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• The Hastings Center at 50: Looking Back and Ahead
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  February 13, 2019
• Chinese Bioethicists Respond to the Case of He Jiankui
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  February 7, 2019
• Scientists Disagree About the Ethics and Governance of Human Germline Editing
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  January 17, 2019
• Prevention Optimism: Does It Raise Ethical Questions about PrEP for HIV?
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  January 15, 2019
• He Jiankui’s Genetic Misadventure, Part 3: What Are the Major Ethical Issues?
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  January 10, 2019
• Calling on Doctors to Take the Lead in Fighting for Gun Control
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  December 19, 2018
• Staying in Their Lane: Health Professionals Must Address Gun Violence
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  December 17, 2018
• He Jiankui’s Genetic Misadventure, Part 2: How Different Are Chinese and Western Bioethics?
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  December 13, 2018
• Jiankui He: A Sorry Tale of High-Stakes Science
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  December 10, 2018
• CRISPR in China: Why Did the Parents Give Consent?
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  December 7, 2018
• He Jiankui’s Genetic Misadventure: Why Him? Why China?
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  December 5, 2018
• Should We Edit the Human Germline? Is Consensus Possible or Even Desirable?
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  December 4, 2018
• Three Ethical Reasons for Vaccinating your Children
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  November 19, 2018
• Bathroom Bioethics
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  November 9, 2018
• Old Jews
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  October 29, 2018
• What I Practice: Democratic Medicine
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  October 10, 2018
• Doping, Corruption, and International Intrigue: Olympic Sport Confronts a Moral Crisis
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  October 5, 2018
• Let the Sun Shine into the Medical Ivory Tower
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  September 20, 2018
• Wrongful Death Suits for Frozen Embryos: A Bad Idea
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  September 12, 2018
• England’s Abortion Law Catches Up
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  September 10, 2018
• Ethical Perspectives on Advance Directives for Dementia
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  September 6, 2018
• Avoiding Dementia, Causing Moral Distress
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  September 3, 2018
• Immigrant Health and the Moral Scandal of the “Public Charge” Rule
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  August 24, 2018
• Inside a High School Bioethics Club
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  August 10, 2018
• Newspaper Op-Eds Should Disclose Authors’ Industry Ties
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  July 24, 2018
• Jahi McMath, Race, and Bioethics
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  July 19, 2018
• Envisioning Civic Palliative Care
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  July 16, 2018
• Addyi Rises Again
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  July 11, 2018
• Social Media, Privacy, and Research: A Muddled Landscape
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  July 9, 2018
• Beyond Breaking News: Ways of Seeing Migrants and Their Children
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  July 5, 2018
• What Are the Rules for Ethical Medication of Migrant Kids?
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  July 2, 2018
• A Single-Payer Bubble?
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  June 28, 2018
• Love and Boundaries in Medicine
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  June 22, 2018
• Migrants’ Lives, Immigration Policy, and Ethics Work
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  June 20, 2018
• Do You Want the Police Snooping in Your DNA?
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  June 15, 2018
• Shocking the Conscience: Justice Department versus the Health of Immigrant Women and Children
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  June 12, 2018
• The Only PhD Scientist in Congress Speaks About Truth, Politics, and Human Flourishing
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  June 11, 2018
• Trumping Drug Costs
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  June 6, 2018
• Addressing Questions About DTC Genetic Tests and Privacy
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  June 4, 2018
• Might Chimpanzees Have Legal Rights?
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  May 30, 2018
• Is it Time to Regulate the Sale of Sugar to Minors?
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  May 18, 2018
• Should Doctors Treat Family Members?
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  May 11, 2018
• Hawaii’s New End-of-Life Law: Do the Additional Safeguards Withstand Scrutiny?
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  May 4, 2018
• Navigating Ethics Review of Human Infection Trials With Zika
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  April 30, 2018
• Palliative Care vs. Cancer Research
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  April 27, 2018
• Evaluating Recommendations to Increase Organ Donation
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  April 23, 2018
• Fentanyl at Your Door: Who are Pain Groups Advocating For?
