Haymon v. Wilkerson: the wrongful birth cause of action emerges in the District of Columbia.

Wrongful birth and wrongful conception: a parent's need for a cause of action.

Toward rational boundaries of tort liability for injury to the unborn: prenatal injuries, preconception injuries and wrongful life.

Two recent cases, one from New York and one from Illinois, have again focused attention on injuries to the unborn. In the first of these, Renslow v. Mennonite Hospital,' the Illinois Supreme Court held that a child who suffered permanent disability to various organs, her brain and her nervous system as the result of the negligent transfusing of her Rh-negative mother with Rh-positive blood some...

تحلیل ضمان قهری مشاور ژنتیک در رابطه با خطای تشخیص قبل از تولد

Genetic technology in the field of medical science has been one of the great revolutions which it is in progress in molecular and cellular biology and the human genome project. The progress in genetic testing gives people the authority to prevent that certain diseases and also prevent the birth of children with rare genetic disorders. With the advancement of the science, genetic counselors are ...

Medical negligence and wrongful birth actions: Australian developments.

Wrongful birth actions aim to compensate litigants who are negligently deprived by health professionals of their right to reproductive choice. Access to safe and legal abortion is integral to the action and wrongful birth claims in the United Kingdom have been facilitated by the Abortion Act 1967 (as amended). The recent Australian case CES v Superclinics (1995) 38 NSWLR 47 shows how judicial c...

Time to Shift from Systems Thinking-Talking to Systems Thinking-Action; Comment on “Constraints to Applying Systems Thinking Concepts in Health Systems: A Regional Perspective from Surveying Stakeholders in Eastern Mediterranean Countries”

A recent International Journal of Health Policy and Management (IJHPM) article by Fadi El-Jardali and colleagues makes an important contribution to the literature on health system strengthening by reporting on a survey of healthcare stakeholders in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) about Systems Thinking (ST). The study’s main contributions are its confirmation that healthcare stakeholde...