BBI Co-Hosts International Stem Cell Conference

• New stem cell recommendations.  The Scientist, 27 February 2006.
• Stem cell researchers 'agree guidelines'.  Belfast Telegraph, 25 February 2006.
• Conflicting laws hinder research.  BBC News, 25 February 2006.
• Scientists agree global stem cell guidance.  Guardian Unlimited, 24 February 2006.
• Find weeds out cancerous stem cells. The Australian, 27 February 2006.
• Group Releases Ethical Guidelines on Stem Cell Research To Clarify Conflicting International Policies. KaiserNetwork.org: International News, 28 February 2006.
• Stem cell scientists draw up ethical charter.  Financial Times, 25 February 2006.
• Federal and global guidelines on stem cell research offer a level playing field. Wisconsin Technology Network, 28 February 2006.
• The Hinxton Group:A Consensus Statement on Stem Cell Research. Blog.Bioethics.Net, 26 February 2006.
• Rules tighten for stem-cell studies: International group aims to make research collaborations simpler. Nature, 1 March 2006.
• Universal Stem Cell Principles Proposed: Rules Would Guide Research Efforts. Washington Post, 2 March 2006.
• Principles urged for cell study. Denver Post, 2 March 2006
• Group Releases Ethical Guidelines On Stem Cell Research To Clarify Conflicting International Policies. Medical News Today, 2 March 2006.
• Scientists want global stem cell standards. United Press International, 2 March 2006.
• Panel at AAAS Discusses Quest for Global Guidelines on Stem Cell Research. AAAS News, 2 March 2006
• Global Stem Cell Research Guidelines Created by Expert Panel. DigitalJournal.Com, 3 March 2006.
• Global stem cell recommendations published. Bionews.org.uk, 3 March 2006.
• Junk medicine: stem cell research. The Times, 4 March 2006
• Global guidelines proposed for stem cell studies. SciDev.Net, 7 March 2006
• Stem cell researchers propose international guidelines. BioEdge, 7 March 2006.

The Institute in the News

• Conflicting laws hinder research. BBC News
• Anonymity May Slip from Sperm Donors. Kathy Hudson
• Debra Matthews discuss embryonic stem cell research on The Marc Steiner Show
• Experts Discuss Stem Cell Research at Three-Day Event in D.C.
• Center Urges Oversight Change at CMS (11/29/05)
• Experts Discuss Stem Cell Research at Three-Day Event in D.C.
• Technical Knockout: The overconfidence of stem-cell liberals Slate. 17 November 2005.
• Roundtable Discussion on Healthcare. PBS (Audio)

New Faculty Publication

• Rescuing Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: The Blastocyst Transfer Method [S. Matthew Liao] American Journal of Bioethics. 2005;5(6):8-16.
• IBM's Smart Stance on Genetic Testing Business Week.  11 October 2005.

Ethics in the News

• Adult ADD: Common disorder or marketing ploy?
• IVF baby marks 25th anniversary
• Medical privacy law gets mixed reviews

Ethics in the Academic Literature
(Updated on April 7, 2006)

New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 354; No. 14

• ADHD Drugs and Cardiovascular Risk
• The Changing Face of Teenage Drug Abuse -- The Trend toward Prescription Drugs

JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 295; No. 13

• Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Diagnoses of HIV/AIDS--33 States, 2001-2004
• Dr Golem: How to Think About Medicine [Book Review]
• Rage and Reconciliation: Inspiring a Health Care Revolution [Book Review]
• Mobile Hospital Raises Questions About Hospital Surge Capacity [News]

The Lancet Vol. 367; No. 9516

• Trialists should tell participants results, but how? [Editorial]
• Southall's CNEP trial more than stands up to scrutiny [Editorial]
• Are any of the criticisms of the CNEP trial true?
• CNEP needs to return
• Southall and colleagues vindicated once more
• CNEP and research governance
• Outcome after neonatal continuous negative-pressure ventilation: follow-up assessment
• WHO analysis of causes of maternal death: a systematic review

