Wednesday, February 13, 2008

The Logic or Rationale of the DNR Order

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Whether we've discussed it or not, we've all thought about the prospect of Do Not Resuscitate Orders (DNRs). In most instances the ...
Monday, February 11, 2008

Reality check: health disparities

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I'll just warn you right up front: election season is getting to me. We Americans may all be created equal, but substantial -- and sham...

Pain and personhood

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Yesterday's NYT Magazine ran a long article about whether fetuses feel pain. The author, Annie Murphy Paul, is working on a book about...
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Endocrine Disruptors Skewing Birth Ratio in US and Japan

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From the polar ice cap to the middle of the world, comes study after study linking synthetic chemicals and their lethal properties, to a rep...

Embryonic Stem Cell Trials in Humans Could Begin in Months

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If all goes as planned, a California biotech firm will begin human testing using human-based embryonic stem cells by Spring of 2008. Dr. Tho...

Some News Items Worthy of Taking Note

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A quick summary of some of the newsworthy items that appeared in the news in the past week: Alexis Madrigal of Wired's Science blog writ...

JUST SAY ‘NOETIC”

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Earlier last week, we featured a delicious (if dubious) little item titled “ The Mind-Body Connection via Intentional Chocolate .” According...
Sunday, February 10, 2008

Informed Consent in Clinical Medicine as a Concern for Ethicists

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The always excellent Kaiser Foundation's Daily Health Report http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm calls attention t...
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A Gourmet Q&A

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We're unashamed fans of Michael Pollan around here, so it when I came across this Q&A with him on Gourmet's website, sharin...
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Saturday, February 09, 2008

The Mind-Body Connection via Intentional Chocolate

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If you've ever wondered what makes it your mom's chicken soup so special, this study, brought to you by the Institute of Noetic Scie...
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Friday, February 08, 2008

Ethics and biodefense

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Following the attacks of 9/11 and the subsequent anthrax mailings (dubbed Amerithrax by the feds), funding priorities in basic research cha...

Novels for Teaching

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Over the past two years my "inner English major" has been emerging and I have been integrating novels into my health law classes i...
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Thursday, February 07, 2008

Should The HPV Vaccine Be Mandated?

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We've discussed the HPV vaccine and why we think it should (or should not) be a mandatory vaccination - for both women and men (an arg...
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Is Schizophrenia Passed on From Mother to Newborn?

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When I was carrying my daughter Samantha, it was, as the saying goes, "the best of times and the worst of times." While excitedly ...
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Would Paying for Organs Help--a review of Michelle Goodwin's terrific book

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iThis is a link from my collegue Gerry Beyer's trusts and estates blog to an abstract of a book review/essay I just published in 33 J. H...

More on BioBanking

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According to BBC news , the UK may allow researchers to clone cells from human tissues donated for research purposes ... without the express...

News: Kansas Court Blocks Records Request

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The Kansas Supreme Court has temporarily ruled on an appeal filed by Dr. George Tiller's attorneys, blocking the grand jury from obtain...
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008

following up: banning food for the obese

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Yesterday I wrote about the Good Idea/Bad Idea legislation Mississippi was considering that would make it illegal to serve obese people foo...
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New Gene Research Exciting...and Risky

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While news of the research has yet to be published, British scientists announced the creation of human embryos containing DNA from two women...

Why Girls Need Science (1955)

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Via Prelinger Archives comes a 1950s educational video explaining just why girls need more than a single year of science in high school. Hig...