Bioethics News Archive
Index
December 3
JAMA Letter from Bioethics Alum Revisits Research on Separating Adopted Twins at Birth
December 3
On the Learn for Life Podcast: Bioethics Academic Director Dr. Robert Klitzman
December 3
Dr. Robert Klitzman Urges Regulatory Action on Gene Editing in Carnegie Council Podcast
November 26
Bioethics Alum’s Medical Startup Secures Agreement for NASA Tech
November 15
Science Writers Celebrate Bioethicist Dr. Robert Klitzman’s ‘Designing Babies’
November 12
Arjun Mann: Building a Strong Foundation For Medical School
October 28
Scott Korotkin: An Ethical Path to Medical School
October 21
Bioethics Academic Director Robert Klitzman on the Need for a Sperm Donor Registry
September 17
"Designing Babies" by Dr. Robert Klitzman
September 8
Alumna Bela Fishbeyn Leads the American Journal of Bioethics
September 5
Bioethics Advisory Board Member to Lead Health Care Ethics at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
September 3
Before Med School, Bioethics Student Ali Schulz Is Writing Vital Work on Ethical Treatment in Nursing Homes
August 16
Research Ethics Challenges at Universities
August 16
Research Involving Terminal Cancer Patients Causes Controversy
August 16
Genetic Engineering is Transforming Research Ethics
July 30
Physician Aid-in-Dying Laws Spread Throughout U.S.
July 23
Dr. Seth Waldman’s Quest for Ethics in Pain Management
May 20
Dr. Robert Klitzman, Top Experts to Explore Ethics in Biotech Venture Investing
May 6
Dr. Craig Blinderman Discusses the Ethics of Palliative Care
May 6
Katrina Hui Applies Bioethics in Medical School and Beyond
May 6
Marilyn Eshikena: Science and Beyond
May 6
Jane Kang: At CUMC, Paying Forward Her Bioethics Knowledge
May 6
Molly Lucas, Bioethics Student, Researches Addiction
May 6
Getting a Job and Getting Into Med School with a Bioethics Degree
March 18
Dr. Robert Klitzman: "Smart" Pills are Here and We Need to Consider the Risks
January 3
Kira Peikoff and Robert Klitzman on Home Genetic Testing
November 29
Dr. Robert Klitzman: Gene-Editing Claim is a ‘Slippery Slope to Designer Babies’
September 28
The Five Biggest Bioethical Issues of the Next Five Years
September 24
SPS Welcomes Inaugural Master’s Cohorts in San Francisco
August 29
Should You Clone Your Dog?
August 1
David N. Hoffman Testifies on Proposed Medical Aid in Dying Bill
July 31
Robert Klitzman: The Terminally Ill Should Be Allowed To Die
July 13
Five Things to Know Before You Take a Home Genetic Test
May 16
Dr. Robert Klitzman Analyzes 104-Year-Old's Doctor Assisted Suicide
May 7
Dr. Robert Klitzman on New Depression Diagnostic Tests
February 2
How Psychiatrists Can Best Help Our Country in the 2018 Election
January 25
The First Cloning of Primates Poses Profound Ethical Questions
January 9
Talks@Columbia Season 4 Launches
October 17
Online Option Now Available for Bioethics Master’s Program
June 6
Charlie Gard and the Difficulties of Life and Death Medical Care
May 8
Four SPS Alumni and Students Awarded Fulbright Grants
April 21
Robert Klitzman on the Risks of Becoming the Next Henrietta Lacks
March 9
New Robert Klitzman Bioethics Paper on IVF
February 22
The Secret to President Donald Trump's Success: Blame
February 20
Bioethics Alumna Kaitlyn Arbour Honored at Tulane
December 19
Bioethics Student Interview: Why Obamacare Isn't a Solution
December 6
Bioethics Makes New Connections in China
December 5
With Fertility Innovations, New Bioethical Questions Arise
November 7
Dr. Mark Sauer on IVF in The New York Times
October 27
Bioethics Certificate Student to Speak at Oxford
October 6
Can a Baby Have Three Parents?
