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NEWS ABOUT: bioethics

bioethics stories: 9 news summaries

(Newser) - Major League Baseball's DNA testing of Latin American rookies has bioethics experts worried, the New York Times reports. League officials say the genetic tests are necessary after a string of cases in which prospects lied about their age or identity, but experts fear the tests may be used to weed... More »

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MLB • genetic testing • DNA • bioethics • baseball

(Newser) - President Obama told Pope Benedict XVI yesterday that he would make every effort to reduce the number of abortions in the US, according to a Vatican spokesman. Bioethics and life issues were the focus of the men's 40-minute talk yesterday. The pontiff gave the president a booklet explaining the church's... More »

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stem cell research • Barack Obama • abortion • Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • abortion rights • Vatican • bioethics • President Obama

ANALYSIS

Third Emanuel Brother Key to Health Reform

The eldest, Zeke,
goes from bioethicist
to administration guru

Jun 17, 09 5:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Zeke Emanuel may not get the press brothers Rahm and Ari do, but he’s a figure to watch as the health-care reform debate heats up, the New Republic reports. As head of the National Institute of Health’s bioethics division, Emanuel became one of the most influential bioethicists in... More »

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Rahm Emanuel • health care reform • Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel • bioethics • National Institutes of Health • Office of Management and Budget • Obama administration • President Obama • Ari Emanuel • Peter Orszag

 Half of US Docs 
 Prescribe Placebos 

Many physicians believe in psychological impact of prescriptions

Oct 24, 08 5:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Half of US doctors admit prescribing drugs to patients just for the placebo effect—to make them think they are taking something beneficial, reports the Chicago Tribune. As many as 56% prescribed antibiotics, painkillers, vitamins, and sedatives in cases where they didn't expect them to have any benefit physically, but... More »

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medicine • antibiotics • American Medical Association • bioethics • placebos • National Institutes of Health • British Medical Journal • sedatives • Journal of General Internal Medicine • B12

glossies

 Organ Donors 
 Breathe Life 
 Into Death 
 Debate 

Bioethicists weigh ethical, organ-transplant concerns

Oct 5, 08 8:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - The art of extracting human organs has revived a debate about when a person is actually dead, the Economist reports. Forty years ago, the Catholic Church agreed with scientists that brain dead meant dead. But now that doctors are skirting that rule, harvesting organs from horribly brain-damaged donors who are... More »

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organ transplants • Vatican • bioethics • cardiac-death organ donations • brain-death organ donations

Bush Rule Shields Docs Who Deny Women Abortions, Pill

New regulation lets health care workers refuse 'immoral' work

Aug 22, 08 5:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health care workers would have the right to refuse to provide abortion services, contraception or even information on preventing or ending pregnancies under a controversial new regulation issued by the Bush administration. The proposed rule would force hospitals, clinics and other health care providers to... More »

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abortion • contraception • Health and Human Services • Roe v. Wade • conception • Plan B • Mike Leavitt • bioethics • health workers • Planned Parenthood Federal of America • Catholic Medical Association • Medical College of Wisconsin

 Human-Animal Embryos Created 

Controversial cow-human creation lived for three days

Apr 2, 08 6:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a brave new world breakthrough, British scientists for the first time have created animal-human hybrid embryos, the London Times reports. The nuclei of cow eggs were removed and replaced with ones from a human cell, creating "admixed" embryos—or "cybrids" whose genetic material is 99.9% human.... More »

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stem cell research • hybrid animal • stem cells • embryo • scientists • bioethics • human embryos

Environment, Bioethics Under Vatican's Scrutiny

Church updates Catholic morality for  modern, globalized life

Mar 10, 08 3:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Catholics must guard against "new sins" such as polluting the environment and using genetic modification, the Vatican says. Their church has updated the concept of sin for the contemporary world, paying special attention to the expanding and morally murky world of bioethics, a top official from the Apostolic Penitentiary,... More »

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stem cell research • Pope Benedict XVI • pollution • genetic modification • Vatican • drug trafficking • Catholicism • cloning • Holy See • bioethics • sin

Lab Creates Speedy, Lean Mighty Mouse

Modified critters have voracious appetites but manage to stay thin

Nov 2, 07 1:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Scientists have made speedy super mice by flipping a genetic switch, reports the Guardian. The mice can run 30 times as far as regular mice, and they live longer and breed later. They also eat 60% more food than average mice but manage to stay leaner and possibly more resistant... More »

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genetic modification • mice • biology • lactic acid • bioethics • Case Western Reserve University

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