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VOL. 8 NO. 12 | December 2008
The American Journal of Bioethics | Volume 8 Number 12
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Medical and Nursing Students' Television Viewing Habits: Potential Implications for Bioethics
by Matthew Czarny, Edwin Bodensiek, Ruth R. Faden, Marie T. Nolan, Jeremy Sugarman

Open Peer Commentary

Animal Eggs for Stem Cell Research: A Path Not Worth Taking
by Francoise Baylis

Open Peer Commentary

Visual Bioethics
by Paul Lauritzen

Open Peer Commentary
Book Reviews

Review of Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen. Embryo: A Defense of Human Life.
by Kalina Kamenova

Review of Ezekiel J. Emanuel. Healthcare Guaranteed: a Simple, Secure Solution for America.
by Joseph White

Correspondence

Response to Open Peer Commentaries on Medical and Nursing Students' Television Viewing Habits: Potential Implications for Bioethics
by Matthew Czarny, Edwin Bodensiek, Ruth R. Faden, Marie T. Nolan, Jeremy Sugarman

Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “Visual Bioethics”
by Paul Lauritzen

Choosing A Path: Setting a Course for the Journey
by Francoise Baylis

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Report Paints Grim Picture of Drug Trial Safety
Criticism of FDA's weak oversight are on target, but Congress shares blame.

Giving Up on Gene Therapy Is Wrong Reaction
Death of Jolee Mohr should lead to new patient protections

Women Should Be Wary of Genetic Risk Ads
TV commercials exploit fear of breast cancer in the guise of education.

Students' Meningitis Shots Should Be Required
Americans hate to be told what to do, but we hate losing our kids more.

Privacy is True Price of Healthy Worker Discounts
Even fit folks should resist the temptation of lower deductibles.

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Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of 2008
(Wired) Scientists had plenty of reasons to celebrate in 2008. The Large Hadron Collider fired up for the first time, a temple of science opened its doors, several companies promised cheap genome sequencing and President-elect Obama hired a fantastic team of science advisers.

Merck Files for FDA Approval of Gardasil For Males
(CNBC) Merck filed last month for approval from the Food and Drug Administration for the use of its drug Gardasil by males between the ages 9 to 26, CNBC has confirmed.

Health Care Spending in U.S. Grew at Lowest Rate in a Decade
(Washington Post) Due to slower spending on prescription drugs, health-care spending in the United States grew at the lowest rate in a decade in 2007, a new federal report found.

What’s Race Got to Do With It?
(Newsweek) It is the question that almost never gets raised in polite company, although almost everyone has an opinion about it. Often, in fact, two opinions, one public and one private. There are many ways of asking it, but perhaps the most neutral way is: what, if any, are the significant genetic differences between racial groups, besides the obvious superficial ones, such as skin color, that we use to define "race" in the first place?

Should Patients Be Told of Better Care Elsewhere?
(New York Times) An article published online in October in the journal PLoS Medicine really hit home with me. Noting that the quality of cancer care is uneven, its authors argued that as part of the informed-consent process, doctors have an ethical obligation to tell patients if they are more likely to survive, be cured, live longer or avoid complications by going to Hospital A instead of Hospital B. And that obligation holds even if the doctor happens to work at Hospital B, and revealing the truth might mean patients will take their business someplace else.

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by Paul Lauritzen



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