Gonzales vs. Oregon
<p style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">We are always pleased to support the activities of young scholars who are interested in bioethics. <a...
View ArticleHow should we define infertility and who counts as infertile?
<div style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">The concept of infertility seems relatively straightforward, yet there are many myths, confusions, and disagreements...
View ArticleHuman Remains for Compost: Repugnant or Resourceful?
<p><span style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">I am a lousy gardener. Just this year I am considering a small attempt at growing a few vegetables...
View Article“Reasonable Profits” For Pharmaceutical Manufacturers?
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="line-height: 200%; font-size: 11.1999998092651px;">With the recent success of the blockbuster drug Sovaldi© (Gilead Sciences,...
View ArticleUse of Unproven Interventions is Never Obligatory
<p style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">I recently read a paper written by...
View ArticleSocial Media and Patient Information
<p style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">In the most recent issue of...
View ArticleWhy Do We Over Treat Patients in the U.S.?
<p style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">As a clinical ethics consultant and...
View ArticleShould someone who does not want biological children be diagnosed as infertile?
<p style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">In my </span><a...
View ArticleWhy not be inclusive rather than exclusive when selecting abstracts for...
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">The American...
View ArticleCan Bioethics Panels Fix the Problems With the Availability of “Compassionate...
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px; font-size: 11.1999998092651px;">On May 7, 2015,...
View ArticleActions vs. Words: What counts most in understanding patient preferences?
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Clinicians...
View ArticleWhen is Research Misconduct Research Misconduct
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Advancement of Science and John Bohannon is a scientist. It does not seem unreasonable that they...
View ArticleDoes Clinical Ethics Consultation Lend Itself to Professionalization?
<p style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Let me say emphatically at the...
View ArticleNIH Emeritus Grant: Letting in the New Crop and Kicking the Old Out
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Earlier this...
View ArticleiPhone App Will Track Sexual Activity and Reproduction
<div style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Apple recently announced that they will update their health app, HealthKit, to include reproductive health. Many were...
View ArticleClinical Ethics Consultant Professionalization: A Response to Dr. Shelton
<p><span style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">In his <a...
View ArticleDo Physicians Follow the Golden Rule? Some Thoughts on End of Life Care
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">There has been a <a href="http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=18748">lot of talk...
View ArticleMedicare Considers the Value of Advance Care Planning
<p><span style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Last week the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare <a...
View ArticleTitle: OA Journals Are More For Biomedical Scientists And Not for (All)...
<p><span style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">More and more journals are moving to an open access (OA) platform. OA journals are great because they defer...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood and fetal tissue donation
<p style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Planned Parenthood recently made national news because an anti-abortion group released an <a...
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