August 30
Robert Klitzman on EpiPen's Price Hike
August 11
Robert Klitzman on the Ethics of Human-Animal Embryos
August 5
Robert Klitzman in the New York Times
August 3
Why Donald Trump's Rhetoric Is Dangerous
June 10
FASEB Journal on Klitzman's Ethics Police: "This is an important book."
June 8
Robert Klitzman Celebrates the Life of Neurologist Oliver Sacks
June 2
‘The Ethics Police’ Asks Who Regulates Medical Research
June 2
Did “VIP Syndrome” Play a Role in Prince’s Death?
May 23
Extraordinary Columbians Honored With Awards at Graduation
May 23
Should You Take a Genetics Test?
May 20
Preparing to Succeed Today: School of Professional Studies Celebrates Its First Graduating Class
May 9
Health Affairs Reviews ‘The Ethics Police?’
May 7
Bioethicists Discuss Gene Editing's Deadly Potential
April 29
Robert Klitzman Talks Gene Editing on StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
April 20
Do Ethicists Hinder HIV Prevention Research?
April 20
Ten Students Awarded Innovation Scholarships
April 20
Bioethics Alumna Kira Peikoff on IVF Embryo Testing
April 4
How Goldman Sachs Drives Culture Change in the Financial Industry
April 3
Are “VIP” Patients Worth Breaking Hospital Protocols?
March 29
Seven Tips on Publishing Your Bioethics Article
March 11
6 Tips on Applying to Graduate School
March 7
Klitzman on Diagnosing the Presidential Candidates
March 4
Robert Klitzman and Bioethics Students Publish Journal Article
March 1
Klitzman on IVF and Choosing a Child’s Sex
March 1
Dr. Mark Sauer on the Ethics of Choosing a Baby's Sex
February 17
Robert Klitzman on Gene Editing
February 15
Connecting Business and Academia in the Hub of Miami
February 15
Voices in Bioethics Announces Partnership With Chinese University of Hong Kong
February 15
Robert Klitzman on the Threat of Bioterrorism
February 11
Program Director Robert Klitzman’s Latest Book Reviewed by BioNews
February 9
Sharyn O’Halloran’s Three Pillars for SPS Academic Excellence
February 8
TD Magazine Reviews Dean Jason Wingard’s Latest Book, Learning to Succeed
February 1
Alumna Kira Peikoff: NASH is a Health Threat
February 1
Three Major Changes in the New Normal Market
January 26
Robert Klitzman: The Fraught Role of IRBs
January 22
From Columbia to Outer Space
January 19
Robert Klitzman On Examining Ethical Review Boards
January 14
Bioethics Director Robert Klitzman: Charlie Sheen and Attitudes About AIDS
January 13
Organizational Strategy and Learning: The Birth of Comcast University
December 11
Kira Peikoff Writes on CPR in The New York Times
December 7
Robert Klitzman on Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Donald Trump
December 7
Dr. Robert Klitzman on the Numinous Side of Medicine
December 1
Dr. Robert Klitzman Weighs in on Medical Intern Study
November 17
Publishers Weekly Lauds Klitzman’s Book on IRBs
November 16
Bioethics Alumnus Obiora N. Anekwe Writes Children’s Book
November 16
The New York Review of Books Explores Klitzman's Latest Book
November 2
Robert Klitzman and Joseph Fins Discuss Patients in Liminal States of Consciousness
November 2
Dr. Klitzman: In Incurable Cases, the Best We Can Do Is Provide Comfort
October 26
Klitzman: Compensations for Egg Donors Raise Risks of Eugenics
October 19
Klitzman: Are Pharma Prices Unethical?
October 14
Dr. Klitzman on Genetic Tests in Psychiatry
October 9
Robert Klitzman on Ohio Proposal to Ban Down Syndrome Abortions
October 6
Dr. Klitzman: Genetic Tests Don’t Tell All
September 14
Dean: We’re Training the Leaders of Tomorrow
August 24
Robert Klitzman: Human Subject Research and Its Discontents
July 22
Klitzman: Home DNA Kits May Not Offer Ancestry Answers
July 1
Dr. James Colgrove Talks Vaccination Ethics for Voices in Bioethics Podcast
June 8
Bioethics Director Explores the Power and Limits of IRBs
May 13
Dr. Klitzman: Why I Wanted to Investigate IRBs
May 11
With Modern Families, New Ethical Questions Arise
April 17
Dr. Klitzman Debuts His New Book “The Ethics Police?”
