>Increased medical technology creates a burden on family decision makers and loved ones as well as doctors, nurses and pharmacists. Listen to the (free) National Public Radio interview with journalist Stephen Kiernan on medical care at the end of life, from December 4, 2006. It’s not surprising that there would be misunderstandings between doctors and … Continue reading
Art Caplan, the pseudoeditor at blog.bioethics.net, head of the Center for Bioethics at Pennsylvania University, and a columnist for MSNBC, has posted a note at the bioethics.net blog that calls for an end of the suggestion that sick babies should be killed by their doctors. Good going, Art!
>Art Caplan, the pseudoeditor at blog.bioethics.net, head of the Center for Bioethics at Pennsylvania University, and a columnist for MSNBC, has posted a note at the bioethics.net blog that calls for an end of the suggestion that sick babies should be killed by their doctors. Good going, Art!
Watching the changing definitions and necessary and sufficient conditions for any of us to be deemed human enough to be afforded the protection against infringement of the right not to be killed , an observant being would just about have to assume we’re dealing with a fairly significant group of entities. The Supreme Court went … Continue reading
>Watching the changing definitions and necessary and sufficient conditions for any of us to be deemed human enough to be afforded the protection against infringement of the right not to be killed , an observant being would just about have to assume we’re dealing with a fairly significant group of entities. The Supreme Court went … Continue reading
I report frequently on the media and its bias against reporting successes in adult stem cell research. Sometimes, what appears to bias is just early results and sometimes I’m wrong – there is no bias. JivinJehosaphat mentioned my blog from yesterday comparing the reports on non-embryonic stem cells and embryonic stem cells in Parkinson’s, and … Continue reading
>I report frequently on the media and its bias against reporting successes in adult stem cell research. Sometimes, what appears to bias is just early results and sometimes I’m wrong – there is no bias. JivinJehosaphat mentioned my blog from yesterday comparing the reports on non-embryonic stem cells and embryonic stem cells in Parkinson’s, and … Continue reading
Google News search on new Parkinson’s stem cell research. Reseach on adult stem cells used to treat Parkinsons: 5 citations – none of the big names. Embryonic stem cells used to treat Parkinsons: 10 news articles, including UPI, Science Daily and Monsters and Critics.
>Google News search on new Parkinson’s stem cell research. Reseach on adult stem cells used to treat Parkinsons: 5 citations – none of the big names. Embryonic stem cells used to treat Parkinsons: 10 news articles, including UPI, Science Daily and Monsters and Critics.
I’m still working on my article on age at marriage and sexual initiation changes. I’m trying to learn to post the graphics that I think are useful. Preview, tweak, delete. In the meantime, what about all the docs and student docs who are learning how to treat patients ethically? Deleting their mistakes is not an … Continue reading