Thursday, December 29, 2005

Norms, Values, and Science

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In 2000 Vioxx promised arthritis sufferers a way to ease pain with less trauma to the stomach than naproxen, an older and cheaper drug in su...
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Tuesday, December 27, 2005

The Bioethics-meets-Jerry-Springer debacle (otherwise known as the Korean Stem Cell Fiasco)

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I have been watching in horrified silence and disbelief as the entire story of Hwang Woo Suk and the deceptions surrounding his research an...
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Friday, December 23, 2005

The Controversial Virgin Territory

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"It's the ultimate gift for the man who has everything." This is what Ms. Yarborough, a 40 year old medical assistant felt abo...
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Thursday, December 22, 2005

The Medicare drug "benefit"--benefits whom, again?

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So there, I said it. This morning's story on NPR nicely illustrates two important points about the new Medicare drug benefit, which has...
Friday, December 16, 2005

More controversy on embryonic stem cell research

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Embryonic stem cell research might now be more potentially viable for the UK Stem Cell Bank, which learned that samples from 150 random huma...
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Sunday, December 11, 2005

A Pill for Alcoholism?

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NPR reported this weekend that the University of Virginia is conducting a study on a new drug to help alcoholics who are trying to quit dri...
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Women's Bioethics Blog Nominated for 2005 Medical Weblog Award

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Medgadget is hosting their Second Annual Medical Weblog Awards and this very Women's Bioethics Blog is a nominee. The awards are designe...
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Friday, December 09, 2005

Frozen eggs, anyone?

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Interesting Slate article and blog.bioethics.net post about how a young economist at the University of Virginia found that a woman in her 2...
Saturday, December 03, 2005

Do you throw--make that think--like a girl?

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In this story on NPR's Science Friday broadcast yesterday, Ira Flatow and his guests talk about claims regarding gender differences in...
Friday, December 02, 2005

Stem cell agency in California hassles court to dismiss lawsuits

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Eager to progress with its stem cell project, the newly implemented California Institute of Regenerative Medicine pleaded with a judge to di...

IVF-->slight increase in risk of birth defects

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According to a new study from the University of Iowa, babies conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF) have a slightly increased risk o...
Thursday, December 01, 2005

Women's Health and Intimate Partner Violence against Women

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While violence against women is recognized as a major health and economic problem, as well as a human rights issue, a lack of comparable and...
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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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