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September 30, 2008    Old People with Dementia Have a Duty to Die and Should Be Pushed Towards Death, Says Baroness Warnock • Who Controls Your DNA? Biobanking, Privacy, and Consent • Paying Workers to Go Abroad for Health Care • Gene Therapy Restores Sight • Gandhi Pills? Psychiatrist Argues for Moral Performance Enhancers • Initiative 1000 Opponents Debut Actor Martin Sheen in Commercials • Life and Death • Drugmaker to Disclose Payments to Doctors • Drug Company Gets Into Stem Cell Research • Worth Considering...a quote from “The War on Virtue,” by Patrick Deneen

 

August 12, 2008    Couch Mouse to Mr. Mighty by Pills Alone • Could the Beijing Games be the First to Feature Genetically Modified Athletes? • Scientists: Humans and Machines Will Merge in Future • Building the Real Iron Man • A Dark Past • Where Have All the Flowers Gone? • Single, Childless and ‘Downright Terrified’ • IVF Babies at Increased Risk of Death at Birth, Study Finds • Pill-Popping Pets • Forcing Pro-life Doctors Out of Baby Business? • Assisted Suicide: Not Worth Dying For • Worth Considering...a quote from “We Shall Not Weary, We Shall Not Rest,” by Richard John Neuhaus

 

July 2, 2008    Spain to Grant Some Human Rights to Apes • The Fight to End Aging Gains Legitimacy, Funding • Becoming Immortal • America’s Medicated Army • Brave New Mind: Smart Drugs and the Ethics of Neuro-enhancement • Harriet Johnson, 50, Activist for Disabled, Is Dead • Unspeakable Conversations • Japan, Seeking Trim Waists, Measures Millions • Your Cervix Is Normal, Now Let’s Talk About Botox® for Those Frown Lines • Worth Considering...a quote from “Sin and Folly,” by Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.

 

June 5, 2008    Monkeys Think, Moving Artificial Arm as Own • Effects of Nanotubes May Lead to Cancer, Study Says • Experts Question Placebo Pill for Children • The Neural Buddhists • Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died • The Stupidity of Dignity • Indignity and Bioethics • Human Dignity: Exploring and Explicating the Council’s Vision • Worth Considering...a quote from “Can We Be Good Without God?” by Glenn Tinder

 

May 12, 2008    Alaska Governor Sees ‘Perfection’ in Son with Down Syndrome • The Silent Scream of the Asparagus • Dignity, Not Utility, Must Govern Bioethics • A Human Person, Actually • New Sources of Sex Cells • Pursuit of Youth Isn’t Always Pretty • Gene Therapy Shows Success in Restoring Some Vision • Redefining Disease, Genes and All • Congress Passes Bill to Bar Bias Based on Genes • Worth Considering...a quote from “Uncomfortable Unbelief,” by Wilfred M. McClay

 

April 23, 2008    Who Are We? Coming of Age on Antidepressants • Head Games: Video Controller Taps into Brain Waves • The Government Is Trying to Wrap Its Mind Around Yours • Merck’s Publishing Ethics Are Questioned by Studies • U.S. Teams Aim to Grow Ears, Skin for War Wounded • Lawyers Fight DNA Samples Gained on Sly • The 10 Most Prophetic Sci-Fi Movies Ever • U.S. to Expand Collection Of Crime Suspects’ DNA • On the Retail Frontier, Another Shop in SoHo for the Person Who Has Everything • Worth Considering...a quote from “Self-Construction through Consumption Activities,” by David J. Burns

 

April 2, 2008    The Curious Lives of Surrogates • The War Against Fertility • Evidence-Based Standard of Care • Tooth Regeneration May Replace Drill-and-Fill • Who’s Your Daddy? Answer’s at the Drugstore • Ads Spur Urge for Drugs • We Have Created Human-Animal Embryos Already, Say British Team • Making Cells Like Computers • Worth Considering...a quote from “Standard Bioethics and the Baconian Project,” by Gerald P. McKenny

 

March 14, 2008    Brain Enhancement Is Wrong, Right? • Drugs, Body Modifications May Create Second Enlightenment • For the Love of the Game • Choosing a Deaf Baby Is Criminal • Darpa Pursues Neuroscience To Enhance Analyst, Soldier Performance • Patent Office Upholds Key WARF Stem Cell Patent; Appeal Is Likely • The Giving and Taking of Organs • I Was the Daughter of A Sperm Donor – Shame No-one Told Me • Ending the Life of a Newborn: The Groningen Protocol • Worth Considering...a quote from “Bioethics and the Question of Human Dignity,” by Adam Schulman

 

January 31, 2008    Scientists Build First Man-Made Genome; Synthetic Life Comes Next • Venter Institute Builds Longest Sequence of Synthetic DNA (that Doesn’t Work) • Mass. General Transplant Method Prevents Organ Rejection • As Abortion Rate Drops, Use of RU-486 Is on Rise • More Women Use Pill for Abortions • Nice Résumé. Have You Considered Botox? • Consumer Group Calls for Stronger Warnings on Potential Dangers of Botox • The Latest Surgery Craze: ‘Undo-Plasty’ • Eliot Stiffs Ethics in Stem-Cell Tiff • Organizing Organ Donation • Worth Considering...a quote from “In Praise of Melancholy,” by Eric G. Wilson

 

January 17, 2008    Adult Stem Cell Success Stories-2007 Update • Stem Cells and the President—An Inside Account • Hearts from Cadavers Beat Anew: Study • ‘Blade Runner’ Loses Beijing Hopes • Mind-Boosting Drugs in the Faculty Lounge Create Controversy • Jeepers, Rappers, Where’d You Get Those Arms and Torsos • Congress Targets Tejada • “Doc Knows Best” • Single Brain Cell’s Power Shown • Deaf Demand Right to Designer Deaf Children • Worth Considering...a quote from “The Soul of Man Under Secularism,” by Christopher Lasch

 

December 21, 2007    Synthetic DNA on the Brink of Yielding New Life Forms • Risk Taking Is in His Genes • Reading the Mind of the Body Politic • Device Can Spot Cancer Cells in Blood: U.S. Study • Designer Baby Fear Over Heart Gene Test • Two Polar, Persuasive Stands on Reproductive Genetics • The American Heartland Grows Crops—with Human Proteins • Worth Considering...a quote from “Mastery’s Shadow,” by Wilfred M. McClay

 

November 30, 2007    Scientists Bypass Need for Embryo to Get Stem Cells • After Stem-Cell Breakthrough, the Work Begins • Stem-cell Therapies For Brain More Complicated Than Thought • Dolly Creator Prof Ian Wilmut Shuns Cloning • States Assess Breakthrough On Stem Cells • Cloning: A Giant Step • Drug That Lengthens Eyelashes Sets Off Flutter • 23AndMe Will Decode Your DNA for $1,000.  Welcome to the Age of Genomics • Targeted Genetics Restarts Trial after Woman’s Death • A Wiring Diagram of the Brain • Aging Boomers: Me Generation’s Health Concerns Expected to Propel Biotech • Worth Considering...a quote from “Christopher Lasch and the Limits of Hope,” by Patrick J. Deneen

