Saturday, March 31, 2007

Ewe-terine Transplants

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A few months ago, we wondered at the wisdom of going ahead with uterine transplants without doing those simple things like animal trials, ...
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Friday, March 30, 2007

Examining the US Market for Human Eggs

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The March 29 issue of New England Journal of Medicine has an interesting article on The Egg Trade — Making Sense of the Market for Human Ooc...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Cancer: The Great Equalizer

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With the recent news of Elizabeth Edwards' and Tony Snow's cancers recurring, this article in the Washington Post was particularly...
Monday, March 26, 2007

Call for Papers extended deadline, May 11-13, 2007 in NYC

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IHEU - Appignani Center for Bioethics and The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies present Human Rights for the 21st Century: R...

Genetic information--wanted and unwanted

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Last weekend's Sunday New York Times had this long article about Katharine Moser, a 23-year-old woman with a family history of Hunting...
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Student Pugwash Conference Announced

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Student Pugwash USA Presents the 14 th National Conference on Science and Social Responsibility: Promoting the Integrity of Scie...

Grey's Anatomy: Showing the world the need for clinical ethicists one episode at a time

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Kelly Hills (a/k/a Buddhist Valkyrie) had this quote on one of her emails and I thought I had to share this with our readers -- I love watch...
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Sunday, March 25, 2007

Do it Blogger Style

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Feedback from one of our readers: I'm a recent regular reader of your blog and thoroughly enjoy it. Every post is food for thought and d...

Bioethics Quilt Project: Black Americans and Medicine

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[Thanks to Karama Neal for this entry!] STORIES THAT BIND, STITCHES THAT HEAL This presentation will explore the relationship between quilti...
Saturday, March 24, 2007

NOT THE USUAL GENE SUSPECTS: Substance Abuse and Personality Disorders

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Dr. XX: “Okay, I am ready for the line-up. Make room and send in the genes at once!” Lab assistant XY: “Genes, front and center! Take your ...
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Friday, March 23, 2007

Doctors Dishing the Dirt

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"I informed a patient's parents that we would call them when their child was off the heart bypass machine and back in the intensive...

The drug we've all been waiting for

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Artist Justine Cooper has a sideline: drug development. She also handles all marketing for her invention, the new blockbuster medication Ha...
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Honor Our Bioethics Mothers

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The Women's Bioethics Project is holding a special "honor our bioethics mothers" campaign - where would we be without them? W...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

New Look & Feel: Tell Us What You Think

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We have upgraded to the new blogger software and changed our look and feel. Tell us what you like and dislike about the new format and temp...
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Monday, March 19, 2007

Stories of the week....

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Here are some of the stories that have been brought to our attention this week -- and we'd love to hear your thoughts on them: Who Will ...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Top Ten Reasons Against Sex Selection (and few more they missed)

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Jennifer Lahl of the Center for Bioethics and Culture summarizes an article from Reproductive BioMedicine Online by Dr. Edgar Dahl. In r...
Monday, March 12, 2007

Too Much Puppy (or Kitty) Love?

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When reviewing the various benefits packages for jobs I was recently applying to, I was surprised to discover that one company offered emplo...
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When Free Market Philosophy Costs Our Children

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An editorial in the NY Times today asks the question, "where are our priorities as a nation?": The Next Big Health Care Battle ...

My, you wear your microbes well...this season!

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As I am feverishly working on a supplemental manuscript on gram-negative bacilli and their increasing resistance to broad-spectrum antib...

Can You Spell A-B-S-U-R-D?

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Rhiannon M. Noth was denied Medicaid for heart surgery for her son Landen, 3, right, because she could not obtain the necessary documents. F...
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