Opinions

• Minor's sexual differentiation disorders: bioethical aspects
  25 February 2010
• Alternative methods, ethics committees and conscientious objection  to animal testing
  18 December 2009
• Chimeras and hybrids, with specific attention to cytoplasmic hybrids
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  26 June 2009
• Bioethical problems in clinical trials with non-inferiority design (abstract) (complete text )(.pdf)
  24 April 2009
  
• Pharmacological trials on women
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  28 November 2008
• Conscious refusal and renunciation of healthcare in the patient-doctor relationship
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  24 October 2008
• Premature infants. Bioethical notes
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  29 February 2008
• The destiny of embryos resulting from medically assisted procreation (MAP) and not complying with the conditions for implantation
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  26 October 2007
• Nanosciences and nanotechnologies
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  9 June 2006
• Biobanks and research on human biological material
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  9 June 2006
• Conflict of interest in biomedical research and clinical practice
  (abstact) (.pdf)
  8 June 2006
• Caudectomy and conchectomy
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  5 May 2006
• Ethics, health and new information technologies
  (abstract) (pdf)
  21 April 2006
• From pharmacogenetics to pharmacogenomics
  (abstract) (pdf)
  21 April 2006
• Bioethics and rehabilitation
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  17 March 2006
• Differentiated alimentation and interculturalism
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  17 March 2006
• Bioethics and the rights of the elderly
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  20 January 2006
• Assistance to pregnant women and post-partum depression
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  16 December 2005
• Adoption for the birth of criopreserved and residual embryos obtained by medically assisted procreation MAP
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  18 November 2005
• Bioethical problems concerning the use of animals in activities linked to human health and well-being
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  21 October 2005
• Nourishment and hydration of patients in persistent vegetative state
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  30 September 2005
• Bioethical remarks on the so-called “ootides”
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  15 July 2005
• Bioethics in dentistry
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  24 June 2005
• Opinion on “the cellular therapy of Huntington's disease through the implantation of foetal neurons”
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  20 May 2005
• Alternative medicine and the problem of informed consent
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  18 March 2005
• Precautionary principle: bioethical philosophical and legal aspects
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  18 June 2004
• Advanced treatment statements
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  18 December 2003
• Ritual slaughtering and animal suffering
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  19 September 2003
• Researches using human embryos and stem cells
  11 April 2003
• Tobacco use
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf) 21 March 2003
• Opinion of NBC on the draft protocol on human genetics
  6 March 2002
• Aims, risks and limits of medicine
  14 December 2001
• Ethical and juridical considerations on the use of biotechnologies
  30 November 2001
• Bioethics and veterinary science, animal well-being and human health
  (complete text) (.pdf)
  30 November 2001
• Guidelines for ethical committees in Italy
  13 July 2001
• Violent acts, media and children
  25 May 2001
• Bioethical guidelines for equal access to healthcare
  25 May 2001
• Pain therapy: bioethical guidelines
  30 March 2001
• Psychiatry and mental health: bioethical guidelines
  (abstract)(Synthesis and recommendation) (.pdf)
  24 November 2000
• Therapeutic use of stem cells
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  27 October 2000
• Protection of human embryo and foetus. Opinion of the NBC on the preliminary draft protocol of the Bioethics Committee of the Council of Europe
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  31 March 2000
• NBC statement on the patentability of human embryonic cells
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  25 February 2000
• NBC opinion on the European protocol on biomedical research
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  19 November 1999
• Bioethical guidelines for genetic testing
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  19 November 1999
• NBC opinion on the proposal for a moratorium on human xenotransplantation clinical trials
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  19 November 1999
• Statement on the children's right to a non-polluted environment
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  24 September 1999
• NBC opinion on the Council of Europe White Paper on the treatment of mentally-ill patients
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  24 September 1999
• The bioethical issue of non voluntary sterilization
  20 November 1998
• Circumcision: bioethics outline
  25 September 1998
• Youth suicide as a bioethical problem
  17 July 1998
• Ethics, health care system and resources
  17 July 1998
• Pregnancy and childbirth from the bioethical standpoint
  17 April 1998
• Bioethical issues in a multiethnic society
  16 January 1998
• The bioethical problem of non-kinsman living donor kidney transplant
  17 October 1997
• Cloning
  17 October 1997
• Childhood and the environment
  18 July 1997
• Animal testing and health of living beings
  8 July 1997
• Ethics Committees in Italy: recent issues
  18 April 1997
• NBC opinions on the “Convention for the protection of human rights and biomedicine” Council of Europe and on the “Preliminary draft of the universal declaration on the human genome and human rights” UNESCO
  21 February 1997
• Identity and status of the human embryo
  22 June 1996
• The anencephalic infant and organ donation
  21 June 1996
• Coming to life
  15 December 1995
• Ethical aspects of electroconvulsive therapy
  22 September 1995
• Vaccinations
  22 September 1995
• Bioethics and the environment
  21 September 1995
• End-of-life issues in bioethics
  14 July 1995
• Medically assisted fertilization – Documents by the National Bioethics Committee
  17 February 1995
• Medically assisted procreation techniques. Synthesis and conclusions
  (abstract) ) (.pdf)
  17 June 1994
• Human genome project
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  18 March 1994
• Bioethics with childhood
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  22 January 1994
• Organ transplants in childhood
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  21 January 1994
• Report on the patentability of living organisms
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  19 November 1993
• Drug experimentation
  17 November 1992
• Prenatal diagnosis
  18 July 1992
• Information and consent related to medical acts
  20 June 1992
• Ethical committees
  27 February 1992
• Organ donation for transplantation purposes
  7 October 1991
• Bioethics and education in the health care system
  7 September 1991
• Document on the safety of biotechnology
  28 May 1991
• Issues related to the collection and treatment of human seminal plasma for diagnostic purposes
  5 May 1991
• Opinion on the resolution proposal concerning assistance to terminally ill patients
  30 April 1991
• Gene therapy
  15 February 1991
• Definition and detection of human death
  15 February 1991