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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.

New Faculty Publication

• 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 14, 2005)

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 294; No. 14

• Comorbidity and Survival Disparities Among Black and White Patients With Breast Cancer
• Early Experience With Pay-for-Performance: From Concept to Practice
• Pay-for-Performance Research: How to Learn What Clinicians and Policy Makers Need to Know [Editorial]
• Palliative Sedation in Dying Patients: "We Turn to It When Everything Else Hasn't Worked"
• Legal Concerns and the Influenza Vaccine Shortage
• Health Security for All: Dreams of Universal Health Care in America [Book Review]
• NIH Eases Ethics Rules on Employees: Consulting Ban to Remain [News]

New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 353; No. 15

• Public Health Response -- Assessing Needs
• Evacuated Populations -- Lessons from Foreign Refugee Crises
• Translational and Clinical Science -- Time for a New Vision
• Participation of Health Care Personnel in Torture and Interrogation
• Narrative, Pain, and Suffering [Book Review]

The Lancet Vol. 366; No. 9493

• The NHS: a national health sham [Editorial]
• Chinese officials accused of forcing abortions in Shandong [News]
• What makes a good genetic association study?
• A stain on medical ethics [Letter]
• A stain on medical ethics [Letter]
• A public-health campaign to raise awareness of children's wellbeing with images drawn by children

BMJ: British Medical Journal Vol. 331; No. 7520

• Ensuring medical students are "fit for purpose" [Editorial]
• Surgeons perform Germany's first crossover kidney transplantation
• South African foundation is accused of "compromising" care of people with HIV and AIDS
• Medicines regulation and the pharmaceutical industry
• Time to legalise assisted dying?: Summary of responses [Letter]

Nature Vol. 437; No. 7061

• US progressives fight for a voice in bioethics [News]
• Advise the president. The merger of two White House advisory panels sends out the wrong message [Editorial]
• The technology trap

Science Vol. 310; No. 5745

• 1918 Flu and Responsible Science [Editorial]
• Acting FDA Head Drops NCI Post [News]
• Drug Regulation: Plan B: A Collision of Science and Politics

Hastings Center Report Vol. 35; No. 5

• Rethinking the Ethics of Research
• Reconciling Protection with Scientific Progress
• Conscientious Autonomy: What Patients Do vs. What Is Done to Them [Letters]
• Conscientious Autonomy: What Patients Do vs. What Is Done to Them [Letters, continued.]
• Indiscretions
• The Negative Constitution: The Duty to Protect
• Should the Gold Rule? Assessing "Equivalent Protections" for Research Participants across International Borders [Jeremy Sugarman]
• Shouldering the Burden of Care
• Clarifying Confusions about Coercion
• Making Research a Requirement of Treatment
• A Closer Look at the Bad Deal Trial
• Protecting Subjects Who Cannot Give Consent
• Dancing With Broken Bones: Portraits of Death and Dying Among Inner-City Poor [Book Review]
• How Safe Is Safe Enough? Obligations to the Children of Reproductive Technology [Book Review]
• Do Researchers Learn to Overlook Misbehavior?

Social Science & Medicine Vol. 61; No. 11

• Priority setting in hospitals: Fairness, inclusiveness, and the problem of institutional power differences
• Characterizing the scope of socialization and its impact on health
• Early childhood socialization and social gradients in adult health
• Socialization & health inequalities: Some clarifications
• "Unless you went in with your head under your arm": Patient perceptions of emergency room visits
• Challenges and changes in spirituality among doctors who become patients
• Health Policy in a Globalising World [Book Review]

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine Vol. 48; No. 4

• Evidence-Based Medicine. Editors' overview and introduction
• Looking for Rules in a World of Exceptions. Reflections on evidence-based practice
• From Autonomy to Accountability. The role of clinical practice guidelines in professional power
• Evidence-Based Alternative Medicine?
• The Randomized Controlled Trial. Gold standard, or merely standard?
• From Hierarchy to Network. A richer view of evidence for evidence-based medicine
• Ethics, Evidence, and Public Policy
• Beyond EBM: New directions for evidence-based public health
• Evidence-Based Medicine. Watching out for its friends
• Lessons for the Stem Cell Discourse from the Gene Therapy Experience
• The Osler-Cushing Covenant
• Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing [Book Review]

Fertility and Sterility Vol 84; No. 4

• The social implications of embryo cryopreservation [Ruth Faden et al.]

