Author Archives: impact ethics

A Cautious Approach to Mitochondrial Replacement

February 3, 2016 · by · in Assisted Reproduction, Disability, Science and Technology

Françoise Baylis comments on the US Institute of Medicine’s report on Mitochondrial Replacement.

Clinical Trial Disaster in France

February 2, 2016 · by · in Pharmaceuticals, Research Ethics

Jonathan Kimmelman comments on the recent phase 1 clinical research trial that left one healthy volunteer brain dead and five others hospitalized.

Margaret Lock Offers Dementia’s Realism Instead of Hope

January 31, 2016 · by · in Health Research, Public Health, Science Funding

Cynthia Martin writes that unlike cancer’s new push to accelerate treatment (recently launched under the banner Cancer Moonshot2020), there is no Alzheimer’s MoonShot2020.

Disentangling Alzheimer’s, Dementia, and Aging

January 29, 2016 · by · in Community, Health Research, Mental Health, Public Health · 2 Comments

Katie Aubrecht shares her thoughts on Alzheimer’s, dementia, and aging as these intersect with The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging.

Physician-Assisted Death in Canada February – June 2016

January 26, 2016 · by · in Canadian Bioethics, Community, Death & Assisted Dying, Law & Policy · Leave a comment

Jocelyn Downie explains the Supreme Court of Canada’s response to the federal government’s request for more time to develop a new law on physician-assisted death.

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