Opinions

Opinions & Responses

Caring for persons with mental illness: some bioethical issues

Migration and health

Clinical Ethics Committees

Ethical Issues in gene-editing using Crispr/Cas9

A call for safeguarding the National Health Service

Information and communication technologies and big data: bioethical issues

Managing “Incidental Findings” in genomic investigations with new technology platforms

Deep and continuous palliative sedation in the imminence of death

Mobile health apps: bioethical aspects

The bioethical implications of medical restraints

Single patient care and non-validated treatments (the so-called "compassionate use")

Bioethical considerations for involuntary exchange of embryos

Dementia and Alzheimer disease: ethical issues

Lifestyles and health protection

Health “within prison walls"

Intensive care unit "open" to family visits

Conjoined twins and separation surgery: bioethical aspetcs

Illegal trafficking of human organs from living donors

Mental disability in developing age and autism

Body donation for scientific research

Neuroscience and pharmacological cognitive enhancement: bioethical aspects

Human rights, medical ethics and enhancement technologies in military contexts

Clinical trials in adult or minor patients who are unable to give informed consent in emergency situations

Food animal production and animal welfare

Conscientious objection and bioethics

Bioethical aspects of aesthetic and reconstructive surgery

Orphan drugs for persons affected by rare diseases

Knowing one’s biological origins in heterologous medically assisted procreation

Pharmacological trials in developing countries

Neuroscience and human experimentation: bioethical problems

The improper use of placebo

Bioethics and education in schools

The living conditions of women in the third and fourth age: bioethical aspects of social health care

Prison, suicide and autolesionism

Criteria for ascertaining death

Kydney donation from a living donor to a stranger (so-called samaritan donation)

Ethics, sport and doping

Minor's sexual differentiation disorders: bioethical aspects

Alternative methods, ethics committees and conscientious objection to animal testing

Bioethical problems in clinical trials with non-inferiority design

Pharmacological trials on women

Conscious refusal and renunciation of healthcare in the patient-doctor relationship

Premature infants. Bioethical notes

The destiny of embryos resulting from medically assisted procreation (MAP) and not complying with the conditions for implantation

Nanosciences and nanotechnologies

Biobanks and research on human biological material

Conflict of interest in biomedical research and clinical practice

Caudectomy and conchectomy

Ethics, health and new information technologies

From pharmacogenetics to pharmacogenomics

Bioethics and rehabilitation

Assistance to pregnant women and post-partum depression

Adoption for the birth of criopreserved and residual embryos obtained by medically assisted procreation MAP

Bioethical problems concerning the use of animals in activities linked to human health and well-being

Nourishment and hydration of patients in persistent vegetative state

Bioethical remarks on the so-called “ootides”

Bioethics in dentistry

Opinion on “the cellular therapy of Huntington's disease through the implantation of foetal neurons

Alternative medicine and the problem of informed consent

Precautionary principle: bioethical philosophical and legal aspects

Advanced treatment statements

Ritual slaughtering and animal suffering

Tobacco use

Aims, risks and limits of medicine

Ethical and juridical considerations on the use of biotechnologies

Bioethics and veterinary science, animal well-being and human health

Guidelines for Ethics Committees in Italy

Violent acts, media and children

Bioethical guidelines for equal access to healthcare

Pain therapy: bioethical guidelines

Psychiatry and mental health: bioethical guidelines

Therapeutic use of stem cells

Protection of human embryo and foetus. Opinion of the ICB on the preliminary draft protocol of the Bioethics Committee of the Council of Europe

ICB statement on the patentability of human embryonic cells

ICB opinion on the European protocol on biomedical research

Bioethical guidelines for genetic testing

ICB opinion on the proposal for a moratorium on human xenotransplantation clinical trials

Statement on the children's right to a non-polluted environment

ICB opinion on the Council of Europe White Paper on the treatment of mentally-ill patients

The bioethical issue of non voluntary sterilization

Youth suicide as a bioethical problem

Ethics, health care system and resources

Pregnancy and childbirth from the bioethical standpoint

Bioethical issues in a multiethnic society

The bioethical problem of the kidney transplant from a non-blood related living donor

Cloning

Animal testing and health of living beings

Ethics Committees in Italy: recent issues

ICB opinions on the “Convention for the protection of human rights and biomedicine” Council of Europe and on the “Preliminary draft of the universal declaration on the human genome and human rights” UNESCO

Identity and status of the human embryo

Coming to life

Ethical aspects of electroconvulsive therapy

Vaccinations

Bioethics and the environment

End-of-life issues in bioethics

Medically assisted fertilization – Documents by the National Bioethics Committee

Medically assisted procreation techniques. Synthesis and conclusions

Bioethics with childhood

Organ transplants in childhood

Report on the patentability of living organisms

Drug experimentation

Information and consent related to medical acts

Prenatal diagnosis

Ethics committees

Organ donation for transplantation purposes

On the ethicality of the use of the drug triptorelin in the treatment of adolescents with gender dysphoria (Response to a query submitted by AIFA)

