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By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan and his colleague Alison Bateman-House have a new post in Time about government authority to quarantine individuals who pose a risk of infecting others, and the practical logistics of carrying…
By Art Caplan A new working group at the NYU Langone Medical Center has issued preliminary findings from their studies on the research ethics of compassionate use. Among their findings include: Biotechnology companies have no legal…
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a new video on Medscape laying out the principles behind rationing limited supplies of experimental ebola treatments. As he explains: I believe the answer to the question of who should receive the…
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a series of new opinion pieces out on the WHO ethics advisory committee meeting that approved the use of experimental drugs to treat patients ill with Ebola. He suggests…
By Arthur Caplan Amidst news from Spain that a 75-year-old Catholic priest has received the experimental treatment ZMapp for Ebola, Art Caplan critiques what he describes as the “bad science” behind choosing its recipients: ZMapp is not the…
By Arthur Caplan As the WHO announced today that medical ethicists will convene next week in New York to discuss the use of experimental medicines in the West African Ebola outbreak, Art Caplan has a timely new opinion…
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a new opinion piece on NBC News responding to the recent media coverage of Ebola. He makes the case that although this has been the worst recorded outbreak of the disease, citizens of…
By Arthur Caplan Bill of Health Contributor Art Caplan and ethicist Kelly McBride have launched a new twice-weekly podcast, Everyday Ethics, in which they explore the moral dimensions of our everyday lives. Recent topics have included conflicts of interest…
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a new Op-Ed on The Council for Secular Humanism about when human life begin. From the piece: “When does human life begin? For those in the “personhood” movement in the United…
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a new opinion piece on NBCNews about a recently published study in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, where a Facebook scientist teamed up with two academics to subtly tweak…
