Bioethics
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Written on 16 Jan, 2008 at 15:06 in
Bioethics | Author:
Tony Gosgnach Assistant Editor
It has spent the last quarter-century providing valuable scientific insight into life issues in Canada and, as co-founder and co-president Dr. L.L. Barrie de Veber pledges, the Toronto-based de Veber Institute for Bioethics and Social Research, which bears his name, is only just beginning.
“We closed down last year – we ran out of money. But now, we’re up and going ... (Continue reading)
Written on 3 Jul, 2007 at 13:44 in
Bioethics, Profiles | Author:
Leon R. Kass
The quotable Leon Kass
Editor’s note: Leon R. Kass delivered this commencement address at St. John’s College, Annapolis, Md. on May 13. It is reprinted with permission. Dr. Kass is chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics, a Hertog Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jun, 2007 at 11:07 in
Bioethics, Fetal Rights | Author:
By John B. Shea, M.D., FRCP(C) Special to The Interim
Many doctors have been asked the question, “Doctor, is my baby normal?”
The physician replying to the above question must remember that all medical diagnostic tests should be performed only in order to identify and, if possible, cure or ameliorate whatever condition the patient may be suffering from. He or she should also know that some currently used medical diagnostic tests are ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jun, 2007 at 9:15 in
Bioethics, Religion | Author:
Fr. Ted Colleton Faith and Life
I have no problem with science as such. But I do, sometimes, have trouble with the scientists. Science has done wonderful things for us and for the world in general. Cars, radios, telephones, computers and airplanes are just a few of the tremendous benefits of science and the scientists who invented and developed them. I have no problems with ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 May, 2007 at 8:48 in
Bioethics, Health Risks | Author:
Paul Tuns Interim Editor
For the past year, there has been an increased push by some in the healthcare system, the media and political circles to convince Canadians to sign their organ donor cards. For others, such information campaigns are not enough, so Ontario MPP Peter Kormos (NDP) went so far as to draft a private member’s ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Feb, 2007 at 12:48 in
Bioethics | Author:
Paul Tuns Editor Researchers at the Institute of Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University in Salem, N.C. have discovered a type of cell that floats freely in the amniotic fluid of pregnant women and has many of the traits of embryonic stem cells, suggesting a potentially ethical source of pluripotent cells – cells that scientists believe can grow into any other human cell and thus regenerate tissue such as ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Jan, 2007 at 13:09 in
Bioethics, Marriage and Family | Author:
Theresa Smyth Family and Society Reporter
When Margaret Smith discerned her calling to teach the Creighton system of natural family planning, she declared, “If, by becoming a practitioner, I prevent even one abortion, then I’ve done my job.”
Adamantly pro-life, the former palliative care nurse and sometime missionary is now an integral part of the Marguerite Bourgeoys Family Centre ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Dec, 2006 at 11:31 in
Bioethics | Author:
Paul Tuns
Editor
By the narrowest of margins (51 per cent to 49 per cent) voters in Missouri passed Amendment 2, ostensibly a constitutional amendment that would permit embryonic stem cell research and ban human cloning. But Amendment 2 permitted human cloning by redefining it – allowing “somatic cell nuclear transfer” (cloning) to create ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Dec, 2006 at 9:33 in
Bioethics | Author:
Hilary White
The Interim
A U.S. research team has released a report showing that embryonic stem cells injected into the brains of Parkinson’s patients have a serious risk of forming tumours.
Steven Goldman and colleagues at the University of Rochester Medical Centre in New York wrote in the journal Nature Medicine that human embryo cells injected into ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Oct, 2006 at 8:45 in
Bioethics, Columnist, Rory Leishman | Author:
Rory Leishman
National Affairs
At a White House ceremony on July 19, President George Bush explained his decision to veto a bill to fund embryonic stem cell research. He pointed out: “Embryonic stem cells come from human embryos that are destroyed for their cells. Each of these human embryos is a unique human life with inherent dignity and matchless ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Oct, 2006 at 8:29 in
Bioethics | Author:
Interim Staff
The Interim is often asked which Canadian charities support embryonic stem cell research – research that destroys human beings at the embryonic stage of life. Compiling this information is an ongoing and arduous project and we thank LifeSiteNews.com for maintaining a page (http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/sep/060918a.html)
listing such charitable agencies and societies. As LifeSiteNews states: ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Oct, 2006 at 8:28 in
Bioethics | Author:
Hilary White
Reporter
Marketing experts understand the value of “branding,” the creation of a mental connection in the mind of a consumer between the product and its name, slogan and advertising design scheme. A successful marketing campaign creates an indelible symbolic embodiment of all the information connected to a product.
The news media’s manipulation of the public debate around abortion and embryonic stem ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Oct, 2006 at 8:27 in
Bioethics | Author:
Interim Staff
On August 23, Advanced Cell Technology, a private, Worcester, Mass.-based biotechnology firm, announced to the world that it had developed a means of acquiring embryonic cells that would put to rest ethical concerns about this type of research.
In a study published online in the journal Nature, ACT researchers claimed to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Aug, 2006 at 9:25 in
Bioethics | Author:
John-Henry Westen
Special to the Interim
In a press conference at the Ottawa Hospital June 27, doctors announced the first-ever non-heart beating organ donation (NHBD) procedure preformed in Canada. The procedure, also known as donation after cardiac death (DCD), typically involves a person who requires a ventilator and, although he has measurable brain function, is determined to have no hope of recovery. The doctors remove the ventilator from the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Aug, 2006 at 9:16 in
Bioethics | Author:
Theresa Smyth
Family and Society Reporter
A prominent fertility doctor, who provides sex-selection of tourists’ embryos, considers himself to be working in “the happiest field in medicine, where we’re basically helping couples achieve dreams that otherwise they might not be able to achieve.”
For the past five years, Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg’s Fertility Institutes of Los Angeles and Las Vegas have offered pre-implantation genetic ... (Continue reading)
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