Opinions

Year 2010

• Bioethis and education
  16 July 2010
• Equitable access to health care
  16 July 2010
• Prison, suicide and autolesionism
  25 June 2010
• Criteria for the ascertainment of death
  24 June 2010
• Secrecy in procedures concerning the drug regulatory system
  28 May 2010
• Living unrelated kidney donation (the so called "samaritan donation")
  23 April 2010
• Ethics, sport and doping
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  25 March 2010
• Minor's sexual differentiation disorders: bioethical aspects
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  25 February 2010

Year 2009

• Alternative methods, ethics committees and conscientious objection  to animal testing
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  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
  

Year 2008

• 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

Year 2007

• 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

Year 2006

• From pharmacogenetics to pharmacogenomics
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  21 April 2006
• 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

Year 2005

• 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) (.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) (.pdf)
  15 July 2005
• Bioethics in dentistry
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  24 June 2005
• Opinion on “the cellular therapy of Huntington's disease through the implantation of foetal neurons”
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  20 May 2005
• Alternative medicine and the problem of informed consent
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  18 March 2005

Year 2004

• Precautionary principle: bioethical philosophical and legal aspects
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  18 June 2004

Year 2003

• Advanced treatment statements
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  18 December 2003
• Ritual slaughtering and animal suffering
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  19 September 2003
• Tobacco use
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf) 21 March 2003

Year 2002

• Opinion of NBC on the draft protocol on human genetics
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  6 March 2002

Year 2001

• Aims, risks and limits of medicine
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  14 December 2001
• Ethical and juridical considerations on the use of biotechnologies
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  30 November 2001
• Bioethics and veterinary science, animal well-being and human health
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  30 November 2001
• Guidelines for ethical committees in Italy
  13 July 2001
• Violent acts, media and children
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  25 May 2001
• Bioethical guidelines for equal access to healthcare
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  25 May 2001
• Pain therapy: bioethical guidelines
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  30 March 2001

Year 2000

• 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

Year 1999

• 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

Year 1998

• The bioethical issue of non voluntary sterilization
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  20 November 1998
• Circumcision: bioethics outline
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  25 September 1998
• Youth suicide as a bioethical problem
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  17 July 1998
• Ethics, health care system and resources
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  17 July 1998
• Pregnancy and childbirth from the bioethical standpoint
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  17 April 1998
• Bioethical issues in a multiethnic society
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  16 January 1998

Year 1997

• The bioethical problem of the kidney transplant from a non-blood related living donor
  (abstract) (complete text)(.pdf)
  17 October 1997
• Cloning
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  17 October 1997
• Childhood and the environment
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  18 July 1997
• Animal testing and health of living beings
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  8 July 1997
• Ethics Committees in Italy: recent issues
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  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
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  21 February 1997

Year 1996

• Identity and status of the human embryo
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  22 June 1996
• The anencephalic infant and organ donation
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  21 June 1996

Year 1995

• Coming to life
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  15 December 1995
• Ethical aspects of electroconvulsive therapy
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  22 September 1995
• Vaccinations
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  22 September 1995
• Bioethics and the environment
  21 September 1995
• End-of-life issues in bioethics
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  14 July 1995
• Medically assisted fertilization – Documents by the National Bioethics Committee
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  17 February 1995

Year 1994

• 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) (complete text) (.pdf)
  21 January 1994

Year 1993

• Report on the patentability of living organisms
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  19 November 1993

Year 1992

• Drug experimentation
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  17 November 1992
• Prenatal diagnosis
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  18 July 1992
• Information and consent related to medical acts
  (abstract) (complete text) (.pdf)
  20 June 1992
• Ethical committees
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  27 February 1992

Year 1991

• Organ donation for transplantation purposes
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  7 October 1991
• Bioethics and education in the health care system
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  7 September 1991
• Document on the safety of biotechnology
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  28 May 1991
• Issues related to the collection and treatment of human seminal plasma for diagnostic purposes
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  5 May 1991
• Opinion on the resolution proposal concerning assistance to terminally ill patients
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  30 April 1991
• Gene therapy
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  15 February 1991
• Definition and detection of human death
  (abstract) (.pdf)
  15 February 1991