Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Small Things, Big Issues: Oversight of Nanotech

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Press Release: Over Forty Groups Release Fundamental Principles for Nanotech Oversight, Citing Risks to the Public, Workers, and the Environ...
Monday, July 30, 2007

It's Cool to be Smart

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Occasionally, when the subject of blogging comes up, my friends who blog will ask me how I can manage to blog for so many places, or why I...
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Shape Up or Pay Up

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Continuing the reporting trend on weight and obesity, the LA Times is reporting that workers at an Indiana based hospital chain will be cha...
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Connecting the Dots

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From Anna Quindlen at Newsweek: A new public-policy group called the National Institute for Reproductive Health wants to take this contradic...
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Saturday, July 28, 2007

Where to start?

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Hi- Linda kindly invited me to join you in posting items of interest and this is my first post on any blog ever so be kind if I've mad...
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Friday, July 27, 2007

5 Surgeries You Really Don't Want to Have

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CNN has a very interesting piece and what surgeries to avoid and why and what to do instead of going under the knife -- here the 5 surgeries...
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Patient in Gene Therapy Trial Dies

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Rick Weiss of the Washington reports on the developments in a clinical trial for arthritis treatment with gene therapy: "A patient in a...
Thursday, July 26, 2007

Bots, Blade Runner and Bioethics

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Continuing with the robots theme, an article from the UK sparked my interest -- forgot iPods and Blackberries, those are SO yesterday -- it...
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Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto!

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While we're plugging podcasts by our bloggers, check in to this "Florida Matters" radio interview with our blogger, Kelly Hill...

Towards a Womb with a View?

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One of our bloggers, lawyer and retired judge Terry Tomsick, is in the process of writing a paper on the ethical and legal implications of e...

Is Obesity Contagious?

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Obesity seems to be the emerging topic of the week -- In keeping with the previous post, it seems that if you are obese, you might be able t...
Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Effects of Obesity May Stretch Beyond Health

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A report in the latest issue of Sociology in Education appears to indicate that obese girls are less likely to attend college than non-obes...

Man (and Woman's) Best Friend: They Feel Empathy, Don't They?

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As the guardian/steward of four furry four-legged sentient beings (a/k/a canines), who rule my life and my household, it distresses me when ...
Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Almost 2 years later, New Orleans Hospital still struggling

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“I’ve been telling people, don’t bring your parents back if they are sick,” says Dr. David A. Myers, of New Orleans -- Almost two years lat...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Dr. Anna Pou in Katrina Deaths

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It's good to see reason prevail, at least once in a while -- From the Associated Press this afternoon: "A grand jury Tuesday declin...
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Clinical Ethics: Re-defining medicine and lives

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A poignant article in the NY Times today illustrates tension the between patients, patients' advocates, and healthcare professionals, an...
Monday, July 23, 2007

The Period of Choice

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[Cross-posted from blog.bioethics.net] -- Very soon in pharmacies across the country, the contraceptive Lybrel will become available to tho...
Friday, July 20, 2007

Sperm donor wins landmark legal battle to keep son in country

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Speaking of ownership of bodily materials, genetic or otherwise, in a landmark case in Ireland, the Supreme Court ruled it was in the best i...
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Pass the Placenta Pate, Please?

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From USA Today : New mom, Anne Swanson, in Nevada had wanted to keep the placenta from the birth of her child, because her midwife had reco...
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"I Told Him We've Already Got One . . ."

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I was struck by a line in Linda's stem-cell post, below. It was a phrase I'd heard, in the same context, at a recent bioethics confe...
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