January 31, 2011
Journal of Medical Ethics (Volume 37, Issue 1, January 2011) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Establishing a ‘Physician’s Spiritual Well-being Scale’ and Testing its Reliability and Validity” by C. K. Fang, P. Y. Li, M. L. Lai, … Read More
January 31, 2011
Women who have become pregnant after egg donation should be categorized as high-risk patients. Why that is the case, and which consequences egg donation may have for women is the subject of a review article by Ulrich Pecks and co-authors … Read More
January 31, 2011
An international group of ethical and legal experts has made recommendation for stem cell research intended to promote data sharing and prevent legal barriers to medical advances. (PHG Foundation)
January 31, 2011
There is a crisis in the National Health Service (NHS). The publication of the Health and Social Care Bill last week heralds dramatic changes for the NHS, which will affect the way public health and social care are provided in … Read More
January 31, 2011
If Camden, New Jersey, becomes the first American community to lower its medical costs, it will have a murder to thank. At nine-fifty on a February night in 2001, a twenty-two-year-old black man was shot while driving his Ford Taurus … Read More
January 31, 2011
Many of us have a relatively simple, commonsense view of the way that drug development and marketing work. People get diseases; scientists develop drugs to treat those diseases; and marketers sell the drugs by showing that the drugs work better … Read More
January 29, 2011
Insightful and poignant, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks takes an unflinching look at the history of the first “immortal” human cell line, the scientists involved in its discovery, the woman whose cells were used, and the impact it has … Read More
January 28, 2011
Ageing & Society (Volume 31, Issue 1, January 2011) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Fertility History and Quality of Life in Older Women and Men” by Sanna Read and Emily Grundy, 125-145.
January 28, 2011
The background to this important judgement is in Switzerland. A 57-year-old Swiss national, Ernst G. Haas, felt that he could no longer live a dignified life after battling a serious bipolar affective disorder for 20 years. He twice attempted suicide, … Read More
January 28, 2011
Dubbing it our generation’s “Sputnik moment†in his State of the Union Address this week, President Obama called for more research and incentives to help our country break its dependence on oil with biofuels. Just last month the Presidential Commission … Read More
January 28, 2011
Biomedical scientists aren’t alone in questioning a plan by National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins to create a new center to spur drug development. Last week, a staffer for a key congressional committee asked NIH and the Department … Read More
January 28, 2011
Maternal deaths resulting from in vitro fertilization (IVF) are relatively rare, but they do occur, British doctors warn in an editorial in the journal BMJ. In the U.S. there were more than 140,000 IVF cycles in 2008, according to the … Read More
January 28, 2011
Research ethics is often said to have been born of scandal. The field is regularly accused of having developed in response to particular cases and transgressions. Whether or not this is true of the field in general, it does seem … Read More
January 27, 2011
The 20th Anniversary Symposium of the KP NCAL Department of Medical Ethics March 5, 2011 7:30am – 4:30pm On this date, the Department of Medical Ethics residing within KP-TPMG Northern California celebrates its twentieth yearly anniversary. This landmark occasion invites … Read More
January 27, 2011
August 5-7, 2011 The Catholic University of America, Washington D.C. Key themes addressed by the Conference include the social impacts of science, the values and ethics of science, the pedagogies of science, the knowledge-making processes of science, the politics of … Read More
January 27, 2011
June 22 – 24, 2011 Third biennial SPSP conference will be hosted by the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (Egenis), University of Exeter, UK. Confirmed keynote speakers: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science Université Paris-X Nanterre … Read More
January 26, 2011
If you’re looking for studies laying out the benefits of electronic medical records, this isn’t your month. Last week we wrote about a review of existing research that found little evidence for some of the claims made about health IT. … Read More
January 26, 2011
It is a bedrock of medical ethics that patients may participate in clinical trials only if they give informed consent. This means that patients must get information about the trial, demonstrate that they understand that information, have the mental capacity … Read More
January 26, 2011
Conference Date: Saturday, April 2, 2011 St. Francis College 180 Remsen Street, Brooklyn Heights, NY 11201 Papers Due Date: Monday, January 31, 2011 This multidisciplinary conference will feature panels on a variety of perspectives on women’s health, as well as … Read More
January 26, 2011
May 3-4, 2011 Conference at Uppsala Konsert & Kongress The aim of the conference is to discuss Nordic collaboration in biobank based research. The Nordic countries have a long history of utilising biological samples, patient records and health registers to … Read More
January 25, 2011
Hold onto your hats. I am about to enter dangerous territory. I am about to suggest maybe doctors should profit from dispensing medications from their office to offset declining reimbursements and rising expenses by using prescriptions as a source of … Read More
January 25, 2011
An intense debate has been rekindled in orthodox Jewish circles on whether brain-stem death is compatible with the definition of death by the Halacha—the collective body of Jewish law. Last week, the UK’s Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks caused widespread consternation … Read More
January 25, 2011
Fetal surgery has been practised for some decades now. However, it remains a highly complex area, both medically and ethically. This paper shows how the routine use of ultrasound has been a catalyst for fetal surgery, in creating new needs … Read More
January 25, 2011
Courses offered around the country are aimed at helping doctors who have been disciplined learn from their mistakes and prevent future ones. (American Medical News)
January 25, 2011
A great deal of scientific research – especially in medicine – relies on human subjects. Protecting volunteers has been a prominent social and legal issue since the 1950s, when the world recoiled from the horrors of Nazi medicine. (CGS)