 

November 15, 2007    Silent Minds • Awakenings • Aging with the Boomers • Cloned Monkey Stem Cells Produced • The UCC’s Ethical Suicide Parlor • The Breast Cancer Epidemic • Why a Child’s Best Friend is His Robotot • ‘Robo-Moth’ Melds Insect, Machine • Forecast: Sex and Marriage With Robots by 2050 • The Lance Armstrong Mighty Mouse • Future of Science: ‘We will have the power of the gods’ • Worth Considering...a quote from “Technologies of Humility,” by Sheila Jasanoff

 

October 25, 2007    An Arm and a Leg? • Want Protection From Breast Cancer? Have Some Babies • Why People Will Soon Be Marrying and Having Sex—with Robots • Erasing ‘Stigma’ of Being a Mother • Babies with Minor Disabilities Aborted • Watson Loses Cold Spring Harbor Post • The Eugenics Temptation • ‘Bionic’ Nerve to Repair Injured Limbs • ‘Morning-after’ Pill Deal Reached • $mokers Pay the Price • Company to Workers: Shape or Pay Up • Secrets of the Grave • Worth Considering...a quote from “The Alternative Tradition in American Political Thought,” by Patrick Deneen

 

October 12, 2007    Blood Vessels Grown From Patient’s Skin • California Stem-Cell Institute Takes Back $3 Million in Grants • Small Scanners Could Spot Hidden Heart Disease • Robots Take on Social Tasks • ConnectR Robot to Replace Your Spouse • Lecture Opens Talk on Future Technology’s Influence on Humans • Replaceable You • The Light’s On, but Is Anybody Home? • Mother Defends Hysterectomy for Disabled Daughter • Children like Grace • Arthur Miller’s Missing Act • Worth Considering...a quote from “Human Dignity and Public Bioethics,” by Gilbert Meilaender

 

September 21, 2007    Chip Implants Linked to Animal Tumors • Mom’s Genes or Dad’s? Map Can Tell. • More Children Being Treated for Bipolar Disorder • Babies on Ice?  Don’t Do It, Girls • Falling Human Fertility and the Future of the Family • Direct Brain-to-Game Interface Worries Scientists • The World’s Most Advanced Bionic Arm • Gene Therapy:  Is Death an Acceptable Risk? • New Zeal in Organ Procurement Raises Fears • Worth Considering...a quote from “A Secular Age,” by Charles Taylor

 

August 30, 2007    Genetic Engineers Who Don’t Just Tinker • Calgary’s Quads: Born in the U.S.A. • Depression Is ‘Over-Diagnosed’ • These Drugs Are for Colds, Not Fidgets • Baby Scans: Do We Need Them? • Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy’s Couch • A Grass-Roots Effort to Grow Old at Home • U.S. Military Practices Genetic Discrimination in Denying Benefits • Vatican Talks of ‘Eugenics Culture’ after Abortion of Wrong Twin • Worth Considering...a quote from “Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America,” by James Turner

 

August 8, 2007    Death and Dying: When Is It Time to Let Go? • Plan B Use Surges, And So Does Controversy • Some Doctors Refuse Services for Religious Reasons • Federal Judge Allows Pharmacist’s Suit • Gene Therapy Patient Dies, Trial Shut Down • 5 Operations You Don’t Want to Get – and What to Do Instead • Surgeon Charged in Death for Organs • High Demand Fuels Global Body Parts Trade • Is the Body Property? • Device Wakes Man with Severe Brain Injuries • The False Choice Between Development and Daughters • Worth Considering...a quote from “Ethics,” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

 

July 23, 2007    Back from the Dead • Man with Tiny Brain Shocks Doctors • IVF Hope for Child Cancer Cases • Girl Could Give Birth to Sibling • Pediatric Ritalin May Affect Young Brains • OxyContin Maker, Execs Fined $634.5 Million • Why Can’t You Buy a Kidney to Save Your Life? • Contracepting the Environment • Expensive ‘Fertility Aid’ Fails • In Latest Robotics, New Hope for Stroke Patients • Worth Considering...a quote from “The Verbal Corrosion of Medical Morality,” by Brent Waters, D.Phil.

 

July 2, 2007    First Artificial Life ‘Within Months’ • Patenting Pandora’s Bug — Goodbye, Dolly...Hello, Synthia! • Scientists Find Drug to Banish Bad Memories • Jesse Ramirez Conscious, Moved To Rehab Facility • High Rate of Misdiagnosis in Patients in an Acute Vegetative State • Brain Device Moves Objects by Thought • Vaccine Shows Promise for Treating Alzheimer’s • C Is for Caution: C-sections on the Rise • Making Manimals • Worth Considering...a quote from “The Illusion of Moral Neutrality,” by J. Budziszewski

 

June 11, 2007    Too Much to Carry? • Baby Shopping • The Hubris of Genetic Enhancement • Former Tour Winner Admits EPO Usage • The Gifts That Keep on Giving • A Gene to Cure Blindness • Be Faithful and Multiply • Dr. Death Rides Again • Genes and Justice • Worth Considering...a quote from “The Alternative Tradition in America,” by Patrick J. Deneen

 

May 23, 2007    Pentagon to Merge Next-Gen Binoculars With Soldiers’ Brains • Pennsylvania Court Orders Sperm Donor to Lesbian Couple to Pay Child Support • Pope Rejects Pro-Choice Politicians • Toddler in Japanese ‘Baby Hatch’ • OxyContin Maker and Executives Plead Guilty to Misleading Public about Pain Pill’s Addiction Risks • Regenerative Medicine – The Driving Force for Dr. Anthony Atala • Black-Market Scandal Shakes India’s Ban on Organ Sales • Organs for Sale: Where in the World Can I Buy a Heart? • Nationwide Education Campaign on Roe v. Wade • Genetic Testing + Abortion = ??? • Clinic to Weed Out Embryos with a Squint • Prenatal Test Puts Down Syndrome in Hard Focus • Worth Considering...a quote from “Designing Our Descendants,” by Gilbert Meilaender

 

May 7, 2007    Abortion Ruling a Turning Point • A Sane Decision • Is the World Ready for Cyborg Athletes? • Manipulating Lives • To Treat the Dead • 2 Studies Link Hormone Use to Higher Risk for Breast and Ovarian Cancer • Pill That Eliminates the Period Gets Mixed Reviews • What Can Neuroscience Tell Us about Evil? • PTO Rejects Human Stem Cell Patents at Behest of Consumer Groups • Religious Group Attacks Religion in U.S. Healthcare • Worth Considering...a quote from “Communism Today,” by Peter Augustine Lawler

