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Celebrating 50 years: 1969-2019. The Hastings Center addresses ethical issues in health, health care, life sciences research, and the environment.

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  2. And join us on Jan 17th for an on care for undocumented immigrants w/ and . Join us to learn & share insights on this critical topic!

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  3. For more, read Berlinger's article in the special issue on health care for undocumented immigrants: Is It Ethical to Bend the Rules for Undocumented and Other Immigrant Patients?

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  4. How do workarounds manifest in the care of in the healthcare setting? Listen to HC research scholar Nancy Berlinger on the podcast (for Berlinger, begin listening at 28:00)

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    SAVE THE DATE! We are hosting an on 1/17 on care for undocumented immigrants w/ an *amazing* slate of experts, incl . Join us to learn & share insights on this critical topic!

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    Boston researchers find childhood genetic risks in 9 percent of newborns tested in BabySeq study:

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  9. For more on the ethics of sequencing newborns (from our special report “Sequencing Newborns: A Call for Nuanced Use of Genomic Technologies",) read our press release:

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  10. HC dir. of research is a co-editor, w/ HC senior research scholar Erik Parens and Barbara Koenig of , of The Ethics of Sequencing Newborns: Recommendations and Reflections. Read the lead article here:

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  11. "is a tool that can be useful when indicated, in a nuanced way” and shouldn't be used on everybody, tells . "It’s not so easy to sequence someone and know what it means.”

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  12. Mitochondrial replacement therapy could help some women have healthy children, but it isn't allowed in the U.S. That's unlikely to change, since the federal government is against human embryo research, tells .

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    What does “dead” mean? “Defining Death: Organ Transplantation and the Fifty-Year Legacy of the Harvard Report on Brain Death” is out now.

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    Apply now to be a visiting scholar at The Hastings Center. Applications are due Feb. 1 for residencies between May and August. Learn more:

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    Sequencing newborn babies’ DNA raises more questions than it answers

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    An Experimental Procedure Could Help More Families Have Healthy Babies. But It’s Not Allowed in the U.S.

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    What happens when a philosopher is also a caregiver? shares the insights he gained from caring for his family members on this month's episode of Examining Ethics.

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    Anxious and vulnerable patients do not have more autonomy in a less regulated, market-driven field. Read more in our report on reproductive justice:

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    To go deeper, read in the report. Women of color are unduly affected by fetal protection laws while white women who risk their pregnancies via reproductive technologies are not subject to similar policing.

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    My colleague Mike Nair-Collins has a devastating critique of organ transplantation as it is currently practiced in the new collection on the definition of death. I'm proud to call him a colleague and friend.

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