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things should be "off limits to commerce" Healthcare in my view can be
compared to Education which, so far, has not been totally privatized. If
shareholders must be satisfied, then patients' interests will be compromised.
The way managed care works is by rewarding investors, HMO CEO's, and even
doctors, while simultaneously holding down services to patients.
months ago Healthcare was not a hot topic, today it is. Hardly a week goes by
without a major story, either on TV or in print. Recently 60 minutes did a story
on Seniors going to Montreal with Mike Wallace to purchase prescriptions. I was
truly surprised as the Industry Standard on 7/10/99 reported "CBS acquired
35% of Internet health company Medscape in exchange for $157 million in
advertising and promotion – a potentially profitable investment if Meds cape's
pending IPO soars". So is everything up for grabs? I guess so.
New England Journal of Medicine in their August editorial concluded that
"some aspects of life are off-limits to commerce. We prohibit the selling
of children and the buying of wives, juries and kidneys." Parenthetically
we do allow the sale of female eggs on the web and body parts for
transplantation are routinely sold. "Tainted blood is an inevitable
consequence of paying blood donors; even sophisticated laboratory tests can't
supplant the gift-giving relationship as a safeguard of the purity of blood.
Like blood healthcare is too precious, intimate, and corruptible to entrust to
the market."
Steven Katz President of the Conn. State Medical Society wrote on 10/13/99 that
"HMO's have not been paying doctors at all in many cases (latest estimate
that docs in Fairfield County Ct. are owed 40 million dollars by 7 managed care
Huber, CEO of Aetna still owns $60 million of Aetna stock after having the value
fall $61 million.
consider the case of Joe Plocica who signed up with an HMO in Texas that
advertised " as many hospital days as your doctor will authorize." The
patient later was hospitalized following a suicide attempt but was discharged
too early. That very night he proceeded to drink antifreeze and lapsed into a
coma and died. Mr.Plocica's family sued the managed care company. The lawyer in
his brief states (1) that Mr. Plocica was "encouraged to enroll via
deceptive TV advertising" (2) The HMO failed to use ordinary care in
influencing, controlling, participating in or providing health care treatment.
(3) The managed care companies involved in Mr.Plocica's care used
"aggressive cost controls and incentive compensation arrangements"
thereby influencing the practice of medicine. (4) The HMO's involved created
unreasonable risk by increasing the likelihood there would be a failure to
properly diagnose, test and refer patients for specialty medical care. (5) The
administrators of the managed care companies were also paid incentive
compensation as were the physicians, based on holding down costs. There was no
reward for quality care. Joe Plocica was the "victim of a knowing,
calculated scheme whereby the Defendants (The HMO's in question) increased their
profit by adversely affecting medically necessary, but costly, psychiatric
medical care. There will be many more suits in the future, class action and
trend can hardly bode well for a system that is supposed to represent healing,
caring and pain control.
US Congress can't seem to understand the difference between palliative care
(pain control, not killing the patient) and physician assisted suicide. This
week (October 24) the infamous Henry Hyde and his fellow Senator from Oklahoma
Don Rickles intend to overturn Oregon's law on physician assisted suicide
BECAUSE they want to give the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) the power to
determine whether a controlled substance has been prescribed for a
"legitimate medical purpose". Now we have another administrative
bureaucratic tier to go through before the doctor can prescribe appropriate
treatment. Eleven states have said that the bill would do"significant
harm" to doctor's ability to manage their patients' pain. It doesn't take a
genius to understand this:
cancer patients do not become drug addicts and, if by some remote chance they
were to develop some tolerance, so what? They are getting pain relief. I hope
Henry Hyde is never caught screaming out in pain in a hospital just to be told
that the DEA did not approve the request for morphine.
We are too paranoid about drugs and can't see their legitimate use in medicine
Doctors are poorly trained in Palliative Care although there are several new
programs starting up in Medical Schools.
doctors took the Hippocratic oath on completion of Medical School but few really
live by its words. There was a time in this country when patients trusted their
doctors completely…trusted them with their very lives and listened to them.
You used to be able to talk to your doctor in privacy behind closed doors and
you felt entirely confident that what he or she recommended was 100% in your
best interest. Because of the complicated nature of managed care your physician
may be preoccupied with many different issues that do not have to do with health
care. The Managed Care and Emergency Medical Ethics Policy Statement of the
American College of Emergency Physicians is inherently contradictory. The
American College endorses the following:
- The
ethical obligations of emergency physicians do not change when practicing in
a managed care or any other environment. The physician's primary
responsibility remains with the patient.
