Top stories in this newsletter: Part 2 of the Q & As on issues about doctor-patient confidentiality Proposals of a Hong Kong law reform sub-committee for a new offence relating to abuse and lawmaker’s call to require doctors to report abuse
26 Jul , 2019
Top stories in this newsletter: Q & As on issues about doctor-patient confidentiality raised by the arrest of alleged extradition bill protestors in Hong Kong hospitals Research suggests that the gene-editing experiment of He Jiankui might have increased the subject babies’ risk of premature death
28 Jun , 2019
Top stories in this newsletter: New book: Eastern and Western Perspectives on Surrogacy New abortion bans in the States and their implications for the landmark abortion ruling Hong Kong Medical Council decided to exempt non-locally trained specialist doctors seeking a full registration from the internship requirement
31 May , 2019
Top stories in this newsletter: English court held that prior court approval is not necessarily required before clini- cally assisted nutrition and hydration can be withdrawn from a patient with a pro- longed disorder of consciousness Hong Kong’s first-ever government facility for keeping foetuses miscarried before 24 gestational weeks commissioned
26 Apr , 2019
Top stories in this newsletter: Calls for a central registry of human genome editing research and a global moratorium Hong Kong government launched a trust service for the parents, siblings and relatives of persons with special needs Opt-out organ donation bill passed into law in England
29 Mar , 2019
"Criminalizing medical research fraud: Towards an appropriate legal framework and policy response" [Open Access]by Gilberto K. K. Leungin Medical Law International
24 Feb , 2019
