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Academic Programs Accessible Genetics Research Ethics Education - Online Continuing Medical Education
Associations, Organizations and Societies American Public Health Association The American Society of Bioethics and Humanities The American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics
Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Ethics Standard Group at the AMA European Society for the Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care Institute for Global Ethics International Bioethics Committee, United Nations Educational and Cultural Organization Internet Healthcare Coalition Last Acts Campaign Pain & The Law Society for Medical Decision Making
Federal Government Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Home Page Council on Bioethics Department for Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (DHHS) National Institute of Health Human and Animal Protection: NIH Office for Protection from Research Risks National Human Genome Research Institute
Other Links Bioethics Discussion Pages Bioethics Network of Ohio Biomedical Ethics: Readings on the Internet (University of Wisconsin) Community Ethics & Newsletter of Consortium Ethics Program Ethics Update National Reference Center for BioEthics Literature Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research University of Miami Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy U.S. National Library of Medicine Operational guidelines for ethics committees that review biomedical research
Publications American Journal of Bioethics Bulletin of Medical Ethics Ethics and Medics (National Catholic Bioethics Center) The Hastings Center for Bioethics Journal of the American Medical Association Kennedy Institute of Ethics Leadership Medica The Lancet New England Journal of Medicine
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Stem Cells Links
NIH Stem Cell Informationhttp://www.nih.gov/news/stemcell/index.htm
The UK Stem Cell Bank at NIBSChttp://www.nibsc.ac.uk/divisions/cbi/stemcell.html
The President's Council on Bioethics, Monitoring Stem Cell Research (2004)
Eurostem
Medical Research Council (UK)
The Stem Cell Network (Canada)
National Academies Press, Stem Cells and the Future of Regenerative Medicine (2002)http://www.nap.edu/books/0309076307/html/
Medline Plus
Nature, Focus on Stem Cellshttp://www.nature.com/nature/stemcells/ Time, Stem Cellshttp://www.time.com/time/2001/stemcells/
Stem Cell Research News Archivehttp://www.bioethics.net/news/news.php?newsCat=stemcell
The New Scientist
Yahoo Stem Cell pagehttp://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=science&cat=stem_cell_research
Embryonic Stem Cell Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madisonhttp://www.news.wisc.edu/packages/stemcells/
Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines at the University of California, San Franciscohttp://www.escells.ucsf.edu/index.htm
Stem Cell Research at Stanford University's School of Medicinehttp://mednews.stanford.edu/stemcell-index.html
National Stem Cell Centre (Australia)http://www.nscc.edu.au/nscc_home.html
WiCell Research Institute, Inchttp://www.wicell.org/ Geronhttp://www.geron.com/
Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research
The Genetics and Public Policy Centerhttp://www.dnapolicy.org/
The Institute of Cell Engineering, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicinehttp://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/ice/index.html
Johns Hopkins School of Medicinehttp://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/som/index.html
Fogarty African Bioethics
U.S. National Institutes of Health, John E. Fogarty International Center For Advanced Study in the Health Sciences
International Research Ethics Education And Curriculum Development Award:
http://www.fic.nih.gov/programs/training_grants/bioethics/index.htm
Science in Africa web sitehttp://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/
Nothern Africa and mideasthttp://www.scidev.net/gateways/index.cfm?fuseaction=regionalgatewayitem&rgwid=2
South African Research Ethics Training Initiative (SARETI)
http://www.up.ac.za/sareti/sareti.htm
Sub-Saharan Africa http://www.scidev.net/gateways/index.cfm?fuseaction=regionalgatewayitem&rgwid=4
Alternatives to Animal Testing Web Site Johns Hopkins also runs the Alternatives to Animal Testing Web Site (Altweb). Visit this central reference point here .