Programs should create and enforce written policies addressing the designation, retention, disposal of unclaimed embryos. In absence program-specific policies, it is ethically permissible for a program or facility to consider embryos have been if reasonable period time has passed since contact with an individual couple; efforts as outlined in consent form made no instructions from couple dispos...

Knowledge of the heterosexual spread of HIV is needed to plan future health-care needs. In December 1989 we gained approval and finance for unlinked anonymous testing of neonatal Guthrie card samples in Scotland. Local ethics committee approval was required before testing could start. Twenty ethics committees were approached in the 15 Scottish health board areas. Nineteen of the committees have...

In robot therapy for senile dementia patients, a seallike robot, Paro, was left in patients’ homes for a week to determine its neuropsychological influence. Efficacy was evaluated by the diagnosis method of neuronal dysfunction (DIMENSION), which detects a lack of smoothness of scalp potential distribution resulting from cortical neuronal impairment by analyzing recorded a patient’s electroence...

The introduction of new strategies, tests, and procedures into clinical practice raises challenging ethical issues involving evaluation evidence, balancing benefits harms, supporting patient autonomy, avoiding conflict interest, promoting advances in health-care. purpose this document is to assist reproductive health practitioners as they introduce interventions the care that provide patients. T...