by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Apr, 2007 | Gènéthique informs you
Innovative therapies On 25 April 2007, European MPs approved a regulation harmonising marketing authorisation (MA) procedures for innovative therapies: from now on, products resulting from gene and cell therapies as well as those resulting from tissue therapy...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Apr, 2007 | Gènéthique informs you
In Great Britain, the government authorised on May 17 the creation of hybrid human-animal embryos for research. The law authorises a duration of life of 14 days for these embryos and prohibits their implantation in the uterus. In 2004, this country was the first in...
by Alexis DUPORT | 28 Feb, 2007 | Gènéthique informs you
Life as a challenge “The doctor who practices the ultrasonography, a woman, seems to be worried: – There is a problem. Immediately I understand and as instinctively that it is serious, and I heard: – Is she going to die? (Why did I speak first about...
by Alexis DUPORT | 28 Feb, 2007 | Gènéthique informs you
The euthanasia lobby On last 15 March, after a highly publicized trial, the Court of Assizes of Dordogne condemned a doctor to one year suspended prison and discharged a nurse. Sued for euthanasia by injection of lethal substance to a terminally ill patient...
by Alexis DUPORT | 28 Feb, 2007 | Gènéthique informs you
Consciousness objection Consciousness objection consists in refusing to obey a civil law judged in consciousness as seriously unfair. If a general agreement existed for centuries on essential values which founded political authority and social balances, today...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Jan, 2007 | Gènéthique informs you
Our societies are influenced by sexual confusion. The gender theory constitutes the ideological matrix from which come most of the questions on differences between sexes. During the Assembly of French bishops in Lourdes, in November 2006, the thought about the issue...