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Ethics in the Academic Literature
(Updated on 05-13-05)

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 293; No. 18

• Palliative Care in the Final Days of Life: "They Were Expecting It at Any Time"
• Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention: Too Little, Too Late [Editorial]
• In Europe, as in US, Climate for Embryo Stem Cell Research Is One of Extremes [News]

New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 352; No. 19

• Notes to the Class -- First Day
• MSL -- Medicine as a Second Language
• On Needless Words

The Lancet Vol. 365; No. 9471

• Predicting the failure of 3 by 5 [Editorial]
• Human embryonic stem cells derived without feeder cells
• Feeder-free derivation of human embryonic stem-cell lines [Commentary]
• Evidence of Harm Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy [Book Review]
• US exceptionalism and research ethics [Letters] (PDF)
• Unethical clinical trials in Thailand: a community response [Letter] (PDF)
• Doctors' group proposes one-child policy for India [News]
• Guidelines set ethical bar for US stem cell research [News]

BMJ Vol. 330; No. 7499

• Pharmacogenetics and ethnically targeted therapies [Editorial]
• Law lords give the go ahead for creation of "saviour siblings" [News]
• Initiative could give free access to UK medical research [News]
• Legislation introduced to create a new drug safety office at the FDA [News]
• Comparison of descriptions of allocation concealment in trial protocols and the published reports: cohort study
• Adequacy and reporting of allocation concealment: review of recent trials published in four general medical journals
• Postoperative hypoxia in a woman with Down's syndrome: case outcome
• Patient's perspective [Commentary]
• Doing what's best and best interests [Commentary]
• Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing [Book Review]

NatureVol. 435; No. 7039

• Chinese clinical trials Consenting adults? Not necessarily [News]
• Science in culture: Womb with a view? [Commentary]

Social Science & Medicine Vol. 61; No. 2

• 'Even if they ask you to stand by a tree all day, you will have to do it (laughter)...!': Community voices on the notion and practice of informed consent for biomedical research in developing countries
• From a relationship to encounter: an examination of longitudinal and lateral dimensions in the doctor-patient relationship
• The impact of considering adaptation in health state valuation
• Visualising abortion: emotion discourse and fetal imagery in a contemporary abortion debate
• Inequities in healthcare seeking in the treatment of communicable endemic diseases in Southeast Nigeria
• What does skin color have to do with infant health? An analysis of low birth weight among mainland and island Puerto Ricans

Health Affairs Vol. 24; No. 3
Special Issue on Vaccine Development and Policy.  View table of contents

• Financing Vaccines: In Search Of Solutions That Work [Editorial]
• The Vaccine Enterprise: Time To Act
• Immunizations In The United States: Success, Structure, And Stress
• Why Are Pharmaceutical Companies Gradually Abandoning Vaccines?
• An HIV Vaccine: As We Build It, Will They Come?
• Overcoming Economic Barriers To The Optimal Use Of Vaccines
• The Problems And Promise Of Vaccine Markets In Developing Countries
• Vaccine Supply: A Cross-National Perspective
• Development Of Priority Vaccines For Disease-Endemic Countries: Risk And Benefit
• Medicaid Cost Containment And Access To Prescription Drugs
• Making Profits And Providing Care: Comparing Nonprofit, For-Profit, And Government Hospitals
• Health Information, The HIPAA Privacy Rule, And Health Care: What Do Physicians Think? [Nancy Kass et al.]
• Measure, Learn, And Improve: Physicians' Involvement In Quality Improvement
• You Gotta Draw The Line Somewhere
• Luck Of The Dying
• Lesser Harms: The Morality of Risk in Medical Research [Book Review]
• Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Vol. 30; No. 2
(These citations link to full text versions.)

• Patient Ethics and Responsibilities
• Moral Obligations of Patients: A Clinical View
• The Virtue of Moral Responsibility and the Obligations of Patients
• The Patient's Duty to Adhere to Prescribed Treatment: An Ethical Analysis
• Limits on Patient Responsibility
• Consumer Directed Health Care: Ethical Limits to Choice and Responsibility

Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics Vol. 15; No. 1

Download complete issue in PDF format contains the following:

• Wittgensteinian Philosophy, Anthropology and the Ethics of Psychiatry
• Three Dimensions of Contemporary Bioethics: Western, Global, Cosmist
• Body Donation - A need based problem
• Some Ethical Issues Concerning Medical Reproduction In Portugal
• Artificial Reproduction Technologies and Ectogenesis
• What's Morality Got to Do With it? The Need for Principle in Reproductive Technology and Embryo Research
• Do we need a Thanatoethics?
• Are the dead really departed when we remove their organs?
• Genomics In Asia: A Clash of Bioethical Interests? [Book Review]
• Perceptions of interpersonal relationships held by patients with obstinate disease]

Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine Vol. 145; No. 3

• The importance of cultural considerations in the promotion of ethical research with human biologic material [Gwynne Jenkins & Jeremy Sugarman]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society Vol. 53; No. 5s

• The Care of Patients with Dementia: A Modern Jewish Ethical Perspective

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology Vol. 58; No. 5

• Members of research ethics committees accepted a modification of the randomized consent design

Nature Biotechnology Vol. 23; No. 5

• Navigating an ethical patchwork - human gene banks
• Gene therapy: cursed or inching towards credibility?
  

