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Civil liable persons by improperly fulfilled Telemedicine
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Civil liable persons by improperly fulfilled Telemedicine

A. The Problem The recent application of Triton Company for health monitoring through tablets is nowadays applied on 10.000 patients in 6 States of USA. In this way patients save time and money. This is the culmination of an evolution in the implementation of telemedicine.[1] The origins of this evolution are traced back to 1920 in New York, where the religious community of Christian sailors offered its members telemedicine by radio. Later in 1950 telemedicine was applied in remote areas…

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International Conference 20 years after Oviedo Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine
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International Conference 20 years after Oviedo Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine

The recent Recommendation of Greek National Bioethics Commission on Mitochondrial Replacement Technologies by Emmanouil Laskaridis In the last few years, scientific progress in the field of Mitochondrial Replacement Technologies (MRTs) has been rapid. Following a mitochondrial replacement treatment carried out in Mexico, a baby was born in 2016, the first baby to be born after such a procedure. In 2015 the United Kingdom became the first country to explicitly legalize MRTs and to grant in 2017 its first license to a…

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Patient information and consent to new treatment methods
Private Law, Studies / Articles

Patient information and consent to new treatment methods

by Emmanuel Laskaridis, LL.M. (Heidelberg), Dr. iur. (Heidelberg), Teaching Assistant at the Law School of Athens University, Barrister at Law in Athens, Member of the Greek National Authority for Human Assisted Fertilisation A. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MEDICAL AND LEGAL SCIENCE Medicine and law have been differentiated since thousands of years and are now methodologically categorized in different scientific domains. Medicine   appertains to the exact and natural sciences whereas law is a theoretical science. However, these two bear many similarities.…

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