News at Columbia SPS Category - Any -AlumniFacultyImpacts and InsightsIn the CommunityIn the MediaKnowledge BaseOffice of the DeanPress ReleaseResearch & PublicationsSchoolStaffStudent Faculty Making Organ Donations Worthwhile Organ exchanges encourage altruistic donation and benefit poorer people, argues Robert Klitzman. Faculty First Stem Cells Cloned From Diabetes Patient, Thanks to Egg Donors Should researchers incentivize women to donate their eggs to science? Dr. Mark Sauer weighs in. Faculty Infertility, Endured Through a Prism of Race Dr. Mark V. Sauer discusses the medical and cultural issues that surround infertility for an underserved group – women of color. Faculty As Mixed-Status HIV Couples Weigh Risks, More Choose to Conceive the Old-Fashioned Way Dr. Mark Sauer notes that recent medical advances have made unprotected sex with an HIV-positive partner less risky Faculty Dr. Wendy Chung Delivers TED2014 Talk on Autism and Genetics Bioethics professor Wendy Chung spoke about autism and genetics at the 30th annual TED conference. Faculty New Health Law Is Sending Many Back to School Robert Klitzman notes how the Bioethics program addresses the ethical issues stemming from the Affordable Care Act. Faculty New Task Force on Personalized Medicine Takes Interdisciplinary Approach Robert Klitzman comments on why the timing is right, from the standpoint of advances in genetics. Faculty Northwestern U. Gets Renewed Grilling Over Unauthorized Tests on Patients Robert Klitzman comments on the case in which one cardiac surgeon experimented on unsuspecting patients. Faculty Research to Save Lives Robert Klitzman and Mark Sauer discuss the possibility of misuse when it comes to genetically modifying babies. Faculty Is Genetic Testing Humans Playing God? Testing to screen embryos for gene mutations raises ethical issues, writes Robert Klitzman. Faculty Reading a Newborn’s DNA Dr. Klitzman, Ed McCabe and Anne Eisenb talk about the ethical questions testing a newborn’s DNA raises for parents and doctors. Faculty The Limited Effects of Angelina Jolie’s Efforts to Educate the Public About Breast Cancer Risk Robert Klitzman discusses the benefits of Angelina Jolie’s decision to make public her double mastectomy. Load More