- When
the economic interests of physicians, hospitals, purchasers of health
services or managed care organizations are in conflict with patient welfare,
the highest priority is patient welfare.
- Because
the financial resources of our society are finite, emergency physicians have
a responsibility to practice medicine in a cost-conscious manner. Regardless
of the payment structure, the emergency physician should not provide care
without reasonable expectation of patient benefit.
is a conflict in the above because "patient benefit" really means
Medical Futility.
Care Theory" allows doctors and health-insurance executives to deny not
merely high-tech interventions but treatments as CPR and antibiotics to the
disabled and people at the end of life. These caretakers and healers can, and
do, routinely override the patient and family's wishes by assessing the quality
of life. Little noticed by the mainstream Futile Care Theory is already being
implemented in hospitals, nursing homes, hospices and clinics. Again money is
speaking, and even in the pristine halls of Palliative Care this message crossed
my desk. "You ask how to get physician buy-in to your palliative program?
The best way to accomplish this goal is to make it a service that looks
any other consult service. For example, your consults should be staffed by a
physician with recognized expertise in palliative medicine. The actual consult
note needs to look like other consultant notes, like the cardiologist or
oncologist, or any other medical sub-specialty. If you want credibility avoid
alternative therapies initially. Focus on the medical problems and how they are
affected by the patients' social situation that will be the bread and butter for
your service. Help a few docs out of a jam, without coming across as too
"touchy-feely" or as co-dependent crusaders, and you will get
referrals. Once you have established your legitimacy, you can begin to change
the standard of practice at your institution. It is important to have visibility
in the hospital, the specialized units, and have a doc that is active in medical
staff activities."
to the Bangkok Post 7/8/99 Hospitals were left with massive stocks (up to 19
years) of overpriced goods. Many community hospitals bought drugs and medical
kits at exorbitant prices on the orders of officials found involved in this
medical supplies scam. The medicine had 3-year expiration dates. In Nakhon
Pathom, officials testified before the Counter Corruption Commission that a
surgical mask, usually priced at 15 baht, was bought at 120 baht. A surgical cap
was priced at 150 baht instead of the usual 15 baht.
Health Institute has become India's first hospital to tie up with a health
insurance company, US-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield Ass'n. The alliance will
be of special help to the frequent US business travelers in India, non-resident
Indians who travel to India on holidays and people covered under the plan while
in the US and who have now returned to India. However, Indians staying in India
will be able to access the facility only after a clear policy emerges on the
participation of foreign companies in the insurance sector.
excerpt on a website follows: "How about corporatising hospitals to attract
foreign patients? We can make a 'killing' with cheaper rates in India. We could
allow world's best doctors in India so that patients from all over the world are
attracted to India for treatment. We should also ask the WTO to have a clause
that Western governments should not subsidize healthcare, as it would affect out
business interests. For starters, we could have tax concessions for hospitals
getting their money from abroad. To protect our citizens, we could have a clause
that no more than x% of patients can be foreigners. Or else, Indians will be
neglected". All humor aside The Hindu reported on December 28,1998 that
"The Centre has recommended to the World Bank a proposal for implementing a
Rs.850-crore 'health scheme' in Tamil Nadu, aimed at upgrading the health care
system in the State.
it just a coincidence then that on March 20,1999 the Calcutta Stock Exchange set
up the first Indian Stock Exchange for derivatives? The new exchange will also
be used for futures trading in commodities. The system will include adequate
risk management measures and be on a par with other international systems. You
may draw your own conclusions.
little over a year ago in Mumbai, India Sheela D'Souza's 62 year old father was
admitted late at night with severe breathing problems to a neighborhood nursing
home. He was wheeled into the Intensive Care Unit and hooked up to an oxygen
he continued gasping. I asked the nurse to check the tubes, check the cylinder.
She shrugged me off," recalls Ms. D'Souza (name changed), a Kurla resident.
"Finally, my persistent questioning forced her to take another look. The
cylinder was empty."
many of the city's mushrooming private ICUs such specialized critical care is
more a myth than a reality. These ICUs are often housed in cramped nursing homes
which are understaffed and inadequately equipped.
bottom line is profit not patients. Stay tuned.


