Berman Institute Bioethics Bulletin

Attacks on Syria’s Medical Personnel and Facilities

Bioethics Bulletin — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:07:17 +0000

Video: Johns Hopkins’ Leonard Rubenstein on the Attacks on Syria’s Medical Personnel and Facilities

Panel: Attacks on Syria’s Medical Personnel and Facilities

Medical Students Perform Operations in Syria’s Depleted Health System

Bioethics Bulletin — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:50:41 +0000

Len Rubenstein, a lawyer and expert in health and human rights at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, said that targeting health workers and health facilities had become increasingly common in conflicts over the past 30 years

A New Front In The War On Obamacare: Twitter

Bioethics Bulletin — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:25:55 +0000

A simple idea: attack Obamacare tersely. On the same day House Republicans scheduled their latest symbolic vote to repeal Obamacare, as part of their full-court press against the law they also took to Twitter to say, in three words, why they oppose the legislation

Pills Tracked From Doctor to Patient to Aid Drug Marketing

Bioethics Bulletin — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:59:01 +0000

In the old days, sales representatives from drug companies would chat up local pharmacists to learn what drugs doctors were prescribing. Now such shoulder-rubbing is becoming a quaint memory — thanks to vast databases of patient and doctor information

Seeking Calm on the Cancer Ward

Bioethics Bulletin — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:20:21 +0000

The offer can be seen as a Faustian bargain, though. In return comes the very real possibility of dying from our treatment, along with immersion into a kind of purgatory of a hospital stay lasting four to six weeks

Oklahoma’s ‘Life-Preserving’ Law Raises Questions for Docs

Bioethics Bulletin — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:52:53 +0000

University of Tulsa law professor Marguerite Chapman has been studying end-of-life issues in Oklahoma for three decades and has come to a conclusion: “It’s getting almost to the point that you need a government permit in order to die in this state.”

Rights Groups Ask Pentagon To Stop Force-Feeding Gitmo Hunger Strikers

Bioethics Bulletin — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:41:17 +0000

“It is a very frightening idea that the medical staff is an adjunct of the security force,” said Leonard Rubenstein, a lawyer and faculty member at the Center for Public Health and Human Rights and at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

Public Citizen and Misinformed Consent in Neonatal Intensive Care

Bioethics Bulletin — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:35:38 +0000

Public Citizen, the so-called “citizen’s advocacy group,” continues to criticize the NIH-sponsored clinical trials of oxygen therapy for premature babies

How Long Will You Live?

Bioethics Bulletin — Wed, 15 May 2013 21:30:49 +0000

A controversial new test could determine your actual biological age and reveal just how many years you have left

Looking Good on Facebook

Bioethics Bulletin — Wed, 15 May 2013 21:09:57 +0000

Social media leads to spikes in plastic surgery requests