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February 19, 2002
When the 'Gold Standard' Was Controversial
Nutrition Month
ICs Awarded for
Kington Named
Seminar Offers Help on Avoiding Caregiver Burnout
New Computer
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Ethicists Grapple with Era of Genetic Enhancement By Rich McManus
As medicine gets more clever at manipulating genes to treat human
ailments, society also verges closer to hard decisions about which
interventions are aimed at correcting problems, and which
interventions have the ethically more troubling aspect of enhancing
some facet of the human organism.
Stigma, Global Health Research Explored By Jennifer Cabe and Barbara Sorkin
The Fogarty International Center recently convened an international
conference on "Stigma and Global Health: Developing a Research
Agenda" in partnership with 14 institutes and offices and seven
governmental and non-governmental organizations. The conference
examined the social and cultural determinants of stigma, how it
prevents people from seeking or getting treatment for disease, and
potential future research opportunities to address health challenges in
the United States and the developing world.
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