Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Feeling Angry? Good for You!

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Contrary to previous studies about anger and the risk of heart disease, new research has found that women with high levels of hostility and...

A Painful Issue Redux

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Art Caplan comments on how abortion politics continue to rip at the social fabric of America in a commentary on proposed fetal pain and abor...
Monday, November 28, 2005

First Human Clone Maker Resigns Post

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After being dogged for months about the source of the women’s eggs he used to create the first human cloned embryo, the South Korean veterin...
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Thursday, November 24, 2005

On this day of Thanksgiving....

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For a wonderful spiritual collection of Thanksgiving blessings, meditations, interviews, and thoughts about what Thanksgiving means check ou...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Women trade health for a paycheck

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In September the President’s Commission on Bioethics published Taking Care: Ethical Caregiving in Our Aging Society . It is a broad review a...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Malicious modeling?

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CNN.com reports on a Catholic school who has fired a preschool teacher for being unmarried and pregnant. The school claims that they are si...
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Monday, November 21, 2005

Is this what Sister Sledge meant?

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I refer, of course, to the 70s disco hit (and frequent wedding reception boogie tune) "We Are Family." Yesterday's NYT ran a ...
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Sunday, November 20, 2005

Harvard Bioethcists Discover Social Justice

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The Inaugural Conference on Health and Ethics sponsored by the Harvard University Program in Health and Ethics was held this past Thursday a...
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Saturday, November 19, 2005

Pass the Beano, Please...

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Sally Squires of the Washington Post reports on a study that shows that trading about 10 percent of carbohydrates in the diet for beans and ...
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God's Bioethics (part deux) and the Church: The Vatican Rejects Intelligent Design

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Yahoo reports that the Catholic Church has weighed in on the intelligent design debate. The Rev. George Coyne, the Jesuit director of the V...
Friday, November 18, 2005

Latest installment in Plan B saga

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An investigation by the Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress, has found that Plan B's rejection...
Thursday, November 17, 2005

Selling Human Eggs Illegally

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South Korean police in Seoul reportedly made their first arrest under a law enacted in January 2005. Police captured a man, identified by...
Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Pop Culture: Teen Breast Implants

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Occasionally I actually get to watch a TV show and even more occasionally I get to watch one I like. I was pleasantly surprised this fall ...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005

The Agony and the Ecstasy, Part II

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In my previous blogger life, I had written about the use of Ecstasy for treatment of severe anxiety in terminally ill patients; today in Ne...
Thursday, November 10, 2005

God’s Bioethics?

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The Women’s Bioethics Project, a non-partisan, public policy think tank, announced today the release of a report detailing a concerted effor...
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First trimester Down syndrome testing now available

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Washington Post reports that a study of more than 38,000 U.S. women found a screening method, which combines a blood test with an ultrasound...
Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Good News for Java Lovers

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This is really great news for women, like me, who are addicted to their coffee --turns out coffee may be good for you (if you are a woman)....
Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Ha-ha

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This might give you a chuckle: Turns out women enjoy a joke more than men . Brain scans indicate that women's brains react more intense...
Monday, November 07, 2005

Caught in the Schiavo echo chamber

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In yesterday's NYT Book Review , William Saletan ( Slate 's bioethics guy) criticizes Jon B. Eisenberg's new book, Using Terri ...
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Clinical Trials in India

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While Europeans interested in medical research have, ventured into India before, modern-day globalization has washed a wave of researchers ...