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2009-10: Damon Severson was selected by Kelowna in the ninth round (192nd overall) of the 2009 WHL Bantam Draft, Severson appeared in five games for the Rockets and appeared in one game for the Junior A Melville Millionaires; playing most of the season with the midget AAA Yorkton Harvest in the SMHL. Severson was minus-four with no points or penalties in his brief time with Kelowna and had 1 assist and 2 penalty minutes for the Millionaires. In 44 games for Yorkton he scored 9 goals with 25 assists and had 53 penalty minutes. The Harvest finished seventh in the regular season. In four playoff games Severson had 1 goal (on the power play) and 1 assist with 18 penalty minutes.
2010-11: Severson played 64 games in his first full WHL season with Kelowna and represented Canada Western in the 2011 U17 World Hockey Challenge. He scored 4 goals with 13 assists and had 53 penalty minutes. Severson shared the team's third-best plus/minus (plus-11) with teammate Evan Bloodoff. The Rockets finished first in the B.C. Division and reached the second round of the playoffs. Severson scored 2 goals in 10 playoff games and was plus-one with 13 penalty minutes. In five games at the WHC he had 2 assists and 4 penalty minutes.
2011-12: Severson skated in 56 games for Kelowna in his second WHL season and represented Canada at the 2012 U18 World Junior Championship. He scored 7 goals and was second on the rockets with 30 assists; finishing plus-five with 80 penalty minutes. Kelowna slipped to third in the B.C. Division and was swept by WHL Finals-bound Portland in the first round of the playoffs. In four playoff games Severson scored 2 goals and was minus-nine with 2 penalty minutes. Severson had two assists and was one of three players with a team-high plus-seven plus/minus for Canada at the U18 WJC. Canada defeated Finland in the bronze medal game. Severson was invited to the NHL Draft Combine and was ranked 48th amongst North American skaters in Central Scouting's final rankings prior to the 2012 NHL Draft. Severson signed a three-year entry entry-level contract with New Jersey in September, 2012.
2012-13: Severson made his pro hockey debut as an 18-year-old, skating in two games with New Jersey's AHL affiliate in Albany after concluding his junior season in Kelowna. He had 2 assists and was +2 with the Albany Devils. Severson was the leading scorer among defensemen for the high octane Kelowna Rockets, scoring 10 goals with 42 assists in 71 games, and was +43 with 74 penalty minutes. Kelowna finished first in the B.C. Division and tied Edmonton for the WHL's second-best record behind league champion Portland. The Rockets were swept by Kamloops in a second round playoff series. Severson scored 1 goal with 9 assists and was +2 with 18 penalty minutes in 11 playoff games.
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Cell Stem Cell, Volume 12, Issue 3, 285-291, 7 March 2013
ISSCR: Committee Forum
Add/View Comments (0)Position Statement on the Provision and Procurement of Human Eggs for Stem Cell Research
Erica Haimes1, , , Loane Skene2, Angela J. Ballantyne3, Timothy Caulfield4, Lawrence S. Goldstein5, Insoo Hyun6, Jonathan Kimmelman7, Jason S. Robert8, Beth E. Roxland9, Christopher T. Scott10, Jan Helge Solbakk11, Jeremy Sugarman12, Patrick L. Taylor13 and Giuseppe Testa14
1 PEALS (Policy Ethics and Life Sciences) Research Centre, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK
2 The Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
3 Wellington School of Medicine & Health Science, Wellington 6242, New Zealand
4 Health Law Institute, Faculty of Law and School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H5, Canada
5 Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
6 Department of Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
7 Biomedical Ethics Unit, Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0G4, Canada
8 School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA
9 Visiting Scholar, Hofstra University Bioethics Center, Hempstead, NY 11549, USA
10 Stanford Program on Stem Cells in Society, Center for Biomedical Ethics, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
11 Centre for Medical Ethics, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, NO-0316 Oslo, Norway
12 Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
13 The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School, Boston, MA 02138, USA
14 European Institute of Oncology, IFOM-IEO-Campus Via Adamello 16, Milan 20139, Italy
- The nature of compensation for women who donate eggs (oocytes) for research remains a contentious issue internationally. This position paper lays out the arguments for, and discusses the arrangements in which, a modest payment might be ethically justifiable.
