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Harvard Gazette: Adult cells transformed into stem cells
Fusion of adult and stem cell causes reversion of adult cells to stem cells. Problem is the mix of DNA (and other epigenetic material?). Cures for genetic diseases?
"These potentials are not just around the corner."
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Joshua Greene's Homepage
"I study moral decision-making using behavioral methods coupled with neuroimaging (fMRI). My research focuses on the interplay between emotional and "cognitive" processes in moral judgment."
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Lawsuit filed re: ALLHAT Hypertension research death of human subject
"a national network of lay people and professionals dedicated to advancing responsible and ethical medical research practices, to ensure that the human rights, dignity and welfare of human subjects are protected, and to minimize the risks..."
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In Article, Doctors Back Ban on Gifts From Drug Makers - New York Times
The gifts, drugs and classes that makers of pharmaceuticals and medical devices routinely give doctors undermine medical care, hurt patients and should be banned, a group of influential doctors say in today's issue of The Journal of the American Medical A
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Societies worse off 'when they have God on their side'
positive correlation between religious adherence and social ills. society works _better_ without religion.
more fromwww.timesonline.co.uk
BBC NEWS | Health | Euthanasia doctor faces GMC
A leading right-to-die campaigner is appearing before the General Medical Council after admitting agreeing to help his friend commit suicide.
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Resource pages for Paul Johnson & Robin Williams
Ethics of forensic genetic databases for crime. Should there exist the notion of a "criminal suspect" whose genetic identity is stored indefinitely?
more fromwww.dur.ac.uk
The Wellcome Trust
Great resource for news and info on biomedical research, especially genetics. Some pages on ethics and society.
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Three-parent embryo research gets green light | The Register
What's pro-life about this? I'm anti muscular dystrophy.
Pro-life campaigners: "The HFEA are turning this country into the wild west. ... Babies don't need two mothers." The Muscular Dystrophy Campaign has welcomed the ruling, saying it is delighted
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Skin Cells Converted to Stem Cells
Scientists for the first time have turned ordinary skin cells into what appear to be embryonic stem cells -- without having to use human eggs or make new human embryos in the process.
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Anger over 'victory' for animal rights campaign
'Michael Fabricant, whose constituency includes the farm, described the protesters as "animal rights terrorists".'
Sad news.
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GMC Standards of Practice
GMC Ethical Guidance: "This guidance describes the principles of good medical practice and standards of competence, care and conduct expected of doctors in all aspects of their professional work."
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The patient safety story
"First, do no harm." When things goes wrong. Q.v. "An Organisation with a Memory" and "To Err is Human"
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Ethical Shopping
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Commentary -- Oakley 30 (4): 385 -- Journal of Medical Ethics
Could it ever be ethically justifiable to remove a dead man’s sperm to enable his partner to bear a child to him? (Just first 150 words)
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FSF - Campaign for Free BIOS
Buying advice for CPUs and morthboards
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The new pope and medical ethics -- Scalise and Bognolo 330 (7503): 1281 -- BMJ
Largely depressing article on Ratzinger's pro-death anti-condom views.
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Reader's guide to critical appraisal of cohort studies: 1. Role and design -- Rochon et al. 330 (7496): 895 -- BMJ
Cohort studies work on unselected groups (with possible self-selecting bias); alternative is the more logistically complicated randomised controlled trial. The latter is harder to organise and has ethical problems (e.g. witholding treatment)
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