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Berman institute of bioethics
Preventive measures
Published Feb 6, 2014
Health experts offer recommendations to combat shortages of lifesaving drugs
Medicine alternative
Surgery for sale?
Published Jan 16, 2014 Video
Hopkins bioethicist weighs in on a new website that allows patients to solicit bids for medical care
John M. Freeman, renowned Hopkins pediatric neurologist, dies at 80
Published Jan 15, 2014
He revolutionized treatment of pediatric epilepsy, was a founding faculty member of the university's Berman Institute of Bioethics
Medical ethics
A right to die?
Published Jan 9, 2014
Professor Cynda Rushton considers complex case of pregnant woman forced to stay on life support / CNN
Ethics of Catholic health care directives
Published Dec 17, 2013
ACLU claims policies led to 'negligent' patient care in Michigan case / ABC News
Medical ethics
Crowdfunding conundrum
Published Dec 5, 2013
Exploring the ethics of a gender reassignment surgery paid for by an online fundraising appeal
Stranger than fiction
Dose of reality for filmmakers
Published Oct 17, 2013
Bioethicists talk to Hollywood writers, producers, directors about injecting reality into medical shows / NPR
Lacks family reaches deal on use of genetic material
Published Aug 8, 2013
Cells collected from Johns Hopkins patient in 1951 paved way for medical advances including polio vaccine, chemotherapy, in vitro fertilization
Forgotten disease
Research that's personal
Published July 8, 2013
JHU professor lives with, studies sickle cell disease, a painful and rare blood abnormality / The Baltimore Sun
Are all calories equal?
Published Jan 18, 2013
Ruth Faden, director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, argues that a new Coke ad is misleading and unethical / theatlantic.com