Joint Center for Bioethics

Medical ethics experts identify, address key issues in H1N1 pandemic

Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto 23 Sep 2009 The anticipated onset of a second wave of the H1N1 influenza pandemic could present a host of

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Experts urge strongest isolation for new drug-resistant tuberculosis cases appearing in South Africa

University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics 22-Jan-2007 Public health trumps individual human rights, medical ethics experts say Ross Upshur Medical ethics and other experts

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Replacing insulin is top-ranked breakthrough foreseen for health in developing world

11-Sep-2006 University of Toronto Joint Center for Bioethics Experts rank top 10 ways of improving health in poor countries from emerging stem cell and related

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Ethics in a pandemic

27 Nov 05 University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics Coping effectively with a predicted influenza pandemic that threatens to affect the health of millions

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Prepare public for bird flu, experts urge governments

Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto 27 Nov 2005 Ethicists offer guide to decision-making in predicted flu pandemic; quarantine, duty to care, resource allocations among key

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Conflicts pitting doctors vs. patients / kin is #1 issue in medical ethics

26 Jun 05 University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics The biggest issue in medical ethics today is the growing occurrence of conflict between health

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Nanotechnology’s miniature answers to developing world’s biggest problems

11 Apr 05 University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics In a new study by researchers at the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics

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Put science at center of decision-making on third world development, experts tell UN

Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto 6 January, 2005 Report urges end to monopoly of economists as development policy advisors Science and technology is so critically

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Cuba, South Africa, India, China, Brazil Among Developing Countries with Recipe for Thriving Health Biotechnology Industries, Saving Lives, Researchers Say in Three-Year, First-Ever Study

Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto 6 December, 2004 Cuba, South Korea, and India make and export their own biotech vaccines, Egypt manufactures recombinant

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Report: How 10 top new technologies will help world reach globally-agreed goals by 2015

07 Oct 04University of Toronto Joint Centre for BioethicsNew medical tools that quickly and accurately diagnose diseases like AIDS and malaria top a list of

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Report: Open Benefits of Genomic Science to All to Save Lives of Millions in Developing Countries

Joint Center for Bioethics, University of Toronto Emerging Medical, Environmental Breakthroughs Hold Revolutionary Promise; Experts Call for UN Body to Help Share Knowledge Worldwide A

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A Better Death: Patient, Family Perspectives Used to Improve End-of-Life Care; Hospitals Need Systematic Process to Heed Patients’ Concern

Joint Center for Bioethics, University of Toronto The final months and weeks for terminally ill hospital patients could be made better if hospitals simply instituted

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Ethical guidelines needed before ‘nutrigenomic’ groceries come to market

Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto 03 Nov 03 New research designed to help consumers create customized diets based on their genetic make up will

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Regulating Stem Cell Research: Students at 5,000 Canadian High Schools Look for Answers that Have Long Mired MPs

Joint Center for Bioethics, University of Toronto Students at more than 5,000 Canadian high schools this year will receive tools to take part in an

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SARS Crisis Highlights Need for Ethical Framework to Guide Decisions During Infectious Outbreaks

Joint Center for Bioethics, University of Toronto Responding to important challenges raised by Toronto’s handling of the SARS crisis, experts from the University of Toronto

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Greater public role in health care spending decisions needed more than extra money to cure ailing system

Joint Center for Bioethics, University of Toronto Amid mounting pressure for a massive injection of funds into Medicare, one of Canada’s leading medical policy think

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New guidelines for MDs draw line between relief of suffering and euthanasia

Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto 12 Sept 2002 Peter A. Singer Intensive care unit physicians need to be comfortable prescribing drugs in whatever dose is

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