News tagged with ethical concerns
Wombs for rent: Indian surrogate mothers tell their tales
As baby Lili celebrates her first birthday in Australia, far away in India her surrogate mother recalls the day the child was born—and on whom she never laid eyes.
Health
Feb 25, 2013 |
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New study gives insight into subtle genomic differences among our own cells
Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have demonstrated, in a study conducted jointly with researchers at Yale University, that induced-pluripotent stem cells—the embryonic-stem-cell lookalikes whose discovery ...
Medical research
Nov 18, 2012 |
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Programs for treating addiction in doctors pose ethical issues
State physician health programs (PHPs) play a key role in helping doctors with substance abuse problems. But the current PHP system is inconsistent and prone to potential conflicts of interest and ethical issues, according ...
Addiction
Oct 15, 2012 |
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Bioethics panel urges more gene privacy protection
It sounds like a scene from a TV show: Someone sends a discarded coffee cup to a laboratory where the unwitting drinker's DNA is decoded, predicting what diseases lurk in his or her future.
Genetics
Oct 11, 2012 |
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Gut reaction: Morality in food choice
We've all heard the saying, "you are what you eat." It turns out the old adage might be true on more than just a physical level. The food you choose may also reflect your personal ethics.
Health
Sep 26, 2012 |
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Blood vessel forming potential of stem cells from human placenta and umbilical cord blood
A study comparing whether endothelial colony-forming cells (ECFCs) derived from human placenta or those derived from human umbilical cord blood are more proliferative and better for forming new blood vessels has found that ...
Medical research
Jul 19, 2012 |
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Research on cash payments to promote health: Ethical concerns may be misplaced
It is fairly common for clinical research participants to receive payment for expenses such as travel and parking. What has raised ethical questions are payments or incentives given to encourage people to participate in research ...
Health
Mar 27, 2012 |
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Sex-changing treatment for kids: It's on the rise
(AP) -- A small but growing number of teens and even younger children who think they were born the wrong sex are getting support from parents and from doctors who give them sex-changing treatments, according ...
Health
Feb 20, 2012 |
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A more ethical way to compare epilepsy treatments
For the first time, a new research methodology recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration has been used to demonstrate that converting patients from one anti-epileptic drug to another - in this case, lamotrigine ...
Neuroscience
Dec 05, 2011 |
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Authorship rules for medical journals flouted by pharma industry
(Medical Xpress) -- Rather than ensure the proper attribution of authorship, rules set up by leading medical journals to define and credit authorship of published articles are exploited by the pharmaceutical industry in its ...
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Aug 10, 2011 |
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