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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 29, 2005)

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 294; No. 3-4

• Beyond Advance Directives: Importance of Communication Skills at the End of Life
• Genetic Information: How Much Can Patients Handle?
• To Do No Harm: Ensuring Patient Safety in Health Care Organizations [Book Review]
• Comparison of Drug Regimen Costs Between the Medicare Prescription Discount Program and Other Purchasing Systems
• AMA, AAMC Say Reform Needed Across Continuum of US Medical Education
• Medicine and Humanistic Understanding: The Significance of Narrative in Medical Practices

BMJ: British Medical Journal Vol. 331; No. 7509-7510

• Health and health care in transitional Europe [Editorial]
• The road to reform [Editorial]
• Health inequalities and social dynamics in Europe
• Ethics and the structures of health care in the European countries in transition: hospital ethics committees in Croatia
• Ethics committees and countries in transition: a figleaf for structural violence? [Commentary]
• Ethics in health care and research in European transition countries: reality and future prospects [Commentary]
• Survey of informed consent for registration of congenital anomalies in Europe
• German doctors press for a national trial register [News]
• Dutch doctors adopt guidelines on mercy killing of newborns [News]
• Software company defends sale of patients' data to drug companies [News]
• Lawyers will appeal ruling that cleared Guantanamo doctor of ethics violations [News]

New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 353; No. 3-4

• Benign Breast Disease -- The Risks of Communicating Risk [Editorial]
• Patients at Risk [Editorial]
• Insurance and the U.S. Health Care System [Editorial]
• Medicare and Chronic Conditions
• Children in the United States with Discontinuous Health Insurance Coverage
• Making Antimalarial Agents Available in Africa
• Making Antimalarial Agents Available in the United States
• The Costs of Institutional Review Boards [Letters & Reply]
• Medical Errors and Medical Narcissism [Book Review]

The Lancet Vol. 366; No. 9481-9482

• G8 2005: a missed opportunity for global health [Editorial]
• Mantra II: measuring the unmeasurable? [Editorial]
• Music, imagery, touch, and prayer as adjuncts to interventional cardiac care: the Monitoring and Actualisation of Noetic Trainings (MANTRA) II randomised study
• Undue inducement in clinical research in developing countries: is it a worry?
• Undue inducement in clinical research [Commentary]
• Safer injection facility use and syringe sharing in injection drug users
• Being realistic about benefits of supervised injecting facilities [Commentary]
• American Bioethics: Crossing Human Rights and Health Law Boundaries [Book Review]

Nature Vol. 436; No. 7049-7050

• Agency under siege [Editorial]
• India's drug tests
• Independence at the top [Editorial]
• Altered embryos offered as solution to stem-cell rift [News]
• Painkiller in the dock [News]
• Ethics debate is what put Newcastle paper in the news [Letter]

Science Vol. 309; No. 5733-5734

• Health Innovation Networks to Help Developing Countries Address Neglected Diseases
• Moral Issues of Human-Non-Human Primate Neural Grafting [Program in Cell Engineering, Ethics & Public Policy]
• Misusing the Nazi Analogy [Editorial]
• National Institutes of Health: Bill Could Restructure Agency and Strengthen Director's Hand [News]
• Conflict of Interest: Forty-Four Researchers Broke NIH Consulting Rules [News]

IRB: Ethics & Human Research Vol. 27; No. 4
(All citations link to PDFs)

• Medical Research, Risk, and Bystanders
• Local IRBs, Multicenter Trials, and the Ethics of Internal Amendments
• The Ethics of Single Blind Trials
• Respondent Burden in Clinical Research: When Are We Asking Too Much of Subjects?

Social Science & Medicine Vol. 61; No. 8

• From mandatory to voluntary testing: Balancing human rights, religious and cultural values, and HIV/AIDS prevention in Ghana
• A comparison of attitudes towards end-of-life decisions: Survey among the Dutch general public and physicians
• Conflicting notions of research ethics: The mutually challenging traditions of social scientists and medical researchers
• Physicians' willingness to report impaired colleagues
• Relating health policy to women's health outcomes
• Time on my side? Life course trajectories of poverty and health
• Reluctant acceptance of xenotransplantation in kidney patients on the waiting list for transplantation
• Trials and tribulations: Understanding motivations for clinical research participation amongst adults with cystic fibrosis

Journal of Legal Medicine Vol. 26; No. 2

• The Bane of Surrogate Decision-Making Defining The Best Interests of Never-Competent Persons
• A Comparison Of Cruzan And Schiavo
• Conflict of Duty: Capital Punishment Regulation and AMA Medical Ethics
• The U.S. Supreme Court and Medical Ethics: From Contraception to Managed Health Care

Journal of General Internal Medicine Vol. 20; No. 6-7

• Not All Patients Want to Participate in Decision Making. A National Study of Public Preferences
• Relationship Between Increased Personal Well-Being and Enhanced Empathy Among Internal Medicine Residents
• Religious Characteristics of U.S. Physicians. A National Survey

Healthcare Ethics Committee Forum Vol. 17; No. 2
(All citations link to PDFs)

