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The Institute in the News

• Roundtable Discussion on Healthcare. PBS (Audio)
• 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 November 4, 2005)

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 294; No. 17

• Randomized Trials Stopped Early for Benefit: A Systematic Review
• Role of the Urban Academic Medical Center in US Health Care
• When (Not) to Stop a Clinical Trial for Benefit [Editorial]
• Experts Ponder Pediatric Research Ethics [News]

New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 353 ; No. 18

• Betting on a Malaria Vaccine
• Beyond Red Lake -- The Persistent Crisis in American Indian Health Care

The Lancet Vol. 366; No. 9496

• Efforts to address gender inequalities must begin at home [Editorial]
• MDGs: chronic diseases are not on the agenda
• Mental health and religion in Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jews
• Oliver Brustle: fighting for stem cell research in Germany

BMJ: British Medical Journal Vol. 331; No. 7523

• The need for outcome measures in medical education [Editorial]
• Roche considers licensing companies to make oseltamivir [News]
• Stem cell foundation greeted by cautious optimism [News]
• Assisted suicide organisation opens branch in Germany [News]
• Life in Britain: Using Millennial Census Data to Understand Poverty, Inequality and Place [Book Review]

Nature Vol. 438; No. 7064

• Taking a stand on animal-rights violence
• Drug firms donate compounds for anti-HIV gel [News]
• Universities scramble to assess scope of falsified results [News]
• Gene study raises fears for three-parent babies [News]

Science Vol. 310; No. 5748

• Chess Game at the FDA [Editorial]
• Security Breach' Leaks NIH Grant Applications Onto Web [News]

American Journal of Public Health Vol. 95; No. 11

• Birth Defects and Disabilities: A Public Health Issue for the 21st Century [Editorial]
• Disabled or Enabled? [Editorial]
• Improving the Health and Wellness of Persons with Disabilities: A Call to Action
• Meeting the Challenge: Using Policy to Improve Children's Health
• Decreased Attendance at Cystic Fibrosis Centers by Children Covered by Managed Care Insurance
• Persistent and Growing Socioeconomic Disparities in Disability Among the Elderly: 1982-2002

Annals of Internal Medicine Vol. 143; No. 9

• The Academic Hospice

Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law Vol. 30; No. 3-4

• Choosing Healthplans All Together: A Deliberative Exercise for Allocating Limited Health Care Resources
• Assisting Altruism: Evaluating Legally Binding Consent in Organ Donation Policy

Journal of Ethics Vol. 8; No. 3-4
(All citations link to PDFs.)

• Nothing Matters in Survival
• Ethics and Intuitions
• "Our Fellow Creatures"
• Terror and Collateral Damage: Are they Permissible?
• Of Mice and Men: Equality and Animals
• What We Deserve, and how We Reciprocate
• Intending and Causing
• Living on a Slippery Slope
• "Biographical Lives" Revisited and Extended
• Choosing when to Die
• Aristotle's dilemma

Nursing Ethics Vol. 12; No. 6
(All citations link to PDFs.)

• Quality of care and the reality of a patient's life
• The effects of Islam and traditional practices on women's health and reproduction
• One size doesn't fit all: ethics of international nurse recruitment from the conceptual framework of stakeholder interests
• Moral competence in nursing practice
• Sensitivity to ethical issues confronted by Korean hospital staff nurses
• Ways of relating during childbirth: an ethical responsibility and challenge for midwives
• Practising Virtue: a challenge to the view that a virtue centred approach to ethics lacks practical content
• Is emotional labour ethical?
• Exploiting the dead? The use of human cadavers for research, teaching and spare body parts: a multidisciplinary enquiry
• Amnesty International urges a stronger human rights role for nurses and midwives [News]
• Global Prescriptions: Gendering Health and Human Rights
• An Introduction to Jewish and Catholic Bioethics: A Comparative Analysis
• The Soul of the Embryo
• Bioethics and Social Reality [Book Reviews]

Stem Cell News from the Program in Cell Engineering, Ethics and Public Policy (PCEEPP)
(Updated on November 4, 2005)

National News & Commentary

Wisconsin Governor Vetoes Cloning Ban. ABC News, 4 November 2005 .

Cultivating cures. The Baltimore Sun , 2 November 2005 .

Stem cell institute opens in Mission Bay. San Francisco Examiner , 1 November 2005 .

Court leaves definition of 'person' in embryo case to lawmakers. The Tucson Citizen, 29 October 2005 .

Promises and Perils of Public Deliberation: Contrasting Two National Bioethics Commissions on Embryonic Stem Cell Research. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, September 2005.

Research News

Magnetic resonance tracking of dendritic cells in melanoma patients for monitoring of cellular therapy. Nature Biotechnology, 30 October 2005.

Scientists discover stem cell trigger. The Sunday Times, 30 October 2005 .

Efficient differentiation of human embryonic stem cells to definitive endoderm. Nature Biotechnology, 28 October 2005.

International News

Concerns over new EU ethics panel. The Scientist, 4 November 2005 .

France launches biotech fund. The Scientist, 1 November 2005 .

Stem Cell Center's Web Site Overloaded. ABC News, 1 November 2005 .

Italian laboratory clones 14 pigs. BBC News, 28 October 2005 .

India aims to become a hub for stem-cell research. The Hindu, 26 October 2005 .

Neuroethics News from the Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS)
(Updated on November 4, 2005)

In Academic Journals:

Neurobiology of Decision Making: A Selective Review from a Neurocognitive and Clinical Perspective
Biological Psychiatry. 2005;58(8):597-604.

Deep Brain Stimulation for OCD and Major Depression
Am J Psychiatry. 2005;162(11):2192-.

Neuroanatomical correlates of behavioural disorders in dementia
Brain. 2005;128(11):2612-2625.

The Capacity to Vote of Persons With Alzheimer's Disease
Am J Psychiatry. 2005;162(11):2094-2100.

Death, Unconsciousness and the Brain
Nat Rev Neurosci. 2005;6(11):899-909.

Changes induced by levodopa and subthalamic nucleus stimulation on parkinsonian speech
Movement Disorders. 2005;20(11):1507-1515.

Deep brain stimulation can regulate arterial blood pressure in awake humans
Neuroreport. 2005;16(16):1741-1745.

Psychiatry as a Clinical Neuroscience Discipline
JAMA. 2005;294(17):2221-2224.

The Neuron Doctrine, Redux
Science. 2005;310(5749):791-793.

The Science and Fiction of Autism [Book Review]
Nature. 2005;438(7064):26-26.

Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine [Book Review]
N Engl J Med. 2005;353(18):1980-1981.

Ethics in Electroconvulsive Therapy [Book Review]
Am J Psychiatry. 2005;162(11):2203-2204.


In the Popular Press:

Our Brains Strive To See Only the Good, Leading Some to God
Wall Street Journal. 28 October 2005.

A Spotless Mind May Ease Suffering, But Erase Identity
Wall Street Journal. 19 August 2005.

The Pablo Picasso Alzheimer's Therapy
New York Times. 30 October 2005.

Research That Hits Home: Md. Alzheimer's Facility Conducts Studies With Johns Hopkins, Applies Findings in Daily Care
Washington Post. 1 November 2005.