April 6
Klitzman: When Violating Patient Confidentiality is Necessary
April 2
Klitzman: After Germanwings, a Reconsideration of Patient Confidentiality
April 1
Klitzman on CNN: Should doctor have told co-pilot's employer of problems?
March 25
Bioethics Director Recommends How We Should Address Subway Germs – and Fears
March 24
Robert Klitzman on Discovering One’s Ancestry Through Genetic Testing
March 18
Dr. Robert Klitzman on Genetic Testing and Cheating the System
February 25
How to Game a Job Search
February 12
On Anti-Vaxxers: Robert Klitzman Explores the Legacy of Public Health Backlashes
February 10
Robert Klitzman: Three Parents, One Baby? Not at All
February 9
Robert Klitzman: How Fraud Underlies Anti-Vaccine Claims
February 6
Robert Klitzman: Three-Parent Babies? “It’s More of a Transplant.”
February 6
Robert Klitzman: Doctor, Have You Had Your DNA Tested?
February 3
Bioethics Student Kira Peikoff: No Smoke, but Haze Around E-Joint
January 14
Bioethics Program Director Discusses the Troubling Implications of Genetic Sequencing
December 19
2014’s Best Videos from the School of Professional Studies
October 31
Getting Into Graduate School: What Do Admissions Directors Seek in an Application?
October 21
On HuffPost Live, Robert Klitzman Addresses the Ethical Issues That Surround Discussions of Ebola
October 9
Careers in Bioethics: Jonathan Haidt Discusses Sanctity Versus Care
September 5
Robert Klitzman Explores the Connection Between Culture, Rituals, and Disease Transmission
August 22
Bioethics Director Robert Klitzman on the Spiritual Needs of Cancer Patients
August 19
Bioethics Director Comments on the Ethics of Treating Ebola with Experimental Drugs
August 13
On ABC News, Robert Klitzman Explores the Ethics of New Ebola Treatment
July 22
Dr. Robert Klitzman Named 2014 Hastings Center Fellow
July 3
Bioethics Professor Dr. Robert Klitzman Calls Facebook Mood Manipulation Study "Scandalous"
June 25
Prof. David Rosner, Expert on Lead Poisoning, Speaks With The Baltimore Sun
July 11
Moving Closer to Genetically Engineered 'Designer Babies'
June 10
Genetics In Court Is a Very Messy Business
May 11
Making Organ Donations Worthwhile
April 28
First Stem Cells Cloned From Diabetes Patient, Thanks to Egg Donors
April 25
Infertility, Endured Through a Prism of Race
April 24
As Mixed-Status HIV Couples Weigh Risks, More Choose to Conceive the Old-Fashioned Way
April 8
Fearing Punishment for Bad Genes
March 20
Dr. Wendy Chung Delivers TED2014 Talk on Autism and Genetics
March 18
New Health Law Is Sending Many Back to School
March 16
Shop For a Cause: Each Item Has a Story at Accompany Boutique
March 7
New Task Force on Personalized Medicine Takes Interdisciplinary Approach
March 6
Northwestern U. Gets Renewed Grilling Over Unauthorized Tests on Patients
March 3
Research to Save Lives
February 22
Is Genetic Testing Humans Playing God?
February 11
Reading a Newborn’s DNA
January 15
Bioethics Student’s Artwork Chosen for ‘Academic Medicine’ Cover
January 3
Kira Peikoff and Robert Klitzman on Home Genetic Testing
December 31
I Had My DNA Picture Taken, With Varying Results
December 20
The Limited Effects of Angelina Jolie’s Efforts to Educate the Public About Breast Cancer Risk
December 19
The Ethics and Controversies of Collecting DNA Information
December 19
How Much is Too Much to Know About Your Own DNA?
