Bioethics News nº 16

¿Tienes problemas para visualizar? Mira este boletín en tu navegador. nº16 October . 2013 Contact us HERE                                                    Download PDF version HERE Assisted Suicide A common debate in the field of end-of-life medicine is that dealing with the ethics of assisted suicide. This debate was once again opened in one of the latest issues of the New England Journal of Medicine (368; 1450-1452, 2013), in its clinical decisions section. Here the authors present a case in which assisted suicide is suggested as a possible ...   Over-the-Counter Oral Contraceptives PRACTICAL MEDICAL ETHICS Since the development of the first synthetic progesterone in 1951 and the commercial introduction of the oral contraceptive pill (OCP) to the UK in 1961 there have been numerous attempts to extend its reach. A particular target has always been young women who over time have become sexually active at a progressively ... Cryopreservated Embryos is continuously increasing Numerous medical and ethical issues arise regarding the subject of freezing of embryos leftover after a cycle of in vitro fertilisation. There are two issues which deserve our attention: one regarding the number of frozen embryos in existence today and how long these embryos will be useful for biomedical experimentation. Since in vitro procedures produce more embryos than are ...  Allowing only healthy embryos to live In one of the latest issues of Fertility and Sterility (99; 1203-1204, 2013), new technological advances in preimplantation genetic diagnosis are described, and how these techniques are now able to detect more genetic diseases using safer methods, especially through the use of microarrays. While this is certainly positive, it may be easy to overlook the fact that the aim of ... Dysthanasia The normal treatment given to the patient should not be abandoned even when he faced an inevitable death. On many occasions, when it is necessary to choose between euthanasia or dysthanasia, and we conclude that it is better to resort to the first in order to avoid the terrible extremes of the second, ...  Only healthy embryos can live In one of the latest issues of Fertility and Sterility (99; 1203-1204, 2013), new technological advances in preimplantation genetic diagnosis are described, and how these techniques are now able to detect more genetic diseases using safer methods, especially through the use of microarrays. While this is certainly positive, it may be easy to overlook the fact that the aim of ...  20 women die each year from using contraceptives According to the French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products (02/04/2013), 20 women in France die each year from using third- and fourth-generation contraceptives, and 2,529 thromboembolisms occur as a side effect of these forms of birth control. 15.5% of women suffer from infertility in the United States An off-debated issue concerning assisted reproduction is the correct identification of infertile couples. A couple is thought to be infertile when they are unable to become pregnant after one year of unprotected sexual intercourse. In a recent study (Fertil Steril 99; 1324-1331, 2013), it is estimated that 15.5% of women suffer from infertility in the United States (95% CI 8.6-27.5). IVF and cancer Another concern that arises with regard to in vitro fertilisation, IVF, is whether the procedure favours the development of cancer in the women who have used these techniques. In a large study conducted in Israel and published in Fertility and Sterility  (99; 1189-1196, 2013) which analysed data from 87,403 women, no significant relationship was found between in vitro fertilisation and ...  Japan promote research with iPS cells The therapeutic possibilities offered by iPS cells seem unquestionable, and may increase with the commitment of the Japanese government to promote research using them. Indeed, according to an article in Nature Biotechnology (31; 272-273, 2013), the Japanese government are going to dedicate 222 million dollars to construct a research institute dedicated to Yamanaka, the man who set up the method ... Leer en línea. How long leftover human embryos? An off-posed question is how long leftover human embryos resulting from in vitro fertilisation processes can be cryopreserved for use as research material. Pruksananonda et al. (Bio Research Open Access, 166-173, 2012) showed that useful embryonic cell lines can be derived for research aims using embryos that had been cryopreserved for 18 years. Embryonic stem cell lines has increased rapidly In the last five years the number of embryonic stem cell lines has increased rapidly. In December 2012 there were 198 preserved cell lines available at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and more than 1,200 stem cell lines at the Human  Embryonic  Stem Cell Registry (<http:/www.umassmed.edu/iscr/index.aspx.accesed 21 march 2013). The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) alone holds ...  Reduction of HIV infection in heterosexual couples In the April issue of JAMA (158; 615-619, 2013), 10 of the most significant medical studies taking place in 2012 are reviewed. One in particular has enormous implications in the realm of bioethics. The study in question was published in the New England Journal of Medicine (367; 399-410, 2012), and cited the positive ramifications of the use of preventive medicine ...  Unsuscibe me - Editar tu suscripción Guillem de Castro 94 46003 Valencia ESPAÑA