Taubman Health Sciences Library Blog- Blog Retired
- Global Innovation – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 20, 2014)
- Local Innovation & #MCubed – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 13, 2014)
- Open Access Journal on Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology
- National Medical Librarians Month 2014
- Suicide Prevention & Trauma on Social Media – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 6, 2014)
- Radiation Oncology Journal Club (#RadOnc) – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 29, 2014)
- From the National Library of Medicine: Roosevelt at NIH
- Patients on the Right TEDMED Questions – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 22, 2014)
- TEDMED on Patient Engagement – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 15, 2014)
Category Archives: Ethics
New PHS regulations regarding conflict of interest reporting
Public Health Service agencies are implementing stricter mandatory regulations for reporting outside interests and for managing financial conflicts of interest (FCOI) as of August 24, 2012. Key components of the regulation impact who needs to disclose, how often to disclose, … Continue reading
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Tagged Public Health Service, research, University of Michigan
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An unexpected effect of the European financial crisis – An increase in the illegal sale of body parts
From the New York Times: Pavle Mircov and his partner Daniella nervously scan their e-mail in-box every 15 minutes, desperate for economic salvation: a buyer willing to pay €30,000 for one of their kidneys. The parents of two teenagers put … Continue reading
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Tagged global, organ/tissue transplantation, social networking
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Fake vaccination program used to track Bin Laden–Repercussions for public health?
The New York Times and other news organizations (the Guardian) have been reporting on a CIA-run phony vaccination program in Abbottabad, Pakistan, as a way to find DNA evidence from the Bin Laden family. Public health officials, however, have been appalled. Read the … Continue reading
How American medicine is destroying itself
Courtesy of the bioethics.net News Update – Bioethics, here’s full access to this article in The New Republic by Daniel Callahan and Sherwin Nuland, The Quagmire: How American Medicine is destroying itself’. The authors argue for a new approach to research, … Continue reading
Genetic testing in children–Inaugural Bishop Lecture in Bioethics
On May 19, John D. Lantos, MD, will present the first Bishop Lecture in Bioethics, “The Complex Mess Surrounding Genetic Testing in Children.” Dr. Lantos is the director of the Children’s Mercy Bioethics Center in Kansas City, has served as … Continue reading
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