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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 370

medical ethics

Illustrative: An in vitro fertilization embryologist works on a petri dish at a fertility clinic in London, August 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
October 14, 2022, 1:27 pm
Designer babies? Hi-tech preimplantation genetic testing may soon come to Israel
Unlike simpler forms of testing used in IVF today, screening for polygenic diseases doesn’t offer a clear diagnosis but rather a ‘risk score’ for a Pandora’s box full of conditions
By Nirit Sandman Eriksson
Vardit Ravitsky in Ottawa, 2014. (Courtesy)
July 16, 2021, 10:53 pm
Israeli-Canadian bioethicist: Return to pre-COVID normal would be wasted chance
With myriad ethical issues prompted by the pandemic, Vardit Ravitsky has emerged as a prominent voice of morality and change in Canada’s public health debate
By Robert Sarner
Stephen Mark Erle (later David Rosenberg) at age six months in 1962. His birth mother Margaret Erle was coerced into signing away her parental rights. This photo was taken during the first of just two meetings Margaret and the baby's father birth father George Katz were allowed with him while in foster care prior to his adoption. (Courtesy of Margaret Erle Katz)
March 5, 2021, 4:46 pm
Tragic Jewish mother-son story spurs exposé of cruel mid-century adoptions in US
In new book, Gabrielle Glaser spotlights Jewish New York’s prestigious Louise Wise Agency as leader in unethical practices targeting newborns, birth mothers, and adoptive parents
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine injection in Jerusalem, on January 28, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
February 7, 2021, 2:35 am
US rabbis guessing if they’re eligible for vaccine in midst of chaotic rollout
With complex guidelines differing by jurisdiction, clergy may or may not be considered frontline workers — a challenge as they strive to set an example for constituents
By Hannah Dreyfus
In this file photo taken on August 12, 2020 Alain Cocq rests on his medical bed in his flat in Dijon, northeastern France. (Photo by PHILIPPE DESMAZES / AFP)
September 5, 2020, 7:17 pm
Facebook blocks terminally ill Frenchman from streaming his death
After Macron turns down his request for euthanasia, Alain Cocq refuses all food and drink, attempts to broadcast his final days to show ‘agony’ caused by French law
By Loïc VENNIN
Polish physician Eugene Lazowski and Nazi poster about Jews as typhus carriers (public domain)
June 17, 2020, 4:37 am
How a faked typhus outbreak spared 8,000 Poles from the Nazis
Eugene Lazowski is called a ‘Polish Schindler’ for rescuing 12 villages through medical subterfuge, but his ‘quarantine zone’ was declared too late for most of the region’s Jews
By Matt Lebovic
In this March 11, 2009 photo, Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, special advisor for health care at the Office of Management and Budget, speaks at the American Medical Association's annual conference at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
April 25, 2020, 4:47 am
Former Obama bioethicist says Trump’s coronavirus exit plan has ‘many problems’
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel — brother of politician Rahm — is working to get everyone in the US on the same page: ‘a page informed by science’
By Rich Tenorio
This March 23, 2020, file photo shows medical supplies and a stretcher displayed before a news conference at the Jacob Javits Center in New York. Health care workers are dreading the prospect of deciding which patients would get a ventilator that could save their lives. (John Minchillo, Fle/AP)
March 31, 2020, 7:56 am
How would overwhelmed US hospitals decide who to treat first?
Doctors, ethicists fear they may have to decide who gets access to a life-saving ventilator — and who doesn’t
By Candice Choi, Lori Hinnant and Nicole Winfield
The director of the epidemics service, Dr. Karina Glick, checking a patient's monitor while wearing protective clothing, during a press presentation on hospital services for future patients with coronavirus at Samson Assuta Ashdod University Hospital, on March 16, 2020, in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod. (Jack Guez/AFP)
March 26, 2020, 6:41 am
In Israel, where preserving life is core medical ethos, wrenching dilemmas loom
If coronavirus infections spiral, hospitals could find themselves with more patients than life-saving ventilators. Authorities should set criteria, but they won’t, experts say
By Nathan Jeffay
Dr. Yosef Glassman (via jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com)
August 16, 2019, 8:59 am
New Jersey’s assisted suicide law on hold after lawsuit by Jewish doctor
Judge sides with Dr. Yosef Glassman, who says providing life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients violates First Amendment Rights of religious health care professionals
By MIKE CATALINI
Yoskeh and Nurit Marmurstein enjoy winter blossoms in Alumim, Israel, in 2012. (Courtesy of Yoskeh Marmurstein/via JTA)
June 27, 2019, 1:55 am
Late wife’s torment turns Israeli religious farmer into assisted suicide backer
After his terminally ill wife had to fly to Switzerland to end her suffering, Yoskeh Marmurstein is challenging a society that resists the burial of suicides in Jewish cemeteries
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The Berlin-Ploetzensee prison on December 17, 2019. (CC BY-SA Wikimedia commons)
April 16, 2019, 10:15 am
Remains of Nazi victims studied by German doctor to receive burial
Hermann Stieve kept tissue samples taken from 300 female resistance fighters killed in Berlin prison for his research on human reproduction
By Marcy Oster
Illustrative photo of pharmaceutical pills. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
January 17, 2019, 12:04 pm
Doctors and big pharma protest crackdown on freebies from drug reps
Union representing medical workers up in arms over new rules meant to limit companies’ ability to woo the physicians who prescribe their drugs
By Sue Surkes
Gonen Segev, a former Israeli government minister indicted on suspicion of spying for Iran, is seen in the District Court in Jerusalem, July 5, 2018. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool Photo via AP)
July 5, 2018, 7:46 am
Trial of ex-minister accused of spying for Iran starts behind closed doors
Gonen Segev alleged to have committed ‘aggravated espionage,’ carried out unspecified ‘missions’ for Tehran, according to expanded indictment released Wednesday
By Raoul Wootliff and Judah Ari Gross
Former energy minister Gonen Segev seen at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem during an appeal hearing on August 18, 2006. (Flash90)
July 4, 2018, 4:46 pm
Ex-minister accused of supplying Iran with names of Israeli defense officials
Prosecution releases heavily redacted indictment against Gonen Segev, which says he carried out ‘missions’ when asked by Tehran, acted ‘with intention of damaging security’
By Judah Ari Gross and Raoul Wootliff
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