[Medscape] “Honesty is the best policy” and “the patient always comes first.”
As absolute and correct as those aphorisms may be, they can be hard for doctors to apply in the complex world of modern medicine.
A recent Medscape medical ethics survey of over 10,000 physicians found that when it comes to patient treatment, a significant number [...]

[Huffington Post] Fordam University bioethicist Charles Camosy introduced Open Hearts, Open Minds and Fair Minded Words: A Conference on Life and Choice in the Abortion Debate at Princeton University on Oct. 15, 2010 by saying that it wasn’t the conference any of its organizers wanted or envisioned. Instead, he and his colleagues Peter Singer (Princeton), [...]

 British Scientist’s Work Has Enabled the Birth of Four Million Test-Tube Babies
[WSJ] Robert Edwards, a feisty British embryologist who fundamentally transformed human procreation, received the 2010 Nobel Prize in Medicine Monday for the development of clinical in vitro fertilization.
“By a brilliant combination of basic and applied medical research, [Dr.] Edwards overcame one technical hurdle after [...]

October 15 & 16, 2010, Princeton University - Open Hearts, Open Minds & Fair Minded Words - A Conference on Life & Choice in the Abortion Debate 
The conference is inspired by President Obama’s call for those on different sides of the abortion issue  to work together where we agree and engage in “vigorous debate” with “open [...]

[Reason.com] In November, President Barack Obama issued an executive order establishing a new Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. He appointed political scientist and University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann as the chair of the new Bioethics Commission. Such commissions are charged with working through tough questions about intellectual property rights, the protection [...]

BEI launched its new bio-pharmaceutical ethics initiative, The World Council for Ethical Standards, with the aim of empowering a measurable commitment to excellence in ethics and person-centered decision-making and innovation across the healthcare supply chain.  Initial focus is on the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries and companies.
The inaugural World Council meeting was held November 19, 2009 and included executives from Merck, Pfizer, Mannkind, [...]

Bioethics International’s Executive Director, Jennifer Miller, is interviewed by CNA on why ‘Churchgoing Catholics strongly oppose abortion but [are] divided on embryonic stem-cell research’. 
[CNA] A new Gallup Poll reports that a strong majority of churchgoing Catholics do not think abortion is morally acceptable. However, it claims about half of churchgoing Catholics dissent from Catholic morality on [...]

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. 

Panel [...]

A long Island man, Richard Batista, is demanding his kidney back after  donating it to his wife Dawnell in 2001 after two previous failed transplants.
Despite telling the New York Daily News that there is “no value you can put on an organ when it saves someone’s life. There is no greater feeling on this planet,”  he is suing Dawnell [...]