By Arthur Caplan Fixing genes using cloning technique is worth the ethical risk A team of scientists at the Oregon National Primate Research Center and the Oregon Health & Science University are reporting a remarkable advance in…
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a new article out in the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics – “Free to choose but liable for the consequences: should non-vaccinators be penalized for the harm they…
By Patrick O’Leary In the October 22 edition of The New Yorker, Michael Specter wrote a fascinating article about the growing and exciting science of the human microbiome, the ecosystem of ten thousand or so…
If you’ve been following the fungal meningitis outbreak and wondering about the legal implications, take a listen to this audio interview with Glenn Cohen and personal injury lawyer Michael F. Barrett, hosted by Legal Talk Network’s…
Glenn Cohen, and his co-authors Jeremy Feigenbaum and Eli Adashi, have a new piece out in JAMA today, Sherley v. Sebelius and the Future of Stem Cell Research. Here’s a brief excerpt: While enactment of “personhood”…
By Yu-Chi Kuo Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky was recently sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison for serial child sex abuse. Sandusky had faced as great as a 400-year potential sentence during…
TODAY! 12:00-1:30pm Wasserstein Hall 3019 Harvard Law School If you’re in town, come join us for a discussion and some practical advice about open access to health research. There’s a great group of panelists lined up:…
By Nir Eyal As the New York Times reports (quoting me on the ethics), some American IVF clinics are now running raffles where the prize is IVF services. The contests give clinics publicity and sometimes…
By Nadia N. Sawicki On Monday, an Italian court convicted six scientists and a government official of manslaughter for providing the townspeople of L’Aquila with “inaccurate, incomplete and contradictory” information about risk of a 2009 earthquake…
By Scott Burris Graduated Drivers’ License Laws have apparently been a major success in reducing crashes among novice drivers. (A couple of studies have suggested the laws might just be postponing crashes, but so far…
