Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Exploitation of Women in Ova Donation for Research

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Today WBUR, one of the NPR radio stations in Boston, played an in depth piece by Alan Coukel called “ Donor Payments and Stem Cell Research”...
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Monday, January 30, 2006

Personalized Medicine (PGx)

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A major obstacle in the pharmaceutical treatment of depression is the long and bumpy road to finding a drug regime that works for the patien...

Objections to Proposed Conscience Laws: A Right Not to Treat?

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Washington Post's Rob Stein reports on a disturbing surge of legislation in the states that reflect the intensifying tensions between as...
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Friday, January 27, 2006

Fur Goodness Sake!

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Here's a great opportunity for women who are no longer comfortable wearing their furs -- donate them to the Women's Bioethics Projec...
Thursday, January 26, 2006

Will enhancements help or hurt?

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In bioethics, where we are concerned with allocation of scarce resources, one of the questions that needs to be discussed is access to enhan...

A Vulnerable Population?

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Blogger Chris MacDonald (no relation to me, except perhaps in some mysterious serendipitious way) argues (tongue-in-cheek, I hope, anyway) ...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006

What's wrong with this picture?

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The EPA has set up regulations to allow testing of pesticides on humans -- so why are three California Democrats, Sen. Barbara Boxer and Re...
Monday, January 23, 2006

The War on Women....

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On AJOB's blog , Sean Philpott talks about the perceived "War on Boys" (tongue-in-cheek) -- and although some of the comments...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

A Call for Dialogue...

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Kathryn Hinsch, founder of the WBP, writes a provocative op-ed piece in Seattle's Post Intelligence r , entitled "Too important t...
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Abortion and the US Supreme Court: Listening to the Middle

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The United States Supreme Court continues to struggle with the issue of abortion. In the case of Ayotte, Attorney General of New Hampshire v...

Gonzalez vs. Oregon: Not a Ringing Endorsement of Physician-Assisted Suicide

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Will the the decision rendered by the US Supreme Court yesterday in Gonzalez v. Oregon pave the way for other states to enact laws allowing ...
Tuesday, January 17, 2006

US Supreme Court upholds Oregon law, 6-3

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Just in: The Supreme Court has rejected a Bush administration attempt to punish doctors who help terminally ill patients die and upheld Or...
Monday, January 16, 2006

Thoughts on Alito and the US constitution

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As I watched the confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito on C-Span, it struck me that this was a man who would conf...
Sunday, January 15, 2006

And Healthcare for All?

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One of my favorite bloggers, Karama Neal , sent me this post about access to and concerns about healthcare: The US Agency for Healthcare Re...
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Better Drug for Breast Cancer Treatment?: Femara

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It's official: Femara beats tamoxifen in preventing breast-cancer recurrence. For anyone who has a sister or mother or female frien...
Saturday, January 14, 2006

new book: The Savvy Woman Patient

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The Society for Women's Health Research has just published The Savvy Woman Patient . The book provides information on all major health c...
Thursday, January 12, 2006

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 ...
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Monday, January 09, 2006

An epidemic of bad blood...

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We face a slow, emerging crisis in the epidemic facing the country: Diabetes. A lengthy article in the NY Times points out that our current...
Saturday, January 07, 2006

the ethics of prophylactic mastectomy

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As I was reading this article by Jane Brody in yesterday's NYT , I began thinking about the notion of prophylactic mastectomy for women ...
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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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