Bioetikos naujienos

If Covid vaccine refusers are turned away at hospitals and doctor offices, is that ethical?

Dr. Jason Valentine, a family medicine physician at the Diagnostic and Medical Clinic Infirmary Health in Mobile, Alabama, informed his patients this month that, effective Oct. 1, he would no longer treat those who hadn’t been vaccinated against Covid-19. Around the same time, a leaked memo indicated that the North Texas Mass Critical Care Guideline Task Force was considering whether to take Covid vaccination status into account in deciding who gets ICU beds when more of them are needed than are available. Can either of these actions be considered ethical? In short, it depends.

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Limit on lab-grown human embryos dropped by stem-cell body

The international body representing stem-cell scientists has torn up a decades-old limit on the length of time that scientists should grow human embryos in the lab, giving more leeway to researchers who are studying human development and disease.

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‘I Need to Know I Tried’

In 2019, Dr. Richard Leiter, a palliative care specialist, met a patient and the man’s wife in the intensive care unit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The patient, in his 70s, had heart disease and kidney problems. But he had been living at home and doing reasonably well until sepsis, a life-threatening bloodstream infection, sent him to an emergency room.

When the kidney palliative care team met with the man’s wife to discuss treatment, it proposed what is known as a time-limited trial, in which life-sustaining treatment continues for an agreed-on period to see how the patient responds.

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Doctors Are Investigated After Posting Organ Photos Online as ‘Price Is Right’ Game

A health care network in Michigan said it had opened an investigation after some operating room doctors posted photos on social media last week showing themselves holding a surgically removed organ and tissue material as part of a game that they likened to “The Price Is Right.”
The doctors, who are employed as medical residents by Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, Mich., and specialize in obstetrics and gynecology, asked people to guess how much an unidentified organ weighed.

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Tai itin retas atvejis Lietuvoje – registruotas neplakančios širdies donoras

Lietuvos sveikatos mokslų universiteto ligoninėje Kauno klinikose registruotas neplakančios širdies donoras. Tai itin retas atvejis Lietuvoje – nuo 2016 metų, kai Lietuvoje imtas taikyti toks donorystės modelis, šis atvejis – septintas

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Why Americans lack adequate access to fertility treatments

Access to fertility insurance coverage in the United States is hard to come by, and a round of IVF can cost upwards of $12,000 — not including medication, according to a University of Iowa study cited by the National Conference of State Legislatures. In the United States, only 19 states require some level of insurance coverage for infertility. That means that in the other 31 states, insurance companies in the fully insured market (when a company purchases a plan from a commercial insurance carrier) don’t have to offer fertility benefits.

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Human cells grown in monkey embryos spark ethical debate

Monkey embryos containing human cells have been made in a laboratory, a study has confirmed. The research, by a US-Chinese team, has sparked fresh debate into the ethics of such experiments. The scientists injected human stem cells – cells that have the ability to develop into many different body tissues – into macaque embryos.

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Italy’s uphill battle to force health workers to get vaccinated

The Rome government decided to take a tough stance on 31 March, approving emergency legislation to make coronavirus vaccines mandatory for all health care workers, including pharmacy staff. Those who refuse can be transferred to another job without risk of spreading infections, or suspended without pay for up to a year.
The government said the rules were intended to „protect both medical staff and those who are in environments that may be more exposed to the risk of infection.“

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ECHR rules obligatory vaccination may be necessary

The ruling is the first time the European Court of Human Rights has weighed in on the issue of compulsory vaccinations. The ruling could play a role in efforts to end the COVID-19 pandemic. „The measures could be regarded as being ‘necessary in a democratic society’,“ the court judgment read.

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Scots become automatic organ donors under new law

Everyone in Scotland is now an automatic organ donor – unless they opt out of a new system. From 26, March, it is presumed that people have consented to donation unless they have stated otherwise. Experts say this will mean that many more people can be given life-saving and life-changing transplants.

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