Bioethics Forum EssayTime to Change FDA’s Discriminatory Blood Donation PolicyA recent flurry of articles in the mainstream media (The Atlantic,CNN, Huffington Post) reflects yet another wave of protest against the Food and Drug Administration’s blood donation policy, which prohibits men who...Read Time to Change FDA’s Discriminatory Blood Donation PolicyBioethics Forum EssayHealth Care for Undocumented Immigrants: A Family IssueIn a presidential campaign riven with disagreement about nearly everything to do with health care, there is a notable area of bipartisan accord: both parties support improving children’s health and...Read Health Care for Undocumented Immigrants: A Family IssueBioethics Forum EssayFor a Survivor, it’s Not Easy Being PinkI am a breast cancer survivor and I am not a fan of the huge “pink” industry that has developed around breast cancer. We have ribbons, pins, and bands. We...Read For a Survivor, it’s Not Easy Being PinkBioethics Forum EssayThe Presidential Bioethics Debate 2012With the first presidential debate beginning tonight and the race entering the final stretch, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are making their final policy pitches to the American public. While...Read The Presidential Bioethics Debate 2012Bioethics Forum EssaySyria’s War Against MedicineOn Monday, the Global Post published Inside Syria: One Hospital’s Story, which offers a glimpse into an emergency room in Aleppo, Syria, flooded with wounded Syrians. “I didn’t see this amount of blood...Read Syria’s War Against MedicineBioethics Forum EssayTake Our Poll: The Facebook Effect on Organ DonationBlair and Alfred Sadler reported here a few weeks ago on the effect of Facebook’s feature, introduced last spring, that enables users to link to their local organ donation registries and share their...Read Take Our Poll: The Facebook Effect on Organ DonationBioethics Forum EssayConscientious Objection and Undocumented Migrants in SpainFor decades, all undocumented migrants in Spain have had access health care, but that changed drastically on September 1, when a new law went into effect that provides coverage to...Read Conscientious Objection and Undocumented Migrants in SpainBioethics Forum EssayRitual Circumcision: Ban Metzitzah b’pehMale newborn circumcision has been much in the news of late. In Germany, the procedure was criminalized in the Cologne Regional Court, and on August 21 the firstmohel(Jewish traditional practitioner)...Read Ritual Circumcision: Ban Metzitzah b’pehBioethics Forum EssayThe Flip-flop over ForeskinThe American Academy of Pediatricians recently released a statement saying that the health benefits of circumcision outweighed the risks. This pronouncement contradicts the Academy’s earlier ruling, just thirteen years ago in 1999, which...Read The Flip-flop over ForeskinBioethics Forum EssayCan Social Media Increase Transplant Donation and Save Lives?While at the National Institutes of Health in 1967 and 1968, we were involved in the design and drafting of the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, in partnership with the Commissioners...Read Can Social Media Increase Transplant Donation and Save Lives?