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Ethics in the Academic Literature
(Updated on July 8, 2005)

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 294; No. 1

• Reporting Conflicts of Interest, Financial Aspects of Research, and Role of Sponsors in Funded Studies [Editorial]
• . . . And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life [Book Review]
• Medical Errors and Medical Narcissism [Book Review]
• Acting and Clinical Empathy [Letters & Reply](PDF)

New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 353; No. 1

• Stem-Cell Research -- Signposts and Roadblocks
• Doctors and Interrogators at Guantanamo Bay
• Embodying Inequality: Epidemiologic Perspectives [Book Review]
• Universal Coverage: The Elusive Quest for National Health Insurance [Book Review]
• Vulnerable Populations in the United States [Book Review]
• Progress in Human Somatic-Cell Nuclear Transfer

The Lancet Vol. 366; No. 9479

• Emergency contraception: prudes and prejudice [Editorial]
• Europe's science bureaucrats should learn from Gates' success [Editorial]
• Indigenous peoples' health--why are they behind everyone, everywhere?
• The whole truth and nothing but the truth? The research that Philip Morris did not want you to see
• Sample size and the ethics of non-inferiority trials [Letter]

BMJ: British Medical Journal Vol. 331; No. 7507

• The future of health care in Africa [Editorial]
• Stopping Africa's medical brain drain [Editorial]
• Drug safety and regulation [Editorial]
• American Medical Association rejects proposal to ban consumer adverts for prescription medicines [News]
• Israeli doctors want to stop European patent for genetic test [News]
• American Medical Association fights pharmacists who won't dispense contraceptives [News]
• Developing countries may not get benefits of GM food [News]
• Fate of biomedical research protocols and publication bias in France: retrospective cohort study
• Managing medical migration from poor countries

Annals of Internal Medicine Vol. 143; No. 1

• High and Rising Health Care Costs. Part 4: Can Costs Be Controlled While Preserving Quality?
• Health Care Expenditures Reexamined [Editorial]
• Unintended Consequences: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Work-Hour Rules in Practice

Nature Vol. 436; No. 7047

• Climate of distrust [Editorial]
• Rules of engagement [Editorial]
• Playing the name game [Editorial]
• Stem-cell 'heroes' celebrate a series of breakthroughs
• Genetic patent singles out Jewish women

Science Vol. 309; No. 5731

• U.S. Budget: House 'Peer Review' Kills Two NIH Grants [News]
• Gates Foundation Picks Winners in Grand Challenges in Global Health [News]
• What Don't We Know? [Editorial]
• In Praise of Hard Questions

Hastings Center Report Vol. 35; No. 3
(All Citations link to PDFs)

• Liberals and Conservatives [Editorial]
• Bioethical Consensus and the Force of Good Ideas [Commentary]
• Authenticity and Ambivalence. Toward understanding the enhancement debate
• Not Just for Experts. The public debate about reprogenetics in Germany
• Erring on the Side of Theresa Schiavo: Reflections of the Special Guardian ad Litem
• Schiavo's Legacy: The Need for an Objective Standard
• The Schiavo Case: A Medical Perspective
• Hard Cases and the Politics of Righteousness
• Singleton's Story: Choosing between Psychosis and Execution
• Ethics Class
• "Who Lost China?" A Foreshadowing of Today's Ideological Disputes in Bioethics
• Britain's HFEA Is Caught in the Middle
• A New Era in Drug Regulation?
• Organ Solicitation on the Internet: Every Man for Himself?
• Fallout from the Pharma Scandals: The Loss of Doctors' Credibility?
• Nutrition and Hydration [Letters]
• Euthanasia Is Out of Control in The Netherlands
• The Story of Bioethics: From Seminal Works to Contemporary Explanations [Book Review]

Journal of Medical Ethics Vol. 31; No. 7

• It's not NICE to discriminate [Editorial]
• The challenge of Terri Schiavo: lessons for bioethics
• Justice and the NHS: a comment on Culyer
• A request for hospice admission from hospital to withdraw ventilation
• Informed consent, participation in, and withdrawal from a population based cohort study involving genetic analysis
• Newborn screening: new developments, new dilemmas
• Making regulations and drawing up legislation in Islamic countries under conditions of uncertainty, with special reference to embryonic stem cell research
• The physician charter on medical professionalism: a Jewish ethical perspective
• Does it matter that organ donors are not dead? Ethical and policy implications
• Stopping trials early for commercial reasons: the risk-benefit relationship as a moral compass
• Building on relationships of trust in biobank research
• What is the role of the research ethics committee? Paternalism, inducements, and harm in research ethics
• Autonomy, consent, and limiting healthcare costs
• Whose information is it anyway? Informing a 12-year-old patient of her terminal prognosis
• The use of generic or patent medicines in the Netherlands [Letter]
• Bodies for sale: ethics and exploitation in the human body trade [Book Review]
• The Ethics of Palliative Care: European Perspectives [Book Review]
• Medical ethics: a case based approach [Book Review]

Health Care Analysis Vol. 13; No. 2
(All Citations link to PDFs)

• An Academic Clinician's Perspective on the Care of the Geriatric Patient
• Age Discrimination at its Best: Should Chronological Age be a Prime Factour in Medical Decision Making?
• Should Age be a Deciding Factor in Ethical Decision-Making?
• Age and the Allocation of Organs for Transplantation: A Case Study
• Age-Rationing in Health Care: Flawed Policy, Personal Virtue
• Ageisms

Journal of Palliative Medicine Vol. 8; No. 3

• Ethics and Law: Physician-Assisted Dying (PDF)
• The Challenges of a Paper on Physician-Assisted Dying [Commentary]  (PDF)

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 8, 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 8, 2005)

National News & Commentary

Republicans Break Ranks on Stem Cells. The Wall Street Journal, 7 July 2005.

Stem-Cell Research — Signposts and Roadblocks. NEJM, 7 July 2005 .

In-vitro new front in embryo war. The Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2005.

Former Monsanto CEO Personifies GOP's Stem Cell Rift in Swing State. The Washington Post, 5 July 2005.

Liberty Man Claims Stem Cell Transplant Helped Him Walk. MisourriNet.com, 5 July 2005 .

A Voice of Balance in Stem Cell Program. The Los Angeles Times , 4 July 2005 .

Frist Again at the Center of Stem Cell Fight. The Washington Post , 3 July 2005 .

Stem cell group ready to disburse funds. San Francisco Chronicle, 2 July 2005.

Stanford scientist tells McLaughlin gathering stem cell research restrictions should be lifted. Great Falls Tribune , 1 July 2005 .

Taft stem cell veto starts storm. The Cincinnati Enquirer , 1 July 2005 .

Research News

Embryo-Free Techniques Gain Momentum. Science, 8 July 2005.

Stem and progenitor cell?based therapy of the human central nervous system. Nature Biotechology, 7 July 2005.

The International Stem Cell Initiative: toward benchmarks for human embryonic stem cell research. Nature Biotechnology, 7 July 2005.(The focus of the July 2005 issue of Nature Biotechnology is cell therapy. Please go here to see more articles.)

15 Tips & Tricks For Human Embryonic Stem Cells. The Scientist, 4 July 2005 .

Stem Cells... An Emerging Portrait.The Scientist, 4 July 2005 .

Stem cells taken to intermediate step. Newsday.com, 4 July 2005.

International News

South Korea firm plans hospital for stem cell therapy. American Foreign Press, 5 July 2005.

Paraná begins study of stem cell treatment of heart patients. Agência Brasil , 5 July 2005.

Independent body to review cloning laws. Yahoo News, 4 July 2005