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Joint Center for Bioethics Archive
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Medical ethics experts identify, address key issues in H1N1 pandemic
Posted on September 30, 2009 | No CommentsUniversity of Toronto Joint Center for Bioethics 23-Sep-2009 The anticipated onset of a second wave of the H1N1 influenza pandemic could present a host of thorny medical ethics issues... -
Medical ethics experts identify, address key issues in H1N1 pandemic
Posted on September 23, 2009 | No CommentsJoint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto 23 Sep 2009 The anticipated onset of a second wave of the H1N1 influenza pandemic could present a host of thorny medical ethics issues best... -
Replacing insulin is top-ranked breakthrough foreseen for health in developing world
Posted on March 7, 2007 | No Comments11-Sep-2006 University of Toronto Joint Center for Bioethics Experts rank top 10 ways of improving health in poor countries from emerging stem cell and related technologies Eliminating the need for... -
Ethics in a pandemic
Posted on March 7, 2007 | No Comments27 Nov 05 University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics Coping effectively with a predicted influenza pandemic that threatens to affect the health of millions worldwide, hobble economies and overwhelm... -
Experts urge strongest isolation for new drug-resistant tuberculosis cases appearing in South Africa
Posted on January 22, 2007 | No CommentsUniversity of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics 22-Jan-2007 Public health trumps individual human rights, medical ethics experts say Medical ethics and other experts say tough isolation measures, involuntary if need... -
Prepare public for bird flu, experts urge governments
Posted on November 5, 2005 | No CommentsJoint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto 27 Nov 2005 Ethicists offer guide to decision-making in predicted flu pandemic; quarantine, duty to care, resource allocations among key issues Coping effectively with a... -
Conflicts pitting doctors vs. patients / kin is #1 issue in medical ethics
Posted on June 26, 2005 | No Comments26 Jun 05 University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics The biggest issue in medical ethics today is the growing occurrence of conflict between health care providers, their patients and... -
Nanotechnology’s miniature answers to developing world’s biggest problems
Posted on April 11, 2005 | No Comments11 Apr 05 University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics In a new study by researchers at the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics (JCB), published in PLoS Medicine,... -
Put science at center of decision-making on third world development, experts tell UN
Posted on January 6, 2005 | No CommentsJoint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto 6 January, 2005 Report urges end to monopoly of economists as development policy advisors Science and technology is so critically important to improving conditions in... -
Cuba, South Africa, India, China, Brazil Among Developing Countries with Recipe for Thriving Health Biotechnology Industries, Saving Lives, Researchers Say in Three-Year, First-Ever Study
Posted on December 6, 2004 | No CommentsJoint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto 6 December, 2004 Cuba, South Korea, and India make and export their own biotech vaccines, Egypt manufactures recombinant insulin, and South Africa is developing a... -
Report: How 10 top new technologies will help world reach globally-agreed goals by 2015
Posted on October 7, 2004 | No Comments07 Oct 04 University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics New medical tools that quickly and accurately diagnose diseases like AIDS and malaria top a list of 10 biotech breakthroughs... -
Ethical guidelines needed before ‘nutrigenomic’ groceries come to market
Posted on November 3, 2003 | No Comments03 Nov 03 University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics New research designed to help consumers create customized diets based on their genetic make up will create ethical and legal... -
New guidelines for MDs draw line between relief of suffering and euthanasia
Posted on September 12, 2002 | No CommentsJoint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto 12 Sept 2002 Intensive care unit physicians need to be comfortable prescribing drugs in whatever dose is needed to relieve a dying patient’s pain and...