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Founded in 2011, the Global Bioethics Initiative focuses on raising awareness of bioethical issues at local, state, national, and international levels.

New York, New York
Joined August 2010
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Delighted to announce that @GlobalBioethics now has special consultative status with @UNECOSOC! globalbioethics.org/2015/07/…
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The hypocrisy of demonizing Planned Parenthood over 'aborted tissue' scandal s.al.com/SpWdUBR via @aldotcom
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Dr. Joseph Fins lecturing on #Consciousness and #BrainInjury!
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Dr. Bernard discusses how nanovaccines are a low-cost alternative to treat immune disorders @ARMI_labs #skills4all
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Replying to @OnlineBioethics
@GBISummerSchool @JennDoran So happy you enjoyed your day!
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"You can't do #bioethics if you don't understand the #science." - Dr. Joseph Fins
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Dr. Joseph Fin's book "Rights Come to Mind: Brain Injury, Ethics, and the Struggle for Consciousness"
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#Dailychart: Without more cash from the ECB, the weakest of Greece's four banks could collapse econ.st/1HJYvwB
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#FaceTransplant - surgeons have performed 30 face transplants since 2005.
#Marijuana may not be as bad for your health system as #heroin or #cocaine, but there are side effects to using it.
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#ICC President and Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs Lubomír Zaorálek agree on importance of cooperation during visit
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Would you participate in a clinical trial for $10,000? Is it #ethical to pay #participants this much? Is that #coercion? #EthicalProbs
#Thalidomide caused #BirthDefects due to lack of a clinical trial for the drug - thoughts? thalidomide.ca/the-canadian-…
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What do you think of the World Health Organization's (@WHO) current policies on clinical trials? #Ethics #ClinicalTrial #Drugs #Medicine
A #condition of participating in a clinical trial may be #abstaining from #sex; this makes it difficult to #recruit people sometimes
Visit clinicaltrials.gov to learn about current #ClinicalTrials happening around the #world
Dr. Ratner of @Columbia shared this cartoon with our class in relation to organs for transplantation that get damaged
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Should healthy women over 50 be candidates for donated eggs? ASRM is now saying yes; What do you think? bit.ly/15mFtWk