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Joint Centre for Bioethics News

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November 6th, 2009 11:02 AM	What are the ethics of jumping the queue to avoid the flu?
	Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada Ethicists such as Ross Upshur, director of the University of Toronto's Joint Centre for Bioethics, say that, if governments want the public to co-operate ...
October 20th, 2009 11:29 AM	Announcement from Trillium Health Centre
	Appointment of Dianne Godkin as Senior Ethicist
September 9th, 2009 04:40 PM	Pandemic of Indecency
	CBC Radio, September 9, 2009 - Dr. Ross Upshur, Director, Joint Centre for Bioethics, discusses the 'pandemic of indecency' on CBC Radio's The Current.
August 5th, 2009 02:46 PM	Should Canada share its swine flu drugs?
	Toronto Star, August 5, 2009 - Antiviral-rich nation pushed by ethicists to help poor countries.
July 16th, 2009 02:10 PM	British couple's decision to die together sets dangerous precedent: critics
	CanWest News, July 15, 2009 - "If people feel they would like to stay on, but the balance of burden has tipped too much toward other people...they may not really so much want to end their life," says Kerry Bowman, a professor at the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics.
July 9th, 2009 11:29 AM	Swine flu fears spur Canada to stock up on ventilators
	Globe & Mail, July 9, 2009 - "...because this flu disproportionately hits younger people, it has become a choice of giving them to one young person or another young person, Dr. Upshur said. This is a scenario that no one had actually anticipated."
July 8th, 2009 02:19 PM	Facilitating innovation in the clinical setting: a pathway for operationalizing accountability
	Healthcare Quarterly 2009; 12(3):60-5. An article by Randi Zlotnik Shaul, Maria McDonald and Jacob C. Langer
June 23rd, 2009 10:12 AM	Why are a percentage of health workers unwilling to work during a pandemic?
	Elements: Environmental Health Intelligence, June 22, 2009 - "...the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics created a framework based on the SARS outbreak experience."
June 11th, 2009 02:45 PM	Announcement from Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
	Shawn Winsor has been appointed as the new Director of the Ethics Centre at Sunnybrook.
June 9th, 2009 02:46 PM	Swine flu of 1976: Lessons from the past
	Bulletin of the World Health Organization, June 2009 - Interview with Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg, President, Institute of Medicine (USA)
June 9th, 2009 11:37 AM	Researchers looking for answers
	Telegraph Journal, May 30, 2009 - Ethics Group getting opinions on how to save lives when pandemic strikes
May 28th, 2009 09:34 AM	75 years after Dionne quints' birth, modern multiples still making headlines
	The Canadian Press, May 27, 2009 - "[Shawn] Winsor cautions that it's quite another for couples to imagine that big, instant families are an achievable goal based on "glowing" depictions in the media."
May 20th, 2009 08:55 AM	One person's pain could cure a disease
	Toronto Star, May 20, 2009 - "There is an altruistic element to most vaccination programs", says Angus Dawson, a visiting senior research fellow at University of Toronto's Joint Centre for Bioethics.
May 5th, 2009 09:54 AM	"7th revision of the Declaration of Helsinki: Good news for the transparency of clinical trials"
	An editorial in the Croatian Medical Journal 2009; 50(2):105-10 by Karmela Krleza-Jeric and Trudo Lemmens.
April 30th, 2009 11:18 AM	Swine flu's arrival will test Canada's readiness
	National Post, April 29, 2009 - "The last thing you want is arguments at the door of the intensive care unit between relatives who have sick patients and busy, overburdened clinicians," says Dr. Ross Upshur, Director of the University of Toronto's Joint Centre for Bioethics.
April 29th, 2009 02:15 PM	"Swine flu outbreak tests Canadian preparedness"
	Early release of CMAJ article.
April 28th, 2009 04:22 PM	WHO Collaborating Centres: The JCB
	Item on the JCB in the WHO's Ethics and Health Unit newsletter, Spring 2009, Issue 2, page 1.
April 2nd, 2009 03:07 PM	"Apocalypse or redemption: responding to extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis"
	From the Bulletin of the World Health Organization an e-publication ahead of print. Authors: Ross Upshur, Jerome Singh, Nathan Ford.
January 8th, 2009 09:31 AM	"Team Strength" Dalla Lana School of Public Health
	UToronto Medicine, December 2008 - A look at a small sample of the incredible faculty members at the Dalla Lana School (including JCB Director, Ross Upshur, pg. 11) and how they are leading us all towards a healthier future.
