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It seems as though we don't have much choice when it comes to health care. Either we are going to pay what the most recent research is calling a "hidden health tax" of something on the order of $1,017 per...
Christian Science Monitor is asking an important question: "Have we become too dependent on our medicine cabinet?" Medical ethicists, physicians, and even patients and their advocates who are...
According to Judith Graham at the Chicago Tribune's Triage blog, Pfizer has created a new program to allow the unemployed--and thus uninsured--to keep access to their prescription drugs for one...
If you haven't read enough about pandemics and ethics or the swine flu yet (and seriously who hasn't read enough about this), the OUP Blog is recommending some additional reading written by...
Award-winning Target Articles, Editorials, and Open Peer Commentaries from The American Journal of Bioethics are available now at pandemic.bioethics.net. Click on the links below for direct access...
Question: What is it worth to produce a blockbuster anti-wrinkle cream? Hypothetical Answer from Cosmeceutical Company: A single skin biopsy of a 14-week old voluntarily aborted fetus from a minor with consent from her parents. Question: What is it...
Even as one trained in said number or data or fact crunching--whether you want to call us social scientists or empirical bioethicists or what have you--I do not take issue with Caplan's essential view--bioethics needs more than just facts to...
For the disgrace and shame he placed upon stem cell research in South Korea and for many stem cell research more generally, he should do some time in the slammer. Or at least that's my view. But Nature.com tells us...
Nanotechnology has been called a great many things--the great leveler, the panacea to all that ails the world, the technology that will allow us to solve all of our problems from world hunger to pollution. But this month, at nanotechnow.com,...
According to the WSJ Health Blog, Senator Olympia Snowe of Washington State is making no promises as to whether she will continue to back the Senate Finance bill for health care reform. Why does this matter? For any one who...
