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...risk. The field of reproductive medicine and fertility treatment has an absolute responsibility to look out for the children it is creating in new ways. And in this case it seems to have failed," says Arthur Caplan, chair of the department of medical ethics at the University of Pennsylvania, arguing for a need for professional regulations. "[The process] should look more like adoption, requiring some evaluation of the patient, requiring some assessment of their psychological, emotional and physical abilities to raise children and some control over not trying to have too many children created all at once...
...from both sides of the aisle. Collins and Senator Ben Nelson, a Nebraska Democrat, spent most of the week closeted with 18 centrists, including six Republicans, hammering out the deal reached late Friday. In the end only Collins, her fellow Senator from Maine, Olympia Snowe, and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania signed on. Collins said she will continue to lobby her GOP colleagues...
Arthur Caplan, a medical-ethics expert at the University of Pennsylvania, takes issue with that stance. It's O.K. for doctors to say no, he says; they do it all the time. Some surgeons, for example, won't insert breast implants in women under 18. "Medicine is not a restaurant, and doctors are not waiters," Caplan says. "They don't take orders from patients...
With SEC's top enforcement brass in the back of the hearing room, House committee members, including Pennsylvania Representative Paul E. Kanjorski, chairman of the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises, listened to by far the most damning explanation of how the government missed Madoff's crime for decades...
...commissioner before being elected Governor. Sebelius has the advantage of having already been vetted by the Obama team, in last summer's Vice Presidential search, but she also withdrew her name for Cabinet posts' consideration in early December, citing the deteriorating budget in her home state. Other possibilities include Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell; former Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber, who has practiced as a physician, and Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen, a former managed-care executive...