 

February 28, 2007    The Grassroots Abortion War • Against All Odds • Cheap, ‘Safe’ Drug Kills Most Cancers • Toothless Mice Can Eat Again • Canadian Breakthrough Offers Hope on Autism • Trials for ‘Bionic’ Eye Implants • Merck Suspends Lobbying for Vaccine • Conspiracy Abound: Vaccine Meeting and Merck Donation Coincide • Fears Over Cyprus Baby Cash Plan • Catholic Nursing Homes to Be Forced to Permit Assisted Suicide • Worth Considering...a quote from “Communism Today,” by Peter Augustine Lawler

 

February 14, 2007    Girl or Boy? As Fertility Technology Advances, So Does an Ethical Debate • Rent-a-Womb in India Fuels Surrogate Motherhood Debate • The White Parents, an Indian Baby and the New £3bn Fertility Tourism • Expand Prenatal Gene Tests, MDs Urge • Patenting Life • Who Owns Your Body Parts? • Study: Moral Beliefs May Sway Docs’ Care • The Brain Scan that Can Read People’s Intentions • Mentally Ill in Switzerland Could Win Right to Die • Worth Considering...a quote from “Self Against Being,” by Philippe Bénéton

 

January 23, 2007    The Embryo Factory • How To Change A Personality • Blinding Us with Science • Showdown Looms in Congress Over Drug Advertising on TV • FDA Warns Vegas Doc Over Stem Cell Implants • Deaf Culture and Gallaudet • Engineered Chickens Make Cancer Drugs • China Will Soon Have 30 Million More Men Than Women of Marriageable Age • China Vows to Stop Bias Toward Male Children • Worth Considering...a quote from Richard John Neuhaus on the work of sociologist Philip Rieff

 

January 2, 2007    ‘Designer’ Babies with Made-to-Order Defects? • Group Recommends Down Syndrome Testing • What’s Making Us Sick Is an Epidemic of Diagnoses • FDA: Cloned Livestock Is Safe to Eat • Spaniard, 67, Becomes World’s Oldest Mum with Twins • UK Report Says Robots Will Have Rights • He Turns Patients’ Cells to Body Parts • Illegal Drug Use Among Teenagers Continues to Fall • How to Live to a Ripe Old Age Without Losing Your Marbles • Worth Considering...a quote from “A Clash Within the West?” by Nathan Gardels

 

December 21, 2006    The Babies Who Are Murdered to Order • Doctors Turn to Aborted Fetus to Save Boy’s Life • High-Dose Fertility Drugs Put Mothers and Babies at Risk • My Father Was an Anonymous Sperm Donor • Breast Cancer Rate Dropped with Halt in Hormone Use • The Impact of Genetic Discrimination • Should Severely Disabled Kids Be Kept Small? • Dying Fla. Man Not Entitled to Friend’s Kidney • Selling Her Body, a Few Eggs at a Time • Worth Considering...a quote from “What We Know About Embryonic Stem Cells,” by Maureen L. Condic

 

December 4, 2006    I’m Not a Saint, Just a Parent • Cancer Chemotherapy is Shown to Impair the Brain • New Human Gene Map Shows Unexpected Differences • Beyond the Right to Life • Researcher Charged with Conflict • Financial Ties Found Among Clinical Trials • Peering Into the Future: Genetic Testing • Worth Considering...a quote from “Living in the Shadow of Mönchberg:  Prenatal Testing and Genetic Abortion,” by Elizabeth R. Schiltz

 

November 17, 2006    Ahead Of Their Time • Blind Mice See Again after Cell Transplants • When Blind Faith in a Medical Fix Is Broken • Scientists Build World’s First Artificial Stomach • Gene-Therapy Optimism, Despite Tucsonan’s Death • Baby Born a Record 13 Years after Embryo Was Frozen • Obstetricians Call for Debate on Ethics of Euthanasia for Very Sick Babies • Neonatal Medicine—The Moral Maze • Results of Secret Nazi Breeding Program: Ordinary Folks • Doctors Offer Illegal Baby Sexing • First UK Embryo Test Babies Born • Worth Considering...a quote from “An Everlasting Life,” by James L. Sauer

 

October 31, 2006    Adult Stem Cell Success Stories—2006 • British Scientists Grow Human Liver in a Laboratory • Experimenting with Live Patients • Reproduction Revolution: Sex for Fun, IVF for Children • Older Women Make Grand Mothers, Say Researchers • ‘Personalised’ Cancer Drug Test • Why Won’t They Let Parkinson’s Sufferers Take a Life-Changing Drug? • Anti-Psychotics Little Help for Alzheimer’s Sufferers • No Nine Lives for Cat-Cloning Business • Worth Considering...a quote from “The Perils of Indifference,” by Elie Wiesel

 

October 12, 2006    UCSD Developing New Genome Sequencing Technology • New Breast Cancer Gene Discovered • Kissing Hospice Goodbye • Chemo Has Long-Term Impact on Brain Function, Study Finds • Agency Agrees to Review Human Stem Cell Patents • Nobel-Winning Technology Already an Industry • Nutrigenetic Testing • Doctors Allegedly Abuse Elderly Patients • Nanosolution Halts Bleeding • Worth Considering...a quote from “Gifts of the Body,” by Gilbert Meilaender

 

September 29, 2006    Bionic Arm Provides Hope for Amputees • A Question of Mind Over Matter • Animal Activism: Out of Control • New Stem Cell Ethics Issue Emerges • Live Long? Die Young? Answer Isn’t Just in Genes • Many U.S. Couples Seek Embryo Screening • High Infant Mortality Seen with Elective C-section • More Britons in Assisted Suicides • Organ Sales ‘Thriving’ in China • Fertility Clinic Mix-up Sparks Legal Tangle • Worth Considering...a quote from “The Feminist Case Against Abortion,” by Serrin M. Foster

 

September 13, 2006    Seeking Healthy Children, Couples Cull Embryos • Designer Babies - What Would You Do for a ‘Healthy’ Baby? • Stolen Body Parts Implanted in NHS Patients • Pro-Euthanasia Attorney to Head ABA’s Special Bioethics Committee • Brain Images of Woman in Vegetative State Hint at Awareness • Back From the Dead • Womb Transplants Could be Two Years Away, Experts Claim • The Wide, Wild World of Genetic Testing • ‘Eugenic Abortion’ Among Ethical Issues Raised About Prenatal Gene Testing • Seeking Straight A’s, Parents Push for Pills • Worth Considering...a quote from “The First Fourteen Days of Human Life,” by Patrick Lee and Robert P. George

 

