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  1. Fast Food Limits:  Food For Thought or Food Police?

    Posted on September 3, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (12)

    Should government be responsible for deciding what kinds of food you can—and cannot—eat? The city of Los Angeles recently sank its teeth into the issue by banning any new fast food restaurants. Do the new regulations serve up food for thought, or food police? Read full article »

  2. Brain Doping: Is Grey Matter an Ethical Matter?

    Posted on August 11, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (20)

    When an athlete uses performance enhancement drugs, he or she is likely to be called unethical and dishonest. When a student or professor uses brain enhancement drugs, he or she is likely to be called smart and focused, but is chemically boosting your brain for an unfair advantage the same as chemically boosting your body for an edge? That’s the question at the center of a new debate about drugs and cheating. Read full article »

  3. Who Let the Dogs Out:  Fetching Medicine?

    Posted on August 6, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (8)

    Fido has a new medicine chest, and it includes medications that were originally developed for humans. Prescription drugs can now treat canine obesity and depression. But those break-throughs have left some people wondering if pets are mimicking their owners’ behavioral and lifestyle problems, and if the drugs might be more for the convenience of owners than for the heath of their pets. Read full article »

  4. Should You Drink With Your Kids?

    Posted on July 21, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (46)

    Parents are frequently encouraged to share more activities with their kids. But should drinking alcohol together be one of them? Is it time for parents to take a different approach towards kids and alcohol? Time Magazine reporter John Cloud says it’s a “good way to teach responsible drinking behavior”. Read full article »

  5. Fertility Treatments: For Convenience?

    Posted on July 2, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (17)

    Motherhood—achieving it and surviving it—is a perennially popular topic of blog discussions. But rarely does one comment continue to draw responses years after first being posted, like the following one has from a woman who wanted to undergo IVF fertility treatments as a matter of convenience. Read full article »

  6. Needling Questions: Immunizing Kids

    Posted on June 30, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (117)

    If you choose not to have your child vaccinated against measles, mumps, chicken pox, and other infectious diseases, does your responsibility end there? It is a debate that continues as the trend for not vaccinating children increases. Read full article »

  7. Man’s Best Friend

    Posted on May 22, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (96)

    How much is that doggy in the window? The one with the waggley tail may seem like a bargain these days compared to the dog with the $3,000 pacemaker. Or the cat with the $8,000 kidney transplant. Or the pet chicken undergoing radiation therapy after cancer surgery. Read full article »

  8. Shot Through the Heart

    Posted on April 9, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (9)

    Like most competitive athletes, in-line speed-skater Corey Gahan hoped fierce determination and hard training would give him the edge he needed to fulfill his dream of becoming the best in his sport. But unlike most competitive athletes, Corey Gahan’s father insisted on supplying that winning edge, regularly injecting his son with steroids and human growth hormone, the same illegal substances at the heart of the ongoing major league baseball scandal. Read full article »

  9. Killer Doctor

    Posted on April 2, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (23)

    If your doctor was a convicted killer, would you trust him with your life?

    Karl Svensson’s future as a doctor seemed certain when he was accepted to medical school at Sweden’s prestigious Karolinska Institute. Famed for choosing the annual winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine, Karolinska hand-picked its medical students, selecting an elite group best suited for grappling with the ethics of life-or-death decisions and leading lives devoted to saving others. But four months into Svensson’s studies, the 31 year-old’s future became unhinged by his past: would-be doctor Karl Svensson had killed a man. Read full article »

  10. The Decision

    Posted on February 20, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (9)

    The golden hour strikes without warning.

    The golden hour is the critical 60 minutes from the moment a life-threatening injury occurs to when the human body—if left untreated—starts shutting down on a trajectory toward death. Paramedics and other emergency responders encounter it as a matter of course. Read full article »

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