• Bioethics Consultation in the Private Sector
• The Ethics and Aesthetics of for-Profit Bioethics Consultation
• Corporate Ethics in the Life Sciences: Can Bioethics Help? Should it?
• Bioethics Consultation in the Private Sector: What is an Appropriate Model
• Professional Independence and Corporate Employment in Bioethics

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy Vol. 8; No. 2
(All citations link to PDFs)

• Autonomy, integrity and the human body [Editorial]
• Health and autonomy
• Respect for persons, respect for integrity
• Respect for persons, autonomy and palliative care
• The challenges of evidence-based medicine: A philosophical perspective
• Justifying patient self-management: evidence based medicine or the primacy of the first person perspective
• Bodily integrity and male and female circumcision
• The story of the body and the story of the person: Towards an ethics of representing human bodies and body-parts
• The medical theory of Richard Koch I: Theory of science and ethics

Annals of Family Medicine Vol. 3; No. 4

• Do Patients Treated With Dignity Report Higher Satisfaction, Adherence, and Receipt of Preventive Care? [Mary Catherine Beach, Jeremy Sugarman, Patrick Duggan et al.]

Radiology Vol. 236; No. 2

• Ethics and the Limits of Neonatal Viability

Bioethics News
(Updated on June 10, 2005)

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 29, 2005)

National News & Commentary

Veering From Bush, Frist Backs Funding for Stem Cell Research. The New York Times, 29 July 2005 .

Frist to Back Funding of Stem Cell Study. The Washington Post , 29 July 2005 .

Trials to test safety of stem cell therapy for heart damage. CNN.com, 26 July, 2005 . (In House – article about Josh Hare)

Sen. Coleman Crafting Seventh Embryonic Stem Cell Research-Related Bill; Other Stem Cell Bills Likely Delayed. KaiserNetwork.org, 25 July 2005 .

Cross-border biotech. Nature Biotechnology, 2005.

Research News

Oocyte Generation in Adult Mammalian Ovaries by Putative Germ Cells in Bone Marrow and Peripheral Blood. Cell, 29 July 2005 .

Scientists Claim to Find Cells That Restore Egg Production. The Washington Post , 28 July 2005 .

Stem-cell technique may spare embryo. Science Daily, 25 July 2005 .

Identification and isolation of embryonic stem cells in reproductive endocrinology: theoretical protocols for conservation of human embryos derived from in vitro fertilization . Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling , 18 July 2005 .

International News

Sydney archdiocese to fund adult stem-cell research. Catholic World News , 26 July 2005 .

StemLife to Provide Grants to NUSNNI for Stem Cell Research. Bernama.com, 25 July 2005 .

SNU Plans Stem Cell Center for Incurable Diseases. The Chosun Ilbo, 22 July 2005 .

Embryonic stem cell public research starts in Spain; therapeutic cloning expected to follow suit. Cordis News, 22 July 2005 .

Neuroethics News from the Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS)
(Updated on July 29, 2005)

In Academic Journals:

Cognitive neuroscience: Decision amid uncertainty
Nature. 2005;436(7050):471-472.

What is the function of the claustrum?
Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences. 2005;360(1458):1271-1279.

Are Your Thoughts Your Own?: "Neuroprivacy and the Legal Implications of Brain Imaging (PDF)
New York City Bar Association. 2005.

Imaging in Neuroscience and Development: A Laboratory Manual
Nat Neurosci. 2005;8(8):973-973.

Prefrontal Cortex Activity Related to Abstract Response Strategies
Neuron. 2005;47(2):307-320.

Rethinking the thalamus
Nat Neurosci. 2005;8(8):983-984.

Review: Neurodegenerative disorders: Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2005;76(8):1058-1063.

Repression of unconscious information by conscious processing: Evidence from affective blindsight induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation
PNAS. 2005;102(30):10747-10751.

Neural correlates of genetically abnormal social cognition in Williams syndrome
Nat Neurosci. 2005;8(8):991-993.

A critical period for the impact of amygdala damage on the emotional enhancement of memory?
Neurology. 2005;65(2):326-328.

On the overlap between apathy and depression in dementia
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2005;76(8):1070-1074.

Episodic and semantic memory tasks activate different brain regions in Alzheimer disease
Neurology. 2005;65(2):266-269.

Book Reviews:
The 21st Century Brain: Explaining, Mending and Manipulating the Mind
The New Brain Sciences: Perils and Prospects
Essays in Social Neuroscience
The Neuroscience of Social Interaction: Decoding, Imitating, and Influencing the Actions of Others
Psychosomatic Feminism and the Neurological Body
Brain. 2005;128(8):1951-1955.

Neuroscientists see red over Dalai Lama [News]
Nature. 2005;436(7050):452-452.

Beta-blockers tackle memories of horror [News]
Nature. 2005;436(7050):448-449.

In the Popular Press:

The neurology of consciousness: Crick's last stand
The Economist. 28 July 2005.

The Next Phase in Psychiatry
Wall Street Journal. 27 July 2005.

KSAS Researchers Find Where Brain Learns to Make Decisions
The JHU Gazette. 25 July 2005.