August 30, 2006    Petitioning for Life • Embryo-Safe Stem Cells Created • Science by Press Release • Body Parts Harvested in N.C. Are Recalled • South Dakota Becomes Abortion Focal Point • Pro-Life Spokeswoman Protests FDA Approval of “Plan B” Without Prescription • To Be a Burden Is to Be Truly Human • Hundreds Wrongly Told They are MS Sufferers  • Worth Considering...a quote from “No Other Gods,” by Robert L. Wilken

 

August 16, 2006    Ethical Row Over World’s First ‘Made to Order’ Embryos • Doping on Tour Down to a Science • Separated Twins’ Condition Upgraded • Costly Drugs Force Life, Death Decisions • Ultrasound Scans Can Affect Brain Development • Pass the Virtual Scalpel, Nurse • Contagious Canine Cancer Spread by Parasites • Skin Test Could Detect Alzheimer’s Disease Early • A Barbaric Kind of Beauty • Worth Considering...a quote from “The Present World Flight,” by Philip Rieff

 

August 1, 2006    Souls On Ice: America’s Embryo Glut and the Wasted Promise of Stem Cell Research • Science’s Stem Cell Scam • Science Gets Duped Again • Flawed Facts on Stem Cells • How Faith Saved the Atheist • Darwin’s End • Democrats Block Progress of Abortion Transport Bill • Brain-Computer Link Lets Paralyzed Patients Convert Thoughts Into Actions • The Blend of Drugs that Can ‘Stop MS in Its Tracks’ • Women Who Give Eggs to Science to Get Cut-Price IVF • Confessions of a “Genetic Outlaw” • Worth Considering...a quote from “Comments on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘The Birth-Mark,’” by William F. May

 

July 18, 2006    For Some, There Is No Choice • Religious Row Over Stem Cell Work • Man’s Brain Rewired Itself After Crash Severed Nerve Connections • Diabetes May be Linked to Alzheimer’s: Studies • Why Think Abortion Good for Anyone? • It’s About Love • Legalising Euthanasia ‘Hurts Disabled’ • ‘Bionic Man’ Can Control Robotic Arm with His Mind • Doctors Change Euthanasia Stance • Woman, 63, is Mother to Baby Boy • Worth Considering...a quote from “The Modern View of Liberty,” by Peter Augustine Lawler

 

June 30, 2006    11 Cousins have Stomachs Removed to Avoid Cancer Risk • Wired for Hope • Embryo Test ‘Offers Parents Hope’ • Cut-Off Genes • Benefits of Stem Cells to Human Patients: Adult Stem Cells v. Embryonic Stem Cells • Painful Questions of Blame • In the Dock: The Man Who Caused the Great MMR Scare • The Very Profitable Business of Creating Babies • Report: Shut Down Failing Transplant Centers • Controversial Organ Donation Method Begins in Canada—Organs Extracted 5 Minutes after Heart Stops • Worth Considering...a quote from “Biotechnology and the Spirit of Capitalism,” by Eric Cohen

 

June 15, 2006    Self-Mutilation Rampant at 2 Ivy League Schools • New Drugs for Cancer Could Soon Flood Market • Use of Antipsychotics by the Young Rose Fivefold • First Beating-Heart Transplant Gives Hope for Future Patients • Contact Lens Designed to Give Athlete an Edge • Planned Parenthood Abortion Business Makes Nearly $900 Million Last Year • Harvard Announces Private Project to Make Human Stem Cells • Death by Geography • Call for No-Consent Euthanasia • Care Not Killing Responds to Professor Doyal’s Statement • Dolly Creator Calls for Embryo Cloning to Alter Disease Genes • A Dose Of Genius • Worth Considering...a quote from Enough, by Bill McKibben

 

June 1, 2006    The High Price of Women’s Eggs • Slightly Early Births Rise, With Health Consequences • Is There a Human Right to be Superhuman? • Pill ‘Reverses’ Vegetative State • Spotty Mice Flout Genetics Laws • Babies with Club Feet Aborted • Three-Armed Baby: How Does It Happen? • Marketing the Illness and the Cure? • Freezing Young Eggs an Option for Women • Vegan Diet Lowers Odds of Having Twins • Worth Considering...a quote from “Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood: A Neurodevelopmental Perspective on A.A. Milne,” by Sarah E. Shea, Kevin Gordon, Ann Hawkins, Janet Kawchuk, and Donna Smith

 

May 18, 2006    Teen Prescription Drug Abuse ‘Entrenched’ • Human Embryos in Britain May Be Screened for Cancer Risk • Knowledge Is Power, but Can You Handle It? • Patent Offending • Cancer Dad Joins Fight Against Euthanasia Bill Saying: ‘I’m glad that I decided to live’ • Euthanasia Bill:  The Religious and the Righteous Unite in a Moral Crusade • For Two Transplant Patients, a Dire Complication: West Nile • Less Health Care Can Be Better for Elderly • State Acts to Curtail Suicides by Older Adults • Worth Considering...a quote from “Triumph or Tragedy: The Moral Meaning of Genetic Technology,” by Leon R. Kass

 

May 2, 2006    Experts Defining Mental Disorders Are Linked to Drug Firms • Taking the Least of You • The Body Snatchers • Woman Says She Has Feeling in New Face • A Painless Donation, an Enduring Lifeline • Scientists Solve Bone Disease Mystery • Paralysis Cure Worth Waiting For • Male Contraceptive ‘Reversible’ • Recipients: Stolen Body Parts Infected • Worth Considering...a quote from “Medicine and the Liberal Revolution,” by Oliver O’Donovan

 

April 17, 2006    Lab-Grown Bladders ‘A Milestone’ • Print Me A Heart and A Set of Arteries • Pregnant Robot Tests Medical Talents • The Taxpayers’ Stake in End-of-Life Decisions • UT Professor Says Death Is Imminent • Fetuses Called Impervious to Sensation of Pain • Anyone for Tennis, at the Age of 150? • Pioneering Surgery on Girl, 12, Reverses Heart Transplant • A Crystal Ball Submerged in a Test Tube • Egypt’s Illegal Organs Trade Thrives on Poverty • Worth Considering...a quote from “Pharmaceutical Marketing and the Invention of the Medical Consumer,” by Kalman Applbaum

 

March 29, 2006    Egg-Donor Business Booms on Campuses • Wanted: A Few Good Sperm • N. Korean Defector Says Disabled Newborns Are Killed • Court Allows ‘Choose Life’ License Plates in Tennessee • Plastic Nation? 10 Million Cosmetic Procedures in U.S. in 2005 • The Fat From These Pigs May End Up Helping Your Heart • Two More Women Die After Taking Abortion Pill • Hwang Sacked as Probe Exonerates Team Members • Anti-Psychotics for Kids Raise Concerns • More Adults Using ADHD Drugs, Fewer Young Kids • FDA Panel Mulling New Warnings on ADHD Drugs • Worth Considering...a quote from “Better Children,” by The President’s Council on Bioethics