BMJ: British Medical Journal Vol. 332; No. 7544

• Increasing the number of medical students from under-represented minorities [Editorial]
• Managing challenging behaviour in dementia [Editorial]
• Effect of enhanced psychosocial care on antipsychotic use in nursing home residents with severe dementia: cluster randomised trial
• Using lessons from the past to plan for pandemic flu
• UK government response to Hilary Pickles
• An iatrogenic pandemic of panic
• Hard decisions will have to be made: view from intensive care
• The Philosophy of Palliative Care: Critique and Reconstruction [Book Review]
• AIDS robs millions of their childhood [News]
• Germany may change drug testing rules after debacle in England [News]

Nature Vol. 440; No. 7085

• Shooting the messenger [Editorial]
• Energy secretary ditches science advisers [News]
• Avian Flu: From the front lines

Science Vol. 311; No. 5769

• In Search of Biosecurity [Editorial]
• Versatile Sperm Cells May Offer Alternative to Embryos [News]

Hastings Center Report Vol. 32; No. 2

• Stem Cells: Starting Over?
• Not DEA'd Yet: Gonzales v. Oregon
• The Elephant in the Room
• Federal Executive Power and Communicable Disease Control: CDC Quarantine Regulations
• No Method, Thus Madness?
• Competent Refusal of Nursing Care
• Magic Eggs and the Frontier of Stem Cell Science
• Sex, Politics, and Morality at the FDA: Reflections on the Plan B Decision
• The Rights of "Unborn Children" and the Value of Pregnant Women
• The Ordeal of Reminding
• Traumatic Brain Injury and the Goals of Care
• What Does Vulnerability Mean?
• Confessions and Transgressions: Ethics and Life Writing
• Would My Story Get Me a Kidney?
• Do Researchers Learn to Practice Misbehavior? [Letter]
• The Debate over Liberal Eugenics [Letters]
• The Debate over Liberal Eugenics [Letters, continued]
• Bruce Jennings departs

Journal of Medicine & Philosophy Vol. 31; No. 2

• Metaphysics and Morality at the Boundaries of Life
• The Death of a Person
• Voluntary Euthanasia, Physician-Assisted Suicide, and the Goals of Medicine
• Totipotency, Twinning, and Ensoulment at Fertilization
• Sixteen Days? A Reply to B. Smith and B. Brogaard on the Beginning of Human Individuals
• Defending Abortion Philosophically: A Review of David Boonin's A Defense of Abortion 

Archives of Internal Medicine Vol. 166; No. 5

• The Accuracy of Surrogate Decision Makers: A Systematic Review
• Physicians' Decisions to Withhold and Withdraw Life-Sustaining Treatment

PLoS Medicine Vol. 3; No. 5

• Lessons on Ethical Decision Making from the Bioscience Industry
• What Is the Bioscience Industry Doing to Address the Ethical Issues It Faces?
  

Stem Cell News from the Program in Cell Engineering, Ethics and Public Policy (PCEEPP)
(Updated on April 7, 2006)

National News & Commentary

States stepping in to underwrite stem cell science. USA Today, 6 April 2006.

Ehrlich Signs Stem Cell, Air Quality Legislation. The Washington Post, 6 April 2006.

The paths around stem cell intellectual property.  Nature Biotechnology, 6 April 2006.

Governor to sign bill on stem cells today. The Baltimore Sun, 6 April 2006.

UW patents can hinder stem cell research at other universities. The Daily Cardinal, 6 April 2006.

Can science resolve the ethical impasse in stem cell research? Nature Biotechnology, 6 April 2006.

Stem Cell Institute to Get $14 Million. The Los Angeles Times, 5 April 2006.

Embryo Stem-Cell Research Spreads Despite Curbs. The Wall Street Journal, 4 April 2006.

Stem Cell Agency Draws Ire Over Plan. The Baltimore Sun, 4 April 2006.

Patent holder may sap rewards of stem-cell study. Mercury News, 4 April 2006.

N.C. journal on stem cell research retracts breakthrough claims. The Charlotte Observer, 3 April 2006.

