Blog Posts (24)
May 3, 2013
BEI Young Professionals member Betsy Campbell covers artful media around the world that touches upon topics in bioethics.
Dancing Wheels, a US-based physically-integrated professional dance company, is now in its 32nd season. It tours the US and perfor...
May 1, 2013
This poll is a startling wake-up call. How can the public be empowered to take control of their own healthcare and health in the face of so much uncertainty? How can the bioethics community better communicate with the public?
[The Washington Post] If ...
April 29, 2013
[CNNMoney] Should a life-saving drug that can be profitably sold for far less cost more than $100,000 per year?
A group of more than 120 cancer researchers and physicians took the unusual step this week of publishing a research paper taking aim at phar...
April 28, 2013
[Bio News] Last week, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics presented its report on ethical aspects of information sharing in donor conception. Although the moral acceptability of third-party reproduction is still debated, this report importantly starts...
April 25, 2013
BEI Young Professionals member Betsy Campbell covers artful media around the world that touches upon topics in bioethics.
The second Annual ReelAbilities: Philadelphia Disabilities Film Festival is scheduled for this month. Reelabilities is the largest...
April 18, 2013
Original Commentary by BEI Young Professionals member Olivette Burton, MBe, MSW.
Last Sunday my friend collapsed on a soccer field and was rushed to the hospital. In an instant, a lifelong athlete with a fantastic physique and a beautiful spirit was go...
April 18, 2013
Original Commentary by BEI Young Professionals member Olivette Burton, MBe, MSW.
Last Sunday my friend collapsed on a soccer field and was rushed to the hospital. In an instant, a lifelong athlete with a fantastic physique and a beautiful spirit was go...
April 13, 2013
[New York Time] A federal agency has found that a number of prestigious universities failed to tell more than a thousand families in a government-financed study of oxygen levels for extremely premature babies that the risks could include increased ch...
April 9, 2013
[Science Daily] Older adults who are subject to elder abuse, neglect and exploitation face a greater risk of being hospitalized than other seniors, according to the results of a study published in the April 8 issue of JAMA Internal Medicine.
“E...
April 3, 2013
[Ted Gup, NYTimes] THE news that 11 percent of school-age children now receive a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder — some 6.4 million — gave me a chill. My son David was one of those who received that diagnosis.
In his case, he...
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