November 11th, 2008 12:48 PM	CBC Radio One podcast "White Coat, Black Art" hosted by Dr. Brian Goldman
	Nov. 10/08 podcast - Dr. Brian Goldman talks to a family doc and a bioethicist, Dr. Philip Hebert, about deception and medicine.
October 29th, 2008 02:28 PM	Boosting flu shots decreases hospital stays, deaths
	In a study published in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine, researchers found that the number of flu-related deaths in the province dropped 40 per cent after Ontario introduced its universal flu shot program eight years ago
October 15th, 2008 10:22 AM	Public Health Ethics journal launch press release
	Public Health Ethics (PHE), a new peer-reviewed, international journal was officially launched at the 9th World Congress of Bioethics.
October 9th, 2008 02:32 PM	From Human Embryos to Interspecies Creations: Ethical and Legal Uncertainties Surrounding the Creation of Cytoplasmic Hybrids for Research
	New article by Ubaka Ogbogu, Tim Caulfield and Shane Green published in Medical Law International
October 1st, 2008 03:29 PM	Ross Upshur - Academic Family Physician of the Year
	An interview with Ross Upshur, Director, Joint Centre for Bioethics, in the University of Toronto Department of Family & Community Medicine newsletter "Family Ties" on page 9.
September 24th, 2008 03:51 PM	Human Genomic Variation Studies in Developing Countries
	A series of articles have been published on genomic medicine in developing countries, focusing on four case studies on Mexico, India, Thailand and South Africa, as a special supplement to the October issue of Nature Reviews Genetics.
September 9th, 2008 03:47 PM	"Living Will, Living Well: Reflections on Preparing an Advance Directive"
	Book by clinical ethicist Dianne Godkin, explores end-of-life issues and emotions that arise when a person sets out to prepare an advance directive.
September 3rd, 2008 02:21 PM	Doing Right: A Practical Guide to Ethics for Medical Trainees and Physicians
	This second edition of Philip Hébert's "Doing Right" offers health care trainees and practitioners alike a comprehensive, usable guide to biomedical ethics today.
August 14th, 2008 10:55 AM	Earlier harvesting of hearts stirs ethics debate
	Under a fairly new and controversial approach, families are being asked to allow organs to be taken after cardiac death.
August 13th, 2008 09:41 AM	CMA's Dr. William Marsden Award in Medical Ethics to be Given to Dr. Philip Hebert
	Dr. Hebert has played a pivotal leadership role in the development of an integrated and practical professional ethics education for medical trainees and physicians.
July 7th, 2008 03:35 PM	When brain death isn't terminal
	The case of a revived 'brain-dead' accident victim raises some disturbing issues
July 3rd, 2008 03:12 PM	Fake pills for kids stir controversy
	Doctors raise fears Obecalp, a new children's placebo, will condition them to look for cures in pills
June 10th, 2008 03:02 PM	Patient gets brain surgery - fully awake
	Open-skull operations on waking outpatients are but one marvel for an elite local unit
June 10th, 2008 02:58 PM	Open wide and say, 'AAAART!'
	For 200 years, medicine had little use for the arts. As a recent conference showed, that's changing.
June 5th, 2008 09:28 AM	1st Annual Sue MacRae Lecture on Ethics and Patient-Centred Care
	Making Tough Decisions Together: A family's perspective of the vital importance of ethics and patient-centred care
May 30th, 2008 04:11 PM	Global Health Ethics: An emerging concept
	The challenge of achieving improved health for a greater proportion of the world's population is arguably one of the most pressing moral problems of our time and is starkly illustrated by the threat of infectious diseases.
May 8th, 2008 11:51 AM	What is 'Public Health Ethics'?
	If we are serious about defending public health activities from the traditional criticisms drawn from the direction of medical ethics, then we need to think about how we can justify a more community-orientated approach to ethics.
April 1st, 2008 02:00 PM	The Story About Narrative
	A discussion about the Narrative Ethics Group and the projects that are underway.
January 28th, 2008 02:29 PM	New Publication: The Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics
	This book project was incubated at the JCB. Dr. Ross Upshur, Director thinks The Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics will become the definitive textbook for clinicians (including physicians, nurses, and all allied health professionals), and also for students in a wide variety of fields related to bioethics.
January 18th, 2008 11:53 AM	Experts Urge Strongest Isolation For New Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Cases Appearing In South Africa
	Medical ethics and other experts say tough isolation measures, involuntary if need be, are justified to contain very deadly, highly-contagious and drug-resistant mutant strains of tuberculosis and to prevent "a potentially explosive international health crisis" brewing most dangerously in South Africa.