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  April 19, 2018
• Organ Donation and Transplantation in the U.S.: 50 Years of Success, Strategies for Improvement
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  April 11, 2018
• The Need for Open and High Quality Preclinical Science
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  April 6, 2018
• “No one was listening to us.” Lessons from the Jahi McMath Case
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  April 4, 2018
• Gun Violence, Shame, and Social Change
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  March 30, 2018
• Chimpanzees: Persons or Things?
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  March 28, 2018
• Businesses, Guns, and Human Rights
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  March 22, 2018
• Does the Future Belong to Assisted Death?
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  March 19, 2018
• Being Poor Is a Full-Time Job
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  March 14, 2018
• Lena Dunham’s Lesson for Doctors
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  March 8, 2018
• Reproductive Freedom: The More Things Change . . .
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  March 2, 2018
• Breastfeeding and Transgender Women
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  February 21, 2018
• Vive la Bioéthique? France’s Bioethics Initiative
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  February 2, 2018
• Natural, Medical, Political Childbirth
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  January 31, 2018
• After Hurricane Harvey, Injustice in Houston
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  January 19, 2018
• A New Mind-Body Problem
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  January 10, 2018
• Improving Ethics at the Bedside
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  January 2, 2018
• Is Noninvasive Prenatal Genetic Testing Eugenic?
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  December 13, 2017
• Cancer and Fertility: Learning from Survivors
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  December 6, 2017
• Ethical Supervision?
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  November 27, 2017
• Medicine, Morals, and Female Genital Cutting
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  November 15, 2017
• When Are Organ Recipients Human Research Subjects?
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  November 10, 2017
• Do We Have a Moral Obligation to Genetically Enhance our Children?
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  October 31, 2017
• A Call for Medical Students to Learn the Full Story about the “Father of Gynecology”
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  October 5, 2017
• Fix the Planet, or Change the Creatures In It?
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  September 27, 2017
• Is it Ethical for Scientists to Create Nonhuman Primates with Brain Disorders?
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  September 25, 2017
• Should We Get Ready for Prime Time?
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  September 12, 2017
• International Sharing of Biological Specimens and Health Data: A Gap in the Consent Process?
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  August 30, 2017
• Being a Good Doctor When Patients Fear Deportation: Lessons for Future Physicians
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  August 21, 2017
• On Sims’s Legacy: Work for Bioethics
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  August 17, 2017
• What’s Truly Outrageous About Intersex?
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  August 15, 2017
• Removing the Stigma from “Stigmatopin” to Help Curb Opioid Dependence
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  August 11, 2017
• This Doctor Experimented on Slaves: It’s Time to Remove or Redo His Statue
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  August 7, 2017
• When Pat and Bob Nearly Saved Health Care Reform: A Lesson in Senatorial Bedside Manner
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  July 28, 2017
• Charlie Gard, Compassionate Use, and Single-Payer Health Care
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  July 26, 2017
• “The Handmaid’s Tale” and Modern-Day Surrogacy
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  July 13, 2017
• Is There a Duty to Participate in Biospecimen Research?
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  July 6, 2017
• Should We Stop Having Children?
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  July 5, 2017
• Masked Marketing: Pharmaceutical Company Funding of ADHD Patient Advocacy Groups
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  June 29, 2017
• Fake News: A Role for Neuroethics?
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  June 22, 2017
• The Score is Even
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  June 14, 2017
• The Climate Agreement: Understanding, and Leveraging, Public Opinion
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  June 6, 2017
• Has Physician-Assisted Death Become the “Good Death?”
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  May 30, 2017
• Who “Persists” in Opposing DNR Orders? Demographics Matter
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  May 18, 2017
• The Value of Bioethics Against Authoritarian Populism
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  May 16, 2017
• Morally Indefensible Health Care Bills
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  May 9, 2017
• Health Reform and Competing Visions of Justice
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  May 7, 2017
• Gene Editing, “Cultural Harms,” and Oversight Mechanisms
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  May 4, 2017
• A Right to Seek Payment for One’s Tissue
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  April 28, 2017
• How Can Research with Prisoners Be Done Ethically? Q&A with Charles Lidz
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  April 20, 2017
• OrthoKantics
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  April 18, 2017
• How “America First” Undermines Our Health
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  April 10, 2017
• Bioethics’ Best Response to Populist Polemics: Sticking to Its Roots
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  April 6, 2017
• The Symbolic Value of the Bioethics and Populism Debate
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  April 5, 2017
• Preventing Sex-Selective Abortions in America: A Solution in Search of a Problem
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  April 4, 2017
• Continuing the Dialogue on Bioethics and Populism
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  March 31, 2017
• Should Bioethics Respond to Authoritarian Populism?
