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Missouri would ban the use of public dollars for stem cell research through a constitutional amendment proposed in legislation filed this week.
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Scientists received a green light Wednesday to apply for use of 13 human embryonic stem-cell lines from an approved list developed by the National Institutes of Health, the government's prime medical research agency.
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
The number of baby boys conceived by a fertility treatment known as ICSI may be lower than what is produced by Mother Nature, a new study suggests.
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Five months after abruptly dismantling the bioethics advisory council left by his predecessor, US President Barack Obama last week created a new bioethics commission that will move beyond the issues that consumed previous panels, such as stem cells and cloning. Based within the Department of Health and Human Services, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues is explicitly charged...
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
A California spine surgeon who leads a medical ethics organization has written to the Army Surgeon General raising questions about a 2002 Army study that used Medtronic spine products on soldiers in ways not approved by federal regulators.
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Color-coded denim cloths cover the row upon row of black body bags atop cold metal tables. Blue means a body that eventually will go into a common grave. Tan, the family wants those remains back for burial, eventually.
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
When patients are given the responsibility for medical decisions, they may be less willing to try a potentially risky treatment, a study published Monday suggests.
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
As Congress prepares to start its health care debate today, the White House is asking the American people a question: Whom do you trust? In a video posted to the White House's website today, Vice President Biden asks whether people should trust “the people who say you'd be better off if you just left things the way they are” or “the folks who actually know something about what's happening...
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
As the Senate begins debate this week on a 10 year, $848 billion health care bill, a few lawmakers are positioned to exert enormous influence over President Obama's top priority as the legislation moves toward its final stages.
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
The parents of a baby with a genetic abnormality who died at Toronto's Hospital For Sick Children in 2005 have lost a major court decision over their claims that doctors killed her deliberately.
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
On Sunday, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell made a startling concession to medical ethics - one resisted by his predecessors. He said that when a player sustains a concussion, teams will now be required to seek advice from "independent" neurologists. He said on NBC, "As we learn more and more, we want to give players the best medical advice. This is a chance for us to expand that and bring...
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
I thought Thanksgiving was an apt time to discuss a Pennsylvania university's new requirement that overweight undergraduates take a fitness course to receive their degrees. An historically black college, Lincoln University said that the school is responding to deadly rates of obesity and diabetes, especially in the African-American community.
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
One was a middle-aged man who refused to get into the shower. The other was a teenager who was afraid to get out. “We have this idea — it's almost a fetish — that progress is its own justification, that if something is promising, then how can we not rush to relieve suffering?” said Paul Root Wolpe, a medical ethicist at Emory University.
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
The University of Nebraska Board of Regents cast a tie vote on human embryonic stem cell research on Friday, defeating a rare effort to limit such research at a university system beyond what state and federal laws allow.
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania, was named yesterday by President Obama to chair a new advisory panel on bioethics.
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