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Category Archives: Bioethics
Warning Signs of Quackery and Fraud – Part 5
Here’s Part 5, the last of a series from an excerpt from my and Donal O’Mathuna’s book, Alternative Medicine: The options, claims, evidence, how to choose wisely. You find the book here. 21. Does the product you’re considering require advance … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Medicine, Bioethics, General Health, Nutritional Health
Tagged Alternative Medicine, alternative therapies, alternative therapy, fraud, quackery
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Warning Signs of Quackery and Fraud – Part 4
Here’s Part 4 from an excerpt from my and Donal O’Mathuna’s book, Alternative Medicine: The options, claims, evidence, how to choose wisely. You find the book here. 16. Is a therapy encouraged simply because it’s been used for centuries by … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Medicine, Bioethics, General Health, Nutritional Health
Tagged Alternative Medicine, alternative therapies, alternative therapy, fraud, quackery
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Warning Signs of Quackery and Fraud – Part 3
Here’s Part 3 of an excerpt from my and Donal O’Mathuna’s book, Alternative Medicine: The options, claims, evidence, how to choose wisely. You’ll find out more about the book here. Next week, I’ll post another five warning signs. 11. Does the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Medicine, alternative therapies, alternative therapy, fraud, Kevin Trudeau, quackery
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Physicians “taking tougher stands” against vaccination refusals
USA Today reports that “many pediatricians … are taking tougher stands with parents who refuse vaccinations.”
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USA Today, Right to Life official debate ultrasound mandate
In an editorial this morning, USA Today says that “under laws enacted in Texas, Oklahoma and North Carolina, the ultrasound screen must be turned so women can see the image.”
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Virginia governor signs bill requiring ultrasounds for women seeking abortions
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell recently signed a bill making abdominal ultrasounds mandatory for women seeking abortions.
Posted in Bioethics, Children's Health, Mental Health, Parenting, Woman's Health
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How doctors die: It’s not like the rest of us, but it should be
A dear friend, Fred Brown, MD, sent me a copy of this powerful article by Ken Murray, MD, published in the January 1, 2012 edition of the National College of Physicians’ Journal of Medicine. It’s well worth reading in its … Continue reading
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Professor says physicians often seek less end of life care than most Americans
In the Wall Street Journal Dr. Ken Murray, a retired clinical assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Southern California, wrote that physicians generally ask for less care at the end of life than most Americans.
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Stem cells from human ovaries used to generate egg cells
We used to tell women that their ovaries would contain, at birth, all of the eggs they will ever have. Turns out that may not be true.
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Virtually all pregnant women with cancer may be treated without aborting their unborn child
The AP reports, “Researchers have encouraging news for women who find themselves in a very frightening situation: having cancer while pregnant.”
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Researchers use stem cells to regrow heart muscle
ABC World News reported that in a new study, “heart attack patients were treated with their own stem cells injected directly into their hearts and they grew new heart muscle.”
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Judge: State cannot force pharmacies to sell contraceptives
In a vote for sanity in the personal conscience debate in healthcare, the AP reports US District Judge Ronald Leighton ruled that “Washington state cannot force pharmacies to sell Plan B or other emergency contraceptives.” Hallelujah!
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Study: Men treated more aggressively for knee pain from arthritis
ABC World News reported that when it comes to treatment for pain, “we heard today that women are often not treated the same way as men. Their complaints are ignored.”
Posted in Bioethics, Joint Health, Woman's Health
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Survey: Some physicians not always completely honest with patients
NBC Nightly News reported that “a new survey shows more than half of all doctors admit they haven’t told patients the whole truth when discussing a prognosis.” The AP reports, however, that “the survey, by Massachusetts researchers and published in Health … Continue reading
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Analysis suggests proposed changes to autism definition would exclude many
A possible change in the definition of autism and one top expert says the change could, quote, “make these autism epidemic go away.”