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  March 29, 2017
• Neil Gorsuch, Aid in Dying, and Roe v. Wade
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  March 24, 2017
• A Doctor’s Dilemma: A Case of Two “Right” Answers
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  March 15, 2017
• Engineering Consensus in the Development of Genome Editing Policy
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  March 14, 2017
• Is Death in Trouble?
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  March 2, 2017
• New Homeland Security Rules and Health Care Access for Undocumented Immigrants
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  February 27, 2017
• Human Gene Editing Report: Moving Forward Incrementally
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  February 14, 2017
• Common Rule Revisions: Impact of Public Comment, and What’s Next?
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  February 8, 2017
• The Lady Writer and the Valkyrie: Magda Szabo’s Novel The Door
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  February 7, 2017
• The Nebulous Ethics of Human Germline Gene Editing
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  January 23, 2017
• Missing from NIH Primate Research Ethics Review: the Ethics
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  January 20, 2017
• Undocumented Patients in the Local Safety-Net: Tools for Teaching, Learning, and Practice
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  January 19, 2017
• Insights from Fictional Research Subjects
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  January 11, 2017
• The 21st Century Cures Act Sparks Values Debate
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  December 22, 2016
• Health Care Access for Undocumented Immigrants under the Trump Administration
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  December 19, 2016
• Public Health under the Trump Administration
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  December 16, 2016
• A Trump Bioethics Commission?
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  November 10, 2016
• After the Election Bioethics Faces a Rocky Road
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  November 9, 2016
• Shortcomings of the Revised “Helsinki Declaration” on Ethical Use of Health Databases
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  November 2, 2016
• Telemedicine Needs Ethical Guidelines
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  October 26, 2016
• The Era of the Motherless Embryo Just Got a Lot Closer
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  October 20, 2016
• EpiPens and the Sale of Fear
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  October 7, 2016
• The Challenge of High Drug Prices in the U.S.
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  October 5, 2016
• Being at Two with Nature and Mosquitoes
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  October 4, 2016
• “Testing in the East”: An Episode in Cold War Bioethics
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  September 21, 2016
• Imperfect Solutions to Driverless Car Dilemmas
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  September 14, 2016
• Why EpiPen Prices Are No Shock
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  September 13, 2016
• Experiments on Nonhuman Primates: Q & A with Anne Barnhill
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  September 12, 2016
• Hastings, Botswana, and Edinburgh: Bioethics Meets Detective Fiction
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  September 7, 2016
• Public Comment: Should NIH Fund Research on Human-Animal Chimeras?
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  August 30, 2016
• EpiPen Furor: Patient Groups Take Money, Stay Mum
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  August 29, 2016
• The Real Story Behind the Goldwater Rule
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  August 26, 2016
• Challenging Evolution?
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  July 22, 2016
• Sweet Grapes at the End of Life
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  July 7, 2016
• Driverless Cars: Can There Be a Moral Algorithm?
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  July 5, 2016
• Bioethics after Brexit
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  June 30, 2016
• Lincoln’s Promise: Congress, Veterans, and Traumatic Brain Injury
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  June 21, 2016
• Gene Drive Technology: Lessons of the Atomic Bomb
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  June 15, 2016
• Making Big Data Inclusive
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  June 3, 2016
• Use of Estimated Data Should Require Informed Consent
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  May 27, 2016
• Reframing Conscientious Care: Q&A with Mara Buchbinder
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  May 13, 2016
• U.S. Military Medical Ethics Guidelines in Limbo
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  May 3, 2016
• What’s Behind Gender Panic in the Restroom?
