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Webinar - State and Professional Autonomy: Conflicting Rights and Obligations in the State-Profession Relationship
Recent papers on medical ethics and law
Rationing of medical resources amid COVID-19

English court recognised duty owed by a hospital trust to the daughter of its patient in respect of genetic information [ABC v St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust and others [2020] EWHC 455 (QB)]
Rationing ventilators and hospital resources during the COVID-19 pandemic
Ethics in the COVID-19 crisis: perspectives from a clinical ethicist

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Managing the property and affairs of persons without mental capacity
Test for the diagnosis of death challenged in UK court
Ethical concerns over a lottery-style free drug programme to give away potentially life-saving gene therapy

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Hong Kong revised list of notifiable diseases amid the novel coronavirus outbreak
Chinese scientist, who claimed he created the world’s first “gene-edited” babies, jailed for three years
Woman who suffered an eye injury during a Hong Kong protest lost court challenge against police’s refusal to produce warrant for her medical records
Is it ethical to quarantine Chinese cities?

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Master of Laws in Medical Ethics and Law
Dismissal of appeal by Hong Kong doctor who did not notice from medical records nurses’ wrongful management
Vague understanding of end-of-life care services in Hong Kong
More research to be done into women’s health problems

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Journal article on compulsory mental health treatment co-authored by CMEL’s Deputy Director
Events on medical and healthcare AI postponed
Father whose ex forged his signature to use frozen embryos lost claim
Inquiry into Google’s patient data deal in the United States