Tag Archives: Ethics

Microchips Biotech

Teva and Microchips Biotech Announce Partnership to Enhance Patient Outcomes through Digital Drug Delivery Technology

–Electronic Microchip-Based Implant Technology Delivers Medicines over Months and Years, Improving Adherence and Compliance for Patients

–Promising Innovative Technology Offers Potential Across Therapeutic Areas and Disease States

Jerusalem, and Lexington, MA, June 18, 2015 – Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., (NYSE: TEVA) and Microchips Biotech, Inc. today announced that they have entered into a partnership under which the companies will explore innovative ways to apply Microchips Biotech’s implantable drug delivery device to Teva’s portfolio of products with the goal of enhancing clinical outcomes for patients on chronic drug therapies.   Continue reading Microchips Biotech

Are genetically engineered mosquitoes realistic solution to Zika?

Arvind Suresh | February 5, 2016

Earlier this week the Director of the World Health Organization Dr. Margaret Chan declared that the ongoing Zika outbreak was a ‘Public Health Emergency of International Concern.’ This was a significant move by the international body as it is the fourth time that the declaration has been made since such a designation was formally defined as a response to a public health crisis by the WHO in 2005, with the most recent one being for the Ebola outbreak. Continue reading Are genetically engineered mosquitoes realistic solution to Zika?

Genetic editing is like playing God – and what’s wrong with that?

Baby playing with DNA model
‘Gene editing of human embryos to eliminate disease should be considered to be ethically the same as using laser surgery to correct eye defects.’ Photograph: Tetra Images/Getty Images

by Johnjoe McFadden Tuesday 2 February 2016 13.29 GMT

British scientists are getting permission to alter embryos’ DNA. We have the chance to correct devastating diseases in the womb, so let’s get on with it.

The announcement that scientists are to be allowed to edit the DNA of human embryos will no doubt provoke an avalanche of warnings from opponents of genetic modification (GM) technology, who will warn that we are “playing God” with our genes. Continue reading Genetic editing is like playing God – and what’s wrong with that?

British researchers get green light to genetically modify human embryos

Kathy Niakan next to a microscope
Dr Kathy Niakan wants to look at the first few days of fertilisation. Photograph: Francis Crick Institute

by Haroon Siddique Monday 1 February 2016 13.12

Britain’s first genetically modified human embryos could be created within months, after scientists were granted permission by the fertility regulator to carry out the procedure.

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) regulator approved a licence application by Kathy Niakan, a stem cell scientist at the Francis Crick Institute in London, to perform so-called genome editing on human embryos. Continue reading British researchers get green light to genetically modify human embryos

No, GM Mosquitoes Didn’t Start The Zika Outbreak

By Christie Wilcox | January 31, 2016 9:56 pm

A new ridiculous rumor is spreading around the Internets. According to conspiracy theorists, the recent outbreak of Zika can be blamed on the British biotech company Oxitec, which some are saying even intentionally caused the disease as a form of ethnic cleansing or population control. The articles all cite a lone Redditor who proposed the connection on January 25th to the Conspiracy subreddit. “There are no biological free lunches,” says one commenter on the idea. “Releasing genetically altered species into the environment could have disastrous consequences” another added. “Maybe that’s what some entities want to happen…?” Continue reading No, GM Mosquitoes Didn’t Start The Zika Outbreak

Apple raises concerns over UK’s draft surveillance bill

Apple waited until the last moment to file its response to the draft surveillance law
22 December 2015

Apple has raised concerns about the UK’s draft Investigatory Powers Bill. Continue reading Apple raises concerns over UK’s draft surveillance bill

Lessons from a pot investing summit

David A. Grogan | CNBC Marijuana buds at The Farm in Boulder, Colorado.

The peaks and pitfalls of pot investing

by Amanda Drury | @MandyCNBC Friday, 18 Dec 2015 | 1:45 PM

It wasn’t so many years ago that the words “cannabis gathering” only meant a joint being passed around the room and some sturdy philosophizing about life, the universe, and the bounties of the magic leaf. The picture could not have been more removed from that at the Cannabis Private Investment Summit organized by Kahner Global in New York City a couple of weeks ago. This was a room full of professional suits. On the one side, there were private family offices and high net worth investors potentially wanting to latch on to the exploding legal cannabis industry. On the other side, individuals with established cannabis-related companies pitching their products or services, informing and educating everyone about the opportunities in the space. Continue reading Lessons from a pot investing summit

Health minister’s medical marijuana plan gets underway

Yaakov Litzman of the United Torah Judaism party at a Finance Committee meeting, December 16, 2013 (Flash90)

Litzman’s overhaul includes training doctors who will be able to prescribe cannabis, and making it available in pharmacies

Continue reading Health minister’s medical marijuana plan gets underway

Survivors of Symphysiotomy Submission to UN Human Rights Council

Survivors of Symphysiotomy ireland

Posted on September 22, 2015

The UN will carry out a review of Ireland in 2016. Read our submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council:

This submission outlines the torture, and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, perpetrated on three generations of women in Ireland by doctors who carried out destructive and non-consensual childbirth operations (‘symphysiotomy’) in the absence of medical necessity; and shows why Ireland’s failure to protect these women then, and to vindicate their rights now, constitutes a violation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,the UN Convention Against Torture, the European Convention of Human Rights, and the UN General Assembly Body of Basic Principles. Continue reading Survivors of Symphysiotomy Submission to UN Human Rights Council

Symphysiotomy in Ireland & the Catholic Church

Survivors of Symphysiotomy ireland

16 October 2015

Symphysiotomy is a childbirth operation that effectively unhinges the pelvis. Ireland was the only country in the world to do these childbirth operations in preference to Caesarean section. Religious ideology and medical ambition drove the surgery. Continue reading Symphysiotomy in Ireland & the Catholic Church

What Rothschild, Murdoch, Cheney, and Israel Love Most About Syria

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Claire Bernish September 14, 2015

What do Syria, New Jersey, Lord Jacob Rothschild, and former Governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson have in common?

