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Ethics in the Academic Literature
(Updated on April 28, 2006)

New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 354; No. 17

The South Asian Earthquake Six Months Later -- An Ongoing Crisis

The New Medical "Missionaries" -- Grooming the Next Generation of Global Health Workers

Unprofessional Behavior among Medical Students [Letters & Reply]

Chronic Politics: Health Care Security from FDR to George W. Bush
Poor People's Medicine: Medicaid and American Charity Care Since 1965 [Book Reviews]

Third World Health: Hostage to First World Wealth [Book Review]


JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 295; No. 16

Financial Conflict of Interest Disclosure and Voting Patterns at Food and Drug Administration Drug Advisory Committee Meetings

Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Legitimate Medical Practice?

Avian Flu Risk to Humans Probed: Viral Adaptation to Human Cells Would Aid Spread

Ethics and the Pharmaceutical Industry

The Law and Ethics of the Pharmaceutical Industry


The Lancet Vol. 367; No. 9519

Costs could derail Massachusetts health reforms

Who is responsible for trainee doctors' mistakes?

Putting a value on medical research

Vaccine for cervical cancer: reaching adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa

Joined-up public-health initiatives

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good [Book Review]

Effect of a US National Institutes of Health programme of clinical trials on public health and costs

Social consequences of antiretroviral therapy: preparing for the unexpected futures of HIV-positive children


BMJ: British Medical Journal Vol. 332; No. 7547

Paired kidney transplants to start in the United Kingdom [News]

Payment offered to injured trial participants has strings attached [News]

Conflicts of interest are common at FDA [News]

Bird flu adds to Sudan's woes as UN warns of risk to aid operations

Helping Patients Understand Risks: 7 Simple Strategies for Successful Communication [Book Review]

Should we screen for depression?


Nature Vol. 440; No. 7088

Bioethics at the bench [Editorial][10.1038/4401090b]

World Bank defends efforts to curb malaria [10.1038/4401096a]

Flu-vaccine makers toil to boost supply [10.1038/4401099a]

Bioethics: Dial "E" for ethics [10.1038/4401104a]


Science Vol. 312; No. 5772

Re-Aim Blame for NIH's Hard Times [Editorial]


American Journal of Public Health Vol. 96; No. 5

The Life-Course Approach to Health

Justice and Fairness in the Kennedy Krieger Institute Lead Paint Study: the Ethics of Public Health Research on Less Expensive, Less Effective Interventions

Immunization Initiation Among Infants in the Oregon Health Plan

Life-Course Socioeconomic Position and Hypertension in African American Men: The Pitt County Study

The Mortality Divide in India: The Differential Contributions of Gender, Caste, and Standard of Living Across the Life Course

"Weathering" and Age Patterns of Allostatic Load Scores Among Blacks and Whites in the United States
Reproductive Health Care and Family Planning Needs Among Incarcerated Women

Work Activity in Pregnancy, Preventive Measures, and the Risk of Delivering a Small-for-Gestational-Age Infant


Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal Vol. 16; No. 1

Intellectual Property and Biotechnology: The U.S. Internal Experience - Part I

Gert's Moral Theory and Its Application to Bioethics Cases

Making the Morally Relevant Features Explicit: A Response to Carson Strong

Stem Cell Research in a Catholic Institution: Yes or No?

Gonzalez v. Oregon and the Politics of Medicine


Journal of Medical Ethics Vol. 32; No. 5

Weaponising medicine: "Tutti fratelli," no more [Editorial]

Phase I oncology trials: why the therapeutic misconception will not go away [Editorial]

Boundaries, borders, and limits. A phenomenological reflection on ethics and euthanasia

Are patients morally responsible for their errors?

Informed choice of pregnant women in prenatal screening tests for Down's syndrome

Women's reproductive autonomy: medicalisation and beyond

A questionnaire on factors influencing children's assent and dissent to non-therapeutic research

How do bioethics teachers in Japan cope with ethical disagreement among healthcare university students in the classroom? A survey on educators in charge

When alcohol abstinence criteria create ethical dilemmas for the liver transplant team

Trends in public approval of euthanasia and suicide in the US, 1947-2003

Britain's new preimplantation tissue typing policy: an ethical defence

The UK Human Tissue Act and consent: surrendering a fundamental principle to transplantation needs?

Why the apparent haste to clone humans?


Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy Vol. 9; No. 1

Genetics and its Impact on Society, Healthcare and Medicine

Motivating Donors to Genetic Research? Anthropological Reasons to Rethink the Role of Informed Consent 

Deafness, Genetics and Dysgenics 

Genetic Testing and Private Insurance -- A Case of "Selling One's Body"? 

