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May 14, 2013
[The Guardian] It was an extraordinarily public declaration of an incredibly private experience. But when Angelina Jolie took to the comment pages of the New York Times to declare that she had undergone a double mastectomy, she spearheaded a new awaren...
May 13, 2013
[Fox News] Two paralyzed British men who want to die but cannot kill themselves went to court on Monday seeking protection from prosecution for those who could help them end their lives.
The case is one of the most high-profile attempts to change t...
May 12, 2013
[New York Times] WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Friday stepped up his criticism of the Obama administration, accusing the Justice Department of making “frivolous” and “silly” arguments in its attempt to delay making the morning-after emergen...
May 12, 2013
[New York Times] WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Friday stepped up his criticism of the Obama administration, accusing the Justice Department of making “frivolous” and “silly” arguments in its attempt to delay making the morning-after emergen...
May 11, 2013
[Kaiser Health News] Until it happened to him, Itzhak Brook, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Georgetown University School of Medicine, didn’t think much about the problem of misdiagnosis.
That was before doctors at a Maryland hospita...
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 29, 2013
Original Commentary by BEI Young Professionals member Ayelet Evrony.
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is a highly effective technology that allows couples to preemptively screen a selection of embryos for an array of genetic disorders. Utilized ...
April 29, 2013
[The Seattle Times] Catholic health-care systems are actively taking over small hospitals in Washington, to the dismay of critics who say medical care should not be subject to religious restrictions.
Sedro-Woolley, a tiny Skagit County town in the Ca...
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