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In 2006, the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) published Guidelines for the Conduct of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research. The task force grappled with the issue of financial consideration for eggs (oocytes) used in such research, finally recommending that local stem cell research and ethics review committees, where allowed by law, might determine the nature of compensation, ensuring that it does not constitute an undue inducement (Daley et al., 2007). At the 2009 ISSCR Annual Meeting in Barcelona, the Ethics and Public Policy Committee of the ISSCR hosted a debate on the ethics of payments (in cash or kind) to egg providers. This Position Paper is the culmination of the Committee's discussions over the subsequent 36 months. In this document, the Committee formulates a view on the ethical acceptability, under certain specified and regulated conditions, of payments (in cash or in kind) to women providing eggs for stem cell research. The Committee's view is that stem cell researchers should act to ensure that human eggs for research are sourced ethically.
There is an escalation in demand and a worldwide market for human eggs. Eggs are procured and provided in a number of combinations of circumstances: the purpose might be for research and/or for treatment, the providers might be IVF patients or women in the community ("non-IVF patients"), or there might be varied arrangements of exchange (for cash or for payment in kind or for no tangible return). Each of these circumstances raises major conceptual, ethical, and socioeconomic questions, many of which have been extensively debated elsewhere.
We do not engage directly or in detail with those debates, though we acknowledge their importance in providing a springboard for our discussions. Instead we lay out the progression of our argument through consideration of various stages of the debate. The stages we cover are as follows: (1) current arrangements for providing eggs for research in exchange for payment; (2) arguments identifying the scientific need for human eggs for research; (3) whether there are ways of avoiding the use of human eggs in research; (4) the need to recognize the contributions made by women providing eggs for research; (5) a consideration of the arguments against giving payments to those providing eggs; (6) systematic responses to those concerns; (7) our conclusions. Such a style, while affording brevity and clarity, does not allow for a nuanced discussion; however, the details of each position can be found in the literature cited and in the other publications of the authors listed here.
Clearly the terminology in this field is highly contestable and any particular choice of terms shifts the grounds of the debate in certain directions. Therefore, in Section 1 we clarify our use of key terms, to ensure consistency with the position that we advocate here, rather than attempt to provide an uncontested lexicon.
1. Current Arrangements for Paying Women Who Provide Eggs for Stem Cell Research
There are three broad sets of arrangements under which women currently provide eggs for stem cell research in exchange for payment, in cash or kind, beyond reimbursement for actual expenses incurred:
2. The second arrangement is where women who are not undergoing fertility treatment are encouraged to provide eggs for research. Women are compensated for the time and inconvenience associated with donation, their willingness to accept some risk, and out-of-pocket expenses. In other words, the compensation is not for the eggs, but rather for undergoing the processes involved in providing those eggs. This is legally permitted in some parts of the USA (though state laws are variable and in some cases unclear). In 2009, New York State's stem cell board voted to permit its funded researchers to give compensation, beyond direct expenses, to women who provide their eggs directly and solely to research. The board argued that compensation of amounts up to $5,000 was reasonable, amounts between $5,000 and $10,000 required sufficient justification, and amounts over $10,000 were prohibited. The deliberations behind this decision, and the procedural mechanisms required by the State to protect the rights and welfare of egg providers, are laid out in Roxland, 2012. In the UK in 2011 the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) conducted a review of their gamete donation policies and raised the existing one-off payment from £250 to £750, to both cover expenses and loss of earnings to women providing eggs for treatment or research and to continue the egg sharing scheme (http://www.hfea.gov.uk/6700.html). One month before the HFEA announcement the UK-based Nuffield Council on Bioethics had suggested introducing a pilot scheme offering payment to women providing eggs for research (Nuffield Council on Bioethics, 2011). Compensation beyond out-of-pocket expenses is not permitted in many other countries, such as Australia and most European countries.
3. The third arrangement might be called "egg selling," wherein a specific price is paid for each egg or batch of eggs. This paper does not cover these arrangements because we regard them as ethically distinguishable from egg sharing and from compensation for the donation process. Commercial transactions involving a substantial payment or reward for eggs are ethically highly controversial. In the UK, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, 2011 rejected arrangements involving the sale and purchase of eggs while advocating the pilot scheme mentioned in point 2 above; this suggests that they also distinguish between compensation for providing eggs and egg selling.