Besides sounding like the introduction to a wince-worthy conspiracy quip, the most elementary answer is also nauseatingly cliché as an explanation for the penchant the U.S. government displays for inserting itself in the domestic affairs of nearly every country in the Middle East: Continue reading What Rothschild, Murdoch, Cheney, and Israel Love Most About Syria

U.S. & UK destroy LIBYA

7/10/2015

DESTROYING LIBYA – by The Lands of the Free

Unlike Iraq, the problem with LIBYA wasn’t just about oil, it was about GOLD as well -a commodity the U.S. doesn’t have in it’s federal reserve. Continue reading U.S. & UK destroy LIBYA

‘Remote control’ contraceptive chip available ‘by 2018’

The chip would need replacing every 16 years (chip pictured is not the one described in the article)

By Dave Lee 7 July 2014

A contraceptive computer chip that can be controlled by remote control has been developed in Massachusetts.

The chip is implanted under a woman’s skin, releasing a small dose of levonorgestrel, a hormone. Continue reading ‘Remote control’ contraceptive chip available ‘by 2018’

With microchip implant, doctors can administer meds remotely

A Microchips Biotech chip (Courtesy)

Israeli pharmaceutical giant Teva is teaming up with a US tech firm in the first-ever deal to use biochips to deliver pharmaceutical dosages

By David Shamah June 24, 2015, 5:07 pm

In-body microchips that deliver medicine in doses either pre-determined or controlled by doctors from outside the body could be the next big thing in drug delivery, and Teva Pharmaceuticals has jumped onto the bandwagon. Continue reading With microchip implant, doctors can administer meds remotely

UN peacekeepers accused of child sex abuse in Central African Republic

Human Rights UN peacekeepers accused of child sex abuse in Central African Republic

By Tom Murphy on 25 June 2015

Contingent of Nepalese Peacekeepers in Juba, South Africa. (Credit: UN Photo/Isaac Billy)

On the heels of child sex abuse reports in the Central African Republic by French soldiers, the United Nations announced Tuesday that an investigation is under way into whether UN peacekeepers also abused street children.  “We’re obviously looking into it,” said Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN secretary-general in a press briefing. “Medical care and assistance is being provided to the alleged victims.”  Little information about the nature of the abuse, the country of origin of the peacekeepers accused of abuses, and the number of victims is available.

However, Al Jazeera reported yesterday that Morocco was contacted to investigate allegations that one of its soldiers raped a girl younger than 16 years old.  Continue reading UN peacekeepers accused of child sex abuse in Central African Republic

Bill Gates.. Genius or a Psychopath ? You Decide

Bill Gates.. Genius or a Psychopath ? You Decide

Bill Gates caught red handed lying about vaccines and depopulation.
Italian court rules MMR vaccine did trigger autism: nyrnaturalnews

Tuareg Culture and News: Who are the Tuareg people?

Who are the Tuareg people

The Tuareg people are Berber-speakers who trace their ancestry to the indigenous peoples of North Africa in ancient times. They share the same language family as the Berber-speakers of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. Tuaregs live primarily in Niger, Mali, Algeria and Libya, with diasporas in many surrounding countries. Continue reading Tuareg Culture and News: Who are the Tuareg people?

Brazil releases genetically modified mosquitoes to fight dengue fever

| TNN | Sep 25, 2014, 05.35 PM IST

LONDON: Thousands of British made genetically engineered mosquitoes were released by Brazilian researchers in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday infected with bacteria that suppress dengue fever. Continue reading Brazil releases genetically modified mosquitoes to fight dengue fever

Ebola, AIDS Manufactured by Western Pharmaceuticals, US DoD?

Tue, 09/09/2014 – 09:59

Scientists Allege

By: Dr. Cyril Broderick, Professor of Plant Pathology

Dear World Citizens:

I have read a number of articles from your Internet outreach as well as articles from other sources about the casualties in Liberia and other West African countries about the human devastation caused by the Ebola virus. Continue reading Ebola, AIDS Manufactured by Western Pharmaceuticals, US DoD?

FBI Interested in Texas “Doomsday” Ecologist who said Ebola the Solution to Human Overpopulation

AUSTIN, April 6, 2006

Ebola, a form of hemorrhagic fever in which the internal organs of the victim liquefy, has one of the highest rates of fatality of any known contagious disease at approximately 80-90% and is one of the most contagious diseases known to medical science. It is also high on the list of possible bio-terror weapons of concern to international law enforcement and military security agencies. Tom Clancy’s thriller novel, Rainbow Six describes a group of radical environmentalists that wants to rid the world of people using a modified version of Ebola.

All of which is why the FBI is interested in talking to Texas ecologist and herpetologist, Dr. Eric R. Pianka, who suggested at a meeting of the Texas Academy of Sciences that an airborne version of Ebola that would wipe out 90% of the human population was the solution to the human “overpopulation problem.” Continue reading FBI Interested in Texas “Doomsday” Ecologist who said Ebola the Solution to Human Overpopulation