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August 4, 2009

Bioethicist Charo Accepts Key FDA Post

University of Wisconsin law professor R. Alta Charo has accepted the post of senior adviser in the Office of the Commissioner of the FDA.…

July 19, 2009

It's Not August! But The August Issue of AJOB is Already Online at Bioethics.net

Now available at bioethics.net is the August issue of The American Journal of Bioethics.

This month’s issue contains articles ranging in topics from organ conscription and whether the US ought to have an opt-out system for organ donation and a number of thought experiments supporting that position by Delaney and Hershenov.…

May 29, 2009

Pucker Up!

Ladies, how much risk of lead exposure would you be willing to undergo for ruby red lips? Is it even something to be concerned about?…

May 27, 2009

Will Your Tweets Keep You Healthy Or Make You Sick?

Google has been tracking flu trends to monitor disease outbreaks for some time, but with the most recent outbreak of swine flu, social media has taken on a new role in the monitoring of health in our lives.…

May 26, 2009

Dr. Hamburg, Divest Thyself

One of the wealthiest of the Obama administration appointees, Dr. Margaret Hamburg, has to offload her stock pretty quickly–apparently that’s what comes from being married to a very successful hedge fund manager and holding a wide range of health and other medical related stock, says the Wall Street Journal.…

March 16, 2009

President Obama Takes Food Ethics Seriously

In his Saturday morning radio address, President Obama took on the issue of food safety as a moral responsibility for our nation.…

February 24, 2009

DBS for OCD? OMG!

As I read on the Triage health blog at the Chicago Tribune, deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been approved by the FDA as a treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).…

February 9, 2009

Goats: Not Just for Making Feta Cheese and For Petting Zoos Anymore

Researchers have finally done it. Engineered a goat to save lives. On Friday, the FDA approved a genetically engineered goat that is able to produce in its milk (not for feta cheese making, mind you) a drug that will save the lives of patients born with a rare hereditary deficiency of antithrombin in their blood.…

January 23, 2009

A Well-Timed Step Forward

Today, the FDA announced its approval of the first stem cell clinical trial in human beings. Geron will perform the trial on 10 spinal cord injured patients.…

December 30, 2008

Move Over CoverGirl and Revlon. Here Comes Latisse.

Here is one enhancement I think the world could have lived without. From the makers of Botox, Allergan, Inc, comes a drug that will make your lashes–longer, thicker, darker, Latisse.…