March 3, 2011
Journal of the American Medical Association (Volume 304, Issue 24, December 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Could Physicians Take the Lead in Health Reform?” by Arnold S. Relman, 2740-2741.
March 3, 2011
Dublin, Ohio April 29, 2011 If you participate in the ethics consultation service at your health care institution or facility, or if you have an interest in ethics consultation, please give serious consideration to attending this conference. For more information
March 3, 2011
Induced pluripotent stem cells have great therapeutic potential. But genomic and epigenomic analyses of these cells generated using current technology reveal abnormalities that may affect their safe use. (Nature by subscription only)
March 3, 2011
Academic researchers set to play much greater role in pharmaceutical development. With drug pipelines running dry and a slew of blockbuster medicines about to lose patent protection, the voices arguing that the traditional drug-development process is too expensive and inefficient to … Read More
March 2, 2011
The American Journal of Bioethics (Volume 10, Issue 10, 2011) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Rethinking Research Ethics” by Rosamond Rhodes, 19-36. “‘Rethinking Research Ethics’ Again: Casuistry, Phronesis, and the Continuing Challenges of Human Research” by Greg … Read More
March 2, 2011
Patients with HIV first to receive experimental gene therapy. A gene-therapy method that specifically disrupts a single gene may have had its first success in the clinic, potentially boosting immune-cell counts in a small number of patients with HIV. The … Read More
March 2, 2011
What makes Watson work? Is it thinking? And what does that mean? Author Stephen Baker provides the answers. Earlier this month, the nation watched as Watson, a computer system designed by IBM, drubbed the two all time champions of Jeopardy. It … Read More
March 2, 2011
The nightmare of robot babies continues apace in Japan, a rapidly aging society where human babies are going out of style. Babyloid is the latest cyber-tot to spring from the minds of engineers with little apparent regard for how scary … Read More
March 2, 2011
Experts say that the kind of unethical medical studies that occurred half a century ago could still happen again despite more than 1,000 rules and regulations that should prevent such abuses. (The Huffington Post)
March 2, 2011
Many people who are overweight and obese either don’t realize it or are in denial — and too few doctors are setting them straight, according to a new study in the Archives of Internal Medicine. (CNN)
March 1, 2011
New gene technology that can cause breast cancer cells to self-destruct has been pioneered by scientists at Belfast’s Queen’s University. Researchers have shown that by using an innovative, miniscule gene transport system they can deliver a gene directly into breast … Read More
March 1, 2011
Bioethics (Volume 25, Issue 1, January 2011) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Going from Principles to Rules in Research Ethics” by Benjamin Sachs, 9-20. “Defending the Duty to Research?” by Iain Brassington, 21-26. “Authorizing Psychiatric Research: Principles, … Read More
March 1, 2011
Journal of the American Medical Association (Volume 304, Issue 23, December 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Effect of a Lung Protective Strategy for Organ Donors on Eligibility and Availability of Lungs for Transplantation: A Randomized Controlled … Read More
March 1, 2011
Archives of Internal Medicine (Volume 170, Issue 2, December 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Patients Treated at Multiple Acute Health Care Facilities: Quantifying Information Fragmentation” by Fabienne C. Bourgeois, Karen L. Olson, Kenneth D. Mandl.
March 1, 2011
To help students gain insight into ethical issues and problems of justice in the healthcare delivery system in the United States through hands-on learning and analysis, furthering The Center’s goals of assisting patients and families with ethical issues in healthcare, … Read More
March 1, 2011
The patent system hasn’t changed much since 1952 when Sony was coming out with its first pocket-size transistor radio, and bar codes and Mr. Potato Head were among the inventions patented. Now, after years of trying, Congress may be about … Read More
