Dr. Arthur Caplan appears in the following:
Measles Cases Continue to Grow. Here's How We Got Here.
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Out In the Cold: Viral Video Brings 'Patient Dumping' Under Renewed Scrutiny
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
After a Medical Breakthrough, Are We One Step Closer to Designer Babies?
Friday, July 28, 2017
A Hospital's Offer to Treat a Terminally Ill Baby Raises Ethical Questions
Friday, July 07, 2017
New Panel for Trial Drugs Raises Hopes for the Terminally Ill
Friday, May 08, 2015
Science May Speak, But Money Talks
Wednesday, April 08, 2015
Biking & Ebola: Nurse Starts National Debate
Friday, October 31, 2014
Cloning for Embryonic Stem Cells
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Arthur Caplan, professor and the director of the division of medical ethics at the NYU School of Medicine, discusses the news that scientists have successfully used cloning to produce human embryonic stem cells--and discusses the ethical issues it raises.
The Genetic Information You Didn't Ask For
Monday, March 25, 2013
Medical Schools Experiment with Shorter Courses
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Patient-Doctor Confidentiality Versus Public Safety
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Bioethical Questions Raised by 'Cyclops Baby'
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Obesity Intervention from Your Doctor
Monday, July 02, 2012
Study of Studies Finds Retractions in Drug Literature Often Indicative of Misconduct
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Friday Follow: Supreme Court ObamaCare Hearings, Anger Continues in Trayvon Martin Shooting Death, Bully is Bullied by Ratings Board
Friday, March 30, 2012
Anti-Obesity Drug Approved by FDA Advisory Panel
Friday, February 24, 2012
This week a Federal Drug Administration panel backed the approval of a weight loss drug called Qnexa. Strictly intended for use by clinically overweight people with BMIs over 27kg/m2, Qnexa is a combination of an already-existing weight loss drug and another drug not yet approved for weight loss. At present, many doctors use this particular combination of drugs to treat obese patients, but this approval would allow them not to go "off the label" with their prescriptions.
Should Parents Lose Custody of Morbidly Obese Children?
Thursday, July 14, 2011
An article published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association says the state should intervene in cases of morbidly obese children. The authors say that parents should lose custody in the most extreme cases of childhood obesity. This opinion has drawn criticism from several lawyers and members of the bioethics community.
How Risky Are Live Organ Donations?
Friday, March 18, 2011
The New York state health department released a report this week saying that an organ transplant recipient contracted HIV from a kidney donation at a New York hospital. It’s the nation’s first documented case of HIV transmission via a living donor transplant since the 1980s. How did this happen? And what are the repercussions?
Investigation: Ethics Violations in Health Experiments
Friday, March 04, 2011
This week, a presidential bioethics committee met to discuss one of the most shocking violations of medical ethics — a clinical study done back in the 1970s on nearly 400 African American men in Tuskegee Alabama to study the progression of syphilis. The men believed they were receiving free health care from the US government. But just days before the committee met, a new comprehensive investigation by the Associated Press found that for decades, the United States government also knew about and authorized medical experiments on disabled people and prison inmates. Experiments included injecting cancer cells into the chronically ill at a New York hospital and giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut.
Lifting the Ban on Gay Men Donating Blood
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Gay men have been banned from donating blood since 1983. But now, a group of senators led by John Kerry are petitioning to put an end to the 27-year-old ban.
There were/are approximately 15,000-20,000 hemophiliacs in the US. 100% of them contracted hepatitis in the late 1960s and early 1970s when their medication (factor concentrate) was brought to the market. 10,000 of them were then infected when HIV emerged in the early 1980s because of this drug. In 1983, a ban was instituted to prohibit any gay man who had sex since 1977 from ever giving blood. Filmmaker Marilyn Ness explored the history of the ban in her documentary, "Bad Blood."