Friday, May 23, 2008

Genetic Engineered food and animal products

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genetic engineered food and animal products. During the past decade, biotechnology companies commercialized the first generation of genetica...
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Thursday, May 01, 2008

What Implications Does Behavioral Genetics Research Have For Society?

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Researchers in the field of behavioral genetics have asserted claims for a genetic basis of numerous physical behaviors, including homosexua...
Tuesday, April 08, 2008

New System Might Increase Organ Donations

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Could Changing the Way People Volunteer Increase Organ Donations? According to a Gallup poll, 83 percent of Americans understand the benefit...
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Monday, March 10, 2008

Troops returning home with hearing loss???

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Majority soldiers and Mariens caught in roadside bombings and firefights in Iraq and Af. are coming home in epidemic numbers with permanent ...
Friday, March 07, 2008

The living will

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There is no age limit for anyone to become severely ill. Anyone can be faced with a life threatening illness or an accident at any age and ...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

pro-choice and pro-life, who wins?

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As the debate on abortion between the pro-choice and pro- life takes a political direction, the focus drifts from the subjects of abortion...
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Life vs. patient vs. HMO

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At the end of 2007, there is a big case in LA county. 17 years old is diagnosed hepatocarcinoma and need liver transplant, usually liver tra...
Sunday, March 02, 2008

The Moral and Ethical Physician

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The moral and ethical foundation of our society has dual personalities: that which the average human being carries and that which is carr...
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The Impaired Medical Professional

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The Impaired Medical Professional Alcohol and drugs abuse, often categorized together as “substance abuse” and addiction, is a common probl...

Culling Embryos

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So, this wonderful guy asks me out on a date. We meet at an Italian restaurant with great atmosphere in NYC and right after our appetizers r...
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No Food for Thought

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No Food for Thought Don’t throw away that New Year’s resolution to lose weight just yet. If law makers in Mississippi have their way, you m...
Saturday, March 01, 2008

Healthcare Proxy and Advance Directives

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Healthcare Proxy means “appointing someone to make healthcare decisions for you in the event that you are unable to so yourself”. This has t...
Friday, February 29, 2008

ETHICAL ISSUES SURROUNDING ABORTION

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Abortion is the most difficult and controversial moral topic in today’s society. Many people view abortion as a murder of unborn children. ...

HPV VACCINE FOR CHILDREN

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HPV VACCINE FOR YOUNG CHILDREN ...
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"SILLICON WOMB " FOR BETTER EMBRYOS.

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"SILICON WOMB " FOR BETTER EMBRYOS LONDON: A team of UK researchers will soon be conducting trials of a "silicon womb" i...

Ethical Implications of a Patient's Right to Refuse Treatment

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Following the delivery of her child, a patient is bleeding heavily and her obstetrician proposed and received approval for a dilation and c...

Genetic Testing: When does life start?

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Based on what you know about pre- implantation diagnosis, do you think that, given a negative outcome, destroying the other blastomeres is t...
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MALE PREGNANCY-HOW FAR SHOULD WE GO?

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Male pregnancy – how far should we go? Before enrolling into this class I never knew that there was research being done on male pregnancy. ...
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A LOOK AT XENOTRANSPLANTATION

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A LOOK AT XENOTRANSPLANTATION End-stage organ failure is one of the most highly publicized, controversial public health issues facing the in...

Challenges to Medical Autonomy

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Along the line of decision making doctors have always argued that the only person who can evaluate the work of a doctor is a fellow doctor. ...

HUMAN CLONING: DESTINY AND RESPONSIBILITY

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In the sixteenth century, the Reformed theologian John Calvin wrote this about childbirth: ...

Proper Health Care Before Money

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Proper Health Care Before Money? As I am reflecting on the present health care system of our country, the United States of America , I ...
Thursday, February 28, 2008

WHAT IS LIFE?

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Ethics as a subject is not only very interesting but very important in this generation. The second law of thermodynamics states that the ent...

WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?

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Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide What’s the d...

Womb for Rent?

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TAKE a sperm donor, add an egg donor, mix in appropriate lab conditions and rent a womb for nine months. That’s the recipe for a surrogate ...

LIFE IS NOT A BOX OF CHOCOLATES

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As life progresses and with increased exposure to different environments, cultures, and value systems, it is only a natural process to ask y...
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The Ethical Issues Surrounding Rural Health Care Delivery

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Is it ethical for rural residents to be deprived of an adequate health care system? One of the major challenges rural areas are facing is la...
Monday, February 25, 2008

SPIRITUALITY AND END OF LIFE CARE

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SPIRITUALITY AND END OF LIFE CARE WE CAN HELP BY SIMPLY BEING PRESENT Although we have not yet discussed the subject of death and end of lif...
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Saturday, February 23, 2008

KEEP IT SIMPLE, PROCHOICE IS PROLIFE

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PRO-CHOICE, A PRO-LIFE DECISION KEEP IT SIMPLE Well, this Bioethics and Law course has certainly been one of my favorites. What a w...