bioethics

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• Rethinking "Persistent Vegetative State"

  
  Aspire2 Blog — Authority: 128
  Did you see this news story/short video about the patient who was diagnosed as being in a coma for twenty-three years, but was actually totally aware of what was going on around him?
  16 hours ago

• Your Commission, Should You Choose to Accept It (And We Do!)

  
  Science Progress — Authority: 489
  Yesterday President Obama issued an Executive Order establishing the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. The Commission’s Chair will be Amy Gutmann, President of the University of Pennsylvania and a political theorist. Its Vice Chair will be James W. Wagner, President of Emory University and ...
  2 days ago

• 24 November, 2009 – This Week in Science

  
  This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast — Authority: 107
  Origin Anniversary, Radio Brains, Rampaging Robot Vampires Need Lawyers Too, Life Mutations and Electricity, RNA Warmth, Biophotonic Communication, Life as a Carrot, Kiki Rants, TWi the End of the World, And Much, Much More!
  3 days ago

• Tennessee hospital changes mind, will provide care for nine month old

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  Catholic News Agency : "We are pleased at the ethics panel’s decision and look forward to full resolution in writing so that Baby Gabriel’s life will no longer be in danger, said ADF Legal Counsel Matt Bowman."
  3 days ago

• Emergency injunction filed to stop hospital from discontinuing baby’s care

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  Jill Stanek : "The Alliance Defense Fund just filed an emergency injunction and restraining order in response to the decision a couple hours ago by an ethics panel at East Tennessee Childrens Hospital to discontinue care of 9-month-old Gabriel Palmer."
  4 days ago

• Man in 23 Year Coma Awake the Entire Time

  
  Eye of Polyphemus — Authority: 482
  There is a reason Christians choose to defend life in bioethics cases. This is one of those reasons. This poor fellow was locked up within himself for 23 years without anyone knowing it. Not that I have an easy time wrapping my mind around how one could or would want to survive such a thing. I can admit it. ...
  4 days ago

• I’d Rather Just Leave ‘em Alone :: Pressure to Enlarge my Breasts AND Cut Them Off

  
  ::the open end:: — Authority: 136
  It all began tonight with an   NPR article about Huntington’s disease.  Charles Sabine, a famous journalist, had a family history of HD and decided to undergo genetic testing. The test revealed that he will inevitably die from the genetic mutation and its horrific outcome.  I continued reading and was brought ...
  4 days ago

• CDC reverses Gardasil vaccine requirement for immigrants

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  LifeSiteNews : "The U.S. Center for Disease Control announced Friday that starting December 14 it will no longer require female immigrants, ages 11 to 26 seeking permanent resident status, to receive the controversial human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil before entering the United States . . . In response to ...
  4 days ago

• The 6th Pediatric Bioethics Conference of Seattle Children’s on ethical issues in prenatal and neonatal care in July 2010

  
  What Sorts of People — Authority: 123
  Tiny Babies, Large Questions: Ethical Issues in Prenatal and Neonatal Care Sixth Annual Pediatric Bioethics Conference Friday and Saturday, July 23, 24, 2010 Bell Harbor International Conference Center, Seattle, ...
  4 days ago

• Fat Chance

  
  Life Training Institute Blog — Authority: 110
  One of the most promising scientific advancements of the last few years in any area of research has been the success of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (IPS). We have talked about it ( here ) before but, as a reminder, IPS harvests adult skin cells from the patient who requires therapy and induces those cells to ...
  4 days ago

• On Netherlands and ethics, or lack thereof

  
  Jesurgislac's Journal — Authority: 399
  Responding to a post by a Catholic pro-lifer (“Disciple”): Netherlands and bioethics, or lack thereof , which illustrates both the particular problem about trying to oppose abortion as a Catholic, and the general problem all pro-lifers have that their movement is based on lies: while they claim to be “against ...
  5 days ago

• U. of Neb. board votes down stem-cell rule changes

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  Breitbart (AP) : "The University of Nebraskas governing board on Friday voted down a proposal to restrict the schools rules governing embryonic stem-cell research beyond what the federal government allows."
  1 week ago

• Univ. of Nebraska Regents Consider Resolution to Limit Stem Cell Research to Cell Lines Approved by Pres. G.W. Bush

  
  Reproductive Rights Prof Blog — Authority: 139
  Omaha World-Herald: Right Now: Stem cell meeting, by Jeffrey Robb: LINCOLN -- Omaha.com is providing live online updates as the University of Nebraska regents decide whether to restrict embryonic stem cell research. Four regents are co-sponsoring a resolution to restrict...
  1 week ago

• Entrusting ones life to Congressional fiat

  
  WesternFront America — Authority: 139
  So what about the defenseless among us who are already born? What might be in store for the severely disabled, the terminally ill and the “better off dead”? Will decisions be made by an ethical medical professional or a bioethics panel? What should we expect if the Obama administration gets its way?
  1 week ago

• Wesley J. Smith: Pulling the plug on the conscience clause

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  First Things : "Tolerance toward dissenters of what might be called the new medicine is quickly eroding. Courts, policymakers, media ­leaders—even the elites of organized medicine—­increasingly assert that patient rights and respect for patients’ choices should trump the consciences of medical professionals. ...
  1 week ago

• Advice to a Young Bioethicist

  
  What Sorts of People — Authority: 123
  The following is the beginning of a response delivered by distinguished bioethicist Arthur Caplan to Ezekiel Emanuel’s address to the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities earlier this year. The full speech was posted by Linda MacDonald Glenn at the Women’s Bioethics Project blog about a month ago.The ...
  1 week ago

• Stem-cell debate unlikely to fade after Neb. vote

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  AP : "The University of Nebraskas governing board was expected to vote Friday on a resolution that would limit stem-cell research at the university systems facilities to rules approved under former President George W. Bush."
  1 week ago

• Embryonic stem cell therapy closer to human trials

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  Breitbart (AFP) : "Embryonic stem cell therapy got a step closer to the clinic Thursday after US researchers said they filed a request for government approval of human trials."
  1 week ago

• Did You Have Any Doubts? Harry Reid Health Care Plan Requires Monthly Abortion Fee.

  
  Vital Signs — Authority: 146
  Straight from the web blog of House Republican Leader John Boehner comes these details he found in the Democrats Senate-version of the health care bill. Just like the original 2,032-page, government-run health care plan from Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) massive, ...
  1 week ago

• “It’s killing a baby, plain and simple”

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  WorldNetDaily a: "More topically, the activist group Alliance Defense Fund is agitating for a 14th murder charge against Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Islamist terrorist who "allegedly" killed 13 people during the shooting at Fort Hood that left 30 other people wounded. One of Hasans victims was a pregnant woman; the ...
  1 week ago

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