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		<title>Undergoing MyBlogLog Verification</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Undergoing MyBlogLog Verification




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		<title>FIRST, DO NO HARM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bungled car bombs in London and Glasgow on the weekend may have been organised by doctors. &#8220;We have to face the possibility that the health service has been used to get terrorists into Britain and launch attacks against us,&#8221; a senior police source told the London Mirror. Investigators believe that a dozen doctors from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ethicist.wordpress.com&blog=1241454&post=175&subd=ethicist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prepare for the worst</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The American Medical Association has launched a new journal for a new discipline: disaster medicine, to be called Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. The inaugural issue features Hurricane Katrina, the Oklahoma City bombing, and &#8220;lifeboat ethics&#8221;. ~ WSJ health blog, Jun 21
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		<title>INDIAN DOCTORS CALL FOR MEDICAL ETHICS SYLLABUS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent scandal has brought to light the fact that most Indian doctors are not taught medical ethics. A doctor in Tamil Nadu allowed his 15-year-old son to perform a Caesarean section, outraging his colleagues. With cases like this emerging, private and government medical schools believe that a structured medical ethics curriculum may be needed. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ethicist.wordpress.com&blog=1241454&post=170&subd=ethicist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HWANG TRYING TO RESTORE HIS REPUTATION</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Working days, nights and weekends, with criminal charges hanging over his head, disgraced stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk is trying to climb the steep hill to rehabilitation. Assisted by a team of 30 in a private lab south of Seoul, he is working on cloning animal embryos. A colleague told AP that he dreams of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ethicist.wordpress.com&blog=1241454&post=166&subd=ethicist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>VEGETATIVE STATE OFTEN MISDIAGNOSED</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Doctors should use extreme caution in pulling the plug on patients in a vegetative state, according to reports presented at the European Neurological Society.Around 40% of patients in a Belgian study were wrongly diagnosed as being in a vegetative state when they were minimally conscious. And 10% of minimally conscious patients were actually communicating functionally. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ethicist.wordpress.com&blog=1241454&post=164&subd=ethicist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HYBRIDS HAVE A RIGHT TO LIVE, SAY CATHOLIC BISHOPS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coming from a different angle, the Catholic bishops of England and Wales have told a parliamentary committee that human-animal hybrid embryos conceived in the laboratory should be regarded as human and their mothers should be allowed to give birth to them. The government is currently studying legislation which will allow the creation of chimeric embryos [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ethicist.wordpress.com&blog=1241454&post=162&subd=ethicist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SCIENTISTS NEED HYBRIDS, SAYS LUTHERAN THEOLOGIAN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nature has launched a new website dedicated to news and views about stem cells. &#8220;Our goal is enlighten and promote communication in stem cell research by providing content as diverse as the stakeholders in this field &#8212; all the scientists, policy makers, ethicists, clinicians, and patients who are driving stem cell research forward,&#8221; says Nature [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ethicist.wordpress.com&blog=1241454&post=160&subd=ethicist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“MANIMALS” COULD BE NEXT STEP IN MEDICAL RESEARCH</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Manimals&#8221; are around the corner, according to the bioethics writer for the Washington Post and Slate, William Saletan. In an update on scientists&#8217; progress towards creating animals with varying degrees of human characteristics, he points out that &#8220;the more you humanise animals, the better they serve their purpose as lab models of humanity. That&#8217;s what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ethicist.wordpress.com&blog=1241454&post=158&subd=ethicist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SUICIDE INCREASING WORLDWIDE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a feature on suicide in the Economist, the global suicide rate has risen by 60% over the past 45 years, with about one million people killing themselves each year. However, it is exceedingly difficult to generalise about suicide, as the pattern varies markedly from country to country. In India, much publicity has been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ethicist.wordpress.com&blog=1241454&post=156&subd=ethicist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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