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  April 25, 2016
• Questions About Using “Mosaic” Embryos in IVF
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  April 22, 2016
• Canada Backpedals on Medical Aid in Dying
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  April 20, 2016
• Pharmaceutical Transparency Bills: What’s the Real Purpose?
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  April 15, 2016
• Do Documentaries Have to Tell the Truth?
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  April 14, 2016
• On Living to 100 or More
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  April 6, 2016
• Bathroom Bills, Bigotry, and Bioethics
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  March 31, 2016
• Singapore Case Notes: In the Community, Who is Ethics Education For?
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  March 22, 2016
• The Good of the Body
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  March 10, 2016
• Biopolitics and Epigenetics: Q & A with Charles Dupras
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  March 8, 2016
• Canada Marches toward Expansive Aid in Dying
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  March 2, 2016
• Read the Fine Print Before Sending Your Spit to 23andMe
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  February 26, 2016
• A FIRST-rate Oversight, and Other Problems with Studies of Medical Residents’ Work Hours
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  February 23, 2016
• El agua no es potabo: Immigration and Public Health Policy in Flint
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  February 17, 2016
• The CDC’s Graphic on Women and Alcohol is Flawed: Why That Matters
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  February 8, 2016
• “This is the first time I’ve been asked that question.” Hillary Clinton on PAD
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  February 5, 2016
• Responding to Zika: Ethical Challenges of Zoonotic Diseases
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  January 29, 2016
• Right to Try Laws and the Power of Stories
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  January 27, 2016
• Apple and Google Plan to Reinvent Health Care. Should We Worry?
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  January 26, 2016
• Could DTC Genome Testing Exacerbate Research Inequities?
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  January 20, 2016
• The Supreme Court and Health Care Access for Undocumented Immigrants
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  January 19, 2016
• Right to Try Laws and the Power of Stories
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  December 15, 2015
• Ethical Opposition to Right to Try Laws Is Easy to Articulate
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  December 14, 2015
• Gene Editing: Hope, Hype, and Caution
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  December 8, 2015
• Surrogacy Contracts Gain Legal Ground
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  December 1, 2015
• Why HPV Vaccination Should Not Be Required for School Attendance
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  November 12, 2015
• Response to Call for Essays: Social Media for Genetic Research
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  November 10, 2015
• The Case for Expanding Physician-Assisted Death to Psychiatric Conditions
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  November 4, 2015
• No ID in NC: Undocumented immigrants and the Identification Problem
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  October 29, 2015
• Fresh Territory for Bioethics: Silicon Valley
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  October 28, 2015
• Singapore Case Notes: Reframing “Family” Caregiving in the World’s Fastest Aging Society
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  October 23, 2015
• Ethics at the Chocolate Factory
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  October 22, 2015
• A Body With Bullet Holes and the Right to Arm Ourselves
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  October 12, 2015
• Making an Example of Martin Shkreli
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  October 6, 2015
• After Banning Torture, Psychology Association at a Crossroads
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  September 28, 2015
• DarkCo Petroceuticals, Angelic Solar Panels, and the SUPPORT Study
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  September 16, 2015
• Assisted-Dying Provisions: California Legislature Says Yes, the U.K. Says No
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  September 14, 2015
• The Medical Humanity of Oliver Sacks: In His Own Words
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  September 10, 2015
• The SUPPORT Study Case: Not Vindication
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  September 10, 2015
• Responding to Ebola: Fostering Transparency and Inclusivity
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  September 3, 2015
• Are Arguments about GMO Safety Really About Something Else?
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  August 28, 2015
• Banning Abortion for Down Syndrome: Legal or Ethical Justification?
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  August 26, 2015
• Ethics, Optics, and Medicine as Work: Backstage at Planned Parenthood
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  July 31, 2015
• Reasonable Regulation of Surrogate Motherhood
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  July 29, 2015
• Beyond the “Silver Tsunami”: Toward an Ethic for Aging Societies
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  July 21, 2015
• On a Radioactive Pig and Pope Francis
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  July 20, 2015
• From Jackie and Me: A Plea for Opt-Out Organ Donation
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  July 14, 2015
• California’s Strides in Providing Health Care for Undocumented Immigrants
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  July 13, 2015
• After the Supreme Court Decision on Lethal Injection Drug, More Questions
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  July 5, 2015
• Supreme Court Decision in King v Burwell: Backstory and Next Steps
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  June 26, 2015
• Rats Have Empathy, But What About the Scientists Who Experiment on Them?
