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Resuscitating and prolonging life
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics’ “Working Party on Critical Care Decisions in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine” setting week-by-week guidelines for the treatment and resuscitation of newborns will be released today, November 16, 2006. In the meantime, based on news reports and last week’s unethical statement by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the blogosphere … Continue reading
>Resuscitating and prolonging life
>The Nuffield Council on Bioethics’ “Working Party on Critical Care Decisions in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine” setting week-by-week guidelines for the treatment and resuscitation of newborns will be released today, November 16, 2006. In the meantime, based on news reports and last week’s unethical statement by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the blogosphere … Continue reading
Hwang: no technology, no cloned stem cells
Hwang Woo-Suk has admitted that his laboratory did not create any “patient-specific” stem cells through somatic cell nuclear transfer, often abbreviated as “SCNT,” “NT,” or cloning. He also admits that he does not have the technology to do so. The reports on the latest statements from the Korean veterinarian and his lawyers are reported by … Continue reading
>Hwang: no technology, no cloned stem cells
>Hwang Woo-Suk has admitted that his laboratory did not create any “patient-specific” stem cells through somatic cell nuclear transfer, often abbreviated as “SCNT,” “NT,” or cloning. He also admits that he does not have the technology to do so. The reports on the latest statements from the Korean veterinarian and his lawyers are reported by … Continue reading
A weekend with political docs
I just spent the last 3 days attending the American Academy of Family Physician’s (National) State Legislative Conference, where a hundred or so docs and staff members representing the leadership of nearly 30 State Academies (and a few crashers of committee meetings and self-appointed policy-watchers like me) listened to political pundits, consultants, and each other … Continue reading
>A weekend with political docs
>I just spent the last 3 days attending the American Academy of Family Physician’s (National) State Legislative Conference, where a hundred or so docs and staff members representing the leadership of nearly 30 State Academies (and a few crashers of committee meetings and self-appointed policy-watchers like me) listened to political pundits, consultants, and each other … Continue reading
LifeEthics a New Contributor on ProLife Blogs
I’ve just cross-posted my first submission (yesterday’s LifeEthics post) on ProLife Blogs. My thanks to Tim for inviting me and (in advance) for forgiving me if I did it wrong. In the future, I hope to post more original pieces. ProLife Blogs has a filtered “aggregator” that I check often. Bloggers can sign up to … Continue reading
>LifeEthics a New Contributor on ProLife Blogs
>I’ve just cross-posted my first submission (yesterday’s LifeEthics post) on ProLife Blogs. My thanks to Tim for inviting me and (in advance) for forgiving me if I did it wrong. In the future, I hope to post more original pieces. ProLife Blogs has a filtered “aggregator” that I check often. Bloggers can sign up to … Continue reading
We need sharing, not eggs or embryos!
From WebMD: “We don’t need any eggs or embryos at all,” says Shinya Yamanaka, MD, a professor at the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences in Kyoto, Japan. Yamanaka describes his lab’s early successes in mice creating stem cells from adult cells. His research involves isolating two dozen chemicals that give embryonic stem cells their ability … Continue reading
Cartoons, Elections, Enhancement and Veils
Today’s “Day by Day” Cartoon by Chris Muir is not just an election day political jibe at Nancy Pelosi. It’s a commentary on modern attitudes toward plastic surgery and nerve injections in the attempt to enhance one’s appearance. See? Just about all the big news stories relate to bioethics. Seriously, the 70 plus year old … Continue reading
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