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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 27, 2005)

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 294; No. 16

• The Patents-Based Pharmaceutical Development Process: Rationale, Problems, and Potential Reforms
• Improving Relations Between Attorneys and Physicians
• Provision or Distribution of Growth Hormone for "Antiaging": Clinical and Legal Issues
• Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America [Book Review]

• The Metrics of the Physician Brain Drain
• Aiding and Abetting -- Nursing Crises at Home and Abroad [Commentary]
• Fatal Flows -- Doctors on the Move [Editorial]
• The Politics of Public Health in the United States [Book Review]

• Left behind: the legacy of hurricane Katrina [Editorial]
• Recruiting patients to medical research: double blind randomised trial of "opt-in" versus "opt-out" strategies
• Bias from requiring explicit consent from all participants in observational research: prospective, population based study
• Foreign free riders and the high price of US medicines
• Doctors should be allowed to offer patients a simplified form of consent, expert says [News]
• Stroke patients with "do not resuscitate" orders are treated worse than those without [News]

The Lancet Vol. 366; No. 9495

• Wellbeing: an idea whose time has come [Editorial]
• Reorienting health-research communication
• Genetic epidemiology and public health: hope, hype, and future prospects
• HIV prevention research in a resource-limited setting: the experience of planning a trial in Cambodia
• Research and clinical ethics after the tsunami: Sri Lanka
• Research conduct and the case of Nancy Olivieri [Letter]
• Assisted dying for the terminally ill [Letter]

Canadian Medical Association Journal Vol. 173; No. 9

• The Declaration of Helsinki: an update on paragraph 30

Science Vol. 310; No. 5747

• Science and the Digital Divide [Editorial]
• U.S. Public Supports Stem Cell Research [News]
• Deriving 'Controversy-Free' ES Cells Is Controversial [News]
• NIH Aims to Create 'Homes' for Clinical Science [News]

Nature Vol. 437; No. 7063

• Patent reform prompts intellectual tug-of-war
• Trial aims to measure social effects of choosing babies' sex [News]

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics Vol. 26; No. 5
(All citations link to PDFs)

• Simplified Models of the Relationship Between Health and Disease
• Limits to doubt
• Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Experimental Practice in Medicine and the Life Sciences
• The Inducement of Meaningful Work: A Response to Anderson and Weijer
• Meaningful Work as Due Inducement

BMC Medical Ethics Vol. 6; No. 8-10

• Need for enforcement of ethicolegal education – an analysis of the survey of postgraduate clinical trainees
• The activity of French Research Ethics Committees and characteristics of biomedical research protocols involving humans: a retrospective cohort study
• Status of national research bioethics committees in the WHO African region

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics Vol. 22; No. 9-10

• Predicting human cloning acceptability: a national Greek survey on the beliefs of the public

PLoS Medicine Vol. 2; No. 11

• The First Randomised Trial of Male Circumcision for Preventing HIV: What Were the Ethical Issues?

Stem Cell News from the Program in Cell Engineering, Ethics and Public Policy (PCEEPP)
(Updated on October 21, 2005)

National News & Commentary

FDA approves first brain stem cell transplant. CNN (AP), 21 October 2005 .

U.S. Public Supports Stem Cell Research. Science, 21 October 2005 .

UC San Francisco Takes In $1.6 Billion. LA Times, 21 October 2005 .

Ehrlich backing stem cell research. The Baltimore Sun, 19 October 2005 .

Bill splits cloning, stem-cell issues. Journal Star, 19 October 2005 .

Senate May Postpone Stem Cell Vote. The Washington Post , 18 October 2005 .

Medicine: Politic stem cells. Nature, 16 October 2005.

Research News

Deriving 'Controversy-Free' ES Cells Is Controversial. Science, 21 October 2005.

Every little helps. Nature, 20 October 2005.

A Tetraploid Twist on the Embryonic Stem Cell. The New England Journal of Medicine, 20 October 2005 .

Mice Stem Cells Made Without Harm to Embryos. The Washington Post , 17 October 2005 .

Embryonic and extraembryonic stem cell lines derived from single mouse blastomeres.Nature, 16 October 2005.

Generation of nuclear transfer-derived pluripotent ES cells from cloned Cdx2-deficient blastocysts. Nature, 16 October 2005.

International News

An Offshore Haven for Human Embryonic Stem-Cell Research? New England Journal of Medicine, 20 October 2005 .

Stem cell ethics charter adopted in Seoul. Asia News ( Korea Times) , 19 October 2005 .

South Korea Aims to Ease Stem-Cell Access. NPR: Morning Edition, 19 October 2005 .

Neuroethics News from the Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS)
(Updated on October 27, 2005)

In Academic Journals:

Deep brain stimulation for treatment of refractory depression
The Lancet. 2005;366(9495):1420-1422.

Planning and realisation of complex intentions in patients with Parkinson's disease
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2005;76(11):1501-1505.

Cognitive profile of patients with newly diagnosed Parkinson disease.
Neurology. 2005;65(8):1239-1245.

Neuroscience: While you were sleeping
Nature. 2005;437(7063):1220-1222.

Taking addiction research into the clinic [Editorial]
Nat Neurosci. 2005;8(11):1413-1413.

The neuroscience of addiction
Nat Neurosci. 2005;8(11):1429-1430.

Decision making, impulse control and loss of willpower to resist drugs: a neurocognitive perspective
Nat Neurosci. 2005;8(11):1458-1463.

Neurobiology of addiction: treatment and public policy ramifications
Nat Neurosci. 2005;8(11):1431-1436.

Genetic influences on impulsivity, risk taking, stress responsivity and vulnerability to drug abuse and addiction
Nat Neurosci. 2005;8(11):1450-1457.

Perceptions of moral character modulate the neural systems of reward during the trust game
Nat Neurosci. 2005;8(11):1611-1618.

Neuropathology of dementia in Parkinson's disease: A prospective, community-based study
Ann Neurol. 2005;58(5):773-776.

Dementia in Parkinson's disease challenges the "gold standard" [Editorial]
Ann Neurol. 2005;58(5):663-665.

Evolution of indirect reciprocity
Nature. 2005;437(7063):1291-1298.

Chimpanzees are indifferent to the welfare of unrelated group members
Nature. 2005;437(7063):1357-1359.

Tangles and Neurodegenerative Disease -- A Surprising Twist
N Engl J Med. 2005;353(17):1853-1855.


In the Popular Press:

U.S. Alters Test Policy on Psychiatric Drugs
Washington Post. 26 October 2005.

FDA May Scrap Plan to Require Longer Psychiatric Drug Studies
Wall Street Journal. 26 October 2005.

Remote Control Device 'Controls' Humans
Associated Press. 25 October 2005.

Predicting Alzheimer's Is More Wish Than Reality
New York Times. 25 October 2005.