June 24, 2010
The American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine is holding the first regional biomedical ethics workshop on the occasion of Global Medical Ethics Day on September 17 and 18. The conference will be on “Biomedical Ethics in Medical Schools: A … Read More
June 24, 2010
Fertilization in humans and other mammals produces a new member of the species in the embryonic stage of its natural development. That is to say, the entity produced by the union of spermatozoon and oocyte is a complete, though developmentally … Read More
June 24, 2010
Some tests pointing to serious conditions are wrong far more often than they are right. Which ones are most likely to cause needless anxiety? (Forbes)
June 23, 2010
The New York Times Sunday business section recently ran an enormous puff piece on Ray Kurzweil and the “Singularity” cult (my term, not the Times’s). Kurzweil is a successful inventor–entrepreneur best known lately for his sci-tech prophecies. He claims that … Read More
June 23, 2010
Within a few years, a standard aspect of your health care could include the decoding of every aspect of your genetic make-up. This would predict the diseases you are likely to develop in the future, which treatments will work best … Read More
June 23, 2010
Under proposed changes to federal research ethics standards, the Environmental Protection Agency will no longer accept studies that use people as guinea pigs in chemical tests. (Wired)
June 23, 2010
The shortage of organ donors means an estimated 100 Australians die on waiting lists each year. Could xenotransplantation from genetically engineered animals fill the gap? ( ABC Science)
June 23, 2010
Pope Benedict XVI has appointed the leader of a prominent U.S. bioethics think tank to the board of the Pontifical Academy for Life, a Vatican statement said June 22. (CNS)
June 22, 2010
The National Institutes of Health rejected Monday a request to approve dozens of colonies of human embryonic stem cells for use by federally funded researchers. Scientists had been hoping the lines would become available for their research under a new … Read More
June 22, 2010
From 1977 to the present, have you had sexual contact with another male, even once? You’ll have to answer that question, word for word, on a donor form if you want to give blood in this country. The form, authorized … Read More
June 22, 2010
Medical ethicists have worried for years about the growing share of new drugs whose human trials took place in foreign countries where federal auditors could not make sure patients were protected, but no one knew how big the potential problem … Read More
June 22, 2010
New findings from Johns Hopkins suggest that most quality improvement initiatives in U.S. hospitals are reviewed internally before they are conducted but that there is not routine consideration of the ethical issues associated with them. (The Gazette)
June 21, 2010
It was a long, fruitful medical marriage that is fast becoming an angry public divorce, one that offers a rare look at a clash between a top-shelf consultant and his corporate patron over patient safety. (New York Times)
June 21, 2010
Researchers have transformed human skin cells into stem cells similar to those in an embryo without using any reprogramming genes, just the viral vector normally used to deliver them. (Nature News)
June 21, 2010
When a person signs up to participate in medical research, he or she is given a form to sign that is supposed to state the goal of the study as well as all the known possible risks of the drug … Read More
June 21, 2010
Many of you have worked for four solid years—or five, or six, or nine—and we are here to declare that, as of today, you officially know enough stuff to be called a graduate of the Stanford School of Medicine. You … Read More
June 18, 2010
An advisory panel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the green light Thursday to an emergency contraceptive for use up to five days after sex. The Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs voted unanimously to recommend the drug, … Read More
June 18, 2010
Stem cells were injected into the kidney, but the patient suffered tissue damage and died from an infection. The Canadian and Thai researchers said the findings published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology showed caution was needed. … Read More
June 18, 2010
Patients often opt for more end-of-life care when given detailed circumstances — at odds with responses to a general question, a new study says. (American Medical News)
June 18, 2010
When Marisa Langford found out she was pregnant again, she called Dr. Maria New, a total stranger, before calling her own mother. New, a prominent pediatric endocrinologist and researcher at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, is one … Read More
June 18, 2010
International research, sponsored by for-profit companies, is regularly criticised as unethical on the grounds that it exploits research subjects in developing countries. Many commentators agree that exploitation occurs when the benefits of cooperative activity are unfairly distributed between the parties. … Read More
June 18, 2010
Here I inquire into the status of the rules promulgated in the canonical pronouncements on human subjects research, such as the Declaration of Helsinki and the Belmont Report. The question is whether they are ethical rules or rules of policy. … Read More
June 18, 2010
8TH Annual Quandaries in Health Care Conference “A Need to Confess?: Writing About the Healthcare Experience†September 30 – October 2, 2010 The Given Institute of the University of Colorado Aspen, Colorado Quandaries in Health Care is an annual conference … Read More
June 18, 2010
2011 ELSI Congress: Exploring the ELSI Universe April 12-14, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina Watch the website of the UNC Center for Genomics and Society for more information and breaking news: http://genomics.unc.edu/genomicsandsociety/html/elsicongress.html
June 18, 2010
The American Journal of Bioethics (Volume 10, Issue 6, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Ethical Rules, Policies, or Guidance?” by Ruth Macklin, 1-2. “The Case for Evidence-Based Rulemaking in Human Subjects Research” by Benjamin Sachs, 3-13. … Read More
