Could the COVID-19 pandemic change our vision of the care for the dying or for people at the end of their life? The COVID-19 crisis has sparked a significant and genuine thinking on our relation with the dying, especially in the institutional and hospital settings. As...
On April 23, the Dutch Supreme Court rendered a decision on the value of advance directives written by people with dementia by ruling that written requests are open to interpretation. Consequently, doctors can now legally carry out euthanasia on people with dementia...
A new French decree which became effective on April 14, 2020 extends deadlines for having drug-induced abortions at home from 5 to 7 weeks of pregnancy (corresponding to 7-9 weeks amenorrhea) during the Covid-19 health emergency. Repeatedly questioned by Senator...
In his TV address of Monday April 13, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that the COVID-19 confinement would be extended until May 11. However, the President specified that "the most vulnerable, the elderly, those with severe disabilities or people with...
On April 3rd, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and behind closed doors in the Capitol, the state of New York voted to legalize commercial gestational surrogacy as part of the 2021 budget package. To become effective in February 2021, the new legislation will...
On March 29th, the French Journal Officiel published a decree authorizing “off-label” prescriptions of Rivotril® until April 15, 2020, that is, prescribed for conditions that have not received marketing authorization. It will be dispensed as an injection on an...