New Jersey can be a stem-cell research leader. The Courier-Post, 2 April 2006.

Stem Cell Research Woes. The Red Herring, 2 April 2006.

Glimpses of stem cell medicine. The Scientist, 1 April 2006.

The States Confront Stem Cells. The New York Times, 31 March 2006.

Federal Government Should Increase Scope of Stem Cell Research Eligible for Funding, Editorial Says. Daily Women's Health Policy Report, 31 March 2006.

Doctor is charged with therapy scam. The Philadelphia Inquirer, 31 March 2006.

Research News

World-first stem cell surgery. The Advertiser, 6 April 2006.

Bone loss seen in kids after stem cell therapy. Yahoo News, 5 April 2006.

A neurosphere-derived factor, cystatin C, supports differentiation of ES cells into neural stem cells. PNAS, 4 April 2006.       

First Bladders Grown in Lab Transplanted. The Washington Post, 4 April 2006.

Monolayered mesenchymal stem cells repair scarred myocardium after myocardial infarction. Nature Medicine, 2 April 2006.

Versatile Sperm Cells May Offer Alternative to Embryos. Science, 31 March 2006.

International News

An international gap in human ES cell research. Nature Biotechnology, 6 April 2006.

U.S. Trails Other Countries in Publishing Embryonic Stem Cell Studies, Stanford Researcher Finds. Genetic Engineering News, 6 April 2006.

Battle lines drawn on stem cell research. The Age, 6 April 2006.

Seoul National U. Fires Discredited Stem-Cell Scientist; Nobelist Will Lead Multimillion-Dollar Effort to Revamp Science Education. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 31 March 2006.

Government to crack down on stem cell therapies. Irish Examiner, 31 March 2006.

Abbott to block cloning. The Sunday Telegraph, 16 March 2006.

Neuroethics News from the Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS)
(Updated on April 7, 2006)

In Academic Journals:

Progression of Parkinson's Disease following Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation for Tremor
Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. 2005;83(5-6):222-227.

Rational rats
Nat Neurosci. 2006;9(4):472-474.

Quantum mechanics in the brain
Nature. 2006;440(7084):611-611.

Doing the right thing: A common neural circuit for appropriate violent or compassionate behavior
NeuroImage. 2006;30(3):1069-1076.

Sustained hippocampal chromatin regulation in a mouse model of depression and antidepressant action
Nat Neurosci. 2006;9(4):519-525.

Depression is associated with impairment of ADL, not motor function in Parkinson disease
Neurology. 2006;66(6):956-.

A Biophysically Based Neural Model of Matching Law Behavior: Melioration by Stochastic Synapses
J Neurosci. 2006;26(14):3731-3744.

Hypothalamic Deep Brain Stimulation in Positron Emission Tomography
J Neurosci. 2006;26(13):3589-3593.

Stimulation of the Subthalamic Region Facilitates the Selection and Inhibition of Motor Responses in Parkinson's Disease J Cogn Neurosci. 2006;18(4):626-636.

Patient preference randomised controlled trials in mental health research [Editorial]
Br J Psychiatry. 2006;188(4):303-304.

Animal behaviour: Chimpanzee choice and prosociality [Letter]
Nature. 2006;440(7085):E6-E6.

Animal behaviour: Chimpanzee choice and prosociality [Reply]
Nature. 2006;440(7085):E6-E6.

Managing challenging behaviour in dementia [Editorial]
BMJ. 2006;332(7544):741-.

The Ethical Brain [Book Review]
Am J Psychiatry. 2006;163(4):751-.

The Creating Brain: The Neuroscience of Genius [Book Review]
N Engl J Med. 2006;354(14):1539-1540.


In the Popular Press:

A Depression Switch?
New York Times Magazine. 2 April 2006.

The future holds more than pills
Los Angeles Times. 27 March 2006.

...but still sad. Antidepressants aren't the magic that millions hoped. For the first time, prescriptions fall.
Los Angeles Times. 27 March 2006.

FDA Approves Skin Patch to Treat ADHD
Wall Street Journal. 7 April 2006.