ethical code is developed.

16.03.2015
Bioethics

Torment the patient with treatment or let him die in peace?

A test to determine whether elderly patients will die within 30 days after admission to the hospital will give them a chance to calmly go home and say goodbye to their loved ones. In addition, the introduction of such a survey will avoid wasting money on treatment.

23.01.2015
Bioethics

Bioethics for the Media

The UNESCO Regional Office in Moscow, in cooperation with leading experts in the field of bioethics, organizes discussions, publishes manuals and conducts seminars – not only for physicians and biologists, but also for journalists.

25.12.2014
Bioethics

The right to make a mistake

Colleagues accused the famous surgeon Paolo Macchiarini of violating ethical norms and misinformation. A leading specialist in regenerative medicine denies these accusations, and explains complications after operations by saying that this is inevitable with the introduction of a new technology.

26.11.2014
Bioethics

Euthanasia: pros and cons

"Euthanasia" is a rather narrow term describing a specific medical procedure: active murder of a terminally ill person, executed at his request by administering medications by a doctor.

08.10.2014
Bioethics

To be or not to be xenotransplantation?

This article tells about the history of experiments on animal organ transplantation to humans, the current state of research in this field, and also provides arguments for and against the further development of this technology.

22.09.2014
Bioethics

Euthanasia tour

The number of "suicide tourists" coming to Switzerland for the purpose of euthanasia doubled in four years, from 2009 to 2012. Such data are given in a scientific paper devoted to the study of the phenomenon of "suicide tourism".

22.08.2014
Bioethics

Driving to suicide

The deputy Mayor of Moscow for Social Affairs said that the surge in suicides among cancer patients is associated with an exacerbation of mental disorders, and not with the difficulties of obtaining analgesics. One of these "crazy people" left a note: "I ask you not to blame anyone, except the Ministry of Health and the government."

26.03.2014
Bioethics

Children to order

Will humanity face any new ethical problems when it becomes possible to choose the genetic characteristics of embryos?

17.03.2014
Bioethics

When the medicine is more bitter than the disease

Chemotherapy in patients at the terminal stage of cancer, as a rule, is not justified, because they do not live longer than those who refused treatment, while experiencing more severe torment.

14.03.2014
Bioethics

The right to die

The law granting the right to euthanasia to terminally ill children has split Belgian society.

14.02.2014