Wednesday, February 28, 2007

New Yorkers Provided Tools to Prevention

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On Valentine's Day of this year, New Yorkers were encouraged by the Health Department to “Get Some.” The unveiling of free latex condoms...
Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Couple of Busy Weeks for Us -- Back with some interesting stories soon!

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This has been a couple of busy weeks for us here at the Women's Bioethics Project -- between speaking at the National Press Club , givin...

Religion, Morality, and Women's Health: A Question of Professionalism

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I guess news travels more slowly to the West of NA… Last night the Reno Gazette Journal contained a disturbing piece of news (thanks, Jamie...
Saturday, February 24, 2007

Why Women Should Care About Neuroethics

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Advances in neuroscience are going to pose some of the most important ethical questions yet about what it means to be human, and will challe...
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UN Panel on HIV/AIDS and female Genital Mutilation

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Who: IHEU -- Appignani Center for Bioethics, Population Communications International and Femmes Afrique Solidarite What: UN Panel on Healt...
Tuesday, February 20, 2007

The Future of Health Care?

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I recently watched a three part series, 2057 , that was on the Discovery Channel. The series makes an educated projection on what life will ...
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Eat fish for a smarter child!

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Good news from the UK for mothers-to-be and those of us whom aspire. A British-American study found that children whose mothers consumed at ...
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Sunday, February 18, 2007

Privacy of the Health Network? What Privacy?

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Many moons ago, before departing the Silicon Forest for the Ivory Tower, I worked for a company that was trying to design a way for patients...

Diagnosis Cancer: Let's Talk About Sex

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A February 17th article on Medical News Today (www.medicalnewstoday.com) reported that the lack of communication about sexuality and intimac...

Following up on Tennessee's Abortion Death Certificate Bill

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I was going to post a catch-us-up on the Tennessee bill requiring death certificates for all abortions , including the interesting tidbit th...
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Tennessee Bill Proposes Fetus Death Certificate

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A Republican legislator in Tennessee has proposed a bill that would require doc's to file a certificate of death for aborted fetuses . R...
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

For Medicinal Purposes (only), Roll a Joint

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From Rick Weiss in the Washington Post this morning: AIDS patients suffering from debilitating nerve pain got as much or more relief by smo...

On the Brighter Side: Strike one up for Nurture

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I've been hearing some rather dismaying arguments recently about how important biological ties are -- that family is biological, not soc...

This week's theme: the commodification of life

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Two articles have appeared recently in the last week that demonstrate the need to consider how a market-driven economy and the notion of hum...
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OWLs Report: More Kinds of Life Support

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For our moms, sisters and daughters: According to the 2006 Older Women's League (a/k/a OWLs) report on women and long-term care, "a...

Surgeons Transplant Ovary

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Surgeons have transplanted an ovary from one sister to another, in an attempt to regulate hormonal function and enable pregnany, post-cance...
Monday, February 12, 2007

Gardasil, Assumptions, and Men

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I was speaking with someone this morning about the Gardasil vaccine, and she made a very interesting point. Everything around the vaccine is...
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Portugal fails to overturn strict abortion laws

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Voters had the option to overturn strict abortion laws in the conservative Roman Catholic country of Portugal, but failed to do so because o...

Harvard Names First Female President

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What has been rumoured for a few days became official this afternoon: Drew Gilpin Faust will be the new president of Harvard, and in additi...
Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Rent-A-Womb

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We tend to think of surrogate mothers as someone having a baby for a friend or one who really enjoys being pregnant and wants to give back i...