Harvard graduates are pledging to work towards the greater good. But can such a code take hold in the world of business?
[Guardian] Something new is happening at Harvard Business School. As graduation nears for the first class to complete their MBA since the onset of the global financial crisis, students are circulating an oath that commits them to pursue [...]

[TribStar] Have you been feeling over the past several years that the patient is being overlooked in the health care process? You may want to join a growing number of citizens in saying it’s time for that to change. During the 2009 session, the Indiana Legislature passed House Resolution 91. This is a resolution that [...]

 
[NYT] Members of the President’s Council on Bioethics were told by the White House last week that their services were no longer needed and were asked to cancel a planned meeting, a council staff member said Wednesday.
The council was disbanded because it was designed by the Bush administration to be “a philosophically leaning advisory group” [...]

[The Freelance Star] THE SLIPPERY SLOPE just became a little more treacherous. In 2008, the state of New York — determined to trump the Bush administration’s position on embryonic stem cell research — established the New York Empire State Stem Cell Board, designed to help the state become a leader in that area.
Now, in a Machiavellian [...]

[NYT] Rationing. More to the point: Rationing! As in: Wait, are you talking about rationing medical care? Access to medical care is a fundamental right. And rationing sounds like something out of the Soviet Union. Or at least Canada.
The r-word has become a rejoinder to anyone who says that this country must reduce its runaway health spending, especially [...]

Amid controversies over embryonic stem cell research, drugs using adult cells are already bearing fruit
[Fortune] When it comes to stem cells, the public — and the media — tend to focus on embryos. But researchers and analysts say marketable therapies already are emerging from less controversial work with adult stem cells.
Adult cells make up the lion’s [...]

[NPR] Larry Harbour is celebrated in Nebraska as a model entrepreneur. But the 33-year-old owner of LB Custom Chrome and Detail in rural Broken Bow, Neb., is an illness or injury away from losing his business.
“If anything were to happen to my wife and I, the business is sunk,” Harbour said, standing in the shop he [...]

GENEVA, June 11 [Reuters] – The World Health Organisation was poised on Thursday to declare that the new H1N1 virus has caused the first influenza pandemic in more than 40 years, health sources said on Thursday.
The move will trigger heightened health measures in the WHO’s 193 member states as authorities brace for the worldwide spread [...]

[Beaumont Enterprise]  Do your banking, rent a movie, find a date for Friday night – and decide what measures you want taken if you happen to slip into an irreversible vegetative state.
An Internet site is making it easier for Texans to do their “end-of-life planning.”
Craig Klugman, director of the Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics [...]

[NYT] When a new crop of future business leaders graduates from the Harvard Business School next week, many of them will be taking a new oath that says, in effect, greed is not good.
Nearly 20 percent of the graduating class have signed “The M.B.A. Oath,” a voluntary student-led pledge that the goal of a business manager is [...]