 

March 16, 2006    A Wrongful Birth? • More Nips and Tucks for Men On the Job • Body Artists Customize Your Flesh • Kickbacks Eyed in Corpse Looting Probe • Researchers to Begin Brain Stem Cell Trial • A Nation of Guinea Pigs • Tracking the Times • US State Tightens Abortion Laws • Should We All Be on Statins • Worth Considering...a quote from “The Morality of Complacency,” by Chantal Delsol

 

March 2, 2006    Supreme Court Backs Abortion Protesters in Unanimous Ruling • Justices to Revisit Late-Term Abortion Ban • Miss. Bill to Ban Most Abortions Advances • Call to Allow Body Organ Selling • Beauty on the Black Market • As Canada’s Slow-Motion Public Health System Falters, Private Medical Care Is Surging • “That Thing in a Petri Dish” • ‘Pharmed’ Goat Drug Not Approved • Fake Findings Used to Secure $16M Grant • The Savage Solution • Worth Considering...a quote from “Technologies of Desire: Theology, Ethics, and the Enhancement of Human Traits,” by Gerald P. McKenny

 

February 16, 2006    Sports Authorities Fear Gene Doping Not Far Off • Danger Zone • Medical Ethics Reform Urged • Children with Down Syndrome Sought for Adoption • Cancer Deaths Decline for 1st Time Since 1930 • Price of Beauty: Jail for Fake Botox Docs • Face-Transplant Recipient Makes an Appearance • U.S. Regulators Approve Insulin in Inhaled Form • Babies Born with Defects on the Rise - Report • One’s Own Stem Cells May Treat Lupus • Primary Care About to Collapse, Physicians Warn • Worth Considering...a quote from “Life Is A Miracle,” by Wendell Berry

 

January 24, 2006    British Scientists Are Seeking Permission to Create Hybrid Embryos by Fusing Human Cells with Rabbit Eggs. • Euthanasia: Doctors Aid 3,000 Deaths • Stem Cell effort Mired in Legal Bog, Global Scandal — With Prop. 71 Funding on Hold, California’s Lead Role in Doubt • Cloned Stem Cells Prove Identical to Fertilized Stem Cells • Scientists Discover Method to Multiply an Adult Stem Cell 30-fold • “Hwang Myth” Spurs Dubious Stem Cell Tests • Supreme Court Upholds Physician-Assisted Suicide • Medical Devices Are Hot, Which Is Why Guidant Is • CDC Report Looks at Down Syndrome Cases • Error Rate Greatest In Hospital Radiology • Worth Considering...a quote from “Cast Me Not Off in Old Age,” by Eric Cohen and Leon Kass

 

January 5, 2006    Katrina Investigation Focuses on More Than One Person • New Scan “May Save Babies’ Lives” • Another Cloning “Breakthrough” • Junior Researcher Says She Was Forced to Donate Eggs • South Korean Stem Cell Scandal Could Sink Deeper • Human Stem Cell Process Found • No Cause for Tamiflu Terror • Chinese Inmates’ Organs for Sale to Britons • Bone Brokers Steal, Deal Disease on Black Market • Depression Drugs Safe, Beneficial, Studies Say • Worth Considering...a quote from “Forgetting That We Are Fallen: The Slothful Self,” by Jean Bethke Elshtain

 

December 21, 2005    To Clone or Not to Clone • U of L Achieves ‘Amazing’ Find with Stem Cells • Embattled Cloning Researcher Admits Problems but Stands by Results • Dr. Hwang Dropped from Scientific American 50 for Faking Research • Cloning Chaos • FDA: Paxil Linked to Birth Defects • Hospitals Save Money, But Safety Is Questioned • Scientists Create Mice with Human Brain Cells • Having an Abortion Linked To Long-Term Anxiety, Stress • The Daughter Track: Caring for the Parents • Dementia: One New Case Every Seven Seconds • Swiss Hospital to Allow Suicide • Worth Considering...a quote from “Tomorrow’s Children,”  by Gina Maranto

 

December 7, 2005    Hello, I’m Your Sister. Our Father Is Donor 150. • China Admits Prisoner Organ Sales • Hwang’s Team Won’t Retest Its Stem Cells for Validity • New Row Breaks Out Over Face Transplant • Young, Assured and Playing Pharmacist to Friends • Umbilical Accord • Is Having a Child—Even One—Environmentally Destructive? • Gender Selection a Reality, But Is It Ethical? • Jack or Jill? The Era of Consumer-Driven Eugenics Has Begun • Worth Considering...a quote from “Designing Our Descendants,” by Gilbert Meilaender

 

November 18, 2005    U.S. Scientist Leaves Joint Stem Cell Project • Member of Hwang Team Involved in Ovum Scandal • ‘Stem Cell Hub’ Cloning Network Project Folding • Washington Post Abortion Doubters? • Remote Control Device ‘Controls’ Humans • Study Touts Early Down Syndrome Tests • A Hard Pill to Swallow • Warning Issued for Birth-Control Patch • Biohazards • Worth Considering...a quote from “The Moral Education of Doctors,” by Philip Overby

 

October 27, 2005    The Abortion Debate No One Wants to Have • Catholic Church Funds Adult Stem Cell Research • Medical Hope in Umbilical Cord Blood • Studies May Calm Stem-Cell Qualms • Taking a Closer Look... • More Illnesses Reported in IVF Kids Early On • Experts See Legal Abortion Without Roe • International Stem Cell Bank Opens • Clinic Searching for Egg Donors • Call for More, Earlier Use of Herceptin • Worth Considering...a quote from “Must a Patient Be a Person to Be a Patient? Or, My Uncle Charlie Is Not Much of a Person but He Is Still My Uncle Charlie,” by Stanley Hauerwas

 

October 6, 2005    Tense? Lonely? There’s Promise in a Pill • Scientists Aim for Lab-Grown Meat • Some Minds Appear Wired to Lie • White House Panel Warns of Aging Crisis • In Coma for 2 Years, Patient Says He Heard All • Hurricane Aftermath • Scientists Close to Safer Testing of Unborn Babies • Women Bypass Sex in Favour of ‘Instant Pregnancies’ • Worth Considering...a quote from “Faithful Stewards or Terrestrial Gods?  Christianity and the Chief End of Science,” a lecture by Ken Myers

 

September 15, 2005    Patients Put Down • Scandal of Newborn Babies Stolen from Their Mothers • Bioethics Council Head to Step Down • Rate of Premature Birth Hits New High in U.S. • The ‘Virgin Conception’ of First Human Embryo in UK • Concern Over Three-Parent Embryo • Zoos Prescribe Drugs to Anxious Animals • Lawsuits, Charges Sure to Follow Katrina • Worth Considering...a quote from “The Anti-Theology of the Body,” by David B. Hart