November 15th, 2007 11:47 AM	Working for an Ethical Future: The First Decade of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics (PDF)
	In just a decade, the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics (JCB) has grown to be one of the major bioethics centres in the world. This 10-year report examines the JCB in detail.
November 5th, 2007 11:52 AM	An Ethical Tango With Television
	The Joint Centre for Bioethics Undergraduate Initiative recently hosted a discussion session investigating the tricky relationship between ethics and the media.
November 1st, 2006 12:01 PM	Recommendations for Establishing a Citizen's Council to Guide Drug Policy in Ontario (PDF)
	A report published by the University of Toronto Priority Setting in Health Care Research Group.
August 29th, 2006 01:05 PM	Just Regionalisation: Rehabilitating Care for People with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses
	The the authors use the Canadian province of Ontario as a case study, which examines the ethics of regionalisation and the implications for people with disabilities and chronic illnesses.
April 30th, 2006 01:45 PM	A Journal on the Rocks
	There is often a rocky relationship between journals and their owners. Journal editors have a responsibility to publish controversial articles that promote debate. For medical associations, controversial articles sometimes conflict with the association's positions.
April 12th, 2006 01:38 PM	A Better Way to Recruit Organ Donors
	Everyone expects to receive a kidney, liver or heart if they need a transplant, but not everyone is willing to donate an organ for transplant when they die. In Ontario, only about one in three eligible potential donors become actual organ donors -- a far cry from the target of 75% that has been achieved in many U.S. hospitals.
March 30th, 2006 12:11 PM	Pandemic Planning
	The distribution and division of power across several regional governments in federal systems can hinder national and international efforts to control infectious disease outbreaks, says a team of researchers.
March 29th, 2006 12:33 PM	Organ Donation after Cardiac Death: A Panel Discussion of the Ethical Issues
	Jennifer Gibson moderators this webcast discussion with 8 distinguished panelists.
March 28th, 2006 12:09 PM	Amid Growing Public Concerns, Bioscience Firms Begin Formalizing Ethical Decision-Making Practices
	Pharmaceutical, biotechnology and bio-agricultural companies, grappling with an array of complex ethical issues, are gradually formalizing systematic approaches to ethical decision-making, according to a two-year study by leading international ethics and biosciences researchers.
February 20th, 2006 12:40 PM	Expanding Biotechnology Research in Developing Countries Key to Countering Bioterrorism
	Experts at the Canadian Program on Genomics and Global Health warn that global efforts to combat bioterrorism are on a potential collision course with legitimate biotechnology pursuits that hold the promise of improving life for millions of the world's poorest people.
February 2nd, 2006 12:31 PM	Working Together Against Bioterror
	The U.S. National Research Council and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies released its report on Globalization, Biosecurity, and the Future of Life Sciences. Peter Singer served on the committee that wrote this report, which examines the chilling prospect of next-generation bio-weapons being used, and recommends ways to prevent it.
January 18th, 2006 12:48 PM	U of T-led Ethics Network to Help Guide Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative
	Experts to identify and devise ways to address potential ethical, social and cultural issues.
January 18th, 2006 12:43 PM	The State of the JCB Address
	Peter Singer, MD, MPH, FRCPSC, Sun Life Chair in Bioethics and Director, University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics gives the yearly review of JCB activities in this webcast event.
December 2nd, 2005 12:50 PM	Dear Bono...
	Peter Singer writes an open letter to Bono in the National Post regarding PM Paul Martin's pledge to devote a percentage of Canada's research-and-development spending to challenges facing the developing world.
November 22nd, 2005 12:52 PM	Think Small
	Just as Canada responded to the threat of SARS by sequencing the DNA of the SARS virus, we can respond to the challenge of safe drinking water using our expertise in the emerging field of nanotechnology.
November 21st, 2005 12:55 PM	Ethics in a Pandemic
	An international medical ethics think-tank says that all-important public cooperation and the coordination of public officials at all levels requires open and ethical decision making.
June 29th, 2005 02:02 PM	Race: A risk genetics must run
	Medical Ethicists Abdallah S. Daar and Peter A. Singer see why last Saturday's cover story (in The Globe and Mail) by Carolyn Abraham touched a nerve. Research that targets specific groups is open to abuse, they admit, but how can science ignore the opportunity to do so much good?
June 29th, 2005 02:00 PM	Paul Martin's 5% Solution
	As the July 6 G8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, approaches, Prime Minister Paul Martin is under increasing pressure to adopt the widely embraced target of devoting 0.7% of GDP to foreign aid.
