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Follow-up on The Wild West of Nanotechnology
Today, The Scientist has revealed more about the scandal involving nanoscientist Chiming Wei which was first written about here on bioethics.net. This scandal has brought into question what counts as "expertise" in nanomedicine, The Scientist claims, and one source was quoted as saying that it may have even damaged the... (read the rest)
My Mommy Is My Daddy Is My Mommy
Stem cell research has the potential to change the standard gendered parental relationships by making it possible for women to produce sperm and eggs from stem cells say British researchers in the Globe and Mail. Better yet, a new Canadian "mockumentary" called The Baby Formula brings to the public's attention... (read the rest)
Be Careful What You Wish For
In collaboration with Nanotech-Now.com and Lifeboat Foundation, Tihamer Toth-Fejel comments as this month's guest columnist about the prospect of a much less ominous future for nanotechnology that most. Yet, as the title suggests, it still presents some issues for society that heretofore we may not have tackled or even thought... (read the rest)
Pucker Up!
Ladies, how much risk of lead exposure would you be willing to undergo for ruby red lips? Is it even something to be concerned about? Well, it depends on who you ask. According to the NYT, a debate is ensuing at the FDA over lead suspected in tubes of women's... (read the rest)
Dr. Hamburg, Divest Thyself
One of the wealthiest of the Obama administration appointees, Dr. Margaret Hamburg, has to offload her stock pretty quickly--apparently that's what comes from being married to a very successful hedge fund manager and holding a wide range of health and other medical related stock, says the Wall Street Journal. The... (read the rest)
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Award-winning Target Articles, Editorials, and Open Peer Commentaries from The American Journal of Bioethics are available now at pandemic.bioethics.net. Click on the links below for direct access or visit us at pandemic.bioethics.net Resources: Pandemic Influenza Ethics Initiative Resources from the Veterans Health Administration's National Center for Ethics News: WHO: Up... (read the rest)
Victims and Vectors
If you haven't read enough about pandemics and ethics or the swine flu yet (and seriously who hasn't read enough about this), the OUP Blog is recommending some additional reading written by philosophers Leslie Francis and Peggy Battin, as well as Jay Jacobson and Charles Smith called Patients as Victim... (read the rest)
Sham Doctor Performed Real Surgeries
He must look old for his age. Otherwise it's almost inexplicable how a 22-year-old Oregon man was able to convince multiple patients that he was a physician, when he has no medical training. The fake physician went so far as to dispense medications and even to perform minor surgeries on... (read the rest)
Merck Makes Phony Peer-Review Journal
It's a safe guess that somewhere at Merck today someone is going through the meeting minutes of the day that the hair-brained scheme for the Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine was launched, and that everyone who was in the room is now going to be fired. The Scientist... (read the rest)
Stem Cell Research in South Korea: Here We Go Again?
The South Koreans have decided to hop on the human embryonic stem cell research merry-go-round again, conditionally lifting a ban on the use of human eggs in research says AFP. But will the ethics safeguards put in place be enough to ensure that this time the fraud and ethics violations... (read the rest)
The Wild West of Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology has been described as many things: the next industrial revolution, the great leveler, an emerging technology, even technology of the Singularity. Yet, I am going to liken the nanotechnology revolution to the American Wild West. Let me explain why a 19th century metaphor is apt and why its actually... (read the rest)
Toto, We're Not in Kansas Anymore, or Texas, Or Seattle Grace Hospital, For That Matter
For as much as it might seem okay for as much as it happens in prime time TV medical dramas or daytime soap operas, there doesn't seem to be a medical board out there or the American Medical Association, for that matter, that thinks it's okay for doctors to have... (read the rest)
Detecting Disease by Tattoo
If you ever swore to your self (or to another) that you'd never get a tattoo, you may just want to reconsider. You may within just a couple of years have a very good reason to get one made out of "nanoink". As recently reported on Discovery News, "nanoink" allows... (read the rest)
Ethics: The Phased In Plan
On Tuesday, medical device maker Medtronic Inc. announced that they will begin disclosing their consulting fees to doctors in 2011, says the Minneapolis Star. Slow down there, Speed Racer! Don't go disclosing those dollar figures too quickly now! You wouldn't want to allow your company a whole two years to... (read the rest)
The Wakefield Scandal Thickens...