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  June 24, 2015
• When Words Matter: Medical Education and the Care of Transgender Patients
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  June 16, 2015
• Why College Students Use Cognitive Enhancers: It’s Not Only about Grades
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  June 3, 2015
• Why New Zealand Should Permit Aid in Dying
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  June 1, 2015
• New in Skin Care: Natural and GMO
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  May 6, 2015
• Federal Recommendations on Use of Cognitive Enhancers
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  April 20, 2015
• Sex, Consent, and Dementia
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  April 15, 2015
• Suing for Justice? More on the U.S. STD Studies in Guatemala
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  April 3, 2015
• Sacred versus Synthetic? Nature Preservationism and Biotechnology
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  April 3, 2015
• A Moratorium on Gene Editing?
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  March 27, 2015
• DNA Phenotyping and Baby’s First Portrait
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  March 20, 2015
• The Drug that Cried “Feminism”
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  March 17, 2015
• Students and Professors Pay Tribute to John D. Arras
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  March 16, 2015
• New York City’s Compromise on Dangerous Circumcision Practice Leaves Infants at Risk
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  March 5, 2015
• Cognition Enhancement and Technological Unemployment
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  March 2, 2015
• Lessons from Ebola: Presidential Bioethics Commission Releases Recommendations on Preparedness for Public Health Emergencies
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  February 27, 2015
• Measles, Vaccination, and the Tragedy of the Commons
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  February 25, 2015
• Vaccine Exemptions and the Church-State Problem
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  February 23, 2015
• GM Mosquitoes: Risks and Emotions
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  February 20, 2015
• Dying: Closing the Gap between What We Know and What We Do
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  February 19, 2015
• Altering Nature to Preserve It
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  February 6, 2015
• Controlling the End Game of Dementia
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  February 3, 2015
• Have a Miscarriage and Go to Jail? Potential Consequences of Personhood Amendments
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  January 27, 2015
• Don’t Categorically Refuse CPR to Ebola Patients
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  January 15, 2015
• Modern Day Mengeles
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  January 12, 2015
• OHRP’s Dangerous Draft Guidance
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  December 21, 2014
• Two Cheers for Choosing Wisely
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  December 18, 2014
• Trapper’s Care in the Animal ER and Frank Talk about Costs
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  December 5, 2014
• How Brittany Maynard Changed the Conversation about Aid in Dying
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  December 1, 2014
• Responding to Ebola: Health Care Professionals’ Obligations to Provide Care
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  November 7, 2014
• Responding to Ebola: Misplaced Police Powers
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  November 4, 2014
• Responding to Ebola: The Question of Quarantine
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  October 28, 2014
• Responding to Ebola: Questions about Resuscitation
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  October 10, 2014
• New York City’s Innovative Approach to Helping Unaccompanied Minors
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  October 8, 2014
• Synthetic Biology: A Study in Reinvention
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  September 25, 2014
• Responding to Ebola: Retrofitting Governance Systems
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  September 18, 2014
• Just Published Hastings Center Report Highlights “Teaching Bioethics”
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  September 17, 2014
• Responding to Ebola: Organizational Ethics, Frontline Perspectives
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  September 9, 2014
• FDA Proposal for Regulating Laboratory Diagnostics Could Improve Patient Care
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  September 4, 2014
• Responding to Ebola: Selected Commentaries on Key Ethical Questions
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  August 22, 2014
• The FDA Proposes Roadblocks to Laboratory Diagnostics
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  August 19, 2014
• More French Paradoxes
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  August 8, 2014
• Facebook’s Emotion Experiment: Implications for Research Ethics
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  July 21, 2014
• Nature Isn’t What It Used To Be
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  July 17, 2014
• The VA Crisis is Fundamentally an Ethics Crisis
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  July 15, 2014
• Hobby Lobby Decision Likely to Increase Health Care Inequity
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  July 8, 2014
• Alzheimer’s Disease, Biomarkers, and Suicide: Why We Need to Think About All Three Together
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  July 7, 2014
• What Do We Owe to Child Migrants?
