 
CBHD's 22nd Annual Summer Conference Preconference Institutes: June 15-18
Conference: June 18-20
Postconference Seminars: June 22-24 Location:
Trinity International University, Deerfield, IL USA Cutting-edge innovations in medicine, science, and technological inquiry offer to improve health and quality of life, transforming lives in genuinely beneficial ways. Yet, these powerful advances also raise critical challenges in their implications for our individual and common humanity. Join us as we examine the ethical dimensions of rapidly evolving arenas of medical & scientific research that continue to stretch the limits of contemporary bioethics, and as we explore fundamental questions of how science and science policy can function in the service of human flourishing for a medically and technologically sophisticated age. Registration is open! | | Register today to take advantage of the EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT and receive a FREE COPY of the conference audio. |  |
 
WIDENING SUPERBUG OUTBREAK RAISES QUESTIONS FOR FDA, MANUFACTURERS
(Washington Post) – Young is among seven patients at UCLA who were infected with a hard-to-treat “superbug” that hospital officials traced to two specialized scopes that they said were contaminated despite being thoroughly cleaned. Two of the patients later died, - Read More FINDING MAY HELP ADVANCE EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO IMPROVING PUBLIC HEALTH
(News-Medical) – Scientists have discovered a new way to manipulate how cells function, a finding that might help advance an experimental approach to improving public health: DNA vaccines, which could be more efficient, less expensive and easier to store than - Read More POSSIBLE HIV CURE OK’D FOR TESTING
(Union Times San Diego) – HIV patients will be given genetically modified stem cells in an attempt to effectively cure them of the infection, the first time this experimental therapy has been tried. Sangamo Biosciences, based in the Bay Area - Read More ENGINEERING THE PERFECT BABY
(MIT Technology Review) – “Germ line” is biologists’ jargon for the egg and sperm, which combine to form an embryo. By editing the DNA of these cells or the embryo itself, it could be possible to eliminate disease genes and - Read More LAST EBOLA PATIENT IN LIBERIA LEAVES TREATMENT WARD
(ABC News) – The final Ebola patient in Liberia is back home and Ebola-free. Beatrice Yardolo, 58, spent 16 days in a Chinese Ebola treatment unit, but she returned home today, singing and dancing while her husband looked on and - Read More POSSIBLE PROGRESS AGAINST PARKINSON’S
(Harvard Gazette) – Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at University-affiliated McLean Hospital have taken what they describe as an important step toward using the implantation of stem cell-generated neurons as a treatment for Parkinson’s disease. Ole Isacson and colleagues - Read More WOMAN ACTED AS SURROGATE MOTHER FOR SON’S IVF BABY, COURT HEARS
(The Guardian) – A woman acted as a surrogate mother for a baby whose biological father is her adult son, a family court judge has been told. The man, who is in his mid-20s and lives alone, had taken advice - Read More SCIENTISTS DEVELOP ON-DEMAND MENU FOR GENE ACTIVATION
(Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News) – The ability to observe the expression of multiple genes in tandem would be a powerful tool for scientists to utilize, yet they have been limited to studying single or very small numbers of genes - Read More FAMILY OF BRAIN-DEAD PREGNANT WOMAN NOW FIGHTING TO CHANGE STATE LAW
(ABC News) – A family that had to go to court to get a brain-dead woman taken off life support is now fighting to change Texas law so other families won’t have to go through the same ordeal. The family - Read More MATERNAL HEALTH: EBOLA’S LASTING LEGACY
(Nature) – Ebola is having tremendous knock-on effects for maternal health in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. Pregnancy seems to make women uniquely vulnerable to the effects of the disease, and babies born to infected women have not been known - Read More 
Each week the top news stories, as determined by the staff at The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity are sent out via email. [Note: News stories and events do not represent the Center's views. For additional commentary on many of the issues they raise, please see the CBHD web site at www.cbhd.org.] Please visit www.bioethics.com for daily posts on bioethics news and issues. | 
