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The Bioethics Hub is a resource for healthcare providers, bioethicists, scholars, and students in Southern California and beyond. There are academic articles, interviews with bioethicists, links to ethics-related news items, and local bioethics events.
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Advance Directives and Dementia Care
April 25, 2023 (LMU)
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Over the last decade, there have been several controversial cases involving the authority of advance directives for persons with dementia, relating to voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) and euthanasia. At play are fundamental questions of who are and how we can respect human dignity. These cases highlight the need for a greater discussion surrounding care for persons with dementia, as we face an aging population.
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Rethinking Social Solidarity in a Global Context: Bioethics and Human Rights
March 21, 2023 (LMU)
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On Tuesday March 21, esteemed bioethicist and international scholar, Dr. Henk ten Have gave a lecture to students, faculty, and the LMU community on social solidarity, vulnerability, and human rights in a global context. Following the lecture, he, along with Professor Roberto Dell'Oro, answered questions from the audience.
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To read more about the lecture, click here.
Professor Roberto Dell'Oro appointed as Ordinary Member of Pontifical Academy for Life, Meets Pope Francis
February 2, 2023 (LMU)
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In February, Dr. Dell'Oro had the honor of meeting with the Pope following his appointment as an Ordinary Member of the Pontifical Academy for Life.
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SPOTLIGHT
This section features interviews with and narratives of Southern California bioethicists as well as students and faculty of the LMU Bioethics Institute.
NATIONAL AND GLOBAL BIOETHICS NEWS, SCHOLARSHIP, AND ISSUES
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OF VALENCIA
The Observatory is a monthly collection of special reports and news based on the latest biomedical and biotechnological research findings from the top medical and scientific journals.
BIOETHICS IN ACADEMIC LITERATURE
The Johns Hopkins weekly roundup is a compilation of bioethical research in global academic literature.
FDA grants first full approval for an Alzheimer’s drug in 20 years
July 6, 2023
(Politico)
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The FDA on Thursday granted traditional approval to an Alzheimer’s drug for the first time in more than two decades.
Now, the question becomes how many people will be able to access the drug, which is targeted at patients in the early stages of the debilitating disease. Medicare has said that it will reimburse the drug’s costs — more than $26,000 annually — only for beneficiaries enrolled in a nationwide registry that tracks patient side effects and outcomes over time.
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Read the article here.
Gene editing helped crack a 100-year-old mystery about cancer
July 6, 2023
(Washington Post)
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Researchers using modern gene-editing tools have discovered that the intuition of scientists from more than a century ago was right: Cells with unusual numbers of chromosomes are drivers of cancer.
The study, published Thursday in the journal Science, renews scientific attention on an old-fashioned idea, one that could point toward new ways to target cancer cells with drugs.
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