 

September 6, 2005    Scientists Challenge Fetal Pain Discussion • Stem Cell Advance Muddles Debate • Embryonic Stem Cells Found to Acquire Mutations • Japanese Doctors Claim Heart Disease Breakthrough • Stem Cell Hopes Distorted by ‘Arrogance and Spin’ • Jury: Merck Negligent • FDA Delays Decision on Morning-After Pill • Debate over Appeals for Organs Heats Up • From Foetus to Full Term—Without a Mother’s Touch • Possibility of a Continuously Functioning, Wearable or Implantable Artificial Kidney • Worth Considering...a quote from “The Culture:  ‘Upstream’ from Politics,” by William B. Wichterman

 

August 19, 2005    Robots Now Making Rounds in Hospitals • Doctor and Anti-Euthanasia Advocate Discuss Dutch Assisted Suicides • Abortion Pill Investigated in Four California Deaths • FDA to Decide Morning-After Pill’s Fate Soon • The ‘Morning-After Pill’, Abortion and Informed Consent • Hwang Plans World Stem Cell Hub • Fertility Watchdog Considers Cancer Gene Screening • Drug Researchers Leak Secrets to Wall St. • US Scientists Find Flexible Stem Cells in Placenta • Worth Considering...a quote from “The Caregiving Society,” by Peter Augustine Lawler

 

August 5, 2005    Brain-Dead Woman Dies After Giving Birth • Scientists Develop Nanotech-Laser Treatment that Kills Cancer Cells without Harming Healthy Tissue • Artificial Limbs in the High Tech Age • The Organ Factory • Moral Maturity • On Embryonic Stem Cells, Frist Backs A Loser • Cloning Plan Poses New Ethical Dilemma • In a Furry First, A Dog Is Cloned In South Korea • In Race to Stem Cell Center, New Jersey’s Efforts Stall • DNA Machine May Advance Genetic Sequencing for Patients • Worth Considering...a quote from “The Revenge of Conscience,” by J. Budziszewski

 

July 21, 2005    Susan Torres • Plea Deal Reached in Steroid Scandal • The Awful Truth About Drugs in Sports • You’re Not Good Enough! • Scientists Experiment With ‘Trust’ Hormone • Gov Orders Stem Cell Research • Panel: Use Caution in Stem Cell Study of Monkey Brains • Conflicts pitting doctors vs. patients—kin is Number 1 issue in medical ethics, Canadian experts say • Contentious Hearing Focuses on Stem Cells • Morning-After Pill May Be Banned From Wisconsin University Campuses • Worth Considering...a quote from “What’s Wrong with Enhancement,” by Michael J. Sandel

 

July 7, 2005    Stem Cell Pioneer Does a Reality Check • Stem Cell Division • New Report Reveals Rapid Growth of Stem Cell Technology Research, Despite Regulatory Barriers • Cows Milk Benefits of Stem Cells • Genetic Justice • PA Legislators Ponder Laws for Egg, Sperm Donors • The Ethics of Amputation by Choice • Test Reveals Gender Early in Pregnancy • Brain Pacemaker Lifts Depression • BMA Drops Euthanasia Opposition • Worth Considering...a quote from “Biotech and the New Babel,” an interview with Leon Kass

 

June 23, 2005    Frozen Embryos Focus in Stem Cell Debate • Lancet Calls For Caution In Touting Potential For Embryonic Stem Cells • Why the Media Miss the Stem-Cell Story • Ethics, Eggs and Embryos • Nanoparticles Deliver Cancer Breakthrough • Morphine Fails to Control Pain in Preterm Infants • Doctor: Schiavo Autopsy Conclusions Flawed • ‘Two Dad’ Babies on the Horizon? • Scientists Study Scientists Behaving Badly • Thousands of Guidant Heart Defibrillators Being Recalled by U.S. Regulator • Worth Considering...a quote from “The Morality of Complacency,” by Chantal Delsol

 

June 10, 2005    Would You Have Allowed Bill Gates to be Born? • A Cruel Choice • President Discusses Embryo Adoption and Ethical Stem Cell Research • WARNING: Side Effects can be Severe • A Mother’s Last Act Of Love To Save Her Unborn Child • IBM to Build First Computer Model of Brain • Woman Gives Birth After Ovary Transplant • A Movement to Bring Grief Back Home • A Step Closer to Personalized Medication • Worth Considering...a quote from The Abolition of Man, by C. S. Lewis

 

May 25, 2005    House Passes Embryonic Stem Cell Bill • Korean Scientists Clone Stem Cells • UK Scientists Clone Human Embryo • Go Forth and Replicate • New Technique Boosts IVF Success to 80 Percent • Doctors Warn Over Right-to-Life • Medicine Goes to the Mall: Enhancement Technologies and Quality of Life • This Pill Will Make You Smarter • The Fusion of Man and Machine • ‘Bionic’ Arm Operation a Success • I'm Going to Live Forever • Worth Considering...a quote from “When Science Becomes a Superstition,” by Bryan Appleyard

 

May 11, 2005    Creating ‘Human-Animals’ for Research • Mind-Reading Machine Knows What You See • New Test for Cancer, More Sensitive than any Existing Techniques • Jeepers Creepers, Bionic Peepers • Scientists Dramatically Slow Organ Transplant Rejection • Researchers Tested Drugs on Foster Kids • Bush’s Second Chance • ADHD Drugs Move into the Workplace • Firefighter’s Miracle Recovery Rare In Long-Term Coma Cases • The Moral Fog of Progress • Worth Considering...a quote from choruses from “The Rock,” by T. S. Eliot

 

April 28, 2005    Love and Alzheimer’s • What Living Wills Won’t Do • Life-or-Death Decisions • Oregon Sees Fewer Numbers of Physician-Assisted Suicides • It Didn’t Start with Dolly • Aborting the Disabled • House Approves Bill Protecting Parental Involvement on Abortion • Surrogate Mother Has Quintuplets • Alzheimer’s Gene Therapy Slows Mental Decline • Worth Considering...a quote from “I Want to Burden My Loved Ones,” by Gilbert Meilaender

 

April 19, 2005    Aging and Care-Giving: Lessons on Assisted Suicide from the Oregon and Netherlands Experiences • End of the Affair • When Life Is on the Line • In Vermont, a Bid to Legalize Physician-Assisted Suicide • Schiavo Stokes Europe Euthanasia Debate • Europeans See Issue As Strictly Medical • Schiavo Raised Profile of Disabled • Culture War Hits Local Pharmacy • Illinois Governor: No Delays in Birth Control Prescriptions • Bishop Begs Governor:  Respect Freedom of Religion • Worth Considering...a quote from “A Poem of Difficult Hope,” by Wendell Berry