December 18
The FDA vs. 23andMe: A Lesson for Health Care Entrepreneurs
December 9
What to Consider Before Undergoing a DNA Test
December 9
The Case for Tolerating E-Cigarettes
November 22
Robert Klitzman on Using Donor-Developed Embryos for IVF
November 12
Bioethics Alumnus Starts E-Commerce Site for Ethical Fashion
September 6
Cancer Gene Sequencing Raises New Medical Ethics Issues
September 2
Henrietta Lacks' Genes and All of Yours?
August 27
Does Progress Breed Mental Illness?
August 7
Can We Control Our Own Genetic Destiny?
July 24
How Much Should Patients Know About Their Own Genome?
July 9
My Genome and Me
June 4
The Problems with Money and Medical Testing
May 21
Patent Protections Impede Public Health
April 29
Debating the Ethics of Paying Donors for Organs
April 16
Dr. Robert Klitzman Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
April 15
Recognizing the Anniversary of the Human Genome Map
April 5
Online Bioethics Certification Program Debuts in September
April 2
The Pros and Cons of "Designer Babies"
April 2
Correcting Myths of the Left Brain and Right Brain
February 8
Making Portraits Out of DNA
January 6
Insights vs. Myths About the Brain
January 6
How Do We Define Death?
December 20
Am I My Genes? Medical Privacy For Royalty and the Rest of Us
August 10
Many Egg-Donor Recruiters Ignore Ethical Standards
July 28
Is Depression Inherited?
July 2
A Court Allows Payment for Bone Marrow. Should People Be Able to Sell Their Parts?
June 11
Bioethics and Fetal Genetic Testing Make National News
May 31
The Doctor Will See Me...When? Patients, Patience and Care
May 17
Success Story: Bioethics Student Wins Fulbright Scholarship
May 14
Are We Our Genes?
May 8
Have You Missed An Event With Our Bioethics Program Lately?
May 7
Sharing Office Cubicles... And Diagnoses
April 30
Don’t Mind Us Snooping Through Your Genes
April 10
Genes and Autism: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
April 3
Am I My Genes: Why Do I Have These Genes? Questions of Fate, Free Will, and Genetics
April 2
UPDATED: Dr. Robert Klitzman's newest book, "Am I My Genes?" positively reviewed
February 27
Bioethics Program Director Robert Klitzman on the NPR program Talk of the Nation
January 20
When Scientists Lie
November 30
World AIDS Day 2011: Entering The Fourth Decade Of HIV
September 11
The Uses and Misuses of 9/11
August 15
Pathogens May Change, but the Fear Is the Same
May 19
DNA Test Picks Child's Sport
May 17
Can a Blood Test Determine How Long People Will Live?
May 4
Organ Donations and Facebook: The Perfect Match?
May 3
My Sister, My Grief
February 24
Family Pushes for Change in Donor Compensation
January 18
Two of New York’s Killers on the Run
December 10
The New Frontier of Surrogate Pregnancy
December 1
Master of Science in Bioethics Program Hosts First Online Information Session
November 19
Who Made Me? The Ethical Issues That IVF Families Face
August 30
Conservatives Killing Research That Could Potentially Save Millions of Americans
August 24
Scientists Dismayed by Stem Cell Research Ruling
August 11
Be Part of the Solution
June 21
Ethical Implications of HIV/AIDS
May 20
Creating Synthetic Life: Your Questions Answered
May 14
'Just Sign the Form': Informed Consent, Medical Research and You
April 25
Death Panels or Dignity, and You...
December 9
New Masters Programs Added in Sustainability and Bioethics
November 24
President Obama Establishes New Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
October 14
IVF Websites Often Mum on Embryo Gene Test Risks
August 27
When the Patient Is a V.I.P.
July 22
New York’s Recent Policy Shift Could Make it the Stem Cell Capital of the Country
June 26
New York State Allows Payment for Egg Donations for Research
June 12
Mastering Bioethics: Science Dilemmas Yield Demand for New Degree