BioEdge (Free subscription) | yesterday
23 November 2009 | Michael Cook From a professional bioethicist’s point of view, one of the disturbing facts to emerge from the heated debate over Obamacare is that “bioethicist” has become for many Americans. Few had ever heard of bioethics before, but healthcare rationing is being justified by guys called “bioethicists” -- and they don’t like it. Furthermore, it...
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | yesterday
Death row inmates and advocates on both sides of the capital punishment debate across the country have had their eyes on Ohio since the recent announcement that this state will pioneer the use of a single drug to execute inmates.
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | yesterday
"I screamed, but there was nothing to hear." That chilling quote comes about half-way through a Guardian story today about Rom Houben, who for 23 years was thought to be in a vegetative state, but in fact was conscious -- though he could not communicate.
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | yesterday
Such is the title of the latest article in the Chicago Tribune by Trine Tsouderos and Patricia Callahan. The article is subtitled: ‘Researchers' fears about misuse of their work come true'.
LifeNews.com (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A list of 149 Christian and pro-family leaders, reading like a who's who of the pro-life movement, have signed onto the Manhattan Declaration, a new statement declaring that pro-life advocates deserve conscience rights when it comes to abortion, bioethics and other issues.
BioEdge (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Scandal Rocks Global Warming Establishment | CEI Statement by Myron Ebell, CEI Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy The posting of private data files from the Climatic Research Unit in England reveals the sleazy, unseemly side of a number of the leading scientific proponents of global warming alarmism, including CRU Director Phil Jones, Michael Mann, Ben Santer, and Kevin Trenberth. It is clear...
TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Well, it’s been an interesting week for women’s health issues: earlier this week Giulia noted that a panel is recommending fewer mammograms and starting later, and now, new guidelines are suggesting that women start getting screened for cervical cancer later in life, and that Pap smears are not needed every year. One of the reasons for the change is that overtesting can actually lead to...
Medical Futility (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Tiny Babies, Large Questions: Ethical Issues in Prenatal and Neonatal Care Sixth Annual Pediatric Bioethics Conference Friday and Saturday, July 23 and 24, 2010 Bell Harbor International Conference Center, Seattle, Washington For most families, pregnancy and the birth of a child is an exciting and joyous time of hope and celebration. But sometimes, difficult and challenging ethical issues can emerge...
Sentient Developments (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
[ Linda MacDonald Glenn is guest blogging this month ] (cross-posted on the Women's Bioethics Blog ) (Roughly translated from Latin as Sex God in the machine) We all know that technology can improve our lives (sometimes....well, at least when it's working properly), but who'd have thunk that nanotechnology could improve your sex life? In yet one more 'tool' in the arsenal against dreaded erectile dysfunction,...
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Three years after embryonic stem cell cloning was legalised in Australia, advocates are finally facing up to the critical issue: where will all the eggs come from? Cloning or somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) is impossible without a continuous – and large - supply of women's ova. In South Korea, the now discredited Dr Hwang used 2061 eggs taken from 169 women and failed to produce a single...
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The government agency tasked with funding crucial life science research needs to focus more attention on ethical quandaries and nefarious business practices that often obscure the path from discovery to public benefit, says a strongly worded letter to Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), signed by more than 100 biomedical researchers, journal editors, and health...
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Gregory Pence writes: At the end of December 2000 on a cold night, my brother Bob called. "Dad's not doing very well," he said. "If you want to see him before he dies, you'd better fly up here." I didn't believe him. At age 88, my dad had weathered crises before, and he had told me many times that he didn't want to die and wasn't ready to die. For a decade, my saintly mother had...
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Judy Illes has a dilemma. What happens when someone who has agreed to participate in a medical study undergoes a brain scan during which the researcher happens to discover an anomaly, a potential health risk?
The Human Future (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Our CBC Special Consultant, Wesley J. Smith does our annual predictions piece to give us a heads-up on what he anticipates will be the big bioethic news and concerns each year. Part of the deal I have with Wesley, is for him to critique his predictions each year, to see how well he called it. Here's his report on his predictions for bioethics in 2009. Stay tuned as next month we will run his predictions...
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