Category Health Research
Nubia – An Ebola Survivor Orphaned by Vaccine Policy
Séverine Caluwaerts and Françoise Baylis lament the fact that in an epidemic as deadly as Ebola, pregnant women were denied access to potentially life-saving vaccination solely on the grounds of pregnancy.
Reflections on Egg Donation in Canada
Claire Burns recommends legal and practical changes for promoting the ethical treatment of egg donors within Canada.
A Call to Action: Improve Indigenous Health
Alain Beaudet shares an excerpt of his speech, given at last week’s annual Forum of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, which outlines research priorities for indigenous health.
Ethical aspects of research with chimera embryos
Vardit Ravitsky highlights a few ethical issues with human-nonhuman chimera research.
Human-Nonhuman Chimera Research in Canada
Françoise Baylis explains Canada’s regulatory framework for human-nonhuman chimera research and suggests that the proposed changes to the NIH guidelines to permit the funding of such research may have implications for Canadian research.
Impact Ethics 