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Center faculty are contacted regularly to offer an opinion on ethical issues including biotechnology, medicine, and the social
sciences. Below is a sampling of these citations.
- [ 2007 ]
Steven Miles, MD, Center for Bioethics, was quoted in CQ Politics regarding federal policy and the ethics
of the use of mood–altering drugs on terrorist suspect detainees. He was also quoted in several international
media including Germany’s Hamburger Abendblat, and the Copenhagen TV shows Deadline and Politiken.
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Arthur Matas, Medical School, was featured in Minnesota Medicine about his advocacy for establishing a payment
program for kidney donors. Jeff Kahn, Center for Bioethics, was also quoted regarding the importance of
timeliness for this issue. The Kidney Transplant Program was also mentioned.
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Steven Miles, MD, Medical School and Center for Bioethics, was quoted in Pennsylvania's Centre Daily Times article about the tips a Minnesota author's research suggests will help people live longer. The article originally
appeared in The Star Tribune.
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John Song, Center for Bioethics, was featured in Minnesota Medicine regarding his work with end-of-life
care for homeless people.
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Debra DeBruin, Center for Bioethics, co-authored an article in Minnesota Medicine about the ethical
challenges faced by the state in preparing for a severe influenza pandemic and a process to establish ethical
guidelines.
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Carl Elliott, Center for Bioethics, authored an article in Minnesota Medicine regarding the implications of the pharmaceutical industry¿s increasing reliance on professional human subjects.
The Center for Bioethics was mentioned in Minnesota Medicine regarding EthicShare, a Web site it will
launch in late 2009.
Results from an ethics survey conducted at the Minnesota State Fair by the Center for Bioethics was also featured
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Steven Miles, MD, Center for Bioethics, was quoted in the Wausau Daily Herald about the effects of prayer
on one’s medical treatment. Miles was also quoted in the Post Star in New York and the Times Argus in Vermont
about aging. The article originally appeared in the Star Tribune.
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Steven Miles, MD, Medical School and Center for Bioethics, was quoted in a Star Tribune article about the
tips a Minnesota author's research suggests will help people live longer.
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Steven Miles, MD, Medical School and Center for Bioethics, was quoted in The Wausau Daily Herald about the death of an
11-year-old girl who died from an untreated form of diabetes.
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Jeffrey Kahn, Medical School and Center for Bioethics, was interviewed on Minnesota Public Radio about the Jan. 24, 2008 New York Times article "Scientists Take New Step Toward Man-Made Life."
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Steven Miles, MD, Medical School and Center for Bioethics, spoke on WCCO-radio on March 18th on the Mondale & Jones show regarding hospital surgical errors in light of the local kidney surgery error.
Steven Miles, MD, is quoted in the online publication Amednews, regarding the ethics of paid endorsements.
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Mary Faith Marshall, Medical School and Center for Bioethics, was quoted on Minnesota Public Radio in a story about PRACS
Institute, a private pharmaceutical testing company. Marshall was quoted about the lack of adequate government oversight for privately funded research.
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Jeffrey Kahn is quoted in an article on paid living organ donation in the March issue of Minnesota Monthly.
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Steven Miles, MD, Center for Bioethics and Medical School, was quoted on Nurse.com about the physical and psychological impact of waterboarding.
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David Satin is quoted in an article on Pay for Performance in this month's issue of Minnesota Medicine.
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The NIH-funded Homelessness study led by John Song, along with Dianne Bartels, and Edward Ratner is written
about in the current (Winter 2008) issue of MMF bulletin.
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Jeffrey Kahn, Medical School and Center for Bioethics, was quoted in an article and editorial in the Chronicle of Higher
Education about a recent report which indicated that the National Institutes of Health has failed to adequately manage conflicts of
interest among university biomedical researchers.
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Steve Miles’, MD, book, Oath Betrayed, is written about in a commentary in the Red Wing MN newspaper, The Republican.
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An abstract on the topic of "Guinea-Pigging", written by Carl Elliott, is in the January edition of the New Yorker magazine.
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David Satin, Medical School, was quoted in the Star Tribune about possible cures for hangovers.
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Steven Miles, MD, is quoted in ABC News online regarding decision disputes on a young patient in New York in persistent
vegetative state.
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Jeff Kahn is quoted the Star Tribune (Dec 15 issue) regarding the first known Minnesota pregnancy as the result of a
frozen donor egg.
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Beth A. Virnig, School of Public Health, was quoted on MedPageToday.com about her research which found that the proportion
of patients receiving radiation therapy after breast-conserving surgery has decreased, with uncertain long-term consequences.
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Susan M. Wolf, Center for Bioethics, was referenced in a Baltimore Sun article which discussed her theory that women, more
strongly than men, may feel a sense of social responsibility to not burden their caretakers as they age and look for alternatives such as assisted suicide.
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Steven Miles, MD, Center for Bioethics, was quoted by American Medical News regarding a recent study which found that
medical students do not have an adequate understanding of physicians’ ethical obligations during wartime.
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Susan Wolf was featured in an article on physician-assisted suicide in the New York Times Magazine.
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Jeffrey Kahn, Center for Bioethics, was quoted in a story on MinnPost.com about how Tuesday’s breakthrough in stem
cell research could take stem cell research out of the abortion debate.
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Jeff Kahn, Center for Bioethics, was quoted in AP news and Pennsylvania’s Wilkes Barre Times-Leader yesterday about the ethics of giving patients more information about their donors.
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Jeffrey Kahn, Center for Bioethics, was quoted by the Associated Press about the importance of the consent process when
donating organs. The article was about a recent organ donation that infected four patients with HIV. The article appeared in the
Star Tribune and on the New York Times Web site.
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David Satin was interviewed for an article on pay for performance written for the St Paul Pioneer Press. It includes an
announcement of his upcoming talk Nov 16 at United Hospitalis.
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Steven Miles, MD, is quoted, and his book, Oath Betrayed, is referenced in an article in this week’s TIME magazine
regarding a recent study on medical students’ knowledge of the Geneva conventions.
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Steven Miles, MD, Center for Bioethics and Medical School, was quoted in a Newsweek column about how torture can illicit
false information during questioning.
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Rosalie Kane, School of Public Health, was quoted in the Monterey County Herald about a new type of long-term care
facility for elderly persons. The article originally appeared in the Boston Globe.
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Mary Faith Marshall, Center for Bioethics, was quoted by ScienceNow Daily News regarding the formation of ethics review
boards to evaluate the oversight given by the FDA on clinical trials.
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Rosalie Kane, School of Public Health, was quoted in the Star Tribune about the pending decision to either give control
of Minnesota’s veteran’s homes back to a state agency or keep them under control of a volunteer board.
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Steven Miles, MD, appeard on "Demoncracy Now" on KTCA TV public television on Friday, Sept 28 regarding health
are professionals and torture.
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John Song, Center for Bioethics, and Tara Frerks, recent Medical School graduate, were quoted in the August edition Minnesota Medicine regarding the Gold Foundation Humanism Honor Society and the goal to promote compassion and empathy in medical practice. Helene Horwitz, Medical School, was also mentioned. (No link available)
Gregory Plotnikoff, Medical School, co-authored an article in the August edition Minnesota Medicine regarding how professionalism is viewed and defined in Asian cultures. (No link available)
Steven Miles, MD, is quoted in an article in U Penn’s publication, MedPage Today, regarding a Lancet article on
military physicians at Guantanemo.
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