Bioethics News
(Updated on 05-6-05)

Researchers Tested AIDS Drugs on Children
Associated Press
Wednesday, May 4, 2005

Animal to human transplantation, future potential, present risk, WHO
Medical News Today
Tuesday, May 3, 2005

Cites Vie to Host Stem Cell Institute
LA Times
Friday, May 06, 2005

Brain-Injured Fireman’s Recovery Takes Science Into a Murky Area
The New York Times
Wednesday, May 4, 2005

Now That Chimeras Exist, What if Some Turn Out Too Human?
The Wall Street Journal
Friday, May 06, 2005

Experts Dispute Remark That Living Wills Save Money
The Washington Post
Friday, May 06, 2005

Stem Cell News from the Program in Cell Engineering, Ethics and Public Policy (PCEEPP)
(Updated on 05-13-05)

National News & Commentary:

Novel Perspectives on Bioethics
Chronicle of Higher Education. 13 May 2005.

New Limits are Proposed for Research on Stem Cells
New York Times. 12 May 2005.

Romney urges changes to stem cell bill
Boston Globe. 12 May 2005.

Mass Gov Seeks 'Dramatic' Changes in Stem Cell Bill
Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones. 12 May 2005.

It's Science, Not a Freak Show [Editorial]
New York Times. 11 May 2005.

Stem Cell Debate
JAMA. 2005;293(18):2204-220a.

California Seeks Interim Financing for Stem Cell Research
New York Times. 10 May 2005.

Lawsuit Hampers Calif. Stem Cell Funding
Washington Post/AP. 10 May 2005.

Poll: GOP Voters OK Stem Cell Research
Associated Press/Yahoo! 10 May 2005.

Suit Hampers Calif Stem Cell Agency's Funding Ability
Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones. 9 May 2005.

Stem Cell Research Ethics [Editorial]
Los Angeles Times. 9 May 2005.

California Institute Picks City by the Bay
Science. 2005;308(5724):934b-.

Guidelines set ethical bar for US stem cell research [News]
The Lancet. 2005;365(9471):1612-1612.

San Francisco Wins Stem Cell Institute
Los Angeles Times. 7 May 2005.

Research:

Human embryonic stem cells derived without feeder cells
The Lancet. 365(9471):1636-1641.

Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cell Transplants Remyelinate and Restore Locomotion after Spinal Cord Injury
J Neurosci. 2005;25(19):4694-4705.

Promoting repair in multiple sclerosis: problems and prospects
Current Opinion in Neurology. 2005;18(3):237-244.

Stem-Cell Therapy Succeeds in Trial
Wall Street Journal. 11 May 2005.

International:

In Europe, as in US, Climate for Embryo Stem Cell Research Is One of Extremes
JAMA. 2005;293(18):2202-2203.

France sets up agency for medical bioethics
AFP/Yahoo! 10 May 2005.

Italian church leaps into Italian debate on bioethics
AFP/Yahoo! 11 May 2005.

Neuroethics News from the Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS)
(Updated on 05-13-05)

In Academic Journals:

Distributed Neural Representation of Expected Value
J Neurosci. 2005;25(19):4806-4812.

Unconscious Detection of Implicit Expectancies
J Cogn Neurosci. 2005;17(6):918-927.

Method Matters: An Empirical Study of Impact in Cognitive Neuroscience
J Cogn Neurosci. 2005;17(6):850-858.

A Madness to the Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience? [Commentary]
J Cogn Neurosci. 2005;17(6):847-849.

The ability of persons with Alzheimer disease (AD) to make a decision about taking an AD treatment
Neurology. 2005;64(9):1514-1519.

Who can say yes (or no) to a physician-and how does the physician know they can? [Editorial]
Neurology. 2005;64(9):1494-1495.

Distinct Brain Systems for Processing Concrete and Abstract Concepts
J Cogn Neurosci. 2005;17(6):905-917.

Parkinson disease, brain volumes, and subthalamic nucleus stimulation
Neurology. 2005;64(9):1598-1604.

Virtual Reality-Induced Cortical Reorganization and Associated Locomotor Recovery in Chronic Stroke. An Experimenter-Blind Randomized Study (Abstract links to PDF)
Stroke. 2005 (advance online publication).

Brain response to putative pheromones in homosexual men (Abstract links to PDF)
PNAS. 2005 (advance online publication).

The Dark Side of Glia
Science. 2005;308(5723):778-781.

Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cell Transplants Remyelinate and Restore Locomotion after Spinal Cord Injury
J Neurosci. 2005;25(19):4694-4705.

Bringing amyloid into focus
Nat Biotech. 2005;23(5):552-554.

Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behaviour [Book Review]
Nature. 2005;435(7039):147-148.

Attractors in Memory
Science. 2005;308(5723):799-800.

Matching at the Synapse
Science. 2005;308(5723):800-801.

In the Popular Press:

Of Two Minds
New York Times Magazine. 8 May 2005.

Old, Afraid and Gripped by Demons
New York Times. 10 May 2005.

The Adderall Me. My romance with ADHD meds
Slate. 10 May 2005.

Michael Gazzaniga: A Career Spent Learning How the Mind Emerges From the Brain
New York Times. 10 May 2005.

Marketing a Disease, and Also a Drug to Treat It
New York Times. 9 May 2005.

That 'Prozac' Man Defends the Gravity of a Disease
New York Times. 9 May 2005.

It's Science, Not a Freak Show [Editorial]
New York Times. 11 May 2005.

Video Games May Help Stroke Victims
New York Times/AP. 12 May 2005.

Brain Responses Vary By Sexual Orientation, New Research Shows
Wall Street Journal/AP. 10 May 2005.

Consumer Group Urges FDA To Reject Medical Implant
Wall Street Journal. 11 May 2005.