http://goldbamboo.com/ Bioethics News from GoldBamboo.com en-us © 2005, Gold Bamboo LLC, All Rights Reserved http://goldbamboo.com/news-a213127.html It is never too late, despite what traditionalists may say, to start a tradition.  As all eyes turn to 2007, I’m compelled to create a number of end-of-the year awards in bioethics.  Let's start with the losers. Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:01 EST http://goldbamboo.com/news-a217077.html A panel of HIV and bioethics experts are urging South Africa to enforce isolation of patients infected with a new deadly strain of TB to avoid a pandemic in the country where HIV is widespread. [click link for full article] Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:00 EST http://goldbamboo.com/news-a217021.html "With each new round of argument, the ethical questions at the heart of the [human] embryonic stem cell debate get buried under more layers of hype and confusion," Yuval Levin, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and former executive director of the President's Council on Bioethics, writes in a New York Times opinion piece (Levin, New York Times, 1/19). [click link for full article] Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:00 EST http://goldbamboo.com/news-a210045.html Jonathan Moreno discusses his new book, Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense (Nov. 2006/Dana Press) in a public lecture featuring Jennifer Bard, Professor of Law and Director of the Health Law Program, Texas Tech University; and, Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Senior Fellow of the Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania. [click link for full article] Tue, 05 Dec 2006 05:00 EST http://goldbamboo.com/news-a209358.html Although "stem cells hold the promise of incredible medical progress," government funding for stem cell research creates a "false hope" and "will only inhibit private donors and investors from stepping up to the plate," Sigrid Fry-Revere, director of bioethics studies at the Cato Institute, writes in a Los Angeles Times opinion piece. [click link for full article] Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:00 EST