Bioetikos naujienos

The limits of doctor-patient confidentiality tested in the UK

Paskelbta 2020-03-29 | paskelbė Margarita Poškutė

A difficult case in the United Kingdom has opened up questions about the confidentiality of the patient-doctor relationship. In the UK “non-disclosure is the default position and the bar for breaching confidentiality is relatively high.” In 2007 a man called XX in court documents murdered his wife. While incarcerated he began to manifest symptoms of Huntington’s Disease. He told his doctors not to inform his two daughters. One of his daughters, ABC, was pregnant at the time of her father’s diagnosis and she gave birth in 2010. ABC then sued the National Health Service for not disclosing her father’s condition. Had she known, she argued, she would have had an abortion.

Paskelbta Medikų ir pacientų santykiai | Komentarai įrašui yra išjungti

Germany’s high court endorses right to assisted suicide

Paskelbta 2020-03-29 | paskelbė Margarita Poškutė

Euthanasia movements around the world have been given a boost by Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court. On 26 February it handed down a long-awaited decision endorsing the legality of assisted suicide. It ruled that a law banning suicide with professional assistance was unconstitutional, as it deprived terminally ill patients of „the right to a self-determined death“.

Paskelbta Gyvenimo pabaigos etinės problemos | Komentarai įrašui yra išjungti

Germany overturns ban on professionally assisted suicide

Paskelbta 2020-03-29 | paskelbė Margarita Poškutė

A five-year-old law banning professionally assisted suicide has been rejected as unconstitutional by Germany’s top court. The head of Germany’s constitutional court, Andreas Vosskuhle, said on Wednesday that while parliament could pass laws on preventing suicide and increasing palliative care, it was not entitled to affect the impunity of assisted suicide. But there remains no legal entitlement to euthanasia and doctors cannot be required against their will to help provide assisted suicide.

Paskelbta Gyvenimo pabaigos etinės problemos | Komentarai įrašui yra išjungti

Portugal MPs in move to legalise euthanasia

Paskelbta 2020-03-29 | paskelbė Margarita Poškutė

Portugal has taken a big step towards legalising euthanasia by approving proposals from the ruling Socialist Party and some other politicians. Five bills got majority backing from MPs, and now a special committee is to consolidate them into one bill. The Catholic Church and opposition parties oppose euthanasia. They want Portugal to hold a referendum on it.

Paskelbta Gyvenimo pabaigos etinės problemos | Komentarai įrašui yra išjungti

Huntington’s disease: Woman who inherited gene sues NHS

Paskelbta 2019-11-18 | paskelbė Margarita Poškutė

A woman is suing a London NHS trust for not revealing her father had been diagnosed with Huntington’s disease before she had her own child.

Paskelbta Gyvenimo pradžios etinės problemos | Komentarai įrašui yra išjungti

Santaros klinikose gimė pirmasis kūdikis Lietuvoje po embriono genetinio ištyrimo

Paskelbta 2019-11-18 | paskelbė Margarita Poškutė

Pirmasis atvejis Lietuvoje, kai pastota po pagalbinio apvaisinimo procedūros, atliktos su embriono biopsija ir priešimplantacinės genetinės diagnostikos tyrimu, bei pirmas atvejis Lietuvoje, kai po tokio pastojimo gimė kūdikis.

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Paskelbta Gyvenimo pradžios etinės problemos | Komentarai įrašui yra išjungti

Russian ‘CRISPR-baby’ scientist has started editing genes in human eggs with goal of altering deaf gene

Paskelbta 2019-11-18 | paskelbė Margarita Poškutė

Russian biologist Denis Rebrikov has started gene editing in eggs donated by women who can hear to learn how to allow some deaf couples to give birth to children without a genetic mutation that impairs hearing. Some scientists and ethicists call into question the benefits of this procedure because hearing loss is not a fatal condition.

Paskelbta Gyvenimo pradžios etinės problemos | Komentarai įrašui yra išjungti

The world’s first Gattaca baby tests are finally here

Paskelbta 2019-11-14 | paskelbė Margarita Poškutė

Anxious couples are approaching fertility doctors in the US with requests for a hotly debated new genetic test being called “23andMe, but on embryos.” The baby-picking test is being offered by a New Jersey startup company, Genomic Prediction. The company says it can use DNA measurements to predict which embryos from an IVF procedure are least likely to end up with any of 11 different common diseases.

Paskelbta Gyvenimo pradžios etinės problemos | Komentarai įrašui yra išjungti

Mother takes legal action against sperm bank for her child’s dwarfism

Paskelbta 2019-11-14 | paskelbė Margarita Poškutė

A woman has taken a sperm bank to court after giving birth to a child with dwarfism despite choosing a six-foot-tall donor on its website, according to Russian reports.

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Paskelbta Gyvenimo pradžios etinės problemos | Komentarai įrašui yra išjungti

‘There’s no such thing as anonymity’: With consumer DNA tests, sperm banks reconsider long-held promises to donors

Paskelbta 2019-11-14 | paskelbė Margarita Poškutė

For generations, it was a basic tenet of donating sperm: Clinics could forever protect their clients’ identities. But, increasingly, donor anonymity is dead. The rise of consumer genetic tests — which allow people to connect with relatives they never knew they had, including some who never intended to be found in the first place — is forcing sperm donation clinics to confront the fact that it is now virtually impossible to guarantee anonymity to their clients.

Paskelbta Gyvenimo pradžios etinės problemos, Organų ir audinių transplantavimas/Donorystė | Komentarai įrašui yra išjungti

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