Month: June 2018

Dr John Lantos1 1Childeren’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Mo, United States In 2014, Francis Collins, head of the NIH, proposed sequencing every baby’s genome to “shape a lifetime of personalized strategies for disease prevention, detection and treatment.” Many scientists endorse...

A/Prof. Ainsley Newson1 1Sydney Health Ethics, University Of Sydney, University Of Sydney, Australia In May 2018, the Australian government announced a significant investment in health genomics: $500m over 10 years for an Australian Genomics Health Mission. The first project within...

A/Prof. Catherine Mills1 1Monash University, Wellington Road, Australia Internationally, the consumption of alcohol during pregnancy is recognized as a significant public health concern, since alcohol is known to have teratogenic effects on the developing fetus. Indeed, prenatal alcohol exposure is...

Jessica Pace1, A/Prof Wendy Lipworth1 1University Of Sydney, Sydney Health Ethics , Sydney, Australia The option to withdraw marketing approval or subsidy for medicines underpins a number of healthcare policies governing access to medicines. For example, a number of jurisdictions...

Anson Fehross1 1University Of Sydney, Sydney Health Ethics, Camperdown, Australia In Life’s Dominion, Ronald Dworkin provides the example of Margo. In the early stages of dementia, Margo arranged an advance directive instructing no intervention beyond comfort care once the disease...

Jessica Young1, Dr Janine Penfield Winters1, Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye2, Dr Richard Egan, Mr Tony Egan2 1Bioethics Center, University Of Otago, North Dunedin, Dunedin, New Zealand; 2Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago Euthanasia is currently a topic of wide...

Julie Letts1 1Lettsconsulting, Sydney, Australia “Intimacy – a place for solace, privacy, confiding, telling and retelling one’s story – is the lathe upon which the challenge of death can be answered.”(1)  This is even more poignantly so when the ageing,...

Dr Yvonne Cadet_James1, Dr Ben Gray2, Professor Emma Kowal3, Dr Richard Matthews4, Dr Camilla Scanlan5 1James Cook University, Cairns, Australia, 2University of Otago, , New Zealand, 3Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, 4Bond University, Robina, Australia, 5University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia The...

A/Prof. Tamra Lysaght1 1National University Of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore In recent years, a global industry has emerged selling products and services marketed as stem cells direct-to-the-consumer (DTC) for the treatment of serious diseases and medical conditions. These products are typically...

A/Prof. Bernadette Richards1 1University Of Adelaidde, Adelaide, Australia We live in a world where new is better and there is a perception that this brave new world of technological advancement is a better place where disease will be banished and...