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Using Biomedicine to Enhance Ourselves
July 14, 2008Arthur Caplan discusses "Is it Immoral to Want to Live Longer, Be Smarter and Look Better? The Ethics of Using Biomedicine to Enhance Ourselves and Our Children" as a...
When Drugs Aren’t the Answer
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Global Vaccines 202X: "Vaccination: Personal Responsibility; Community Imperative"
Dr. Arthur Caplan, Director of the Penn Center for Bioethics.
TN doctors get big bucks from drugmakers
When it comes to promoting drugs for the pharmaceutical industry - and getting paid for it - Tennessee doctors as a group rank in the top dozen nationally for the amount of drug...
Presidential Bioethics Panel Gives a Green Light to Research in Synthetic Biology
The president's bioethics commission has concluded that there is no need to temporarily halt research or to impose new regulations on the controversial new field known as...
Cloning? Who cares? Dilemmas shift in decade
How a zealot’s word led us astray on autismWed Feb 6, 2010Arthur CaplanA dozen years ago, a British physician named Dr. Andrew Wakefield published a paper in the prestigious...
Cloning? Who cares? Dilemmas shift in decade
Monday, December 28th, 2009Arthur CaplanAs 2009 ends, mundane threats have replaced high-tech worries.
Reports on Pfizer drug studies misleading
Analysis of a dozen published studies testing possible new uses for a Pfizer Inc. epilepsy drug found that reporting of the results was often misleading, indicating the medicine...
Inventing a disease
Monday, April 20th, 2009By: Kerry GrensA new drug to treat overactive bladder hit pharmacy shelves this month. The pill is similar to others on the market - for folks who need the...
President Obama ends ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research
Penn bioethicist Jonathan Moreno explains the significance of the announcement and what the future might hold for stem cell research.
