Friday, June 08, 2007

Jiggle While You Wiggle!

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In today's "odd medical news", Wired Magazine is running a story about a new diet pill gel method that involves something ...
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Thursday, June 07, 2007

A Question of Priorities... Issues in Stem Cell Research

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Our friend and colleague, Art Caplan, does a keen job in his MSNBC column of dissecting the issues surrounding the latest breakthrough in s...
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US Courts Grant Asylum Over Forced Abortion

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The AP is reporting that the federal court have ruled women who've been forced to have abortions by their government, such as China, ma...
Wednesday, June 06, 2007

In the Category of "Note to Self at CDC: Use our planes"

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The American Journal of Bioethics Editors' blog and other blogs have been filled this week with the story of Andrew Speaker, the lawyer ...
Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Rats! (well, Mice, really) and the future of personalized medicine

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More from Wired's med-tech section: A specially bred genetically diverse panel of mice (which roughly cover all the genetic variation in...

The Re-Wired Brain: Possible hope for children with Autism and sensory processing disorders

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Mark Woodman had his kid's brain hacked; three months ago he took his 7-year-old son, Caleb, through a neurological treatment at the Se...
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Monday, June 04, 2007

Woman's (and Man's) Best Friend knows more than they're saying...

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From the Washington Post this morning, another argument that personhood is not a clear cut line: [A] provocative new experiment indicated th...
Friday, June 01, 2007

Kidney Transplant 'Reality" TV Show Is a Hoax

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Apparently, the joke was on us -- from the Associated Press this morning: "The television show in which a woman would donate a kidney...
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A View to a Kill: Release of Microbe Study Spurs Bioterror Worries

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The American humorist Will Rogers once quipped: "You can't say civilization isn't advancing. In every war they kill you in a ne...

Hit the Road, Jack! (and don't you come back)

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I was debating with a legal colleague/friend of mine whether or not Dr. Jack Kevorkian was a hero, a villain, 0r neither. My friend, who h...
Thursday, May 31, 2007

Microsoft and the future of human computer interfaces: If we change the way we look at things, will the things we look at change?

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One of the very interesting issues that we face in bioethics is the merger of human and machine -- the ethical, legal, and social implicatio...
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All creatures great and small...

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From the NY Times this morning: Coca-Cola and PepsiCo Agree to Curb Animal Tests "Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, have agreed to stop directly ...
Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Shake It Up, Baby (Twist and Shout)

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It really is true that what comes around, go around -- 50 years ago or belt vibrators in gyms and health spas were all the rage, and now it ...
Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Happy Second Birthday to the WBP Blog!

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I can't believe the Women's Bioethics Blog just turned two years old this month -- thanks to Kathryn Hinsch, the WBP Board, our wond...
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Naturally, Scientific Support for feeling good...

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Is the brain pre-wired to enjoy altruism? The Washington Post summarizes this article as such: “Altruism, the experiment suggested, was not ...

Queen (strike that) -- Big (Kidney) Donor for a Day

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For those of you not old enough to remember, Queen for a Day was television show in the 1950's and 60's, one of the original big pr...
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The Onion: New Fetal Consent Bill

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Major Hat tip to the Editors of the American Journal of Bioethics Blog who posted on this their website -- New Abortion Bill To Require Feta...
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Monday, May 28, 2007

Four More Breast Cancer Genes, and Nary a Genetic Counselor in Sight

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In a season two episode designed to coincide with a pink ribbon, breast cancer awareness campaign, Grey's Anatomy depicted a woman seeki...
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Friday, May 25, 2007

"I'm not a real bioethicist, I just play one on TV!"

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Earlier this year, we blogged about House, MD and Grey's Anatomy: Showing the world the need for clinical ethicists one episode at a tim...

Bring Out Your Dead (and other party strategies)

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Respect of the dead is a value deeply ingrained in all cultures and religions; it was an issue as rescue workers retrieved bodies from New O...
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