http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. With millions of adolescent users, social network sites (SNSs) are a rich data source for academic research studies. But ethical guidelines governing how researchers should obtain and use this data is seriously lacking, says Tufts University's R. Benjamin Shapiro, Ph.D., the McDonnell Family Professor in Engineering Education at Tufts University's School of Engineering, in an article published in the January 11 edition of Science. http://phys.org/news277045944.html Technology Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:00:25 EST news277045944 Tension is the theme running through the new consensus statement issued by the Hinxton Group, an international working group on stem cell research and regulation. Specifically, tension between intellectual property policies and scientific norms of free exchange, but also between eastern and western cultures, national and international interests, and privatized vs. nationalized health care systems. http://phys.org/news273252716.html Other Sciences Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:32:08 EST news273252716 A growing number of health research programs are collaborating with community groups to conduct research. The groups help recruit study participants, obtain informed consent, collect data and provide input on study design and procedures. http://phys.org/news255273367.html Other Sciences Thu, 03 May 2012 14:30:04 EST news255273367 In an article in the American Journal of Bioethics, a Loyola bioethicist is calling political satirist Jon Stewart "our greatest public intellectual. This is no joke." http://phys.org/news250167536.html Other Sciences Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:59:13 EST news250167536 Women donating their eggs for use in fertility clinics are typically financially compensated for the time and discomfort involved in the procedure. However, guidelines established by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 2005 state that women who donate their eggs for use in stem cell research should not be compensated, although the procedures they undergo are the same. In the October 7th issue of Cell Stem Cell, researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) and the Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University argue that this lack of compensation could prove to be yet another hurdle for human stem cell research in the United States. http://phys.org/news237041585.html Biology Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:53:11 EST news237041585 (AP) -- Britain has dropped a controversial policy of using DNA tests to identify the nationality of African refugees and asylum seekers after criticism that there is no scientific merit to the practice. http://phys.org/news227522406.html Medicine & Health Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:40:16 EST news227522406 State laws and policies governing the storage and use of surplus blood samples taken from newborns as part of the routine health screening process range from explicit to non-existent, leaving many parents ill-informed about how their babies' left over blood might be used, according to a team led by a member of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Utah. A report on their analysis of the subject is published March 28 in the journal Pediatrics. http://phys.org/news220534652.html Medicine & Health Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:38:03 EST news220534652 The head of a bioethics commission convened by President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that a 1940s study of STDs using patients in Guatemala was wrong and that a US probe was continuing. http://phys.org/news218204556.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:22:46 EST news218204556 (PhysOrg.com) -- In an opinion piece published on Feb. 10 in the journal Science, a team of scholars led by a Johns Hopkins bioethicist urges the scientific community to act collectively to stem the negative effects of patenting and privatizing of stem cell lines, data and pioneering technologies. This means grappling with the ambiguity of several fundamental distinctions typically made in ethics, law, and common practice, the experts insist. http://phys.org/news216655679.html Biology Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:40:02 EST news216655679 To celebrate 40 years of pioneering bioethics publication, the Hastings Center Report, the world's first bioethics journal, looked to the future, asking young scholars to write about what the next generation of bioethicists should take up. Out of 195 compelling submissions, four of the best essays were selected for publication in the November-December issue. http://phys.org/news208714657.html Medicine & Health Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:17:49 EST news208714657 A shared decision-making process would assist doctors and parents who are facing the extraordinarily complex, challenging and controversial choices presented when infants are born with genetic or anatomical anomalies in sexual development and are being considered for elective corrective surgery, a new research paper suggests. http://phys.org/news199110263.html Medicine & Health Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:24:40 EST news199110263 South Korea's Constitutional Court has ruled that human embryos left over from fertility treatment are not life forms and can be used for research or destroyed, a court spokesman said Friday. http://phys.org/news194243021.html Medicine & Health Fri, 28 May 2010 06:00:01 EST news194243021 (AP) -- A plan by the University of California, Berkeley to voluntarily test the DNA of incoming freshman has come under fire from critics who said the school was pushing an unproven technology on impressionable students. http://phys.org/news193644533.html Biology Fri, 21 May 2010 07:10:14 EST news193644533 How do we handle the ethical dilemmas of research on adults who can't give their informed consent? In a recent article in the journal Bioethics, ethicist Stefan Eriksson proposes a new approach to the dilemma of including dementia patients and others with limited decision making capabilities in research. http://phys.org/news189083535.html Medicine & Health Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:13:06 EST news189083535 A small study of children with cancer enrolled in therapeutic clinical research trials shows that they don't fully understand what physicians and parents tell them about their participation, nor do they feel they are genuinely involved in the choice to take part. http://phys.org/news189059681.html Medicine & Health Mon, 29 Mar 2010 06:10:01 EST news189059681 The well-worn notion that patients in the United States have unfettered access to the most expensive cancer drugs while the United Kingdom's nationalized health care system regularly denies access to some high-cost treatments needs rethinking, a team of bioethicists and health policy experts says in a report out today. http://phys.org/news180040765.html Medicine & Health Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:10:04 EST news180040765 The recent creation of live mice from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) not only represents a remarkable scientific achievement, but also raises important issues, according to bioethicists at The Johns Hopkins University's Berman Institute of Bioethics. http://phys.org/news176057392.html Biology Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:00:01 EST news176057392 At 84 years old, Juan Guano would seem an unlikely candidate for a kidney transplant. http://phys.org/news172860700.html Medicine & Health Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:30:02 EST news172860700 (PhysOrg.com) -- It's standard practice at leading academic medical centers: When enrolling patients in a clinical trial, researchers should disclose relevant financial relationships that might affect a patient's decision about participation, such as owning stock in the company that funds the study, or having a patent on the device being tested. http://phys.org/news170525666.html Medicine & Health Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:30:01 EST news170525666 (PhysOrg.com) -- As the popularity of take-home DNA kits to trace ancestry or calculate the risk for serious medical conditions grows, there is an increasingly critical need for federal oversight of "direct-to consumer" genetic testing, as well as of the use of DNA samples for research, according to researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and several other academic institutions. http://phys.org/news165763092.html Medicine & Health Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:19:29 EST news165763092 More than 40 scientists, bioethicists, lawyers and science journal editors are calling on their colleagues, policy makers and the public to begin developing guidelines for the research and reproductive use of stem cell-derived eggs and sperm, even though such use may be a decade or more away. http://phys.org/news165756647.html Biology Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:40:02 EST news165756647 With just $399 and a bit of saliva in a cup, consumers can learn about their genetic risk for diseases from breast cancer to diabetes. Now, thanks to social networking sites set up by personal genomics companies, they can also share that information with family, friends and even strangers on the Internet. http://phys.org/news163394275.html Medicine & Health Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:18:36 EST news163394275 Many hospitalized patients overestimate their chance of surviving an in-hospital cardiac arrest and do not know what CPR really involves, a University of Iowa study has shown. http://phys.org/news163256593.html Medicine & Health Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:04:15 EST news163256593