Some media echo an investigation published in the Chinese magazine “Journal of Biomedical Engineering”, developed by researchers from the Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, in China, who claim to have built an artificial uterus capable of simulating the functions of the maternal uterus in humans, although the experiments carried out to date have…
The law passed yesterday by Parliament provides for up to three years in prison and a 45,000 euro fine for professionals who do not follow the will of minors. If the family stops them, the revocation of parental authority is foreseen Yesterday the Parliament of France definitively adopted a law to introduce a new crime…
Many Spanish doctors declare themselves conscientious objectors, which makes access difficult for women seeking the procedure. ZARAGOZA, Spain – Mercedes Sobreviela, a gynecologist in this city in northeastern Spain, believes that the decision to have an abortion concerns women. He says that the “right decision” for a woman is “whenever she wants.” But as a…
Fertility clinics offer a wide range of additional treatments designed to make a kind of reproduction a la carte. A happy world, without diseases and free from all evils, accentuating what Pope Francis came to call the culture of discarding. This is what the embryo genetic testing offered by Genomic Prediction, the first company to…
The controversial issue of frozen human embryos in the UK (see HERE), which are overflowing the storage capacity of fertility clinics (see HERE), poses a new challenge to the government’s plans, which it intends to expand from 10 to 55 years is the maximum term to keep cryopreserved embryos and sperm. The initiative has yet…
Keira Bell is suing the Tavistock Clinic. Like her, a lot of other young people are “stuck between the two sexes”, and regret their transition. Aside from Brexit and coronavirus, there is another issue in the UK that is fueling public debate: the treatment of transsexuality in children and young people. The first shock came…
Karalinska Hospital in Sweden, one of the world’s most renowned medical establishments, to end the practice of prescribing puberty-blockers to minors. The hospital cited the high risk-to-benefit ratio of hormonal interventions in children to justify their decision. What’s called the “Dutch Protocol,” of blocking puberty and then administering cross-sex hormones, may be falling out of favor.…
The draft of a revised version of the International Code of Medical Ethics (ICoME) is now open for public consultation and may be downloaded below. The revision process so far The International Code of Medical Ethics was adopted by the World Medical Association (WMA) in 1949 as a complement to the newly adopted Declaration of Geneva: The Physician’s…
The NICE [National Institute of Health and Care Excellence], a British health body that evaluates excellence in treatment and patient care, has stated after research that current studies provide a “very low” level of evidence to support of hormonal blockade in minors with gender dysphoria. Such studies, they say, are small and “subject to bias…
By Nicolás Jouve, Emeritus Professor of Genetics. President of CiViCa, member of the Bioethics Committee of Spain. (Cover image: A monkey-human blastocyst, an early stage of embryonic development Weizhi Ji, Kunming University of Science and Technology). A work has just been published in the journal Cell [1] in which the group led by the Spanish…