EMBO ReportsVol. 6; No. 9

• Do-it-yourself diagnosis

Stem Cell News from the Program in Cell Engineering, Ethics and Public Policy (PCEEPP)
(Updated on October 14, 2005)

National News & Commentary

Stem-cell bank a boon for UW. Wisconsin State Journal , 14 October 2005 .

Americans Back Stem Cell Research, Survey Finds. MedPage Today, 13 October 2005 . IN HOUSE.

US progressives fight for a voice in bioethics. Nature, 13 October 2005 .

Gina Kolata Discovers the Amazing Hurlbut. AJOB Editors Blog, 13 October 2005.

University of Minnesota researchers create cancer fighting cells. KARE 11 News, 12 October 2005 .

California Maps Strategy for Its $3 Billion Stem Cell Project. The New York Times, 11 October 2005 .

Embryonic Cells, No Embryo Needed: Hunting for Ways Out of an Impasse. The New York Times, 11 October 2005 .

Mo. Groups Propose Stem Cell Amendment. ABC News, 11 October 2005 .

Stem Cell Research's Reversal of Fortune. The Scientist, 10 October 2005 .

Stem cell rumble on the prairie. The Scientist, 10 October 2005 .

UC Davis lands $6M grant for stem cell research. San Francisco Business Times , 5 October 2005 .

Perspectives on the properties of stem cells. Nature Medicine, October 2005.

The Economic Benefits of the New Jersey Stem Cell Research Initiative. Report from the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy Rutgers , The State University of New Jersey , September 2005.

Research News

Health Minutes: Other Routes to Stem Cells. The New York Times, 11 October 2005 .

Stem cell heart cure to be tested. BBC News, 11 October 2005 .

Cord blood stem cells reproduced. The Japan Times , 10 October 2005 .

Windpipe defect repaired in womb. BBC News, 8 October 2005 .

International News

'I healed my own heart with stem cells'. CNN, 13 October 2005 .

Cloning Expert Hwang Seeks New Ways To Ease Ethical Concerns. Asia Pulse News , 11 October 2005 .

Members could force the EU to stop funding work on stem cells. The Guardian, 11 October 2005 .

Chemicon Announces Agreement with Stem Cell Sciences for Exclusive Manufacturing and Marketing of Novel, Serum-free, Embryonic Stem Cell Tissue Culture Media. Yahoo News, 6 October 2005 .

Philippines says close to cloning water buffalo. ABC News, 23 September 2005 .

Neuroethics News from the Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS)
(Updated on October 14, 2005)

In Academic Journals:

Task alternation cost without task alternation: Measuring intentionality
Neuropsychologia. 2005;43(13):1858-1869.

Prevalence and Treatment of Depression in Parkinson's Disease
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2005;17(3):310-323.

Risk-Taking on Tests Sensitive to Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Dysfunction Predicts Early Relapse in Alcohol Dependency: A Pilot Study
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2005;17(3):417-420.

Loss of Insight and Functional Neuroimaging in Frontotemporal Dementia
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2005;17(3):413-416.

Delusions and Hallucinations Are Associated With Worse Outcome in Alzheimer Disease
Arch Neurol. 2005;62(10):1601-1608.

National Character Does Not Reflect Mean Personality Trait Levels in 49 Cultures
Science. 2005;310(5745):96-100.

The Nature of Personality: Genes, Culture, and National Character [Commentary]
Science. 2005;310(5745):62-63.

Neuroscience: The maestro of minds
Nature. 2005;437(7061):946-947.

Pain Studies Illuminate the Placebo Effect [News]
JAMA. 2005;294(14):1750-1751.

In the Popular Press:

A Secret Syndrome. Professors with a mild form of autism must decide whether to reveal their diagnosis
Chronicle of Higher Education. 14 October 2005.

Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
New York Times Book Review. 9 October 2005.

Home Field. Who's right in the bioethics debate
Slate. 14 October 2005.

Violent Video Games Lead To Brain Activity Characteristic Of Aggression
ScienceDaily Newswire. 12 October 2005.