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The Swedish National Concil on Medical Ethics has published an opinion on the ethical aspects concerning medical age assessments in the asylum process. A summary of the opinion is available in English.

The seminar will address questions regarding how much – and why – we are prepared to pay to prolong or improve somebody’s life. To answer these questions we are not only dependent on the economic resources or on the technical development within a society. We also need to consider different underlying ethical values and aspects that are at issue.

Smer is together with Lund University arranging the conference: Illegal and spurious medicines - a danger to public and personal health. The purpose of the conference is to highlight the trade with illegal medicines and discuss it from a global, national and ethical perspective.

The Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics sees ethical risks in using fixed compensation to egg donors. With high fixed sums some donors might have economic reasons instead of altruistic.

The Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics sees ethical risks in using fixed compensation to egg donors. With high fixed sums some donors might have economic reasons instead of altruistic.

The report ‘ADHD – ethical challenges’ highlights ethical issues that have specifically arisen in connection with the significant increase in recent years in the number of children and adults diagnosed with ADHD.