Medical Ethics

Finishing the job of polio eradication worldwide is an ethical obligation: Experts

McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health Apr 20, 2010 55th anniversary of first polio vaccine Failure to pursue eradication of polio worldwide given the capacity and

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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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Human clones: New U.N. analysis lays out world’s choices

United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies, Yokohama, Japan 10-Nov-2007 Report says ban on human reproductive cloning, coupled with restricted therapeutic research, is global compromise

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Pioneering study catalogs ethical issues of scientific research in developing world

McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, Toronto 10 Sep 07 The first comprehensive examination of the ethical, social and cultural (ESC) challenges faced by major science

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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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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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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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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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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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