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The Institute in the News

• Value in Conflict : Public attitudes on Embryonic Stem Cell Research 13 October 2005
• Separate Worlds: A bioethicist brings a Jewish upbringing and sensibility to her work [Profile of Ruth Faden]
  Baltimore Jewish Times.  30 September 2005.
• Do-it-yourself diagnosis. EMBO Reports (Nature).  2005;6(9):805-807.
• IBM's Smart Stance on Genetic Testing Business Week.  11 October 2005.
• Untying the Gordian knot: policies, practices, and ethical issues related to banking of umbilical cord blood [Jeremy Sugarman et al.] Journal of Clinical Investigation. 2005;115(10):2592-2597.
• Doctors of Interrogation   [Jonathan Marks] Hastings Center Report

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 October 07, 2005)

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 294; No. 13

• Clinical Results From Transplanting Incompatible Live Kidney Donor/Recipient Pairs Using Kidney Paired Donation
• The Importance of Innovative Efforts to Increase Organ Donation [Editorial]
• The Supreme Court's Influence on Medicine and Health: The Rehnquist Court, 1986-2005
• Who Will Deliver Our Grandchildren?: Implications of Cerebral Palsy Litigation
• My Neighbor, My Enemy: Justice and Community in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity [Book Review]
• Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair: Health Care and the Good Society [Book Review]

New England Journal of MedicineVol. 353; No. 14

• Medicaid -- Implications for the Health Safety Net
• Medicare and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
• Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market [Book Review]

The LancetVol. 366; No. 9492

• "I'm sorry" [Editorial]
• What is going on at the FDA? [Editorial]
• The global challenges of birth defects and disabilities
• Operation "Restore Order" wreaks havoc in Zimbabwe
• Getting drugs to HIV-infected children in Cambodia
• End of life: the humanist view
• Perspectives on Health and Human Rights [Book Review]

BMJ: British Medical JournalVol. 331; No. 7519

• Open your eyes to Africa [Editorial]
• Addressing inequalities in research capacity in Africa [Editorial]
• Healer shopping in Africa: new evidence from rural-urban qualitative study of Ghanaian diabetes experiences
• Randomised controlled trials in Africa of HIV and AIDS: descriptive study and spatial distribution
• Impact on child mortality of removing user fees: simulation model
• Confronting Africa's health crisis: more of the same will not be enough
• Gaining a foothold: tackling poverty, gender inequality, and HIV in Africa
• FDA chief resigns without warning [News]

Annals of Internal MedicineVol. 143; No. 7

• Clinical Decision Making during Public Health Emergencies: Ethical Considerations
• The Drug Trial: Nancy Olivieri and the Science Scandal That Rocked the Hospital for Sick Children [Book Review]

NatureVol. 437; No. 7060

• California prepares to roll out stem-cell funding [News]
• Fetal-cell therapy: Paper chase [News]
• The 1918 flu virus is resurrected [News]

ScienceVol. 309; No. 5744

• Risks and Risks [Editorial]
• Promote HIV Chemoprophylaxis Research, Don't Prevent It
• NCI Head to Fill In at FDA After Crawford Resignation [News]

Journal of Medical EthicsVol. 31; No. 10

• The ethics of policy writing: how should hospitals deal with moral disagreement about controversial medical practices?
• Just allocation and team loyalty: a new virtue ethic for emergency medicine
• The challenges and ethical dilemmas of a military medical officer serving with a peacekeeping operation in regard to the medical care of the local population
• On judgment and judgmentalism: how counselling can make people better
• Authorship ignorance: views of researchers in French clinical settings
• Preimplantation HLA typing: having children to save our loved ones
• Individual and family consent to organ and tissue donation: is the current position coherent?
• What makes the best medical ethics journal? A North American perspective
• Can arguments address concerns? Acting parentally: an argument against sex selection
• The rational cure for prereproductive stress syndrome revisited [Commentary]
• Stroke patients' preferences and values about emergency research
• Practical virtue ethics: healthcare whistleblowing and portable digital technology
• Ethics briefings [News]
• Vital research given go ahead by parents [News]

American Journal of Public Health Vol. 95; No. 10

• Standing in the Gap [Editorial]
• Health Disparities and Incarcerated Women: A Population Ignored [Editorial]
• Coming Home From Jail: The Social and Health Consequences of Community Reentry for Women, Male Adolescents, and Their Families and Communities
• Public Health Implications of Substandard Correctional Health Care
• Medicaid Insurance Policy for Youths Involved in the Criminal Justice System
• Revolving Doors: Imprisonment Among the Homeless and Marginally Housed Population
• Detecting Mental Disorder in Juvenile Detainees: Who Receives Services
• Behavioral Health Problems, Ex-Offender Reentry Policies, and the "Second Chance Act"
• The World Health Organization European Health in Prisons Project After 10 Years: Persistent Barriers and Achievements

Journal of Clinical Investigation Vol. 115; No. 10

• Untying the Gordian knot: policies, practices, and ethical issues related to banking of umbilical cord blood [Jeremy Sugarman et al.]

