Bioethics

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Bioethics

Palliative medicine and drugs: pros and cons

One of the most important problems of palliative medicine in our country is a complex procedure for accounting and trafficking of narcotic drugs. As a result, terminal patients do not receive pain relief on time, receive it in insufficient quantities or do not receive it at all.

11.02.2014
Bioethics

Saving on the dying

Doctors directly dissuade elderly cancer patients from expensive therapy paid for by the state. If treatment is still prescribed, the patient is prescribed the cheapest and already outdated drugs.

28.01.2014
Bioethics

WHO against human trafficking

The shortage of healthy organs for transplantation leads to the phenomenon of "transplant tourism". The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Trafficking Joy Ngozi Ezeilo warned the General Assembly about this on Friday.

29.10.2013
Bioethics

"Three-parent" children: the discussion continues

On October 22, FDA experts will discuss whether to allow clinical trials of a new assisted reproductive technology that should help women with genetic defects in mitochondrial DNA.

21.10.2013
Bioethics

Gene ethics

In modern science, some genetic studies are taboo, because, firstly, society has not yet recovered from recent historical traumas, and secondly, people cannot (or do not want to) distinguish between scientific data and their public interpretation.

04.10.2013
Bioethics

Kidneys are expensive now

In India, kidney buyers will pay about $20,000. In China – $40,000 and even more. And a good healthy kidney from Israel costs 150,000. However, most sellers get from 1 to 10 thousand for their kidney.

02.09.2013
Bioethics

Legalize organ trafficking?

Organ trafficking is the exploitation of the poor. In Pakistan and the Philippines, thousands of people who have sold their kidneys have a health condition close to critical.

03.06.2013
Bioethics

Death Contract

UK politicians have developed a model of a contract on euthanasia, or a "death contract", which terminally ill people who wish to die can sign.

21.05.2013
Bioethics

Who is the owner of your genes?

Experts are sounding the alarm about the loss of "genome freedom", which is stolen by patents for DNA sequences issued to researchers and companies engaged in the study of the human genome.

28.03.2013
Bioethics

Retired chimpanzees

The US National Institutes of Health is significantly reducing the number of biomedical and psychological studies involving monkeys. NIH will "retire" approximately 700 chimpanzees.

28.01.2013
Bioethics

A pest doctor?

A British oncologist performed at least 450 mastectomies on patients who did not have cancer. Another 700 patients who had breast cancer, he left those parts of the breast that must necessarily be removed with such a diagnosis.

09.11.2012
Bioethics

Transplantologists sew another case

Taking into account the fact that the deceased is a citizen of Ukraine, where the presumption of consent to transplantation does not apply, his relatives can file a civil lawsuit with doctors.

01.11.2012
Bioethics

Should the birth of "three-parent" children be allowed?

The UK has launched a public consultation on the controversial method of in vitro "three-parent" fertilization (IVF with three parents), which will allow families with incurable diseases to have healthy children

19.09.2012
Bioethics

Another "case of transplantologists"

In Germany, the largest medical scandal in recent times is breaking out – for many years doctors have been falsifying patient data in order to circumvent the rules of organ transplantation.

14.08.2012