The focus of this paper is to discuss those arrangements in which a modest payment, where efforts are made to avoid undue inducements (in cash or kind), might be ethically justifiable. For example, the HFEA payment of £750 was set at a level to avoid "attracting those who are merely financially motivated."
2. The Scientific Need for Human Eggs in Stem Cell Research
It is argued that human eggs are needed for stem cell research in a number of areas to improve somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) techniques, to thereby advance SCNT applications, to better understand early human development, and to assist stem cell research more widely. There is also competition for eggs for research on preventing mitochondrial diseases, improving fertility treatment, and assisting recognition of, and thereby avoiding, fetal abnormalities. The use of eggs in stem cell research involves either direct research on and with eggs or the creation of embryos; those embryos might then be used to derive stem cell lines. As early as 2005 stem cell researchers identified the need for fresh, healthy eggs rather than eggs that had failed to fertilize (Stojkovic et al., 2005).
There are, therefore, various circumstances where scientific objectives rely on the creation of human embryos from eggs provided for research. However, stem cell researchers continue to note the shortage of human eggs for research (Noggle et al., 2011). Assuming that human embryonic stem cell research, and research into infertility and mitochondrial disease, is thought desirable, it is clear that there is a shortage of human eggs for use in research and that many more eggs will be needed.
3. Are There Ways to Avoid Using Human Eggs in Stem Cell Research?
It might be argued that other routes can be followed to achieve the same knowledge and therapeutic potentials identified above, obviating the need for research on eggs and thus for women to provide their eggs for stem cell research. However, a brief review of the main arguments suggests that this is not the case.
2. The need for SCNT and embryo-derived human pluripotent stem cells has been questioned in light of the development of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), especially for the purpose of disease modeling or cell replacement. However, studies are highlighting the epigenetic differences between SCNT-derived embryonic stem cells and iPSCs, as well as genetic changes in iPSC lines, leading to concerns about the generation of abnormalities in iPSCs (Gore et al., 2011; Hussein et al., 2011; Kim et al., 2010). While these findings are unlikely to detract from the critical role of iPSCs in disease modeling, caution will be needed in their application to cellular replacement approaches. A strong consensus exists in the scientific community that research on SCNT-derived stem cells should continue while the full potential and safety implications of iPSCs and direct reprogramming are being explored.
3. In the UK it was argued during parliamentary debates on the 2008 Human Fertilization and Embryology Act that creating admixed human embryos (human-animal embryos) using eggs from cows would avoid the need to ask women to provide human eggs for research. However, no research of that kind has been published so this does not appear to be a viable alternative to using human eggs, despite the regulation being in place to allow it.
4. Immune "matched" stem cells for research might be gained by forming an embryo from human gamete(s) derived only from one person (without using SCNT). However, this procedure has so far only been successfully carried out by parthenogenesis using human eggs, thus not obviating the need for eggs to be provided (Kim et al., 2007; Revazova et al., 2007). The in vitro creation of human gametes for use in fertilization, SCNT, or other ways to derive human embryonic stem cell lines raises its own ethical issues and for some might be more contentious than SCNT; even people who accept SCNT might object to the formation of embryos in this way.
This suggests that stem cell research using human eggs is scientifically justified, despite or alongside other research being conducted on other techniques.
4. Reasons to Recognize the Contribution of Women Who Provide Eggs for Research
It has been argued that women's labor in providing eggs for research, and the risks that this might entail, have gone unrecognized (Waldby, 2008). The process of providing eggs is arduous, potentially physically risky, and time consuming. Women have to undergo a precise, self-administered drug regime to stimulate their ovaries; this process is risky because hyperstimulation can occur, the long term effects of ovarian stimulation are unknown, and the process of egg retrieval can be very painful. Throughout the process women have to organize their daily lives to ensure that the medication is administered at the correct intervals and they have to attend a series of hospital appointments to monitor their progress.
This section identifies additional burdens for different groups of women who might provide eggs for research.
