Uno de los problemas sociosanitarios de mayor actualidad hoy día es el constituido por el aborto provocado, también conocido como aborto intencionado o «voluntario». Se trata de un complejo tema que añade a su vertiente estrictamente médica, otras de carácter jurídico, moral, sociológico, religioso y demográfico. A pesar de que pocos asuntos médicos tienen…
SAVE THE DATE La Plataforma Sí a la Vida convoca a la sociedad civil a una gran Marcha para celebrar el día Internacional de la Vida, que desde 2011 se conmemora cada 25 de marzo. Este año, por coincidir con la Semana Santa, el evento central tendrá lugar el domingo 15 de abril. Más…
Every year, 1,000 Belgians are given a lethal injection without requesting it. This point was highlighted on 29 January by Doctor Marc Cosyns[1], during the trial of Ivo Poppe, the nurse accused of murdering about twenty people (see Belgium: former nurse accused of administering euthanasia to dozens of patients»). Marc Cosyns has always said that there…
In the United States, the FDA has approved «the very first algorithm to monitor vital signs in patients in order to predict potentially fatal events a few hours before they occur». Developed by the ExcelMedical Company, this form of «artificial intelligence» detects «subtle changes in vital signs and issues warnings up to six hours before a potentially fatal event occurs». The…
Copyright: The Conversation, Academic rigor, journalistic flair. We’d all like to be a little happier. The problem is that much of what determines happiness is outside of our control. Some of us are genetically predisposed to see the world through rose-colored glasses, while others have a generally negative outlook. Bad things happen, to us and in…
Más de 300 personas se han registrado para participar en el Seminario Internacional Cuidados Paliativos y Sociales Vs. Eutanasia celebrado en el Congreso de los Diputados y convocado por las organizaciones: Fundación Valores y Sociedad, Asociación Familia y Dignidad Humana, Fundación Jérôme Lejeune, Federación Europea One Of Us y Political Network for Values. …
La Marcha por la Vida en París, Francia, se desarrolló el día 21 de Enero durante cuatro horas desde la plaza de Ponte Dauphine hasta la explanada de Trocadero, en el centro de París. Ante los retos a los hoy hacemos frente en la defensa y protección de la vida humana, la Marcha por la…
Twenty-five years ago, after undergoing in-vitro fertilisation, an anonymous couple donated frozen embryos to «give a chance to those unable to conceive a child naturally». For their part, Tina and Benjamin Gibson knew when they got married that they would not be able to have their own biological children as Benjamin has cystic fibrosis, which has left him…
A study conducted by Boston Children’s Hospital and the University of Montreal warns against the use of genome editing in humans because the “genetic differences between individuals could prove detrimental to the efficacy of gene modification» and affect the safety of tests conducted in humans. The authors are in fact asking for gene editing to be adapted…