June 20th, 2005 02:04 PM	Conflicts Pitting Doctors vs. Patients/Kin Over Treatment Decisions is #1 Issue in Medical Ethics Today, Canadian Experts Say
	The biggest issue in medical ethics today is the growing occurrence of conflict between health care providers, their patients and patients' families over treatment options, according to Canadian medical ethicists in a survey published today.
May 24th, 2005 02:15 PM	Canada Needs Therapeutic Cloning
	Peter Singer discusses why Canadians must rethink laws prohibiting therapeutic cloning or Canadians may end up sicker and poorer a decade from now.
May 9th, 2005 02:17 PM	Ethics Gaining Prominence in Hospitals
	Thanks to ethicists from the Joint Centre for Bioethics, ethics is becoming part of the corporate culture at a number of Toronto-area hospitals.
May 2nd, 2005 02:18 PM	Health Care Ethics Practical, Smart: Study
	Health care ethics gained the limelight during the recent battle over Terry Schiavo's fate, but ethical decision-making is already a growing part of the corporate culture at a number of Toronto hospitals, thanks to a "hub and spokes" strategy pioneered by the University of Toronto's Joint Centre for Bioethics.
March 31st, 2005 01:21 PM	Little Answers to the World's Biggest Problems
	Global experts rank the Top 10 Nanotechnology Applications to aid the poor, report says.
March 21st, 2005 01:23 PM	Learning from Terri Schiavo
	Although medical conditions such as Schiavo's are unavoidable, the ugly feuds that surround them can be prevented if people talk to their loved ones about what they would want if medical circumstances render them unable to make their own decisions.
January 6th, 2005 01:26 PM	End Monopoly of Economists as Development Policy Advisors; Put Science at Center of Decision-Making, Experts Tell UN
	Science and technology is so critically important to improving conditions in poor countries that scientific advisors should join economists at the center of government policy-making on development issues, an eminent group of 27 international experts says in a landmark report to the United Nations.
January 5th, 2005 01:08 PM	Biotechnology and Human Security (PDF)
	Helsinki Process Papers on Human Security. Human security is compromised by disease, hunger, poverty, environmental damage and physical threats. In this paper, Abdallah Daar and Peter Singer explore these threats in relation to biotechnology's potential to ameliorate them or, in some instances, to make them worse.
January 3rd, 2005 01:25 PM	Ethics in Health Care
	To help resolve issues between clinical staff, patients and families, hospitals are increasingly turning to ethicists. Bioethics involves critical reflection on ethical issues in health-care settings towards deciding what we should do, why we should do it and how we should do it.
December 15th, 2004 01:34 PM	Fair Decisions More Important When Hospitals Face Crisis like SARS
	Embroiled in an emergency like a deadly infectious disease outbreak, hospital managers and staff may consider saving time by suspending or modifying normal decision making procedures, new report states.
November 29th, 2004 01:36 PM	Health Biotechnology Innovations in Developing Countries
	Cuba, South Africa, India, China, and Brazil are among developing countries with the recipe for thriving Health Biotechnology Industries, which are saving lives, researchers say in three-year, first-ever study.
November 8th, 2004 01:42 PM	Clinical Education of Ethicists: The Role of a Clinical Ethics Fellowship (PDF)
	Although clinical ethicists are becoming more prevalent in healthcare settings, their required training and education have not been clearly delineated. Most agree that training and education are important, but their nature and delivery remain topics of debate. One option is through completion of a clinical ethics fellowship. In this paper, the first four fellows to complete a newly developed fellowship program at the JCB discuss their experiences.
October 4th, 2004 02:38 PM	Report: How 10 Top New Technologies Will Help World Reach Globally-Agreed Goals by 2015
	Biotechnology breakthroughs promise to save millions of lives per year. Experts call for global body to better use knowledge worldwide.
August 25th, 2004 02:47 PM	How Long Must We Wait?
	Prime Minister Paul Martin made the reduction of health care waiting lists a centrepiece of his recent election campaign. When the premiers meet with Mr. Martin next month, they should work toward realizing this worthy goal.
August 19th, 2004 02:49 PM	It All Comes Down to Waiting Lists
	At the Canadian Medical Association's annual meeting on Monday, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh were jostling over the correct focus for medicare reform. The premiers want their Sept. 13 meeting with the Prime Minister to focus on pharmacare. The Prime Minister wants to prioritize waiting lists. The focus should be on waiting lists.
