Everyone has a race card

Now everyone has a donor for HSCT.

Now everyone has a donor for HSCT ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Richard Champlin M D ANDERSON CANCER CENTER Historically, the best results of allogeneic hematopoietic transplantation have occurred with an HLA identical sibling donor. The risks of graft rejection, GVHD, and treatmentrelated mortality increase with g...

Everyone has a role in building a health creating society.

TheWorld Health Organization in Europe has said that modern societies actively market unhealthy lifestyles. What if they actively marketed healthy lifestyles instead? How could we begin to build a health creating society, with all sectors working towards a healthy and resilient population? 2 In November I introduced a debate in the House of Lords on this topic, in an attempt to start to build t...

Why Bioethics Has a Race Problem.

March-April 2016 In the September-October 2001 issue of the Hastings Center Report, editor Gregory Kaebnick encouraged bioethicists to turn their attention toward “easily overlooked, relatively little-talked-about societal topics” such as race. He noted that that issue of the Report included essays on transracial adoption and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1932-1972). In 2000 the president of the...

A new physiologic race

Who has the authority to change a theory? Everyone! A commentary on Head and Noar

Head and Noar (2013) wrote an interesting and challenging paper; we agree with many of their statements but disagree on a number of essential issues. We think that Head and Noar are (1) too negative about the current state of health behaviour theories, for example, the Reasoned Action Approach (RAA; Fishbein & Ajzen, 2010) and (2) too coercing with their recommendations. Head and Noar expect to...