By I. Glenn Cohen My last post was a summary of the NAM’s Recommendations on Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy (MRT). Now here is my take on the report. But keep in mind the report was just released and all I could give it was a quick read, so these are really more like initial impressions:
By I. Glenn Cohen As readers know I’ve written on mitochondrial replacement therapy and its attendant ethical and regulatory issues. Today the National Academy of Medicine (formerly known as the IOM) released a terrific report today with its recommendations. I’ll have a second post with my reactions but here is a summary from the report…
By John A. Robertson The Nepal earthquake has shocked with the devastation and suffering inflicted on a long suffering people. Foreigners in Nepal were also affected, but most of them will be able to leave and carry on their lives without the poverty, housing, and health care deficits the Nepalese will be dealing with for years. …
By Allison M. Whelan, J.D.Senior Fellow, Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy, University of California, Irvine School of LawGuest Blogger Thailand’s interim parliament recently passed a law prohibiting foreigners from seeking Thai surrogates. The law was proposed and passed in response to several recent scandals and the growing surrogacy industry that has made Thailand…
Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics I. Glenn Cohen and Dr. Robert Klitzman Tuesday, February 24, 5:30 – 7:00 PM ET Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs Merrill House 170 East 64th Street, New York, NY 10065-7478 Live Video Stream HERE Medical tourism is a growing, multi-billion dollar industry involving millions…
By I. Glenn Cohen I have a new paper in a theme issue of Law and Contemporary Problems (one of two, I’ll post the second as well when it is available) titled Organs Without Borders? Allocating Transplant Organs, Foreigners, and the Importance of the Nation State (?) This paper is related to but separate from…
By I. Glenn Cohen My good friends and co-authors at Simon Fraser University have a nice new website aimed at Canadians (though useful for people from all countries) considering using medical tourism about what to think about, questions to ask, steps to take, etc (Full Disclosure: I participated in a feedback session on the website).…
By Pablo De Lora In a divided opinion (4 dissenting judges out of 9) the Civil Chamber of the Spanish Supreme Court has ruled against the inscription in favor of the intending fathers of children who are born as a result of a surrogacy agreement formed abroad. This conflict is one more in the already…
By I. Glenn Cohen Earlier this week, the D.C. Circuit upheld the FDA’s authority to regulate stem cells (for a good news report see here). The company in question, Regenerative Sciences, had received a warning letter from FDA, which the company challenged claiming that its use of stem cells as therapy was not prohibited by existing…
The IOM is hosting a workshop *right now* on Stem Cell Therapies: Opportunities for Assuring the Quality and Safety of Unregulated Clinical Offerings. You can sign up via a quick online form, and they’ll immediately send you a link to the live webcast (agenda here), which will hopefully be archived. Our own Glenn Cohen is slated…