Posted in Bioethics, Children's Health, Mental Health, Parenting
Tagged ASD, autism, autism spectrum disorder
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Occasional marijuana use may not damage lungs
The Washington Post “The Checkup” blog reports, “Smoking marijuana doesn’t appear to do the kind of damage to people’s lungs as smoking tobacco does,” according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. “But that may … Continue reading
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Study: “No justification” for transferring three or more embryos in IVF
The Los Angeles Times “Booster Shots” blog reports, “A recent study … concluded that doctors can consider transferring two embryos in some women but that there is no justification for transferring three or more embryos in any patient.”
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Tagged embryos, IVF
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Patients’ own stem cells used to reverse heart damage
A story on research involving the use of stem cells to repair damaged hearts received a significant amount of coverage, particular on all of the network news broadcasts, where it received more coverage, with regard to time, than any other … Continue reading
Posted in Bioethics, Heart Health
Tagged adult stem cell, adult stem cells, heart disease, heart failure, stem cell research, stem cells
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Amazing: EEG detects awareness in patients in vegetative state
The New York Times reports, “Three severely brain-injured people thought to be in an irreversible ‘vegetative’ state showed signs of full consciousness when tested with a relatively inexpensive and commonly used method of measuring brain waves,” according to a study published … Continue reading
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Tagged EEG, vegetative state
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If you don’t vaccinate your kids, should your kids be kept away from school, team sports, and youth groups? I vote “yes”!
I’ve told you in the past that when parents choose to not vaccinate their children, not only are their children at risk, but so are other children in the community. Here’s more proof of that.
Posted in Bioethics, Children's Health, Infectious Disease, Parenting
Tagged vaccination, vaccinations, vaccine, vaccines
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CDC recommends boys be vaccinated against HPV
Coverage of the decision by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to expand its recommendation for the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine (Gardasil) to boys and young men aged 11-21 was widespread, appearing … Continue reading
Posted in Bioethics, Cancer, Children's Health, Parenting
Tagged Gardasil, HPV, HPV vaccine, preventing cancer
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Will new tests promote abortion of an ‘undesired sex’ baby?
Art Caplan, MD, is a physician and bioethicist, who is prochoice, but shares the significant reservations I have about a new blood test that helps a couple know early in a pregnancy whether they have a male or female baby. … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, abortion prevention, prenatal diagnosis, prenatal testing
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Study: Change is possible for some homosexuals
For the first time in a decade, a study showing sexual orientation change is possible for at least some homosexuals has been published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
Posted in Bioethics, Mental Health
Tagged biological basis for homosexuality, homosexual, homosexuality
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Study: Unborn babies can differentiate touch, pain in womb
A new study from England finds unborn children have the capacity to differentiate touch from pain in the womb and they are able to do so as early as 28-35 weeks into pregnancy. Other studies have shown unborn children can … Continue reading
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Tagged pregnancy, unborn child
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Early blood test for baby’s gender accurate and extremely controversial
On its front page, the New York Times (Subscription Publication) reported that according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), “a simple blood test that can determine a baby’s sex as early as seven weeks … Continue reading
Posted in Bioethics, Children's Health, Parenting, Woman's Health
Tagged abortion, prenatal care, prenatal diagnosis, prenatal testing, sex selection
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Catholic Church: Unborn children have a soul at conception
For those of us involved in caring for women and their unborn children, we must face squarely the question, “When does an unborn child have a soul?”
Posted in Bioethics, Children's Health, Parenting, Spiritual Health, Woman's Health
Tagged abortion, beginning of life, human life, life, when life begins
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FDA Report: Abortion drug kills 14 Women, injures 2,200
The Food and Drug Administration has quietly released a new report about the deaths of and injuries to women from the dangerous RU 486 abortion drug and the Obama administration has done nothing to make the information available to women.
Posted in Bioethics, Children's Health, Parenting, Woman's Health
Tagged abortion, abortion drug, abortion pill, abortion side effects, RU-486
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Florida measles cases increasing as parents have children exempted from vaccinations
The St. Petersburg (FL) Times reports that so far this year in Florida that this year more cases of measles “have been reported” than in the last 14 years. Why? Parents choosing to not vaccinate their kids … harming both … Continue reading
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Tagged measles, measles vaccine, vaccine, vaccine effectiveness
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