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Monthly Archives: April, 2014

Bioethics Commission Staff Holds Multidisciplinary Educational Materials Webinar

Written by Nicolle Strand on April 28, 2014 — Leave a Comment

The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethics Issues (Bioethics Commission) recently hosted a webinar entitled “Multidisciplinary Implementation of Bioethics Commission Education Materials.” In the hour-long presentation, three Bioethics Commission staff members (including myself) demonstrated how the Commission’s educational materials can be used in three different settings: a philosophy course, a biology course, and a […]

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New Educational Primers to Accompany Anticipate and Communicate

Written by Nicolle Strand on April 17, 2014 — Leave a Comment

As part of its ongoing effort to support bioethics education, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (Bioethics Commission) has developed and posted to Bioethics.gov a new primer to inform institutional review boards (IRBs) and their members on the ethical management of incidental and secondary findings. The Bioethics Commission designed the IRB Primer to aid IRB […]

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New Video Highlights the Need for a Plan When it Comes to Incidental Findings

Written by Nicolle Strand on April 15, 2014 — Leave a Comment

The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (Bioethics Commission) has posted its latest video, in which Commission Members discuss their report Anticipate and Communicate: Ethical Management of Incidental and Secondary Findings in the Clinical, Research, and Direct-to-Consumer Contexts. In the three minute piece, Members highlight the essential message of the report on the […]

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Bioethics Commission to Host Webinar Demonstrating Educational Modules

Written by Gideon Hertz on April 9, 2014 — Leave a Comment

The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (Bioethics Commission) is committed to developing resources to improve bioethics education. On Thursday, April 24, 2014 the Bioethics Commission will hold a public webinar demonstrating and discussing how the educational modules developed by the Commission and based on Commission reports can be applied in a variety […]

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Rock Ethics Institute Research Ethics Lecture on Postwar NIH Research Ethos and the Guatemala STD Experiments

Written by Kayte Spector-Bagdady on April 7, 2014 — Leave a Comment

“Ethically Impossible” STD Research in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948 details the federally-supported U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) experiments in Guatemala supporting STD prevention in the U.S. Armed Forces after World War II. By the time PHS researchers left in 1948, over 1,300 vulnerable Guatemalan subjects had been intentionally exposed to syphilis, gonorrhea, and/or chancroid […]

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Bioethics Commission Executive Director to Receive Pellegrino Medal

Written by Victoria Wilbur on April 4, 2014 — Leave a Comment

Lisa M. Lee, Ph.D., M.S., Executive Director of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (Bioethics Commission), will receive the Pellegrino Medal for her contributions to health care ethics. The award will be presented April 11 during the 2014 Conference of Samford University’s Healthcare Ethics and Law (HEAL) Institute in Birmingham, Ala. Established […]

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