Bioethics

US Catholic bishops speak out on bioethics

BioEdge (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009

Christian Leaders Release Manhattan Declaration for Pro-Life, Conscience Rights

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.

Scandal Rocks Global Warming Establishment | CEI...

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...

New Guidelines for Cervical Cancer Screening, Too

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...

Tiny Babies, Large Questions: Ethical Issues in Prenatal and Neonatal Care

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...

Deus Sex Machina

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,...

Women Don't Need to Risk Their Health With Egg Donation

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...

"Study ethics, NIH!"

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...

End-of-life Decisions are Heartwrenching

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...

Brain Science Creates a Need for Neuroethics

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?

2009…A Not So Dark Year in Bioethics After All

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...

Event: International Conference on Bioethics Education

bioethics.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

International Conference on Bioethics Education: “Contents, Methods, Trends”, Zefat, Israel (May 2-5, 2010) The Conference is designed to offer a PLATFORM for the exchange of information and knowledge and to hold discussions, lectures, workshops and an exhibition of program and databases.] The Main Conference Topics: Bioethics Education: General, Objectives, Teaching Methodology Levels...

Medical Schools Quizzed on Ghostwriting

Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

Senator Charles E. Grassley wrote to 10 top medical schools Tuesday to ask what they are doing about professors who put their names on ghostwritten articles in medical journals — and why that practice was any different from plagiarism by students.

• Medical Schools Quizzed on Ghostwriting - New York Times

AP POLL: Tax the rich to pay for health bill

Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009

When it comes to paying for a health care overhaul, Americans see just one way to go: Tax the rich. The poll, conducted by Stanford University with the nonpartisan Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, found participants sour on other ways of paying for the health overhaul that is being considered in Congress, including taxing insurers on high-value coverage packages derided by President Barack Obama and...

• Poll: Americans want to tax the rich to pay for health care - Reno Gazette Journal
• Majority of Americans Say It’s Okay to Tax the Rich to Pay for Health Bill - CNSNews
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When Bishops Meet

Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009

The agenda of the November 16-19 General Assembly of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops takes up a number of hotly contested issues, including a pastoral letter on marriage and revised ethical guidelines regarding the medical provision of hydration and nutrition to patients in a persistent vegetative state (PVS).