Tag: reproductive medicine
Blog Posts (3)
March 18, 2013
Check out AJOB Volume 13 Issue 3!!!
TESTICULAR CRYOPRESERVATION FROM CHILDREN
END OF LIFE DECISION MAKING FOR PATIENTS WHO HAVE
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE…
February 23, 2013
Check out February's issue of AJOB!
DO RESEARCHERS HAVE A DUTY TO LOOK FOR GENETIC INCIDENTAL FINDINGS?
UPDATE TO THE ETHICS CONSULTATION CORE COMPETENCIES…
January 11, 2013
Donors Beware
Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
A man answers an on-line ad to assist a same-sex female couple in a committed relationship who want to have a child.…
Published Articles (2)
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 13 Issue 3 - Mar 2013
Expanding Access to Testicular Tissue Cryopreservation: An Analysis by Analogy Tuua Ruutiainen, Steve Miller, Arthur Caplan & Jill P. Ginsberg
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 3 Issue 2 - Jun 2003
Review of Carolyn McLeod. 2002. Self-trust and reproductive autonomy Jessica Prata Miller
News (22)
April 15, 2013 2:53 pm
Made-to-Order Embryos for Sale — A Brave New World?
Embryo donation (also known as embryo adoption) is the compassionate gifting of residual cryopreserved embryos by consenting parents to infertile recipients. As such, the not-for-profit donation of existing embryos by consenting parents comports with a triad of commonly held ethical attributes.
March 20, 2013 2:19 pm
U.K.: Public O.K. with creating babies from 3 people
Britain’s fertility regulator says it has found broad public support for in vitro fertilization techniques that allow babies to be created with DNA from three people for couples at risk of passing on potentially fatal genetic diseases.
March 19, 2013 6:11 pm
Why don't teens get shots for HPV and other diseases?
The percentage of parents who say they won’t have their teen daughters vaccinated against the human papillomavirus increases, even though physicians increasingly recommend the vaccinations.
March 14, 2013 1:07 pm
Medical first? Woman who had five-organ transplant gives birth
A woman who was given a new liver, pancreas, stomach and small and large intestine at a Miami hospital in 2007 has delivered a healthy baby girl, believed to be the first known case of a five-organ transplant patient giving birth.
March 12, 2013 12:58 pm
More Than 200 Million Women Will Need Contraception By 2015
New projections suggest that the demand for modern contraception remains high: By 2015, 233 million women worldwide will have an unmet need for contraception.
March 7, 2013 2:56 pm
Texas Sex Ed Bill Seeks To Block Planned Parenthood Over 'Conflict Of Interest' As Abortion Provider
Planned Parenthood is unfit to provide sex education materials to Texas students because the organization’s status as an abortion provider constitutes a “conflict of interest,” advocates of a state bill argued on Tuesday.
February 27, 2013 6:26 pm
Program increases contraceptive use in at-risk teens (Reuters)
Long after completing an 18-month program designed to teach about contraception and healthy relationships, teenage girls at high risk for unwanted pregnancy were using contraceptives more often and maintaining other safer sexual practices, according to a new study.
February 14, 2013 2:12 pm
Happy Valentine’s Day: STD epidemic costs U.S. nearly $16 billion a year (The Washington Times)
The Centers for Disease Control released a new report this month revealing the U.S. health care system handles roughly 20 million new cases of sexually transmitted infections annually, costing the nation $15.6 billion.
February 11, 2013 2:41 pm
Teen Births Hit Record Low, CDC Reports (US News)
Teen birth rates have dropped yet again, reaching a historic low, and the number of babies being born early or with a low birth weight has also declined, a new U.S. government report shows.
February 8, 2013 12:37 pm
Catholic bishops reject Obama offer on contraceptive coverage (Reuters)
U.S. Roman Catholic bishops on Thursday rejected the Obama Administration’s latest bid for compromise over a hotly disputed health policy that requires employees at religiously affiliated institutions to have access to insurance coverage for contraceptives.