Showing posts with label repugnance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label repugnance. Show all posts
Saturday, April 26, 2025

Prolific sperm donation and incest risk in the Netherlands

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 The Guardian has the story: ‘Medical calamity’: dozens of Dutch sperm donors fathered at least 25 children .  Discovery that clinics have b...
Friday, April 25, 2025

JAMA declined to publish this letter on kidney donation

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 JAMA recently published the following Viewpoint, whose title adequately summarizes its main point: The End Kidney Deaths Act Risks Irrevers...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Hospice care and its limitations

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 I've recently posted about Medical Aid in Dying (MAID), which is quite controversial.  An alternative model of end of life care is a ho...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Same-sex marriage challenges, redux

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 The NYT has the story: Same-Sex Marriage Is the Law of the Land. Some States Are Debating It Anyway.   State efforts to urge the Supreme Co...
Friday, April 18, 2025

MAID in the Netherlands, together

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 The Guardian publishes a moving photo, and an interview with the photographer about his parents' decision to avail themselves of medica...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Danny Kahneman's last interview, and its backstory

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 Sometimes the backstory is more revealing than the story. In yesterday's NYT, the philosophers Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Sing...
Monday, April 14, 2025

“Schrödinger’s persons". The indeterminate legal status of embryos.

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 Courts are increasingly called on to decide who should get custody of frozen embryos. Their decisions will touch on both abortion and IVF. ...
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Danny Kahneman's final decision

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Danny Kahneman spent his life thinking about how humans make decisions.  His final decision was to travel to Switzerland to avail himself of...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

Colombia proposes coca leaf legalization

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 The Guardian has the story: Colombia urges UN to remove coca leaf from harmful substances list Foreign minister says legalisation of main i...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Nicotine underlip: Zyn, snu to manage (and start) nicotine addiction

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Move over vapes: more ways to access nicotine without starting a fire: (I understand these are quite popular among our MBA students...)   Th...
Monday, March 3, 2025

Tesla Owners Beware of Vandalism (email)

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 There is some debate in the business literature about what effect taking a public position on controversial social and political issues has...
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Abortion bans have increased both births and infant mortality (JAMA)

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 Not unexpectedly: US Abortion Bans and Infant Mortality , by Alison Gemmill, PhD1; Alexander M. Franks, PhD2; Selena Anjur-Dietrich, PhD1; ...
Sunday, February 16, 2025

Kidneys, compensation, and altruistic activists

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  Here's a well written story about kidney donation, and  some of the very interesting people involved in the debate over compensating d...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Politics, Physician Senators, and the Hippocratic Oath (regarding the confirmation of RFK Jr. as HHS secretary)

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  Here's an opinion piece from MedpageToday Physician Senators, What Have You Done?— They have betrayed the Hippocratic Oath in voting t...
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

States' fights over abortions: New York moves to shield doctors from prosecution in states with abortion bans

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  Not all politics is Federal, even in these unprecedented times. The NYT has the story: N.Y. Moves to Shield Doctors Who Send Abortion Pill...
Sunday, February 2, 2025

Challenge trials are becoming more accepted

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Challenge trials, also called human infection trials, are clinical trials in which e.g. a vaccine is tested on participants who have volunte...