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It's Not August! But The August Issue of AJOB is Already Online at Bioethics.net
Now available at bioethics.net is the August issue of The American Journal of Bioethics. This month's issue contains articles ranging in topics from organ conscription and whether the US ought to have an opt-out system for organ donation and a number of thought experiments supporting that position by Delaney and... (read the rest)
Move Over Victoria's Secret! Stem Cell Trials for Breast Enlargement
Thanks to Wesley Smith's Secondhand Smoke blog for point out this story from the Times Online, Stem Cells to Grow Bigger Breasts. While the title is more than jumping the gun as trials are only underway in the UK using fat cells from women's stomachs then trying to coax them... (read the rest)
March Issue of AJOB is Now Online
Ever wonder what are the obligations by industrialized nations to the countries from which health care workers come? Are these workers free to move or are countries like the US and UK "poaching"? Or considered what the long-term impact of implementing the Oregon Death with Dignity Act has had upon... (read the rest)
A Well-Timed Step Forward
Today, the FDA announced its approval of the first stem cell clinical trial in human beings. Geron will perform the trial on 10 spinal cord injured patients. To call this trial, "medical treatment" is the biggest overstatement one could make--and fully illustrates one of the biggest ethical problems with stem... (read the rest)
Something to Declare...But No One Cares
Disclosing financial conflicts of interest to potential research subjects does not effect their willingness to participate in research, found a recent Johns Hopkins, Duke, and Wake Forest University study. In fact, the effects of such disclosures upon potential research participants were minimal, except in one group--the participants told that the... (read the rest)
Are You a Helicopter?
Do you hover? Ever felt entitled to question a coach, teacher, doctor or therapist? Think your child should never be corrected, is perfect, or is the second coming? Spend almost as much time at school as your child does? You may be a "helicopter parent", says University of Saint... (read the rest)
CancerZoom.com?
Seen Robert Shapiro hawking LegalZoom.com? Well, according to the WSJ Health Blog on Thursday, soon the same kind of templates used to give you a quickie will or corporation could give you a cancer clinical trial. Yes, clinical trials may soon be churned out template-style by some legal eagles, industry... (read the rest)
A quick course on clinical trials
From public television's Second Opinions, a "webisode" about clinical trials and therapeutic misconception featuring, among others, our own Glenn McGee: If you can't see the video, try watching over on the Second Opinions site.... (read the rest)
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