EurekAlert! - Policy and Ethics News Archive
The premier website for science news since 1996. A service of AAAS.
http://www.eurekalert.org/rss/policy_ethics.xml
- Adult stem cells from adipose tissue could save lives
- Institute of Medicine news: Quarantine stations at ports of entry
- LSD finds new respectability
- Memories of terror: Can history make sense of terrorist acts?
- IT program hopes to foster better security checklists
- Bird flu claims critically endangered mammal
- Sports doping explored during half-day symposium, Aug. 30
- Anthrax test, developed by army and CDC, receives FDA approval
- Kentucky, China seismic experts
- Most published research findings may be false
- Via College Research Recognition Day features 'father of microbial genetics'
- Virginia water center celebrates 40th year at national symposium at Virginia Tech
- Thumbs up for child trust funds, but 18-year-olds urge controls on how money is spent
- ASHG 55th Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, October 26-29, 2005
- $2,000 Katrina grants for New Orleans physiology students, post-docs offered through APS
- Researchers call for end to pharmaceutical industry's 'cynical use' of drug studies
- University of Kentucky awarded $6 million for GDNF and related research
- New guideline: Blood test can help determine type of seizure
- National critical care program benefits families, patients, and hospitals
- Prof probes impact of post 9/11 surveillance
- UCLA Stem Cell Institute receives $3.75-million training grant from state
- How the Internet influenced Indonesian politics
- Research finds poor sleep effects student's school performance
- Productivity Commission confirms value of medicines
- Stem cell ethical guidelines must be strengthened, UCSF team says
- What the news and the movies leave out: Behind the scenes of disaster aid
- Gang injunctions give communities short-term relief, study shows
- Two human rights activists to receive Pagels Award from NY Academy of Sciences
- Death sentences linked to history of lynching in states
- Four new us patents granted to Acrux for transdermal drug delivery
- Surveillance data suggest that preschoolers drive flu epidemics
- 'Aesthetic computing' turns algebra into art; teachers intrigued
- New mental health help for juvenile offenders
- Bernstein to discuss and sign new book at Barnes & Noble
- Preventing chronic diseases - need for concerted action
- UCI-led research team recommends new tobacco control policies for lawmakers
- Elsevier announces a publishing partnership with the Ambulatory Pediatric Association
- Florida physicians decrease or eliminate services
- Supercomputers to enable safer, more efficient oil drilling
- Center releases new public survey on stem cells
- Terrorism is no surprise when a nation leaves itself vulnerable
- Bat inspires space tech for airport security
- Liverpool psychology helps bring peace to European football
- Russian 'surrogate' alcohols are a killer
- Researchers disprove 'fat redistribution syndrome' among men taking HIV drugs
- Medicare elimination of essential drugs will affect elderly
- Life insurance: Research reveals concerns over use of health information
- PLoS announces open access journal for all clinical trials, positive or negative
- Even very low levels of environmental toxins can damage health
- In China, ICSU releases new strategy to strengthen international science for the benefit of society
- Scientific freedom: ICSU revises and reaffirms commitment to the 'Universality of Science'
- Joint press release by the DFG and the MPG: Strengthening potential, creating independence
- Calls to prevent chronic disease 'juggernaut'
- Report emphasises science benefits of ESA's Earth Observation Envelope Programme
- National Academies advisory: Nov. 4 International Security and Arms Control Symposium
- Dr. Jonathan Moreno elected to prestigious Insitute of Medicine
- Lawyers' salaries in private sector impact whether federal attorneys take drug cases to trial
- Yale researcher leads successful effort to access HMO fees for Medicaid patients
- Pending animal measure threatens U.S. research, AAAS says in letter to Congressional committee
- Implementing European Space Policy: Key ESA/EC agreement on Earth Observation data signed today
- UCLA study identifies $7 in societal savings for every $1 spent on drug abuse treatment
- National Academies advisory: Fighting infectious disease
- Which drugs should health plans cover?
- Victims of genetic discrimination
- New study uncovers major inaccuracies in global wildlife trade monitoring
- A sense of place
- The Politicization of Science
- The Politicization of Science
- Study reveals surprising attitudes about research involving adults with Alzheimer's
- Is it okay to sign Alzheimer's patients up for research studies?
- MIT closes in on bionic speed
- UK sperm donor crisis
- 'The Science of False Memory' explores the new field
- Study finds billions of health insurance dollars used for administrative costs
- Satellites support Kyoto Protocol through forest mapping service
- Patients missing out in communication divide
- Making primary health care work: New research
- Morals often sacrificed for the good of the country
- Senate hearing focuses on repairing levees in New Orleans
- National Academies advisory: Nov. 17 release of report on patents for genes, proteins
- Major study links chronic noise exposure to risk of heart attacks
- Launch of the 2006 NIH Director's Pioneer Award program
- Research findings contradict longstanding bias against morphine
- Nov/Dec 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
- Coherent, robust performance measurement system needed
- Institute of Medicine news: Report on health care performance
- Grant advances web portal for U.S./China standards
- Cell debuts design changes and expanded scientific coverage
- Ethnic minorities and health research
- American dream, in peril, is successfully pursued through state programs
- Doctors pioneer new area of cruelty free product development
- Norway signs bilateral agreement on science and technology with the United States
- One percent of retailers sell 40 percent of guns used in California crime
- Gender plays role in religious sensitivity for medical students
- The EU is Missing its Targets
- New figures confirm PBS spending barely growing
- Health care plans for Medicare beneficiaries are not all alike
- Genes in Uniform: Don't Test, Don't Tell
- New Hurricane Katrina survivor initiative to guide policy
- Experts debate whether certain research should be restricted

