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Italian Committee for Bioethics

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About the Committee

Previous mandates

Mandato 2006-2013

2006-2013 mandate

1992-1994 mandate

1998-2001 mandate

1998-2001 mandate

1995-1998 mandate

1990-1992 mandate

2018-2022 mandate

Contacts

Institutional Commitments of the President

The participation of the President to the Coordination Centre of the Ethical Committees for the Clinical Trials
Legal References
Opinions
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Opinions & Responses

Palliative care

Impiego terapeutico delle cellule staminali

Opinion on the draft protocol on human genetics

Human genome project

The anencephalic infant and organ donation

Childhood and the environment

Circumcision: bioethics outline

Bioethics and the rights of the elderly

Differentiated alimentation and interculturalism

Chimeras and hybrids, with specific attention to cytoplasmic hybrids

Secrecy in drug regulatory system procedures

The identification of the human body: bioethical aspects of biometrics

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”

Pediatric biobanks

Covid-19 Vaccines and migrants

Institutional communication within pandemic: bioethical aspects

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

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

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

Covid-19 Vaccines and Adolescents

The role of Bioethics Experts in Ethics Committees

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

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

Covid-19 and children: from birth to school age

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

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

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

Bioethical reflections on medically assisted suicide

Mental health and psychiatric care in prisons

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

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)

Organ donation for transplantation purposes

Ethics committees

Prenatal diagnosis

Information and consent related to medical acts

Drug experimentation

Report on the patentability of living organisms

Organ transplants in childhood

Bioethics with childhood

Medically assisted procreation techniques. Synthesis and conclusions

Medically assisted fertilization – Documents by the National Bioethics Committee

End-of-life issues in bioethics

Bioethics and the environment

Vaccinations

Ethical aspects of electroconvulsive therapy

Coming to life

Identity and status of the human embryo

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

Ethics Committees in Italy: recent issues

Animal testing and health of living beings

Cloning

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

Bioethical issues in a multiethnic society

Pregnancy and childbirth from the bioethical standpoint

Ethics, health care system and resources

Youth suicide as a bioethical problem

The bioethical issue of non voluntary sterilization

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

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

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

Bioethical guidelines for genetic testing

ICB opinion on the European protocol on biomedical research

ICB statement on the patentability of human embryonic 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

Therapeutic use of stem cells

Psychiatry and mental health: bioethical guidelines

Pain therapy: bioethical guidelines

Bioethical guidelines for equal access to healthcare

Violent acts, media and children

Guidelines for Ethics Committees in Italy

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

Ethical and juridical considerations on the use of biotechnologies

Aims, risks and limits of medicine

Tobacco use

Ritual slaughtering and animal suffering

Advanced treatment statements

Precautionary principle: bioethical philosophical and legal aspects

Alternative medicine and the problem of informed consent

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

Bioethics in dentistry

Bioethical remarks on the so-called “ootides”

Nourishment and hydration of patients in persistent vegetative state

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

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

Assistance to pregnant women and post-partum depression

Bioethics and rehabilitation

From pharmacogenetics to pharmacogenomics

Ethics, health and new information technologies

Caudectomy and conchectomy

Conflict of interest in biomedical research and clinical practice

Biobanks and research on human biological material

Nanosciences and nanotechnologies

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

Premature infants. Bioethical notes

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

Pharmacological trials on women

Bioethical problems in clinical trials with non-inferiority design

Alternative methods, ethics committees and conscientious objection to animal testing

Minor's sexual differentiation disorders: bioethical aspects

Ethics, sport and doping

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

Criteria for ascertaining death

Prison, suicide and autolesionism

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

Bioethics and education in schools

The improper use of placebo

Neuroscience and human experimentation: bioethical problems

Pharmacological trials in developing countries

Knowing one’s biological origins in heterologous medically assisted procreation

Orphan drugs for persons affected by rare diseases

Bioethical aspects of aesthetic and reconstructive surgery

Conscientious objection and bioethics

Food animal production and animal welfare

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

Human rights, medical ethics and enhancement technologies in military contexts

Neuroscience and pharmacological cognitive enhancement: bioethical aspects

Body donation for scientific research

Mental disability in developing age and autism

Illegal trafficking of human organs from living donors

Conjoined twins and separation surgery: bioethical aspetcs

Intensive care unit "open" to family visits

Health “within prison walls"

Lifestyles and health protection

Dementia and Alzheimer disease: ethical issues

Bioethical considerations for involuntary exchange of embryos

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

The bioethical implications of medical restraints

Mobile health apps: bioethical aspects

Deep and continuous palliative sedation in the imminence of death

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

Information and communication technologies and big data: bioethical issues

A call for safeguarding the National Health Service

Ethical Issues in gene-editing using Crispr/Cas9

Clinical Ethics Committees

Migration and health

Caring for persons with mental illness: some bioethical issues

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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