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Arthur L. Caplan discusses society's failure to meet the health-care needs of the poor

Before you applaud the realism, consider that those plans would ration health care only for the poor. The indigent of Alameda County and those eligible for Medicaid in Oregon will be required to forgo lifesaving medical care. One generation's war on poverty is becoming another's war against the poor

Arthur L. Caplan reviews "For the Patient's Good: The Restoration of Beneficence in Health Care," by Edmund D. Pellegrino and David C. Thomasma

First, let's throw out the question of whether many athletes use steroids to improve their athletic performance. They do. Weight lifters, runners, football players and other athletes have admitted in print and on television that they use steroids. Athletes from many nations tested positive for steroids and were disqualified in droves at the last Pan American and Olympic Games. Some former professional football players estimate that as many as a quarter of all NFL players use steroids

Disposing of these slides should not be standard or simple. Some of the tissues on the slides came from the brains of children killed during World War II at a Nazi euthanasia center in a concentration camp called Brandenburg-Gorden. According to a report in Nature, the British journal of science, Julius Hallervorden, a former scientist at the Planck Institute, collected the tissue from the cadavers of murdered children

The assets in this bank consist of sperm frozen in liquid nitrogen. The sperm has been obtained from persons of prominence, achievement and genius who are asked to donate their gametes in the hope that infertile couples will use them to produce improved models of humanity

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Two weeks ago, a transplant team at the University of Chicago undertook a pioneering surgical experiment. Three-year-old Alyssa Smith became the first American to receive a lobe of a liver from a living donor, her own mother. All previous liver transplants for children in the United States have used organs from people who had died