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Arthur Caplan

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Name: Arthur Caplan

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Gene-testing dispute focuses on how much a patient should know

(Bloomberg) -- Should patients undergoing broad DNA testing for a specific ailment be told of unexpected findings that signal risk of cancer or other serious diseases, even if they don’t request the information?The question is at the core of a battle ... [Published BenefitNews.com - May 23 2013]

Entities: Patient, guidelines, Genome

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

The complicated ethics of genetic testing for cancer and preemptive surgery

Actress Angelina Jolie recently opened up to the world about her decision to undergo surgery because of a genetic marker that indicated her cancer risk. ; Credit: AFP/AFP/Last week actress Angelina Jolie made headlines when she revealed that she underwent ... [Published SCPR - May 22 2013]

Entities: Cancer, genetic testing, Angelina Jolie, Arthur Caplan, Genetic marker

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Genetic Testing Guidelines Under Fire

If you underwent a genetic test for a heart condition, but the test also revealed that you have a high risk of colon cancer, would you want to know?A respected scientific society says your doctor should tell you, but the group is receiving criticism for ... [Published LiveScience.com - May 18 2013]

Entities: genetic testing, Susan Wolf, guidelines, Harry Ostrer

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Koninklijke DSM NV

Chorus of critics greets new psychiatric manual release

The fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's manual of mental disorders is finally out, offering the latest revision in nearly 20 years of the diagnostic bible used by individuals and agencies, insurers, schools and government bodies to ... [Published NBCNews.com - May 17 2013]

Entities: Koninklijke DSM NV, Arthur Caplan, NBC News Channel, Gail Saltz, Diagnostic

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Gene-Testing Dispute Focuses on How Much a Patient Should Know

Should patients undergoing broad DNA testing for a specific ailment be told of unexpected findings that signal risk of cancer or other serious diseases, even if they don’t request the information?The question is at the core of a battle brewing among doctors ... [Published BusinessWeek - May 16 2013]

Entities: Patient, guidelines, Arthur Caplan, mutations, Genome

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Angelina Jolie

Is Angelina Jolie?s surgery a logical response to genetic test results?

After reading Angelina Jolie’s editorial in The New York Times today, I came away with a few questions. How common is it to choose to have a double mastectomy as in response to a genetic test when technically you don’t yet have cancer? What do genetic ... [Published MedCity News - May 14 2013]

Entities: Angelina Jolie, BRCA1, Breast Cancer

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Angelina Jolie was brave to get a double mastectomy

Editor's note: Arthur Caplan is the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty professor and director of the Division of Bioethics at New York University's Langone Medical Center.(CNN) -- By making public her story about how she dealt with the high risk ... [Published CNN - May 14 2013]

Entities: Double Mastectomy, Angelina Jolie, Breast Cancer, Arthur Caplan

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell convicted of first-degree murder

Dr. Kermit GosnellPhiladelphia abortion provider Kermit Gosnell was convicted Monday of three counts of first-degree murder for the death of three babies that prosecutors said were delivered alive and subsequently killed.Gosnell, 72, could face the death ... [Published MSN Canada - May 14 2013]

Entities: Abortion, First-Degree Murder, Kermit Gosnell

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Cyanide-laced death of organ donor brings calls for transparency

By MARK ROTH It has been more than two weeks since neurologist Dr. Autumn Klein died of apparent cyanide poisoning, and officials still have not said whether her organs or tissues were transplanted. Following standard privacy guidelines for organ transplants, ... [Published Scripps Howard News Service - May 08 2013]

Entities: Arthur Caplan, Mark Roth, NYU Langone Medical Center, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Cyanide

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Is it medically ethical to force-feed Guantanamo detainees?

By Samuel Burke, CNNThereâs a life-and-death tug-of-war going on between President Barack Obama and more than 100 prisoners who would rather die than stay alive forever at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.Nearly all of the inmates there have never ... [Published CNN - May 01 2013]

Entities: Arthur Caplan, Guantanamo (Cuba), Detainee, Ethical, Christiane Amanpour

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

'Three parent babies' - the future of babymaking?

A new, controversial medical therapy that switches the nucleus of an embryo with that of a donor egg is gearing up for FDA approval, despite ethical objections that the “three parent” technique puts babies at unnecessary risk and may ultimately interfere ... [Published MSN News - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Arthur Caplan, David King, Embryo, Germ Line

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

Opinion: Why the Supreme Court should end pay-for-delay

Editor's note: Arthur Caplan is the Drs. William F and Virginia Connolly Mitty professor and director of the Division of Bioethics at New York University's Langone Medical Center. Zachary Caplan is his son and an attorney at a law firm in Philadelphia ... [Published CNN - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Drugs, Big Pharma, Arthur Caplan

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...a bioethicist at New York University School of Medicine's Division of Medical Ethics, agreed that patients should have an opportunity to refuse. "people do not have any obligations to accept any findings that they hadn’t been expecting" Caplan said

Genetic Testing Guidelines Under Fire [Published LiveScience.com - May 18 2013]

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Debating the Incidental [Published The Daily Scan from GenomeWeb - Mar 29 2013] Arthur Caplan and Robert Green discuss the ACMG recommendations during two different On The Takeaway segments. read more ...
Debating the Incidental [Published The Daily Scan from GenomeWeb - Mar 29 2013] Arthur Caplan and Robert Green discuss the ACMG recommendations during two different On The Takeaway segments. read more ...
Tranplanted Human Brain Cells Make Mice Smarter... [Published Hit & Run - Mar 08 2013] A team of tesearchers at the University of Rochester led by biologist Steven Goldman transplanted early stage versions of human brain cells thatmake up the white matter in our brains into neonatal mice. Thehuman glial cells thrived. As NBCNews.com ...
A Sin City Savior's Quest To Cure The Common Ha... [Published BuzzFeed - Latest - Feb 03 2013] In a luxury high-rise condo above the Las Vegas Strip, Dr. Jason Burke is inserting an IV catheter into the inner bend of Sancho Van Ryan's elbow. "Let me put this in your left arm so you can text if you want." Van Ryan, 30, works in the Las Vegas ...