 

March 30, 2005    How Liberalism Failed Terri Schiavo • The Politics of the Schiavo Case • The Strange Death of the Liberal West • A Regrettable Limit on Life • Bigotry and the Murder of Terri Schiavo • Ethics & Life’s Ending:  An Exchange • “Always to Care, Never to Kill” • Terri Schiavo—Enduring Questions • Worth Considering...a quote from “About Sacrifice,” by G. K. Chesterton

 

March 17, 2005    Study Shows Methylphenidate Linked to Chromosomal Changes • Again with Feeling, the Pills Didn’t Kill • Genetic Tests Could Prevent Drug Reactions • DNA Testing Goes DIY • General Assembly Adopts United Nations Declaration on Human Coning by Vote of 84-34-37 • Cloning Sparks Concern Over Egg Donors • An Open Letter from Suzanne Parisian, M.D. • Embryo Cells Not Like Peas in a Pod • IVF Embryos May Be Starved of a Vital Ingredient • Celling & Building a Culture of Death • Worth Considering...a quote from After Virtue, by Alasdair MacIntyre

 

March 3, 2005    A Cut Above • Novel Bioethics • Oregon’s Assisted-suicide Law to get High Court Airing • Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Schiavo Appeal • Replacing Humans • Doctors Urge Breast-feeding for Six Months • Vatican Decries ‘Religion of Health’ • Pet Clones Spur Call For Limits • Stealth Cloning • Worth Considering...a quote from “Hippocrates and Medicine in the Third Millennium,” by John Patrick

 

February 19, 2005    After 20 Years of Silence, Brain-Damaged Woman Begins Talking • Signs of Awareness Seen in Brain-Injured Patients • Hospital Plans to Remove Patient from Life Support Despite Daughter’s Wishes • Health and Happiness Aren’t Always Linked • Dolly Expert is to Clone Embryos • Judge Says Lost Embryo A Human • Eating Disorders Rising Among Older Women • Special Delivery • Stem-Cell Method May Cheat Death • Worth Considering...a quote from A Consumer’s Guide to a Brave New World, by Wesley J. Smith

 

February 4, 2005    Marrow Has Cells Like Stem Cells, Tests Show • Leap in U.S. Infant Mortality Due to Low Birth Weight • Stem Cell Lines Compromised? • Defect Risk is 40pct Higher with IVF • Risky Sex Habits Linked to Early Death, Disability • Confessions of an Abortion Doctor • Driven by Costs, Fertility Clients Head Overseas • Brain Scans for Sale • Iowa Doctors Say No to Drug Companies • New Study Criticizes Painkiller Marketing • Worth Considering...a quote from the Preface of Human Dignity in the Biotech Century:  A Christian Vision for Public Policy, by Charles W. Colson and Nigel M. de S. Cameron, editors

 

January 25, 2005    Short Kids Reach New Heights with Costly Drug • Human Growth Hormone and the Measure of Man • Patients Put on Thinking Caps • Acorns and Embryos • Organ Donation Poses Painful Family Decision • Second Thoughts About Body Parts • Fertility Clinic Ethics Raises Concerns • Fatherhood by a New Formula • An Inconceivable Dilemma • Worth Considering...a quote from “Separating Sex and Reproduction: The Ambiguous Triumphs of Technology,” by Nigel Cameron

 

January 8, 2005    ALS Treatment Creates Crisis of Faith for Two Baptist Families • Although My Child Was Born With a Congenital Defect, I Fear for a World in Which Parents Can Choose the Perfect Baby • Sometimes, Your New Smile Will Make You Frown • A Pro-Life Mistake • Planned Parenthood Has Profitable Year • Gene Test for Child’s Sporting Chance • JHU Scientists Develop Method to Replicate Stem Cells from the Heart • Scientists ‘Map’ Key Brain Genes • FDA: Scientist Can Publish Controversial Vioxx Safety Data • At Least 530 Scientists Got Fees, Stock in Conflicts of Interest, Records Show • Are U.S. Drugs Safe? A Review of 2004's Drug Controversies • Romanian, 67, Pregnant with Twins • Worth Considering...a quote from Home-Alone America:  The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and other Parental Substitutes, by Mary Eberstadt

 

December 23, 2004    Boys ‘Cured’ with Gene Therapy • California’s New Stem-Cell Initiative Is Already Raising Concerns • Of Mice, Men and In-Between • ACLJ Asks Federal Appeals Court on Behalf of Members of Congress to Uphold Constitutionality of National Ban on Partial-Birth Abortion • Amicus Brief on Behalf of the American Center for Law and Justice and Various Members of Congress, in Support of Defendant-Appellant and Urging Reversal • Behold the World’s Smallest Baby - Larger Than Life • Pfizer to Stop Advertising Celebrex • BrainGate™ System Clinical Trial • Bioethics:  Homo Respect-us • Where are the Ethics in Brazen Bioethics? • Worth Considering...a quote from “Flesh Not Meat: Are We More Than Matter?” a talk by Kenan Malik

 

December 7, 2004    Netherlands Hospital Euthanizes Babies • How the Battle of Waterloo Could Help Doctors Fight Death from Multiple Organ Failure • Record Number of Cesarean Births in 2003 • In Delivery Room, Baby and Doctor at Risk • Flu Crisis Sparks Fresh Look at Vaccine Production • Contracts Keep Drug Research Out of Reach • No Child Left Unmedicated • Korean Scientists Succeed in Stem Cell Therapy • In Studies, Umbilical Cord Blood Shows Promise for Adults • Medical Journal Calls for a New Drug Watchdog • Plastic Surgery Gift Vouchers for Christmas? • Students Take ADHD Drug to Boost Scores • Worth Considering...a quote from “The Weight of Glory,” by C. S. Lewis

 

November 19, 2004    Behind Celebrity Endorsements • Human Rights for All • Is It Really Never Too Late to Have a New Baby? • Chips Coming to a Brain Near You • The Baby Trade • Are Abortion Pill Safety Warnings Enough? • Christian Medical Association Doctors: Politics Played a Role in RU-486 Abortion Deaths • Her Mother’s Glory • The Empty Cradle—Falling Birth Rates and the Human Future • Worth Considering...a quote from “Two Concepts of Secularism,” by Wilfred McClay

 

November 6, 2004    Better Playing Through Chemistry • Dying to Donate? • Fetal Tissue Graft Restores Lost Sight • ‘Back-Alley Abortions’ in the 21st Century • Cancer-free ‘Designer Babies’ Get Approval • Is Every Memory Worth Keeping? • Brain Chip Offers Hope for Paralyzed • All Bio Systems Are Go • Human Gene Number Slashed • Internet Kidney Op Gets Go-ahead • Scientist Build a ‘Brain’ From Rat Cells • Worth Considering...a quote from The End of the Modern World:  A Search for Orientation, by Romano Guardini

