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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Is prettiness your best standard?

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There is a pretty spirited debate about male circumcision going on at a NYT blog. This was partially inspired by a recent blog post support...
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Study Finds Detecting Breast Cancer Depends on Radiologist

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There is a new study on the effectiveness of diagnostic mammograms in actually detecting cancerous masses, and the news is sadly grim. Previ...
Tuesday, December 11, 2007

fast followups

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Two quick follow-ups on recent blog posts. First, a federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit against the Albany, VA, a story Linda originally...

Birds Do It.... so do Chimps and Dolphins

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Display remarkable intelligence, that is...after spending all of yesterday discussing various aspects of personhood (from embryos to animals...
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South Korea Rethinks Asia's Preference for Sons

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[Hat tip to Jay Hughes for this article]: We've blogged about the perils of sex selection and the predicament of fewer girls being born...
Monday, December 10, 2007

Healthcare for Veterans under scrutiny in NY -- the 'dark chapter'

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The health care system under the Veterans Administration has been investigated and looked at by the bioethics community before , but accordi...

A New Angle on Dyslexia

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New York Times reports that an unexpectedly high number of small business owners are dyslexic. . The report, compiled by Julie Logan, a prof...
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spray on condoms

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Do you ever find yourself watching a television show, or movie, and having to hit pause to Google something you saw, because you just can...
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Sunday, December 09, 2007

You Know You’re a Bioethicist When....

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Along the lines of Jeff Foxworthy, Chicago bioethicist Timothy Murphy gave me permission to reprint this funny take on our profession : You ...
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Not Just a Price Increase: The Human Cost of Contraceptive Prices

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After more than a decade of decreasing birth rates among teenagers, the birth rate among teenagers 15 to 19 in the United States rose for t...
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Friday, December 07, 2007

Dame Warnock weighs in again

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As some of you may know, the 2007 Amendments to the highly successful HFEA (Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act) of 1990 are now before P...
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The Singularity and Machines of Loving Grace

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For those of you who are interested in the Singularity (the technological creation of smarter-than-human intelligence) here is a very inter...
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YouTube, Public Health, and anti-vaccination campaigners

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At it's best YouTube, is a wonderful resource for amusement, education, disseminating information. At its worst, it is like a virus, pr...
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Thursday, December 06, 2007

Bioethics & Television - Private Practice

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It's too bad there's not a way to easily track the increase in call volume at fertility clinics. I'd give a lot to see what the ...
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Everyone, Do the Protein Synthesis Dance!

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Laurie passed this gem of a 1970s science explanation video on to me, and really, the only thing I can say in response is, "and people...
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Facebook Saving Face?

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Social networking site apologizes to users over flap from new controversial ad feature. Angry users complained of privacy and truth in adver...
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In Sickness, and in Health...Sanctioned Cheating?

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When does it become "acceptable" to look the other way or turn the other cheek when a spouse looks outside the marriage for compa...
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Is Evolutionary Theology the 'middle path'?

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Wired's Brandon Keim is writing a few stories about the intelligent design vs evolutionary theory debate and how latest showdown on this...

Kudos to the FABsters!

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In response to an invitation from the World Medical Association, a Committee of the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethic...
Tuesday, December 04, 2007

It's Cool to Give Smart Gifts

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Over the summer, we talked a bit about it being cool to be smart , and with Chanukah starting today, and other holiday festivities rapidly a...
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