The Faculty of Theology at the University of Malta is currently accepting applications for the Master of Arts in Bioethics (opening October 2019). Offered on a part-time basis (evening), the course aims to foster a culture respectful of bioethics and to empower candidates for ethical decision and policy-making relevant to their professional practices. The M.A. in Bioethics is strongly inter-disciplinary. It encourages research in bioethics and…
A study by the Journal of Palliative Medicine (JPM) reveals that 71% of adults in the United States are unaware of the existence of palliative care, while more and more palliative care centres are diversifying their services. The study found that seniors, university graduates, women, and Caucasians are the most likely to have heard of it. Palliative…
An Ohio appeals court upheld on Thursday a previous ruling that frozen embryos are not people. This decision was based on an Ohio law that states that an embryo is considered a person only if it can survive outside the womb. The decision was taken following lawsuits filed for the destruction of 4,000 frozen embryos…
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has released its latest data on medically assisted reproduction in the United Kingdom. More than 54,000 patients underwent 75,000 fertility treatments in 2017, with the number of IVF cycles increasing by 2.5% compared to 2016. In 2017, more than 20,500 children were born by IVF in the United…
Faced with the permanent shortage of organ donors, researchers are looking into alternatives. 3D-bioprinting «to build fully functional organs outside the body» has already begun to prove its worth: for example, to create artificial corneas that can be transplanted into the eye. However, bioprinting requires extensive equipment for culturing and transplanting. Researchers at the University of Fribourg…
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XI CONGRESO DE LA ASOCIACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE BIOÉTICA Y ETICA MÉDICA Salud y Ambiente: su respeto y promoción El Comité Organizador y la Sociedad Española de Bioética y Ética Médica (AEBI) tienen el placer de invitarte a participar en el XI Congreso de AEBI, «Salud y ambiente: su respeto y promoción» que se celebrará en la…
Por Nicolás Jouve, Catedrático de Genética Hombre más bien tímido, de hablar sosegado y afable. Su currículo profesional es brillante: ex presidente de la Sociedad Española de Genética, miembro del Comité de Bioética de España, premios a la docencia y a la investigación otorgados por la Universidad de Alcalá; ha impartido cursos en Chile, Nicaragua,…
SPUC (London) – Jan. 12, 2017 A new fertility procedure that could allow sperm and eggs to be made from people’s skin may lead to “embryo farming” on a massive scale and drive parents to have only “ideal” children, researchers have warned. IVG The procedure, in vitro gametogenesis (IVG) involves reprogramming adult cells into a…
Dozens of women may have had eggs fertilised by sperm cells from someone other than the intended father, say Dutch authorities The Guardian (U.K.) – A Dutch medical institution has launched an investigation after discovering that up to 26 women’s eggs may have been fertilised by the wrong sperm at its IVF laboratory. A “procedural error”…
