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Ethicists: Include pregnant women in national childrens' study
Jul 09, 2009 |
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An ambitious new national study that aims to follow children from conception through adulthood will miss a golden opportunity to gather data on the most underrepresented population in clinical research - pregnant women, say ...
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Scientists want global stem cell standards
Mar 02, 2006 |
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Scientists around the world have reportedly started a major effort to devise a set of global standards that would guide stem cell research.
Bird flu vaccine priority: tough decisions
May 16, 2006 |
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U.S. heath ethicists are considering bird flu pandemic priorities -- specifically, when there isn't enough vaccine for everyone, who gets the first doses?
When the patient can't decide
Aug 18, 2008 |
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Family members are often called upon to make medical choices for patients who are unable to do so themselves. Researchers led by Alexia Torke, M.D., of the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Regenstrief Institute, ...
Web site links organ donors, recipients
Jul 17, 2006 |
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A Web site that matches people needing organ transplants with prospective donors may be unpopular with medical ethicists but not the people it serves.
Bioethicist: Egg donors should be paid
Aug 10, 2006 |
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A U.S. bioethicist says women who donate their eggs for stem cell research should be compensated, as are other healthy research volunteers.
Ethics guide for rural MDs
Nov 10, 2009 |
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With an eye to small-town health professionals as well as to the people training students to practice medicine beyond metropolitan settings, Dartmouth's Department of Community and Family Medicine is unveiling the Handbook ...
Caution urged in human-ape brain stem test
Jul 15, 2005 |
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Researchers were cautioned Friday about brain disease experiments that would involve putting human brain stem cells into monkeys or apes.
Clot-buster boosts survival, decreases disability for deadly subset of stroke
Feb 19, 2009 |
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New results from a multicenter study led by Johns Hopkins show that patients who got an experimental clot-busting treatment for a particularly lethal form of stroke were not only dramatically more likely to survive but also ...
Scientists, lawyers mull effects of home robots
Dec 05, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Eric Horvitz illustrates the potential dilemmas of living with robots by telling the story of how he once got stuck in an elevator at Stanford Hospital with a droid the size of a washing machine.
Should embryos with a hereditary disorder be transferred if no unaffected embryos are available?
Jul 07, 2008 |
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The numbers of cycles of preimplantation genetic diagnosis or screening are rising steadily in Europe with over 2,700 reported in 2004 (the most recent year for which data are available). Fertility centres are able to screen ...
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