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The Institute in the News

• Moral Issues of Human-Non-Human Primate Neural Grafting [from the Program in Cell Engineering, Ethics, and Public Policy] Science.  July 15, 2005
• Interview with John Gearhart on recent events in stem-cell research. NEJM, July 2005.
• 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.

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 15, 2005)

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 294; No. 2

• Improving the Use of Hospice Services in Nursing Homes: A Randomized Controlled Trial
• Contradicted and Initially Stronger Effects in Highly Cited Clinical Research
• Cancer Treatment's Trade-off: Years of Added Life Can Have Long-term Costs

New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 353; No. 2

• Financial Conflicts of Interest and the Food and Drug Administration's Advisory Committees
• Last-Ditch Medical Therapy -- Revisiting Lobotomy

BMJ: British Medical Journal Vol. 331; No. 7508

• Where are the leaders? [Editorial]
• Five futures for academic medicine: the ICRAM scenarios
• The patient's journey: Living with locked-in syndrome
• Displaced populations and long term humanitarian assistance
• The Drug Trial: Nancy Olivieri and the Science Scandal that Rocked the Hospital for Sick Children [Book Review]
• Shining a light on suffering [News]
• WHO puts abortifacients on its essential drug list [News]

The Lancet Vol. 366; No. 9480

• Taking health literacy seriously [Editorial]
• AIDS is not a problem for Africa alone [Editorial]
• Fair process in patient selection for antiretroviral treatment in WHO's goal of 3 by 5
• Prenatal detection of Down's syndrome by rapid aneuploidy testing for chromosomes 13, 18, and 21 by FISH or PCR without a full karyotype: a cytogenetic risk assessment
• Rapid aneuploidy testing, traditional karyotyping, or both? [Commentary]
• Putting clinical trials into context
• Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity: Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health, and Disease [Book Review]

Nature Vol. 436; No. 7048

• Action, not words [Editorial]
• Two cheers for the G8 [Editorial]
• The Ethical Brain [Book Review]

Science Vol. 309; No. 5732

• Redefining Science [Editorial]
• Stem Cells: Embryo-Free Techniques Gain Momentum [News]
• California Institute: Most Systems Go [News]

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal Vol. 15; No. 2

• Developing Human-Nonhuman Chimeras in Human Stem Cell Research: Ethical Issues in Boundaries
• Third-Party Payers and the Costs of Biomedical Research
• Principles of Early Stopping of Randomized Trials for Efficacy: A Critique of Equipoise and an Alternative Nonexploitation Ethical Framework
• Engelhardt and Children: The Failure of Libertarian Bioethics in Pediatric Interactions
• Conflict of Interest Policy at the National Institutes of Health: The Pendulum Swings Wildly
• Bioethics, Biolaw, and Western Legal Heritage

American Journal of Bioethics Vol. 5; No. 3
(All citations link to PDFs)

• Chemical Trust: Oxytoin Oxymoron? [Editorial]
• Public Health Principlism: The Precautionary Principle and Beyond
• Is There a Problem With Enhancement?
• Peer Commentaries on "Is There a Problem With Enhancement?"
• See table of contents
• Are 'Ex Ante' Enhancements Always Permissible [Commentary, S. Matthew Liao]
• Response to Commentators on "What's Wrong With Enhancement?"
• Will the "Real Boy" Please Behave: Dosing Dilemmas for Parents of Boys with ADHD
• Peer Commentaries on "Will the 'Real Boy' Please Behave"
• See table of contents
• American Bioethics: Crossing Human Rights and Health Law Bounaries [Book Review]
• Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research: Readings and Commentary [Book Review]
• U.S. Military Sponsored Vaccine Trials and La Resistance in Nepal
• Response to Commentators on "Will the 'Real Boy' Please Behave: Dosing Dilemmas for Parents of Boys with ADHD"

Social Science & Medicine Vol. 61; No. 7

• Building trust and value in health systems in low- and middle-income countries [Editorial]
• Private obstetric practice in a public hospital: mythical trust in obstetric care
• Trust and health worker performance: exploring a conceptual framework using South African evidence
• How can trust be investigated? Drawing lessons from past experience
• Information and access to health care: is there a role for trust?
• Trust and informed consent: insights from community members on the Kenyan coast
• Essences and imperatives: An investigation of technology in childbirth
• The somatising effect of clinical consultation: What patients and doctors say and do not say when patients present medically unexplained physical symptoms
• Measuring patient-centered communication in Patient-Physician consultations: Theoretical and practical issues
• Experiences of discrimination: Validity and reliability of a self-report measure for population health research on racism and health
• Discrepancy in the preferences of place of death between terminally ill cancer patients and their primary family caregivers in Taiwan
• The health of nations: Why inequality is harmful to your health [Book Review]

Social Theory and Practice Vol. 31; No. 1
(All citations link to PDFs)

• The Ethics of Assistance: Morality and the Distant Needy [Book Review]
• Embryos, Souls, and the Fourth Dimension

Journal of the National Cancer Institute Vol. 97; No. 13

• Central IRBs: Why Are Some Institutions Reluctant To Sign On?

