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10th World Congress of Bioethics
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Bioethics in a Globalised World 28 to 31 July 2010
Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre
Second Announcement
Call for Paper & Poster Abstracts
Deadline for submission 1 January 2010
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Trapped in his own body for 23 years - the coma victim who screamed unheard
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Rom Houben, 46, was diagnosed as being in a vegetative state after an accident in his 20s but can now communicate by computer keyboard. Photograph: VTM Belgium
For 23 years Rom Houben was imprisoned in his own body. He saw his doctors and nurses as they visited him during their daily rounds; he listened to the conversations of his carers; he heard his mother deliver the news to him that his father had died. But he could do nothing. He was unable to communicate with his doctors or family. He could not move his head or weep, he could only listen.
Doctors presumed he was in a vegetative state following a near-fatal car crash in 1983. They believed he could feel nothing and hear nothing. For 23 years.
Then a neurologist, Steven Laureys, who decided to take a radical look at the state of diagnosed coma patients, released him from his torture. Using a state-of-the-art scanning system, Laureys found to his amazement that his brain was functioning almost normally.
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Spinal stem cell treatment gets go ahead from the FDA
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Spinal stem cell treatment gets go ahead from the FDA.
American company Geron Corporation (GC) has been given permission to resume its clinical trials testing the embryonic stem cell treatment GRNPOC1...
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Reduced sentence for murderer with genetic predisposition to aggression
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An Italian court has reduced the sentence of a convicted murderer by a year based on evidence that he carries genetic mutations linked to aggressive ehavior.
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Gene therapy halts deadly hereditary brain disease in two boys
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Gene therapy has been used to treat two young boys with a devastating and fatal brain disease called adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD). Two years after treatment, both boys showed signs that the disease had stopped progressing and that there were no serious side effects from the gene therapy.
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Gene therapy restores significant vision in congenital blindness
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US doctors have used gene therapy to restore significant vision in 12 patients who were previously blinded by a disease called Leber's congenital amaurosis.
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Top IVF clinic mistakenly uses genetically abnormal sperm to treat infertile couples
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A mistake at one of London's top fertility clinics has resulted in more than 11 women being treated with genetically abnormal sperm, according to an exposé published in the Independent on Sunday newspaper this week.
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Gene therapy mends damaged lungs for transplant
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Donor lungs damaged before transplantation can be repaired using a gene therapy technique developed by a team of scientists in Canada.
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