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  June 24, 2014
• Chronicling the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Through Art
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  June 12, 2014
• A Medical Student’s Call for Action Against Research Misconduct
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  June 3, 2014
• How I Learned Bioethics in Medical School
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  May 28, 2014
• LEGGO the Logo? Why Pharma Logos Belong on CME
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  May 19, 2014
• The Latest Challenge to Health Privacy: Health Care Consolidation
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  May 13, 2014
• A Decade’s Worth of Gene-Environment Interaction Studies, in Hindsight
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  April 23, 2014
• Genetic Testing in Torts Litigation – Justice or Injustice?
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  April 18, 2014
• Despite the Risks, and Because of Them, the FDA Should Permit Recycling Medical Implants
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  April 15, 2014
• What Role Should Bioethics Play in Global Health?
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  April 11, 2014
• A Blood Test to Predict Alzheimer’s Disease: What’s the Elephant in the Room?
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  April 7, 2014
• Borderline Disorder: Medical Personnel and Law Enforcement
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  April 3, 2014
• Synthetic Chromosomes
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  March 28, 2014
• How Bioethicists Can Help Reduce Global Health Inequities
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  March 25, 2014
• New York’s Measles Outbreak: Take Off Your Shoes and Roll Up Your Sleeve
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  March 19, 2014
• What’s at Stake with Genetically Modified Organisms
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  February 25, 2014
• Truvada: No Substitute for Responsible Sex
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  February 14, 2014
• De-Extinction: Could Technology Save Nature?
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  February 7, 2014
• Bioethics and the Dogma of “Brain Death”
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  February 3, 2014
• Orphans to History: A Response to the Bucharest Early Intervention Project Investigators
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  January 29, 2014
• “Health Care as Hospitality”: Organizational Ethics in a Migrant Health Clinic
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  January 28, 2014
• Genetic Information Is Not Always Benign
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  January 24, 2014
• New Recommendations for Research with Human Subjects Who Lack Consent Capacity
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  January 13, 2014
• Rounding Up Scientific Journals
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  January 10, 2014
• An ICU Nurse Discusses Brain Death
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  January 3, 2014
• Bloomberg, Nannying, and the Symbolic Value of Food Choice
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  December 20, 2013
• Bloomberg’s Health Legacy: What Inflames Consumer Passions in the Food Wars?
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  December 16, 2013
• Canada Confronts its Own “Tuskegee” Studies
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  December 9, 2013
• U.K.’s Landmark Case on Withholding Treatment Affirms the Importance of Patients’ Values
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  December 3, 2013
• Romanian Orphans Study: A Bioethicist Responds to Ethical Concerns
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  November 22, 2013
• Why Health Plan Cancellations Do Not Mean Failure for ACA
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  November 19, 2013
• Romanian Orphans Study: Investigators Respond to Ethical Questions
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  November 5, 2013
• In Search of Sterility
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  November 1, 2013
• Bioethics Books in Brief
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  October 29, 2013
• The Push for Data Transparency and Implications for Research
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  October 24, 2013
• Getting By with a Little Help from Your Friends
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  October 18, 2013
• Romanian Orphans: A Reconsideration of the Ethics of the Bucharest Early Intervention Project
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  October 15, 2013
• Doctors Googling Patients
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  October 8, 2013
• New Bioethics Education Resources: Read about Them Here; Find Them When the Government Shutdown Is Over
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  October 2, 2013
• “Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function” – Reason to Help, or Blame, the Poor?
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  September 26, 2013
• Charging Smokers Higher Health Insurance Rates: Is it Ethical?
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  September 19, 2013
• Support for Returning Results of Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarker Research
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  August 28, 2013
• The Supreme Court and the Fight Against AIDS
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  July 26, 2013
• As Chimp Research is Phased Out, Will Other Animal Research Decline?
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