BIOPOLITICS
Arthur Caplan reports on a closed-door meeting at the Vatican, where Church leadership made it clear it will continue to throw its ethical might and even its money into the debate about where to get stem cells and how best to study them.
BIOETHICS
The challenges to testing a new anthrax vaccine on children probably outweigh the benefits, argues Arthur Caplan.
BIOETHICS
When making decisions about the future direction of stem cell research, we need to look past conflicts of interest and focus on what the science says.
BIOETHICS
The debate over embryonic stem cell research has been wrought with hype. Here are the top five over-hyped claims made by critics, and why they are wrong.
LIFE SCIENCES
We can’t let an indulgent media and irresponsible fringe voices dominate our thinking about vaccines.
SCIENCE IN SOCIETY
The left ventricular assist device that will keep blood pumping through Dick Cheney’s veins for the rest of his life would not have been invented if not for government-funded R&D at the National Institutes of Health.
BIOETHICS
Ninety-eight people in Arizona who were promised life-saving organ transplants have had that promise broken by the Arizona State Legislature. Are death panels real?
Bioethics
Arthur Caplan reviews Worst Case Bioethics, and advances the case for a national philosophy of medicine for bioethics.
LIFE SCIENCES
The FDA’s myopic focus on early-stage testing and lack of emphasis on phase four human clinical trials has led to many safety-related drug recalls in recent years, meriting a reexamination of our regulatory system.
LIFE SCIENCES AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Americans know that the future fortunes of the country rest on scientific and technological advances, so Mr. President, let’s take biomedical science policy seriously.
BIOETHICS
Recent investigations into performance-enhancing drug use in professional sports has driven debate over the substances in the public square. But when making decisions about steroids, one size does not fit all, and there’s more to consider than just “did he or didn’t he?”
A team at the Oregon National Primate Research Center in Beaverton, Oregon has succeeded in cloning twenty macaque monkey embryos. The techniques they used to achieve this monumental breakthrough in cloning work should also work for making human embryos. Could this breakthrough pave the way to a new source for embryonic stem cells?
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