Catharsis and Moral Therapy I: A Platonic Account 

An Argument for the use of Aristotelian Method in Bioethics

Human Tissue Samples and Ethics

Life Extension Research: An Analysis of Contemporary Biological Theories and Ethical Issues 

Organizing the Public Health-clinical Health Interface: Theoretical Bases 

Autonomy, Wellbeing, and the Case of the Refusing Patient 


Academic Medicine Vol. 81; No. 5

Hello, Stranger: Building a Healing Narrative that Includes Everyone [Editorial]

Improving Education on Doctor-Patient Relationships and Communication: Lessons from Doctors Who Become Patients

Making Fun of Patients: Medical Students' Perceptions and Use of Derogatory and Cynical Humor in Clinical Settings

Viewpoint:: Teaching Respect for Patients


BMC Public Health Vol. 6; No. 104

Improving health care quality for racial/ethnic minorities: A systematic review of the best evidence regarding provider and organization interventions [Mary Catherine Beach et al.]


European Journal of Public Health Vol. 16; No. 2

Exploring the relationship between development and road traffic injuries: a case study from India [Adnan Hyder et al.]

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Stem Cell News from the Program in Cell Engineering, Ethics and Public Policy (PCEEPP)
(Updated on April 28, 2006)

National News & Commentary

Picking Up the Pieces After Hwang. Science, 28 April 2006.

Scientists seek assurance from state for stem cell research. Missourian, 27 April 2006.       

Let the science begin. Los Angeles Times, 27 April 2006.

Chances of Senate vote on embryonic stem cell funding may be waning; use of wombs cheaper in India. BC News, 25 April 2006.

Doyle authorizes $5 million to woo stem cell companies. Wisconsin Technology Network, 25 April 2006.

State awards stem cell grants. Chicago Tribune, 24 April 2006.                                                         

Lax oversight by Pitt enabled Schatten fiasco. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 23 April 2006.

Stem cell business ventures span the globe. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 April 2006.

Democrats Hope to Divide G.O.P. Over Stem Cells. The New York Times, 23 April 2006.

Calif. stem cell research upheld. The Baltimore Sun, 22 April 2006.

Stem Cell Research in a Catholic Institution: Yes or No?  Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 21 April 2006.

Research News

Astrocytes derived from glial-restricted precursors promote spinal cord repair. Journal of Biology, 27 April 2006.

Pluripotency of spermatogonial stem cells from adult mouse testis. Nature, 27 April 2006.

Discovery brings embryonic stem cell medicine a step closer. News-Medical.net, 26 April 2006.  

Stem Cell's stroke drug enters phase 2a. UPI, 25 April 2006.

Osiris Completes Enrollment in Stem Cell Trial for Knee Repair. RedOrbit, 25 April 2006.

Long-term self-renewal and directed differentiation of human embryonic stem cells in chemically defined conditions. PNAS, 21 April 2006.                                                                                                        

International News

New law means stem cell patients are turned away. Irish Medical Times, 28 April 2006.

Chinese Scientists Clone Mad Cow-Resistant Calf. VOA News, 26 April 2006.

Competitiveness in Stem Cell Research into 'Global Top 3'. Electronic Times News:  Korea, 26 April 2006.

Fate of controversial stem cell project on hold. Canadian National Post, 24 April 2006.

Harney signs laws on storage of human cells. EIRCOM, 18 April 2006.

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Neuroethics News from the Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS)
(Updated on April 21, 2006)

In Academic Journals:

Volunteering for early phase gene transfer research in Parkinson disease
Neurology. 2006;66(7):1010-1015.

Risks, benefits, and consent in the age of gene therapy [Editorial]
Neurology. 2006;66(7):964-965.

Chronic disorders of consciousness
The Lancet. 2006;367(9517):1181-1192.

Mild cognitive impairment
The Lancet. 2006;367(9518):1262-1270.

The Prescriber as Moralist: Values in the antidepressant debate
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. 2006;49(2):199-208.

When the Brain Loses Its Self: Prefrontal Inactivation during Sensorimotor Processing
Neuron. 2006;50(2):329-339.

Motor subtype and cognitive decline in Parkinson's disease, Parkinson's disease with dementia, and dementia with Lewy bodies
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2006;77(5):585-589.

Compulsive drug use linked to sensitized ventral striatal dopamine transmission
Annals of Neurology. 2006;59(5):852-858.

Dopamine dysregulation syndrome in Parkinson's disease patients: From reward to penalty [Editorial]
Annals of Neurology. 2006;59(5):733-734.

Libertarian Accounts of Free Will [Book Review]
Mind. 2006;115(457):136-142.

The Mechanization of the Mind: On the Origins of Cognitive Science [Book Review]
Mind. 2006;115(457):145-148.

Consciousness in Action [Book Review]
Mind. 2006;115(457):156-159.

Brain and (bad) behaviour [Book Reviews]
Brain. 2006;129(5):1339-1342.

Cooperation, Punishment, and the Evolution of Human Institutions
Science. 2006;312(5770):60-61.


In the Popular Press:

Deep brain stimulation
Harvard Mental Health Letter. April 2006.

'When we turn the current on, the patients report the emptiness suddenly disappears'
The Guardian. 31 March 2006.

Study Finds a Link of Drug Makers to Psychiatrists
New York Times. 20 April 2006.

  

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