August 16th, 2004 02:50 PM	The Ethics of Treating Ailing Visitors
	Two stories of visitors seeking health care in Canada caught the media's attention last week. Linda Wright and Martin McKneally discuss the ethical implications.
August 12th, 2004 02:55 PM	'Compassionate Homicide' is a Crime Like No Other
	Peter Singer discusses Canada's legal system and how it deals with cases of 'mercy' killings, in relation to the cases of David Carmichael and Robert Latimer.
August 12th, 2004 02:53 PM	We Should Clone This U.K. Policy
	The U.K. is positioned to lead the world in translating the potential benefits of stem-cell research into patients. Canada should follow its lead and permit therapeutic cloning under strict regulation.
June 29th, 2004 03:17 PM	Ethical Guidelines Needed Before "Nutrigenomic" Groceries Come to Market
	New research designed to help consumers create customized diets based on their genetic make up will create ethical and legal challenges with serious implications for the scientific and medical communities, warns a new consultation paper by a panel of international experts.
April 26th, 2004 03:01 PM	Health-Care Spending an Ethical Issue
	Sustainable financial stability comes not from spending more, but from spending wisely - deciding what we will provide and what we will not provide.
January 28th, 2004 02:05 PM	Will Prince Charles et al Diminish the Opportunities of Developing Countries in Nanotechnology?
	Prince Charles and the ETC Group (formerly RAFI) have expressed opposition to nanotechnology in recent months, making this seem like a replay of the genetically-modified (GM) foods debate. That debate essentially ignored the voices of people in developing countries.
April 15th, 2003 03:32 PM	Priority Setting in Canada's Health Care System
	JCB researchers release a study on Canada's health care priority-setting system, entitled, "Reasonable Rationing: International Experience of Priority Setting in Health Care".
February 26th, 2003 02:28 PM	Not All Cloning is Alike
	Over the past few months, Parliamentarians have heard a lot of commentary on the policy issues associated with reproductive and "therapeutic" cloning. In many respects this dynamic debate is ideal, as it should inform the final political debates on Bill C-13, The Assisted Human Reproduction Act.
February 25th, 2003 02:30 PM	Leading Canadian Bio-ethicists Unite to urge Parliament: Regulate - Don't Ban Therapeutic Cloning
	Several of Canada’s top bio-ethicists, along with a research funding organization, have come together to urge Canada’s Parliament to regulate "therapeutic" cloning, but not to prohibit it.
February 17th, 2003 02:22 PM	'Mind the gap': Science and Ethics in Nanotechnology (PDF)
	Nanotechnology (NT) is a rapidly progressing field. Advances will have a tremendous impact on fields such as materials, electronics, and medicine. A thorough review of the current literature, governmental funding, and policy documents was undertaken.
February 10th, 2003 02:25 PM	Addressing Ethical Issues Urgently Needed for Emerging New Scientific Revolution
	Nanotechnology applications are perhaps years away but developers should act now on lessons from confrontations over GMOs.
November 15th, 2002 02:39 PM	Setting Priorities Key to Sustainability of Medicare
	Should an expensive new cancer drug, or a new surgical treatment for heart disease, be funded? How should these decisions be made? These are questions that researchers at The University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics (JCB) explore in a new study on Canada's health care system.
September 12th, 2002 03:43 PM	New Guidelines for MDs Draw Line Between Relief of Suffering and Euthanasia
	Intensive care unit physicians need to be comfortable prescribing drugs in whatever dose is needed to relieve a dying patient's pain and suffering, even if this hastens the patient's death, according to proposed new guidelines released today by researchers at an international medical ethics think-tank.
August 12th, 2002 03:41 PM	Consensus Guidelines on Analgesia and Sedation in Dying Intensive Care Unit Patients
	Intensivists must provide enough analgesia and sedation to ensure dying patients receive good palliative care. However, if it is perceived that too much is given, they risk prosecution for committing euthanasia. The goal of this study is to develop consensus guidelines on analgesia and sedation in dying intensive care unit patients that help distinguish palliative care from euthanasia.
August 1st, 2002 03:48 PM	Dying Patients Deserve Better
	The conditions under which people die of incurable illness represent a neglected global issue, especially in developing countries, that demands far greater attention from the world’s medical leadership, according to a paper released today by an influential medical ethics think-tank.
May 1st, 2002 03:46 PM	Quality End-of-Life Care: A Global Perspective
	Quality end of life care has emerged as an important concept in industrialized countries. Researchers argue that quality end of life care should be seen as a global public health and health systems problem.