Academic Medicine Vol. 80; No. 10 & suppl.

• Teaching Pediatrics Residents How to Obtain Informed Consent
• Domains of Unprofessional Behavior During Medical School Associated with Future Disciplinary Action by a State Medical Board
• Medical Professionalism: Can It be Taught?
• Viewpoint:: Teaching Professionalism: Is Medical Morality a Competency?
• Teaching Medical Students to Discern Ethical Problems in Human Clinical Research Studies
  

Stem Cell News from the Program in Cell Engineering, Ethics and Public Policy (PCEEPP)
(Updated on September 30, 2005)

National News & Commentary

No Shortage of Funds. The Wall Street Journal, 30 September 2005.

'Illegal Beings: Human Clones and the Law'. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 30 September 2005.

Scientists unite in bid to drive policy. Nature, 29 September 2005

Medical Ethics Lecture. The Washington Post , 29 September 2005 .

Wis. Bans Human Cloning, Gov. Vows Veto. The Baltimore Sun , 29 September 2005 .

Government invests millions in Stem Cell Research Company. The Marquette Tribune, 28 September 2005.

Stem Cell Obstacle Identified. RedNova, 28 September 2005 .

Illinois offers up jobs to lure Missouri stem cell scientists. Student Life, 28 September 2005 .

Trends in the geographic distribution of human embryonic stem-cell research. Politics and the Life Sciences. 14 September 2005.

Research News

Administrative and research policies required to bring cellular therapies from the research laboratory to the patient's bedside. Transfusion, 1 October 2005 .

Mighty Mice Regrow Organs.Wired News. 29 September 2005.

Stem Cells Created From Somatic Cells . JAMA , 28 September 2005 .

Heart Failure Patient Treated with Her Own Stem Cells Shows Dramatic Improvement . PR News, 26 September 2005

Building a better stem cell. The San Francisco Business Times , 23 September 2005 .

Viacell Suspends Enrollment in CB001 Phase I Clinical Trial. Today’s Stem Cell Research, 19 September 2005 .

International News

Victoria makes therapeutic cloning bid.The Age, 29 September 2005.

Political deadlock leaves scientists frustrated.Nature, 29 September 2005

S Korean Stem Cell Researcher To Cooperate With German Institutions. Asia Pulse News , 28 September 2005 .

Mesoblast lifts off on stem cell go-ahead. The Age, 24 September 2005.

Neuroethics News from the Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS)
(Updated on October 07, 2005)

In Academic Journals:

The Neural Basis of Human Moral Cognition
Nat Rev Neurosci. 2005;6(10):799-809.

Surveying Freedom: Folk Intuitions about free will and moral responsibility
Philosophical Psychology. 2005;18:561-584.

Reality confusion in spontaneous confabulation
Neurology. 2005;65(7):1117-1119.

Prefrontal white matter in pathological liars
Br J Psychiatry. 2005;187(4):320-325.

Prefrontal white matter - the tissue of lies?: Invited commentary on...Prefrontal white matter in pathological liars
Br J Psychiatry. 2005;187(4):326-327.

Assessing the risk of a necessary harm: Placebo surgery in Parkinson disease [Editorial]
Neurology. 2005;65(7):982-983.

What is the risk of sham surgery in Parkinson disease clinical trials? A review of published reports [Editorial]
Neurology. 2005;65(7):1101-1103.

Developmental parallels in understanding minds and bodies
Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 2005;9(10):459-462.

The influence of culture: holistic versus analytic perception
Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 2005;9(10):467-473.

Recharging cognition with DC brain polarization
Trends in Cognitive Sciences. In Press.

On levels of cognitive modeling
Philosophical Psychology. 2005;18(613-637.

Analysis of Single-Unit Responses to Emotional Scenes in Human Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex
J Cogn Neurosci. 2005;17(10):1509.

In the Popular Press:

Some Minds Appear Wired to Lie
Los Angeles Times. 1 October 2005.

Living Memento. Is happiness worth losing your memory?
Slate. 4 October 2005.

Liars' Brains Differ From Those of Honest People, Study Says
Bloomberg.com. 30 September 2005.

Matter over Mind
Sydney Morning Herald. 8 October 2005.

'Going Sane': A Mad, Mad World
New York Times. 2 October 2005 .