Women's Bioethics Blog

This is not your typical blog. We have recruited scholars and public policy analysts from around the world to provide daily news and commentary on the implications of bioethical issues for women. We hope you’ll bookmark this page and let us know what you think: just click on the comment link at the bottom of each post to join the discussion. To sign up for the WBP newsletter, visit our homepage at www.womensbioethics.org or follow on Twitter at http://twitter.com/khinsch

Sunday, February 15, 2009

The position of France regarding stem cells

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France is a country that has come in a bit late into bioethics discussions, specially in the matter of new therapies. Regarding stem cells, ...
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Saturday, February 14, 2009

FDA Approves Depressant Drug For The Annoyingly Cheerful

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[Hat tip to Jay Vos at Blazing Indiscretions for bringing our attention to this parody] At last, Big Pharma has come out with a drug design...

Give Free Love for Valentine's Day

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Rather than caloric candy and soon-to-wither flowers, consider giving your loved ones a gift of heartfelt love this Valentine’s Day. Valerie...
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Friday, February 13, 2009

Health Literacy – A Cry for Universal Health Care

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Health care is now a business that rivals the industrial complex . Its major consumers are victims of lopsided capitalist principles that e...
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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Moral Distress

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When Doctors and Nurses Can’t Do the Right Thing The writer, a physician, Pauline W. Chen, M.D, describes her experiences of witnessing what...

Sweet, Soft Matter: Candy Cotton for the Regeneration of Blood Vessels

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I love interdisciplinary journals, but I had not stumbled across Soft Matter , where physics meets chemistry meets biology for fundamental...
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U.S. Court of Claims Denies Claim of Vaccine/Autism Link

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A specially convened vaccine court, part of the process required to seek compensation under the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, has rul...
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Why I Love Designer Babies

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Perhaps I should say I love the topic of designer babies, which is why I was pleased to read Gautam Naik’s provocative article, “A Baby, Ple...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Finally, some good news for women at risk of HIV

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Women and girls are the new face of HIV/AIDS . Globally, there are twelve HIV-positive women for every ten HIV-positive men. In the ha...
Saturday, February 07, 2009

Octuplets Mother Speaks Out

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Nadya Suleman, mother of the recent octuplets born in California, has done her first interview with a major news outlet . (Although Suleman ...
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Friday, February 06, 2009

More on the Octuplets

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Our friend and supporter, Art Caplan, sheds some more light on the ethical implications of the octuplets in his Philly op-ed: "Somethin...
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