[Monterey Herald] At 82, retired engineer Leonard Thompson is out to show he still has a few good years left. Years? What’s this bunk about mere years, sonny? More like decades. Why the heck not?
Thompson, after all, exercises body and mind daily, even developing his own workout program for seniors that emphasizes stretching, deep breathing, [...]

[January 29, 2009] BEI’s Executive Director, Jennifer Miller, serves as an expert for Fordham University’s Conference, ADVANCING CLIMATE JUSTICE: TRANSFORMING THE ECONOMY, PUBLIC HEALTH, & OUR ENVIRONMENT, organized by WeAct. 

Panel Topic:  Climate Justice Adaptation: Public Health and Emergency Preparedness
Location: Fordham University Lincoln Center Campus, 113 W. 60th St., New York City
Panelists’ Bios          Conference Agenda
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Bioethics International’s Executive Director, Jennifer Miller, will be a panelist for Fordham University’s Conference ADVANCING CLIMATE JUSTICE: TRANSFORMING THE ECONOMY, PUBLIC HEALTH, & OUR ENVIRONMENT organized by WeAct.
Ms. Miller’s panel entitled, “Climate Justice Adaptation: Public Health and Emergency Preparedness,” is schedule for this Thursday January 29th at 1:15pm.  We look forward to seeing you Thursday. 

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If doctors who won’t kill are ‘wicked,’ the world is sick
[MercatorNet] A Byzantine version of the Hippocratic Oath from the 12th Century. “First do no harm…” Talk about Orwellian. A woman described as a “leading expert in ethics” has declared that doctors who refuse to kill their patients are “genuinely wicked.” I’m not making this [...]

A new lie detector test shows that it takes on average 30% longer to lie than to be honest.  Following up with my post on how bioethics saves money by mitigating legal liability risk, now it appears being ethical saves time too.  In a world where time is money, that means bioethics equates to money money. 
[The Times of [...]

Yesterday marked the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. At a time when most state laws were against abortion, the 1973 court decision held that a woman’s right to abortion was protected by the right to privacy under the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.  
Here is what some of our current leaders had to say about the anniversary and the [...]

Doctors are hoping to launch the world’s first trial for a treatment that aims to improve the quality of life for thousands of stroke victims on patients in Glasgow in June, although the procedure must still be approved by an ethics committee.
The treatment, which uses cells taken from an aborted foetus that are to be [...]

The below BBC article highlights the increasingly prominent and beneficial role of the hospital ethicist, albeit for interesting reasons. It focuses more on how ethics improves the bottom line and prevents lawsuits than on how it improves the quality of care.  There is no specific mention that ethics and quality care are inseparable, but there is a connection [...]

Below is an LA Times piece highlighting the effects of the current economic crisis on the American health care system, in particular on vulnerable populations including uninsured cancer patients, senior citizens in nursing homes, and low income women under 40.
The unprecedented reductions come as millions are losing their jobs and insurance. They are so steep [...]

The US President’s Council on Bioethics has released a white paper entitled Controversies in the Determination of Death. In this white paper, the Council explores the resurgent debates about the clinical and ethical validity of the neurological standard for determining death (along with some of the ethical concerns that have been spawned by the use of [...]