News tagged with biomedical ethics


Patients should have right to control genomic health information

Doctors should not have the right or responsibility to force-feed their patients with genomic information about their future health risks, according to bioethicists writing on May 9 in Trends in Biotechnology, a Cell Press ...

Genetics created May 09, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Ethics experts call for more thoughtful optimization of drug development process

(Medical Xpress)—McGill University post-doctoral fellow Spencer Phillips Hey and Prof. Jonathan Kimmelman, Biomedical Ethics, Social Studies of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine argue that some clinical trials of new drugs ...

Medications created May 09, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rewarding people to live healthier lives is acceptable if it works, study reveals

(Medical Xpress)—A UK study reveals that the public find it acceptable to reward people for changing their health-related behaviour, such as smoking or weight loss, as long as it works. In the past, such ...

Health created Dec 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Proposed testosterone testing of some female olympians challenged by scientists

Proposed Olympic policies for testing the testosterone levels of select female athletes could discriminate against women who may not meet traditional notions of femininity and distort the scientific evidence on the relationship ...

Other created Jun 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New report examines the use of animals containing human material in biomedical research

(Medical Xpress) -- A new report looking at the use of animals containing human material (ACHM) in biomedical research has identified areas of sensitivity - including cognition, reproduction and creating visual characteristics ...

Medical research created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast