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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
The Opinions of the Committee on Covid-19
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The meeting with the President of the Republic - 10 July 2014
The meeting with the President of the Republic - 10 July 2014
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