Faculty Bibliography

Arthur L. Caplan is a bioethicist and director of the division of medical ethics at New York University's Langone Medical Center

In 2012, fast-food companies spent $4.6 billion on ads, while $116 million was spent advertising fruits and vegetables. Because young people see tons of food ads on adult-targeted programs, it makes sense to cite the whole $4.6 billion figure

The two American missionaries who contracted the almost-always-fatal Ebola virus in West Africa were given access to an experimental drug cocktail called ZMapp. The medical missionaries got the experimental drug because the evangelical Christian International Relief organization for which they work, Samaritan's Purse, reached out to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health

Various strategies have been pushed to solve the problem, such as creating medical schools that emphasize educating primary-care providers, increasing the number of residencies for medical school graduates, and expanding the number and authority of non-physician providers of primary care to include nurse practitioners, physician assistants, psychologists and pharmacists. The real question is, can someone who successfully got through four years of medical school, including a lot of clinical time, who is supervised and certified by another doctor for a month and by the state board but who is probably not near the top of their class, deliver high-quality primary care to people who currently have nothing? I think we don't know

The two American missionaries who contracted the almost-always-fatal virus in West Africa were given access to an experimental drug cocktail called ZMapp. It consists of immune-boosting monoclonal antibodies that were extracted from mice exposed to bits of Ebola DNA. Now in isolation at an Atlanta hospital, they appear to be doing well.

Wilderness and other protected areas provide myriad benefits to Utahns, including clear air and water, places to recreate and spiritual value. [...]it's determined which of the lands under BLM management are indeed wilderness, a transfer of the magnitude being considered in this report is nothing short of a Faustian bargain