 

October 19, 2004    Transhumanism • Group Seeks Limits on Drug-financed Doctors • Gene Test Offers Hope for Brain Cancer Patients • Cloned Kitties Star at New York Cat Show • France Green Lights Stem Cells • Harvard Has Human Cloning Plans • Free to Clone • Coroner: Removing Man’s Organs was Homicide • FDA Approves Computer Chip for Humans • Mandatory Mental Health Screening Threatens Privacy, Parental Rights • Many States Would Ban Abortion, Report Finds • Worth Considering...a quote from Robert P. George’s Personal Statement in Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry (produced by The President’s Council on Bioethics)

 

October 6, 2004    Artificial Retina • China Grapples with Legacy of Its ‘Missing Girls’ • Sex Selection Goes Mainstream • Couple Allowed to Select an Embryo to Save Sibling • The Womb as Photo Studio • Bone Marrow Cells Regenerate Heart in Brazil Test • First Birth After Ovarian Tissue Transplant • Stem Cells May Open Some Eyes • How Young Is Too Young to Have a Nose Job and Breast Implants? • Acupuncture Moves Toward the Mainstream • Worth Considering...a quote from “American Bioscience Meets the American Dream,” by Carl Elliott

 

September 18, 2004    Senseless on Stem Cells • Where Do the Extra Embryos Go? • Stem Cells Rise in Public Opinion • An outstanding overview of the stem cell controversy by the Christian Medical Association • Stem Cells and the Reagan Legacy • Cell Transplants for Diabetes Show Promise • What’s to Blame for the Rise in ADHD? • Now They Want to Euthanize Children • Bold New World for Bald Mice • The Human Face of Alzheimer’s • Worth Considering...a quote from The Unformed Conscience of Evangelicalism:  Recovering the Church’s Moral Vision, by J. Daryl Charles

 

September 4, 2004    Olympics Doping • Gene Doping • Geneticists Rewire Muscles to Create a ‘Marathon Mouse’ • First-Time Voters for Life • When One is Enough • Pro-Abortion Madness • Doctors Grow New Jaw in Man's Back • Cutting in Line for Organ Transplants • FDA Alters Tack On Children and Antidepressants • Worth Considering...a quote from the essay “Health Is Membership,” by Wendell Berry

 

August 21, 2004    Scientists Given Cloning Go-ahead • Germans Call for European Ban on Embryo Cloning • None Dare Call It Cloning • Gene Therapy Turns Lazy Monkeys into Workaholics • Terminal Sedation Often Used in End-of-Life Care in the Netherlands • Microscope Sees the Big Picture • NIH to Set Stiff Restrictions on Outside Consulting • Doctors Tend to Ignore Living Wills • Experiments Meld Brain, Machine • Worth Considering...a quote from the essay “Christ and Nothing,” by David B. Hart

 

August 8, 2004    Scientist Who Unlocked Secret of DNA Dies at 88 • Navigating a Patent Minefield • Singapore Wants You! • Maggots Make Medical Comeback • Pandora’s Baby • Big Business, Big Risks? • Patient Wins Right-to-life Ruling • Birth-defect Tests Bewilder Both Doctors, Parents-to-be • Worth Considering...a quote from The Everlasting Man, by G. K. Chesterton

 

July 24, 2004    Bad Seed • Barr Makes Bid on ‘Morning-After’ Pill • Macrophages, Not Stem Cells, Correct Liver Disease By Fusion • As Stem-cell Debate Heats Up, Public Still Uninformed and Undecided • ‘Designer Baby’ Decision Flawed, Say Prelates • ‘Designer baby’ Rules Are Relaxed • Gene Responsible for the Onset of Aging • U.S. Renews Fight Against Assisted-suicide Law • Suing for the Right to Live • Worth Considering...a quote from What we Can’t Not Know:  A Guide, by J. Budziszewski

 

July 10, 2004    The Humanoid Race • FDA Approves Leeches as Medical Devices • Panel Suggests Neck Implant for Depression • Cocktail Hour • Your Genes Can Affect Drug Activity • Human Genome on a Chip • Genetically-modified Virus Explodes Cancer Cells • Alternative Medicine Growing in Popularity • Worth Considering...a quote from Rapture:  How Biotech Became the New Religion—A Raucous Tour of Cloning, Transhumanism, and the New Era of Immortality, by Brian Alexander

 

June 19, 2004    The Case Against Perfection (essay) • The Case Against Perfection:  An Audio Interview with Michael Sandel and Dr. Gregory Stock, from NPR • Cows Immune to BSE Near Reality • Britain Opens Stem Cell Bank • Mind Over Video Game • 10-Ounce Baby Grows Up, Goes Home • Cell Wars • Stem Cells An Unlikely Therapy for Alzheimer's • Worth Considering...a quote from The Birthmark, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

 

May 29, 2004    eBay Axes ‘Schwarzenegger’s DNA’ Listing (A used cough drop was up for sale) • Killer Convicted Thanks to Brother’s DNA • Clubbers Choose Chip Implants to Jump Queues • Using M.R.I.’s to See Politics on the Brain • When Alzheimer's Steals the Mind, How Aggressively to Treat the Body? • Cochlear Implants Best When Started Young • Googling the Genome • The Paradox of Conservative Bioethics (essay) • Love for Pregnancy Makes Jill Hawkins a Baby Factory! • Value of Living Wills Under Fire • Worth Considering...a quote from the essay “It Killed the Cat:  The Vice of Curiosity,” by Gilbert C. Meilaender.

 

May 6, 2004    Is Ugliness a Disease? (essay) • Is Aging a Disease?  It's Debatable • Too Posh to Push • Pinker Says It’s Nature, Not Nurture • Scientist Plan Teeth that Regrow • The Politics of Bioethics (essay) • Mouse Created Without Father • ‘Living Bandages’ Heal Burns with Patient’s Cells • Study Links Dental X-Rays During Pregnancy to Smaller Babies • DNA Computer Could Fight Cancer • Worth Considering...a quote from Who Are We?  Critical Reflections and Hopeful Possibilities, by Jean Bethke Elshtain.

 

April 24, 2004    The Altered Human Is Already Here (essay) • After the Double Helix:  Unraveling the Mysteries of the State of Being • The Nightmares of Choice (The Psychological Effects of Performing Abortions) • Biotech Regulation Falls Short, Report Says • With Tiny Brain Implants, Just Thinking May Make It So • Study: Test-Tube Multiple Births Declining • Bioethics Council Reaches Consensus on Assisted Reproduction • Study Advises Against Drugs for Children in Depression • Worth Considering...a quote from “Choruses from ‘The Rock,’” by T. S. Eliot.