Preservation of anonymity of donor and recipient in the transplantation of organs

Mental health and psychiatric care in prisons

Bioethical reflections on medically assisted suicide

Covid 19: clinical decision-making in conditions of resource shortage and the “pandemic emergency triage” criterion

Covid-19: public health, individual freedom, social solidarity

Biomedical research for novel therapeutic treatments within the Covid-19 Pandemic: ethical issues

Covid-19 and children: from birth to school age

Vaccines and Covid-19: ethical aspects on research, cost and distribution

Vaccine passport, Certificate and Green pass, within the Covid-19 pandemic: bioethical aspects

The role of Bioethics Experts in Ethics Committees

Covid-19 Vaccines and Adolescents

Determination of death by cardio-circulatory criteria and “controlled donation”: ethical and legal aspects

Vulnerability and care in community welfare. The role of the ethical space for a public debate

Bioethical Reflections on Covid-19 vaccines in children aged 5-11 years

Institutional communication within pandemic: bioethical aspects

Covid-19 Vaccines and migrants

Pediatric biobanks

Concerning bioethical issues raised by Article 13, Law No. 96 of August 6, 2013, “Criteria in view of a Governmental Decree for the fulfillment of Directive 2010/63/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of September 22, 2010”

The identification of the human body: bioethical aspects of biometrics

Secrecy in drug regulatory system procedures

Chimeras and hybrids, with specific attention to cytoplasmic hybrids

Differentiated alimentation and interculturalism

Bioethics and the rights of the elderly

Circumcision: bioethics outline

Childhood and the environment

The anencephalic infant and organ donation

Human genome project

Opinion on the draft protocol on human genetics

Impiego terapeutico delle cellule staminali

Palliative care

Motions

Motion on non-optimal pharmaceutical packaging

Statement on labelling homeopathic products and information transparency

Motion for a policy of equal access to highly effective innovative drugs for serious diseases: reducing prices and controlling costs incurred by the National Health Service and citizens

Inequalities at birth

The importance of immunisation

Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on clinical trials on medicinal products for human use, and repealing Directive 2001/20/EC” (17July 2012)

Motion to complete the ratification procedure of the Oviedo Convention

Motion on the Additional Protocol to the Convention on human rights and biomedicine concerning genetic testing for health purposes

Motion on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with disabilities

Motion on the collection, storage and use of stem cells deriving from umbilical cord

Motion on the trade of ovocites

Motion on assistance to newborns and children affected by serious pathologies or handicaps and on paediatric euthanasia

Motion on the trade of organs for the transplant

Motion on unconventional medicines and practices

Statement on the penitentiary issue

Motion on the human cloning for reproductive purposes

Motion on the compulsory treatment of paedophiles convicted of sex crimes

Motion against tobacco addiction

Medical futility or unreasonable prolongation of treatments in young children with low expectations of life

Animal testing with reference to the prohibition set by the Legislative Decree 26/2014 regarding xenotransplants and abuse substances

Loneliness among sick people in healthcare facilities in times of pandemic

Vaccination urgency: bioethical aspects

Vaccines and placebo

Declaration on clinical trials to the CE

Paid surrogacy

Implementation trials medicinal products

ICB-CNBBSV Joint Group

Joint Opinions ICB/ICBBSL

Artificial Intelligence and Medicine: some ethical aspects

Developments of robotics and roboethics

Long-Term storage of residual dot blot spots from neonatal screening

Collection of biological samples for research purposes: informed consent

Genetic testing and insurance

Bioethical reflections on precision medicine and diagnostic-therapeutic developments

Genetic susceptibility testing and personalized medicine

The Opinions of the Committee on Covid-19

1 - Opinion - Covid 19: clinical decision-making in conditions of resource shortage and the “pandemic emergency triage” criterion

2 - Opinion - Covid-19: public health, individual freedom, social solidarity

Biomedical research for novel therapeutic treatments within the Covid-19 Pandemic: ethical issues

Covid-19 and children: from birth to school age

Vaccines and Covid-19: ethical aspects on research, costs and distribution

6 - Motion - Loneliness among sick people in healthcare facilities in times of pandemic

7 - Vaccination urgency: bioethical aspects

8 - Opinion - Vaccine passport, Certificate and Green pass, within the Covid-19 pandemic: bioethical aspects

9 - Motion - Vaccines and placebo

10 - Opinion - Vaccines and adolescents

11 - Opinion - Bioethical Reflections on Covid-19 vaccines in children aged 5-11 years

12 - Opinion - Institutional communication within pandemic; bioethical aspects

13 - Opinion - Covid-19 Vaccines and migrants