Some Ethical Legal Issues in Heart Disease Surgery.

I-14: Ethical Issues in Sex Selection and Family Balancing

Sex selection for non-medical reasons is a major controversy in around the world. Here in this paper, we presented the ethical arguments about sex selection for non-medical reasons and discuss about them in Islamic context. Significant arguments about sex selection relate to sexism and sex discrimination, sex disproportion, human dignity, playing God, psychological pressure on unselected childr...

ETHICAL AND LEGAL ISSUES IN REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH Legal and ethical issues in fetal surgery

Stem Cells, Simulation and Legal- Juridical Aspects of it

Introduction:First, definition the stem cell refers to those cells that are still not clear and are not equipped for a particular task. These cells have proliferative properties and  ability to differentiate into other types of cells have become. This characteristic of stem cells to self-directed has absorbed professional opinion that extensive research is done in this regard. Nowadays, stem ce...

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Background: Human embryonic stem (hES) cells have the unrivaled ability to differentiate into any specialized cell type. Significant attention is currently directed to the biological and therapeutic capabilities of these cells for developing novel treatments for acute and chronic diseases including heart disease, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, spinal i...

Withdrawal of ventilation at the patient's request in MND: a retrospective exploration of the ethical and legal issues that have arisen for doctors in the UK

BACKGROUND Ventilatory support has benefits including prolonging survival for respiratory failure in motor neurone disease (MND). At some point some patients may wish to stop the intervention. The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance recommends research is needed on ventilation withdrawal. There is little literature focusing on the issues doctors encounter when withd...