Tag: public health
Blog Posts (53)
January 24, 2013
Bill proposed in Oregon would make cigarettes prescription-only drugs
[KPTV] If you’re a regular smoker, you may want to keep an eye on a new bill in the Oregon Legislature. Rep. Mitch Greenlick, from Portland, is sponsoring a bill that makes cigarettes a Schedule III controlled substance, meaning it would be i...January 17, 2013
Twenty-Three-Year-Old Female
Jennifer Chevinsky, B.S.
On December 16th, a 23 year-old female physiotherapy student was raped by six men on a private bus in New Delhi, India, while returning home from a movie theater.…
January 15, 2013
The Moral Failure of HPV Vaccination
Arthur Caplan, Ph.D.
Among the greatest failures in American public health—and the list is a long one—is the rise in the incidence of cervical cancer.…
June 5, 2012
CDC Creates National Plan for Infertility. Comments?
Today the CDC’s Division on Reproductive Health announced a draft version of a white paper entitled “A National Public Health Action Plan for the Detection, Prevention, and Management of Infertility” is now available for comment.…
May 31, 2012
Bloomberg and the Big Bad Soda Ban
Every few years in states like New York and California some state official has “had it up to here” with the obesity epidemic.…
May 17, 2012
Caplan: Problems with At Home HIV Testing
Ultimately, at home HIV testing could be an important piece of HIV prevention and treatment. But there are important concerns about ethical gaps in at home testing for HIV says Arthur Caplan in his post on MSNBC.…
March 28, 2012
Dukan Diet Doctor Proposal May Be Extreme, But Isn't Entirely Wrong
A controversial diet guru in France, Dr. Pierre Dukan, has raised a lot of eyebrows and ire for proposing that all high-school students in France, in order to graduate, pass a weight exam.…
March 15, 2012
The March Issue of AJOB is Now Online
The American Journal of Bioethics is proud to announce that its March issue, a special issue discussing issues related to lying in medicine, is now available online.…
November 29, 2011
Why Fat Cannot Make You Unfit to Parent
An eight-year-old Cleveland Heights, Ohio boy has been taken away from his parents by Child Protective Services. An unfortunate, but routine occurrence in the world of CPS–but this time the case has an usual cause—this third grader weighs more than 200 pounds and in the judgement of some Cuyahoga County officials his parents are the cause of his abuse to his health and well-being.…
October 20, 2011
Food Fight: Industry versus the IOM
If we are what we eat, shouldn’t we know what we are, in fact, eating? This simple idea may be much harder to support than one would guess thanks to lobbying on the part of the food industry, says Arthur Caplan in his MSNBC column today.…
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American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 12 Issue 9 - Sep 2012
Can Medical Repatriation Be Ethical? Establishing Best Practices Mark Kuczewskia
News (72)
May 20, 2013 1:59 pm
Drug User Penalties Should Be Reduced, Organization Of American States Says
The organization on Friday released a 200-page report advocating the decriminalization of drug use as a strategy to reduce violence associated with drug trafficking and to better treat addicts afflicted with chronic behavioral health problems.
May 6, 2013 1:30 pm
Harmful flame retardants found in 84 percent of Calif. couches
Couches tested in random CA households overwhelmingly contained hazardous flame retardant chemicals that have been known to harm hormone production and cause cancer, a new study says.
April 12, 2013 1:01 pm
Ten retailers urged to pull potentially toxic products
Health and environmental groups will launch a national campaign Thursday to prod 10 major retailers — including Walmart, Target and Costco — to clear store shelves of products containing hazardous chemicals.
April 11, 2013 1:09 pm
Rare Pediatric Cancers Tied to Car Emissions
Children born to mothers who lived within a mile of heavy traffic while pregnant were at higher risk of developing any of three childhood cancers, researchers said here.
January 17, 2013 11:47 am
Yelp Adds Health Department Grades To Restaurant Listings (Huffington Post)
Restaurant-goers curious about the cleanliness of the environments they’re eating in and how safe the food is have had to rely on different strategies. But now, community review site Yelp is being added to the mix as a new source of information on the health grades of various establishments.
January 11, 2013 3:08 pm
One in three U.S. workers has no paid sick days (CNN Money)
An estimated 41.7 million workers can not take sick days — that’s nearly a third of the nation’s employees and a problem that raises health risks on everyone.
January 8, 2013 6:34 pm
Binge Drinking Prevalent, Yet Underestimated in Females (Medscape)
Binge drinking is a prevalent and often underestimated problem among US women and female adolescents that frequently starts in high school, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows.
December 19, 2012 6:22 pm
Bioethicist: We need to treat violence as public health issue (NBC News)
The mass murder of 20 children and six adults Friday in Newtown, Conn., has provoked yet another round of recrimination, finger pointing and breast-beating. What we fervently want as we continue to reel from a story whose misery seems to know no bounds is to find a clear cause – a reason why this happened – so that we can fix it.
December 19, 2012 6:10 pm
Newtown tragedy spotlights fractured mental health care system (New Haven Register)
Once parents and individuals are “brave enough” to come forward and seek help, overcoming the continuing stigmatization of mental illness, there are not enough clinicians to serve them, the programs are scattered throughout different agencies and insurers don’t always cover care.
December 11, 2012 2:11 pm
America's Health Rankings show worrisome rates of chronic disease, inactivity (CBS News)
United Health Foundation unveiled its 22nd annual America’s Health Rankings on Tuesday that provided a national look at health problems in all 50 states. This year’s health rankings found that Americans are living longer, but many are living sicker.