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		<title>A Stem-Cell-Based Drug Gets Approval in Canada</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a boost for the field of regenerative medicine, a small biotechnology company has received regulatory approval in Canada for what it says is the first manufactured drug based on stem cells]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In a boost for the field of regenerative medicine, a small biotechnology company has received regulatory approval in Canada for what it says is the first manufactured drug based on stem cells]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>PA Docs Worry Over Fracking &#8216;Gag Rule&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 15:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new law says that doctors can't tell anyone else — not even other doctors — what's in those trade-secret chemicals used in natural gas drilling. It's being called the "doctor gag rule."]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The new law says that doctors can't tell anyone else — not even other doctors — what's in those trade-secret chemicals used in natural gas drilling. It's being called the "doctor gag rule."]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>“Doing Bioethics” in Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 15:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Farhat Moazam writes, "In my seven years as head of the Center of Biomedical Ethics and Culture (CBEC) at the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) in Karachi I am often asked by colleagues, 'But you do bioethics. What’s religion got to do with it?'"]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Farhat Moazam writes, "In my seven years as head of the Center of Biomedical Ethics and Culture (CBEC) at the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) in Karachi I am often asked by colleagues, 'But you do bioethics. What’s religion got to do with it?'"]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The FDA Is Faster. Now Let&#8217;s Make It Safer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 15:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bioethics Bulletin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ruth Faden]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Institute of Medicine has just released a visionary report on how we should study the safety of approved drugs. Among their recommendations, they call on the FDA to require postmarketing research where there is uncertainty about the drug’s benefit-risk profile]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Institute of Medicine has just released a visionary report on how we should study the safety of approved drugs. Among their recommendations, they call on the FDA to require postmarketing research where there is uncertainty about the drug’s benefit-risk profile]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Why Some Medical Students Are Learning Their Cadavers’ Names</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At one Indiana medical school, students are taught to think of their cadavers as their first patients — and may even meet their families. Critics contend this may cross an ethical line and put students in an uncomfortable position.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[At one Indiana medical school, students are taught to think of their cadavers as their first patients — and may even meet their families. Critics contend this may cross an ethical line and put students in an uncomfortable position.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Doubt Cast on the ‘Good’ in ‘Good Cholesterol’</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study that makes use of powerful databases of genetic information has found that raising HDL levels may not make any difference to heart disease risk]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A new study that makes use of powerful databases of genetic information has found that raising HDL levels may not make any difference to heart disease risk]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Brain Ailments in Veterans Linked to Those in Athletes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists who have studied a degenerative brain disease in athletes have found the same condition in combat veterans exposed to roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan, concluding that such explosions injure the brain in ways strikingly similar to tackles and punches]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Scientists who have studied a degenerative brain disease in athletes have found the same condition in combat veterans exposed to roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan, concluding that such explosions injure the brain in ways strikingly similar to tackles and punches]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>FDA Outpaces Its Global Peers at Drug Reviews</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Food and Drug Administration is often criticized for taking a plodding approach to drug regulation. But when it comes to approving novel therapeutics, the agency is actually much speedier than its European and Canadian counterparts]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The US Food and Drug Administration is often criticized for taking a plodding approach to drug regulation. But when it comes to approving novel therapeutics, the agency is actually much speedier than its European and Canadian counterparts]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>European Court Decision has Big Implications for Stem Cell Research</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 20:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CJEU’s definition of “human embryo” begs the question: Will iPSCs have the same fate as hESCs under EU patent law? Ethics has always had trouble pacing scientific discovery. The law, too, suffers from similar difficulties. Brüstle only further muddies the waters.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The CJEU’s definition of “human embryo” begs the question: Will iPSCs have the same fate as hESCs under EU patent law? Ethics has always had trouble pacing scientific discovery. The law, too, suffers from similar difficulties. Brüstle only further muddies the waters.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>New Global Research Council Takes Off</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 15:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new group of government research funders from around the world announced today that it will try to find common ground on two big issues in its inaugural year: defining research integrity and promoting open access to scientific information]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A new group of government research funders from around the world announced today that it will try to find common ground on two big issues in its inaugural year: defining research integrity and promoting open access to scientific information]]></content:encoded>
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