[redorbit] Many U.S. adults say they believe what the White House has dubbed myths or untruths about healthcare reform, a survey indicates.
A national survey for the Indiana University Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research and the Indiana University Center for Bioethics says about six out of 10 Americans — 78 percent of Republicans, 30 [...]

[BusinessWeek] A focus on short-term profits to the exclusion of all else led to the current financial crisis. And guess what? Companies with the steadiest moral compasses have sailed through it.
With everyone still buzzing about the outrageous bonuses Wall Street continues to pay, it seems like now might be a good time to write a [...]

While the U.S. has the most expensive health care in the world, the results are not even close to the best. What nation offers the best health care on the globe? Answer: Not the United States.

The U.S. health care delivery system is by far the costliest on the planet, but comparison studies consistently show Americans [...]

[NatureNews] A long-sought loosening of Japan’s guidelines on human embryonic stem-cell research came into effect on 21 August. But some say the new rules are too little, too late for a struggling field that was once a source of national pride.
On the surface the previous guidelines, set in 2001, were permissive. They allowed scientists to [...]

[science progress] If the Obama administration hopes to move a new bioethics commission beyond the culture wars that embroiled much of the Bush council’s work, substantial efforts will be necessary to bring together now-divided bioethicists for pragmatic discussion.

On September 31, executive order 13446 expires, and with it, so does the charter of the President’s Council [...]

[AMNews] Doctors are right to advise an end to feeding for pediatric patients in a persistent vegetative state and some other circumstances, the association says.
For nearly two decades, the medical and legal consensus has been that it is permissable to withdraw life-sustaining artificial hydration and nutrition from adult patients in a persistent vegetative state. But [...]

The seamy underside of the organ transplant business made the news recently when Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum, a Brooklyn businessman, was arrested on accusations of trying to broker the purchase of a kidney for $160,000.
That the organ shortage is so great in this country that people are resorting to buying and selling kidneys is not a surprise; [...]

Scripps research prompts potential concerns
[San Diego Union Tribune] Scientists in San Diego and in other parts of California are working on numerous projects related to stem cell research, and some of that research is showing promise, at least in the early stages. At a time when the state’s finances are bordering on distress, this research [...]

A third man has died of pneumonic plague in north-western China where a town of more than 10,000 people has been sealed off, officials say.

 
[BBC] The 64-year-old man was a neighbor of the first two people to die from the plague in Ziketan in Qinghai Province.
Police have set up checkpoints around Ziketan, as medics are [...]

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Visiting the Cleveland Clinic this week,President Obama held up that well-known hospital as a model for the rest of the country. But for most of the nation’s nearly 6,000hospitals, copying the Cleveland Clinic would be like asking the Durham Bulls, a minor league team, to copy the New York Yankees.

Articles in this series are analyzing [...]