Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Many medical blogs are anonymous and unedited, few contain reference sources for their authors' statements, and most are open to comments from patients. With these limitations on oversight and reliability, can medical blogs offer genuine benefits to the public and the profession?
Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
The current featured contributor to Writers Read: Ezekiel Emanuel, chairman of the Department of Bioethics at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health and author of numerous books and articles on the ethics of clinical research, health care reform, international research ethics, end of life care issues, euthanasia, the ethics of managed care, and the physician-patient relationship
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
You learn that your aunt, your mother's sister, has just been diagnosed with an advanced cancer. Your aunt, who lives far from you and from your mother, is sedated in a hospital. Should you tell your ailing mother right away?
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
THREE partial face transplants have been performed worldwide and they have all been successful. Overnight three people were given back a life where they could interact with friends and family as well as strangers without feeling ostracised for their facial disfigurement.
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
Jason Karlawish, MD, associate professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, recommends that to help break down the logistical and geographical voting barriers many older Americans face, the United States must develop a model for mobile polling.
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
David Campbell switched on the overhead projector and wrote Evolution in the rectangle of light on the screen.If I do this wrong, Mr. Campbell remembers thinking on that humid spring morning, I'll lose him.
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
As much a fairy tale as the gymnastics competition has been for China, with the country snagging men's and women's team event golds and 14 of the 42 medals awarded in the sport in Beijing, the story may not have such a happy ending.
blog.bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine has created the Jeremy Sugarman Award to honor individuals who show the potential for excellence in bioethics research. The award is named for Jeremy Sugarman, MD MPH, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics' Deputy...
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
For the hosts of last week's animal welfare forum in Hershey, bringing together some of the nation's influential voices on the subject was a chance for the Pennsylvania ag community to get an inside view of who is driving animal welfare discussions in America.
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
For three weeks this summer, masons and mechanics, farmers and welders, scientists and a pastor threw themselves into creating low-tech solutions to big problems that persist across the globe.
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Scientists have long considered DNA the instruction manual for biological life. Each species has its own unique set of instructions, or genes. And for just as long, scientists have wondered if by swapping these instruction manuals, they could transform one organism into another.
bioethics.com (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Contrary to an Aug. 11 Times editorial, AB 2747 is a legally confused solution to non-existent problems that opens the way to doctor-assisted suicide. This legislation is not cut and dry; rather, it raises substantive policy questions relating to bioethics and health law. (Los Angeles Times)
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
W hile the recent admission by former North Carolina Senator John Edwards that he had engaged in an extramarital affair drew criticism of his conduct from across the political spectrum, the decision of his alleged mistress, Rielle Hunter, to refuse paternity testing for her infant daughter went largely unquestioned in the media.
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
In the course of treating a patient, there may come a point when the physician says, "I've done all I can. It's out of my hands." The patient may then ask about end-of-life options -- not life-ending options, but end-of-life options, such as palliative care focused on making the patient as comfortable as possible during the final illness.
Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
In articles following August 16 appearances by Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain at a forum at Pastor Rick Warren's Saddleback Church, numerous print media outlets reported McCain's assertion at the forum that he believes "a baby [is] entitled to human rights" "[a]t the moment of conception."
