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The Institute in the News

• Doctors and Interrogators at Guantanamo Bay [Jonathan Marks]
  New England Journal of Medicine
• Playing God With Birth Defects in the Nursery New York Times. June 14, 2005. 
• Embryonic Stem Cell Research May 26, 2005
• The importance of cultural considerations in the promotion of ethical research with human biologic material [Gwynne Jenkins & Jeremy Sugarman] Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine. 2005;145(3):118-124.
• Health Information, The HIPAA Privacy Rule, And Health Care: What Do Physicians Think? [Nancy Kass et al.] Health Affairs. 2005;24(3):832-842.
• The Other Stem-Cell Debate by Jamie Shreeve. (04/10/05)

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 July 1, 2005)

New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 352; No. 26

• Early Publication: Doctors and Interrogators at Guantanamo Bay [Jonathan Marks] (PDF)
• Genetic Justice
• DNA as Evidence -- The Technology of Identification
• DNA and the Criminal Justice System: The Technology of Justice [Book Review]
• The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience [Book Review]
• To Do No Harm: Ensuring Patient Safety in Health Care Organizations [Book Review]

The Lancet Vol. 365; No. 9478

• The second child survival revolution [Editorial]
• Canada's challenge for health [Editorial]
• Can the world afford to save the lives of 6 million children each year?
• Child survival: countdown to 2015 [Commentary]
• Saving the lives of vulnerable children [Commentary]
• Biopsychosocial Medicine [Book Review]

BMJ: British Medical Journal Vol. 330; No. 7505

• Health research policy in the European Union [Editorial]
• Pharmacogenetics and ethnically targeted therapies: Racial drugs need to be put in context [Letter]
• Pharmacogenetics and ethnically targeted therapies: Authors' reply [Reply]
• US survey shows extent of research misconduct [News]
• Conduct of drug trials in poor countries must improve [News]
• Autopsy supports claim that Schiavo was in a persistent vegetative state [News]
• US stem cell research progresses despite limitations [News]

Nature Vol. 433; No. 7046

• Sustainable outcomes from Gleneagles [Editorial]
• Science & Africa A message to the G8 summit [News]

Science Vol. 308; No. 5730

• Science and Prohibited Weapons [Editorial]
• Going From Genome to Pill [News]

American Journal of Public Health Vol. 95; No. 7

• The Challenges and Opportunities of Ethics [Editorial]
• In the Name of Public Health [Editorial]
• Ethical Goals of Community Consultation in Research [Neal Dickert & Jeremy Sugarman]
• Brazil and Access to HIV/AIDS Drugs: A Question of Human Rights and Public Health
• Antiretroviral Therapy in Resource-Poor Countries: Illusions and Realities
• Sterilized in the Name of Public Health: Race, Immigration, and Reproductive Control in Modern California
• The Right to Health Under International Law and Its Relevance to the United States
• Which Patients First? Setting Priorities for Antiretroviral Therapy Where Resources Are Limited
• Quality of Parental Consent in a Ugandan Malaria Study
• Written Parental Consent in School-Based HIV/AIDS Prevention Research

Social Science & Medicine Vol. 61; No. 6

• Views of US researchers about informed consent in international collaborative research [Nancy Kass]
• 'At the point at which you can do something about it, then it becomes more relevant': Informed consent in the pharmacogenetic clinic
• Decision-makers and the usefulness of research evidence in policy implementation--a case study from Lao PDR
• Resemblance talk: A challenge for parents whose children were conceived with donor gametes in the US
• The moral career of poor patients in free clinics

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics Vol. 14; No. 3

• Pakistan and Biomedical Ethics: Report from a Muslim Country
• Bioethics in Tanzania: Legal and Ethical Concerns in Medical Care and Research in Relation to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
• The Cloning Debate in the United Kingdom: The Academy Meets the Public
• Conflict of Interest: A Japanese Perpsective
• The Balance between Beneficence and Respect for Patient Autonomy in Clinical Medical Ethics in France
• Abortion in Canada
• Response to "Special Section on Children as Organ Donors" (CQ Vol 13, No 2): A Critique
• Ethics and the Underpinnings of Policy in Biodefense and Emergency Preparedness
• What Jurisdiction? Whose Justice? A Response to Eckenwiler
• Sensible Discussion in Bioethics: Reflections on Interdisciplinary Research
• Attitudes of Future Lawyers and Psychologists to the Use of Genetic Testing for Criminal Behavior
• Disease, Illness, and Ethics
• Abstracts of Note: The Bioethics Literature

Journal of General Internal Medicine Vol. 20; No. 5

• Beyond the Medical Record. Other Modes of Error Acknowledgment
• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Influenza Vaccination Among Elderly Adults

Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine Vol. 145; No. 6

• Some realism about informed consent [Editorial]
• More realism about informed consent  [Editorial]

Bioethics News
(Updated on 06-10-05)

Ethics of U.S. Scientists May Be Shaky, Poll Says
Wall Street Journal
Thursday June 9, 2005

Scientists Back Bill on Stem Cells
The Baltimore Sun
Thursday June 9, 2005

Stem Cell Advocates Plan Strategy in Texas
MSNBC News
Thursday June 9, 2005

Managing Conflict at the End of Life
The New England Journal of Medicine
Thursday June 9, 2005

Patients in a Persistent Vegetative State – a Dutch Perspective
The New England Journal of Medicine
Thursday June 9, 2005

Ovary Transplant Birth like a ‘Normal’ Pregnancy
MSNBC News
Thursday June 9, 2005

Texas Family Blocks Girl’s Cancer Treatment
MSNBC News
Thursday June 9, 2005

Stem Cell Advances May Make Moral Issues Moot
The Washington Post
Monday June 6, 2005

Inmates Organ Donor Wish Poses Quandary
Wired News
Thursday June 2, 2005

Testing Could Prevent the Birth of Geniuses
MSNBC News
Tuesday May 31, 2005

Stem Cell News from the Program in Cell Engineering, Ethics and Public Policy (PCEEPP)
(Updated on July 1, 2005)

National News & Commentary

GOP Backs Non-Destructive Cell Research. Associated Press, 30 June 2005.

Senate Committee Approves Bill That Would Encourage Umbilical Cord Blood Collection for Stem Cell Research. KaiserNetwork.org, 30 June 2005 .

Senators Expect Stem Cell Debate in July. Reuters, 29 June 2005.

Aaronson: Ensure Scripps can do stem-cell work. Palm Beach Post , 28 June 2005 .

Senate approves $150 million for stem cell facility. Newark Star-Ledger, 28 June 2005.

Geron has stem cell bank. InsideBayArea.com, 24 June 2005 .

Wis. Assembly Votes to Ban Cloning Embryos.The Associated Press, 23 June 2005 .

New Christian Organization Launched To Provide Balance on Issues Including Abortion, Embryonic Stem Cell Research. KaiserNetwork.org, 24 Jun 2005 .

In addition, here is the link to the Christian Alliance for Progress website.

Research News

Histological analysis of fetal dopamine cell suspension grafts in two patients with Parkinson's disease gives promising results. Brain, July 2005.

Cell type analysis of functional fetal dopamine cell suspension transplants in the striatum and substantia nigra of patients with Parkinson's disease. Brain, July 2005.

Lab techniques advance stem cell R&D. LabTechnologist.com, 28 June 2005 .

Human Motor Neuron Differentiation from Human Embryonic Stem Cells. Stem Cells and Development, June 2005.

International News

Agenda to put India on stem cell research mapThe Hindu, 27 June 2005 .

Seoul proposes joint stem cell research with Pyongyang. Asia Pulse News , 27 June 2005 .

City doctor in stem-cell probe. The Vancouver Sun , 25 June 2005 .

New Report Reveals Rapid Growth of Stem Cell Technology Research, Despite Regulatory Barriers. Marks & Clerk: Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys , 20 June 2005 . (Scroll down to 4 th article and select “more” for full article)

Neuroethics News from the Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS)
(Updated on July 1, 2005)

In Academic Journals:

The role of the inferior frontal junction area in cognitive control
Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 2005;9(7):314-316.

Justifying all the fuss about false belief
Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 2005;9(7):307-308.

Transcranial magnetic stimulation highlights the sensorimotor side of empathy for pain
Nat Neurosci. 2005;8(7):955-960.

The painful side of empathy [Commentary]
Nat Neurosci. 2005;8(7):845-846.

Pain and Emotion Interactions in Subregions of the Cingulate Gyrus
Nat Rev Neurosci. 2005;6(7):533-544.

Neurology: Autistic Brains Out of Synch?
Science. 2005;308(5730):1856-1858.

Educational research Big plans for little brains [News]
Nature. 2005;435(7046):1156-1158.

Bringing neuroscience to the classroom [Editorial]
Nature. 2005;435(7046):1138-1138.

Placebos and Painkillers: Is Mind as Real as Matter
Nat Rev Neurosci. 2005;6(7):545-552.

Preferring one taste over another without recognizing either
Nat Neurosci. 2005;8(7):860-861.

Kindness in a Cruel World: The evolution of altruism [Book Review]
Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 2005;9(7):317-318.

In the Popular Press:

What Other People Say May Change What You See
New York Times. 28 June 2005.

Patients' Diversity is Often Discounted. Alternatives to mainstream medical treatment call for recognizing ethnic, social differences
Washington Post. 26 June 2005