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 15, 2005)

National News & Commentary

Ethicists Offer Advice for Testing Human Brain Cells in Primates. The New York Times, 15 July 2005.

Actor Michael J. Fox urges Senate to support stem cell bill. CNN.com, 14 July 2005 .

Contentious Hearing Focuses on Stem Cells. The Washington Post, 13 July 2005.

G.O.P. Lawmakers Offer Alternative Bill on Stem Cells. The New York Times, 13 July 2005.

Illinois to Pay for Cell Research. The New York Times, 13 July 2005.

Stem Cell Legislation Is at Risk. The Washington Post, 9 July 2005.

Special Report: Stem Cell Research in New York State.Survey Research Institute (SRI) at CornellUniversity, 5 July 2005.

Under The Microscope. The Scientist, 4 July 2005.

Interview with John Gearhart on recent events in stem-cell research. NEJM, July 2005. (Audio File)

Research News

Stem cell treatment for Parkinson's disease: an update for 2005. Current Opinion in Neurology, August 2005.

Moral Issues of Human-Non-Human Primate Neural Grafting. Science, 15 July 2005.

Stem Cell Research and Heart Repairs. Talk of the Nation, NPR, 8 July 2005. (Radio Broadcast)

Developing Human-Nonhuman Chimeras in Human Stem Cell Research: Ethical Issues and Boundaries. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, June 2005.

International News

France to OK therapeutic cloning?The Scientist, 13 July 2005.

Follow the Money—The Politics of Embryonic Stem Cell Research. PLoS Biology, 12 July 2005.

Spain to allow therapeutic cloning, minister says. Reuters, 11 July, 2005 .

Stem Cell Research May Be Money Game. The Korea Times , 7 July 2005 .

Neuroethics News from the Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS)
(Updated on July 15, 2005)

In Academic Journals:

Last-Ditch Medical Therapy -- Revisiting Lobotomy
N Engl J Med. 2005;353(2):119-121.

The patient's journey: Living with locked-in syndrome
BMJ. 2005;331(7508):94-97.

Pathological Gambling Caused by Drugs Used to Treat Parkinson Disease
Arch Neurol. 2005;62 (early release)

Moral Issues of Human-Non-Human Primate Neural Grafting [BBI Stem Cell Working Group]
Science. 2005;309(5733):385-386.

Tau Suppression in a Neurodegenerative Mouse Model Improves Memory Function
Science. 2005;309(5733):476-481.

Is There a Problem With Enhancement?
American Journal of Bioethics. 2005;5(3):5-14.

Will the "Real Boy" Please Behave: Dosing Dilemmas for Parents of Boys with ADHD
American Journal of Bioethics. 2005;5(3):34-47.

Hypnotic suggestion reduces conflict in the human brain
PNAS. 2005;102(28):9978-9983.

Retrieving accurate and distorted memories: Neuroimaging evidence for effects of emotion
NeuroImage. 2005;27(1):167-177.

Consciousness and reflective consciousness
Philosophical Psychology. 2005;18(205-218.

Imaginative resistance and the moral/conventional distinction
Philosophical Psychology. 2005;18(231-241.

The supposed competition between theories of human causal inference
Philosophical Psychology. 2005;18(259-272.

Wish to die in end-stage ALS
Neurology. 2005;65(1):68-74.

The Ethical Brain [Book Review]
Nature. 2005;436(7048):178-179.

Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity: Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health, and Disease [Book Review]
The Lancet. 2005;366(9480):113-114.

Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation in Parkinson disease patients over age 70 years [Letter & Reply]
Neurology. 2005;65(1):179-180.

Psychotropic drugs: unhelpful and helpful comments [Editorial]
The Lancet. 2005;366(9480):96-96.

Chemical Trust: Oxytoin Oxymoron? [Editorial]
American Journal of Bioethics. 2005;5(3):1-2.

In the Popular Press:

Ethicists Offer Advice for Testing Human Brain Cells in Primates
New York Times. 15 July 2005.

Lobotomy Back in Spotlight After 30 Years
Associated Press. 14 July 2005.

Parkinson's Drug May Trigger Compulsions
Wall Street Journal. 12 July 2005.

Study Hints at Alzheimer's Memory Recovery
Associated Press. 15 July 2005.

Neuron Network Goes Awry, and Brain Becomes an iPod
New York Times. 12 July 2005.

Experts Ponder Ethics of Ape Brain Research
HealthDay News. 14 July 2005.