When I wrote a week ago about Andrew Wakefield, I approached it from a research ethics perspective: about data falsification, the retraction of an article, the colleagues who didn't stand by him on his Lancet paper, etc etc....but as the world continues to talk about this researcher who, amazingly, continues... (read the rest)
Build It and They Will Come....Not To Use It
According to the L.A. Times Booster Shots blog, doctors who use electronic drug-prescribing systems and receive warnings about potentially fatal drug interactions they are prescribing for patients simply ignore them. "Darn beeping machine. How annoying. Worse than pagers these things!" According to a study published in the Archives of Internal... (read the rest)
Nanotech Development: You Can't Please All of the People, All of the Time
This month's column from the Lifeboat Foundation, Nanotech Now, and AJOB Collaboration posted on Friday last week discusses the "rational" development of new technologies and the balance between a technology with great promise and unknown risk. Tom Powers, Director of the Science, Ethics and Public Policy Program at the University... (read the rest)
Who Cares about Nanotechnology Anyway?
Today on Nanotech-Now, I discuss what it would take to make the abstract discussions about "nanoethics" as a discipline, sub-discipline, or whatever it is into a meaningful discussion about a future where nanotechnologies impact our world and do so in a way that we have anticipated ethical issues that actually... (read the rest)
Could Spider Silk Save Your Life?
Posted today at Nanotech-Now.com, Summer Johnson has written a column on the ethical issues with the new polymer nanocomposites that material scientists have created and their appropriate and inappropriate uses inside (and outside) the human body for the Lifeboat Foundation's column called "Scenarios and Solutions for a Nano-World". To read... (read the rest)
Glenn McGee at the Autism Hangout
Glenn McGee, Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Bioethics and founder of the Institute for Ethics and Autism, was interviewed by the Autism Hangout to discuss ethical issues in autism. Click on the link to listen to his discussion with Craig Evans featured in the Key Learning of Autism... (read the rest)
H.S. Kids are Unethical. But Why?
As reported Sunday on MSNBC, high school kids break ethical boundaries frequently--including lying, cheating, and stealing. With 30% of students having stolen something from a store in the last year and 64% admitting to having cheated on a test, one has to wonder: why are our nation's youth okay with... (read the rest)
Graffiti Begets More Graffiti, But What Do Clean Hands Get You?
Last week, the Economist reported on two contradictory stories: the first reaffirmed the decades old "broken windows" theory which suggests that neighborhoods with broken windows or graffiti in this case results in more crime, unrest, and general bad behavior than neighborhoods that are well-kept, while the second article reports on... (read the rest)
Loving to Hate Bioethics
Wesley Smith's Second Hand Smoke is promoting Bioedge, a blog that slams bioethics and its professionals hard. Michael Cook's screed takes to task bioethics as a discpline and its members saying that "That sexy little prefix "bio" has become a Kevlar vest for so-called experts who couldn't score a job... (read the rest)
What's Lurking in Your Freezer?
It seems as though almost weekly we have another food quality scare--and this time it comes from the friendliest of foods. The thing that everyone says, "Oh yeah, this tastes just like it..." You guessed it: it's chicken. The Department of Agriculture reported this week that there have been 32... (read the rest)
You Break It, You Buy It
It turns out that the feds have finally decided to stop shelling out dollars to pay for the surgeries that fix the botched one from the first time around. What a novel idea! According to the Arizona Republic, hospitals can no longer bill Medicare for these "second time's a charm"... (read the rest)
Food Ethics--21st Century Style
Food ethics is becoming more complex than it used to be. With the recent crisis in China over baby formula, the slow food movement, the debates over locally grown food, organic food, cloned cattle, trans fats, the obesity crisis and more--food ethics is no longer limited to Leon Kass' The... (read the rest)
When No Means No: Caplan on Force Feeding Starving Inmates
Art Caplan says in the Hartford Courant that it is unethical to force feed inmates on a hunger strike. His claim is that it is a prisoner's right to refuse food as a form of protest against their incarceration or conviction. Similar to refusing medical treatment, competent prisoners can say... (read the rest)
The Olympics Heat Up Debate on Enhancement
With the Olympic competitions heating up, the debates on enhancement, sport, and the human form have more than left the starting blocks in the newspapers and online. Personally, I can't muster up more than a review of what's been written as I'm less than convinced that there are any really... (read the rest)
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