Monday, March 10, 2008

Unprecedented organ donation: The Onion reports

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From the lighter side ... here's a video "news story" from The Onion . And, in case you can't tell from the still below, t...

Got Posilac? Afact should be Ashamed

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NYT reports on an advocacy group that is attempting to block the sale of milk produced without synthetic hormones. The group, called Americ...

"Reproductive outsourcing" taking off in India

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Today's NYT reports (again) on the growing practice of "reproductive outsourcing" in India. For about $25,000 -- about a thi...
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Sunday, March 09, 2008

Is Brain Enhancement Wrong?

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In a previous survey on this blog, we had asked if you would take a neuroenhancement drug if it had a minimal side effects and a surprising ...

The Intersection of Krispy Kremes and Neuroethics

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Never thought you'd hear Krispy Kremes and neuroethics in the same sentence? An article in Science Daily reports new research from Nort...
Saturday, March 08, 2008

The Very Model of a Singularitarian

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We've blogged briefly about the Singularity before , but with it getting more and more attention in the media, it has even merited a vi...
Friday, March 07, 2008

The Right to Be Sick...and Private

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In our youth we proclaim and revel in our seemingly never-ending vitality and "immortality". As a cub reporter many, many years ag...

A Good Read...

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A Good Read Another solid addition to the WBP Book Club is Devra Davis' The Secret History of the War on Cancer . For those of you who ...

Autism Vaccine Settlement

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The parents of nine-year old Hannah Poling, daughter of a Georgia couple, speak out about the government's admission of responsibility f...

Politics, science, and autism: part 547

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Despite substantial evidence to the contrary, some people believe that vaccines (specifically, trace amounts of mercury in vaccines) cause ...
Thursday, March 06, 2008

The Second Enlightenment Cometh?

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If you are a technoprogressive OR a coffee lover, you'll enjoy this article on Wired this week about how the newest cognitive enhancers ...
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

The Beginning of Face Transplants in the U.S.

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Last year WBP discussed the first-ever, medical breakthrough face transplant in 2005, that transformed the quality of life for a French w...

Free genetic testing ... buyer beware

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Following along the lines of several recent posts, another privacy bulletin: a company called Aperture Health has announced that it's ...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008

How Private is Private? Is Google a covered entity?

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Back in 1996, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted by Congress for the purposes of ensuring continuit...
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Saturday is International Women's Day

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In honor of International Women's Day , the new issue of the UNESCO Courier has published " Between Two Shores ," essays by s...
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Monday, March 03, 2008

Should Americans be allowed to buy and sell transplant organs?

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Another story on organ transplantation ethics, this time from a policy perspective. The libertarian Cato Institute recently hosted a policy...

On Sex-Segregated Schooling

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NYT has an in-depth article on teaching boys and girls separately in school based on proposed differences in everything from artistic prefe...
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Modern Day Mowgli

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In somewhat odd timing, given the content of my last post here, the story of a Russian "bird-boy" has come to light: Authorities ...
Sunday, March 02, 2008

News of Note

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A couple of stories that have captured our interest: From the Wisconsin Technology news: "In the first of several decisions expected in...

Primum Non Nocere

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First, do no harm. I don't know anyone who practices any aspect of medicine who disagrees with this foundational concept of what medicin...
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