From The New York Times: NEWS ANALYSIS: Tylenol, Generics and Trust After a wide recall of children’s drugs, many parents are questioning the value, and sense of security, when buying a name brand over cheaper generic medicines. http://nyti.ms/dCJkWO
May 5, 2010
From The New York Times: Teaching Physicians the Price of Care Until recently, most medical schools provided little information on financial factors, like how the insurance system works and how treatment costs affect patients’ behavior. http://nyti.ms/b0lzKK
May 4, 2010
From The New York Times: Poll Shows Most in U.S. Want Overhaul of Immigration Laws The number of Americans who describe illegal immigration as a serious problem has grown, and a slim majority supports Arizona’s stringent new law, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll. http://nyti.ms/a4ngph
April 30, 2010
World news: Ethics | guardian.co.uk April 28, 2010 3:00 AM by Roy Greenslade One of the reasons that American newspapers see themselves as superior to their British counterparts is the political balance they seek to achieve and, moreover, they think they are achieving. Here, for example, is the editor-in-chief of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Julia Wallace,… [Read more…]
April 28, 2010
Carnegie Council Resources RSS Feed April 23, 2010 10:57 AM Is it time to reform the U.S. electoral structure? Should more views be represented? Do narrow interests have too much power? What do you think? Global Ethics Corner: Should American Elections be Reformed?
April 28, 2010
Ethics Newsline® April 26, 2010 9:34 PM by Carl Hausman U.S. Public Willing to Accept Some Civil Rights Violations in Immigration Crackdown
April 28, 2010
Guardian.co.uk April 27, 2010 6:18 AM A fatally wounded man left dying on a New York sidewalk was ignored for nearly two hours. Would you have stopped to help? New York has been shaken by the murder of a 31-year-old Guatemalan immigrant, Hugo Tale-Yax, who was stabbed to death on a Queens street last week.… [Read more…]
April 28, 2010
Bioethics Forum April 27, 2010 9:54 AM by Susan Gilbert My eggs are ripe for the taking – I am a 22-year-old female Yale graduate. On a semi-regular basis in college, I opened the school newspaper to find advertisements soliciting my demographic to donate. Some ads were more specific than others, requiring a Jewish or… [Read more…]
April 28, 2010
WSJ.com: Health Blog April 27, 2010 8:47 AM by Katherine Hobson Under reimbursement rules, IV chemo counts as a medical benefit, but oral treatments fall under the (usually less comprehensive) drug benefit. Is ‘Chemo Parity’ a Good Idea?
April 27, 2010
From The New York Times: States Warn of ‘Obamacare’ Scams Con artists are taking advantage of confusion over the recent health care overhaul, with one plan offering protection against “death panels.” http://nyti.ms/9mj0Q9
April 26, 2010
From The New York Times: Growing Split in Arizona Over Immigration Immigration has always polarized the state. But the new law has widened the chasm in a way few can remember. http://nyti.ms/9oFVxu
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