embryonic screening as a european human right

Embryonic screening as a European human right.

The European Court lifted the Italian ban on pre-implantation diagnostics (PGD). As such the Court accepted PGD as a generally accepted means for medically assisted procreation, which mayhaveconsequences for other member states prohibiting PGD.

Embryonic Human Left and Right Cerebral Cortex

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Information as a Human Right

Information lies at the core of freedom of expression since it empowers citizens to understand the functions of media and other information providers, to access and critically evaluate their content, and to make informed decisions as users and producer of information and media content. Information and related technologies have become increasingly essential to education, employment, social inter...

Palliative care as a human right: update.

As I sit down to write this update on the global initiative to recognize Palliative Care (including psychosocial cancer care) and Pain Treatment as Human Rights, it is perhaps ironic that I have spent the entire morning watching the television coverage of the 10 Anniversary Memorial Services for the September 11, 2001 victims of the terrorist attacks on the United States. I was most personally ...

Proper hospital nutrition as a human right.

ESPEN is strongly encouraging the national societies to implement the resolution on Food and Nutritional Care in Hospitals, as adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in November 2003. The Committee of Ministers is the decision-making body of the Council, consisting of the foreign ministers of the member countries, or their ambassadors. The main aims of the Council are to...

Palliative care as a human right.