Tag: Policy/Ethics

New Hastings Center project addresses foundational questions about end-of-life choices for people with dementia As the American population ages and ...

HHS fetal tissue research ban threatens progress toward cure for HIV

Statement from IDSA President Cynthia Sears, MD, FIDSA and HIVMA Chair W. David Hardy, MD The Department of Health and ...

Talking to each other — how forest conservation can succeed

Göttingen research team reveals strengths and shortcomings of different conceptsCredit: Laura Demant Forest conservation can be a source of tension ...

Where to draw the line between mental health and illness?

Defining mental disorders and illnesses is not straightforward. Notions of whether a certain phenomenon should be classified as an illness ...

AMA honors research on how mindfulness helps consumers decision making

The Journal of Public Policy & Marketing is pleased to honor the 2019 Thomas C. Kinnear Award to "Mindfulness: Its ...

McGill University receives funding to create ethics resources for human cell atlas

New policies, tools, and support to enable efficient, ethical international data sharing for this global effort to map all cells ...

It pays to be free: No-cost products garner strong word-of-mouth recommendations

June 5, 2019

Consumers who get a web-based product or mobile app for free are more likely to give it a word-of-mouth boost ...

blu research suggests potential breakthrough in future e-liquid classifications

June 5, 2019

Innovative in-vitro research using GARD assays can help detect known allergensCredit: blu / Imperial Brands A new study* suggests that ...

Civility still matters to some in cyberspace

In the online world, where incivility is all too common, new research from the McCombs School of Business at The ...

Is there a demographic need for migration in Europe?

Decision makers often assume that higher fertility or more migration will bring solutions to the EU's demographic challenges. Yet, "an ...

Geoscience data group urges all scientific disciplines to make data open and accessible

WASHINGTON -- Institutions, science funders, data repositories, publishers, researchers and scientific societies from all scientific disciplines must work together to ...

New device sheds light on mechanism, efficacy of arthritis treatment

Credit: John Munson, Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - The debate over how one of the most popular osteoarthritis treatments should ...

New center at the University of Copenhagen to predict climate tipping points

Current climate models are unable to predict sudden and violent changes to climate, known as tipping points. This is a ...

Germline gene therapy pioneer, teenage son make case for safe treatment