1. Donation of Eggs in the Course of IVF Treatment
It has been argued that women undergoing IVF do not encounter additional dangers when providing eggs for research because their treatment necessarily entails all the above labor and risks. However, findings from a UK study of the donation of fresh embryos for human embryonic stem cell research revealed useful insights into IVF patients' views about the use of their eggs in research. These patients regarded their eggs as a key resource for achieving a pregnancy so success in producing a good number of eggs during treatment was regarded as the first step toward getting pregnant. Therefore, while the use of eggs in research is less morally contentious than embryos, eggs are seen as being extremely precious. Giving away any of those eggs to research is seen as putting their chances of pregnancy at risk; this might explain why a scheme asking women to provide two eggs to research, without compensation, if 12 or more eggs were produced was not very successful and was replaced by an egg sharing scheme (see Section 1(1)). Most of the IVF women interviewed would prefer not to provide eggs to SCNT research until they had achieved a pregnancy, even though the research itself was regarded as important (Haimes and Taylor, 2009). This suggests that even women not encountering additional physical risks (to those faced in routine IVF treatment) to give their eggs should still be compensated for the potential risks to their chances of pregnancy. A study of the egg providers' experiences of the UK egg sharing scheme, in which IVF patients provide 50% of their eggs in one cycle (if six or more eggs are produced) suggests that these women are prepared to risk their chances of pregnancy in one cycle only because the compensation provided means that they can afford an additional cycle of IVF, thereby giving them an additional chance of success (Haimes et al., 2012).
2. Donation of Eggs Outside of IVF Treatment
Women not undergoing IVF treatment will lose time from work or other responsibilities and will experience major disruption of their daily lives. These alone are enough to justify some sort of compensation; the physical risks encountered reinforce this claim (Nuffield Council on Bioethics, 2011). The Chair of the UK's HFEA argued that the increase in 2011 in compensation for egg donors (see Section 1) was a "fair reflection of the effort, the time, and the pain" involved in providing eggs (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15356148). Anecdotal evidence indicates that many women not undergoing IVF treatment are willing to provide eggs for research, but most do not proceed when they are told more about the time involved and the invasiveness of egg collection (Skene, 2010), a view confirmed by Egli et al., 2011.
5. Ethical Concerns about "Rewarding" Women for Providing Eggs for Research
We now briefly outline the ethical concerns commonly raised about compensating women for providing eggs for stem cell research. In the next section, we proffer counterarguments to these concerns.
Concerns Specific to Women in IVF Treatment Programs
2. It is also argued that poorer women might be vulnerable to exploitation because they might give up much-wanted eggs in order to access treatment they cannot otherwise afford.
3. There might be a conflict of interest for IVF practitioners if they advocate compensation for patients providing eggs because this could be seen as encouraging provision and therefore promoting the practitioner's broader research interests over the interests of their patients (particularly if points 1 and 2 above are thought to hold sway).
4. It has been argued that resources that are available for fertility treatment should not be allocated to nonfertility research. Under the principle of "just participant selection" (Ballantyne and de Lacey, 2008), eggs obtained for research into fertility should be obtained only from women in fertility programs and their eggs should be used only for such research. Eggs for other types of research, such as drug development, should be obtained only from volunteers with a family interest in the medical condition for which the drug is being developed. Therefore it might be argued that compensation for providing eggs might encourage this "diversion" of eggs from fertility research toward nonfertility research.
Concerns Relating to Women Who Are Not Undertaking IVF Treatment
Concerns about the Exploitation of Vulnerable Women
Wider Concerns about Commodification and Altruism
There is a concern that practices in egg provision and procurement might affect broader values in other areas of research.
2. Another concern is that compensating women for providing eggs could create an unfortunate precedent in countries where payment for blood, tissues, and organs is the exception (Isasi and Knoppers, 2007; Nuffield Council on Bioethics, 2011), thereby undermining long-established and widely accepted systems of nonremunerative donation practices.
3. Rewarding women who provide eggs for research diminishes the moral value of altruistic donation. It might deter women who would donate their eggs altruistically but not provide eggs for reward.
6. Responses to These Ethical Concerns
We acknowledge the importance of these concerns and make the following responses.
Concerns Specific to Women in IVF Treatment Programs
2. This is not a payment for the eggs themselves; women will be entitled to the compensation even if no eggs are collected or the eggs collected are not suitable for the research. (However, IVF patients would not be entitled to compensation if they changed their minds about providing eggs for research and decide to keep all their eggs for their own treatment, since this means that their chances of success in achieving a pregnancy will not, after all, have been compromised by the research [see point 1 above]. This is the agreement in the HFEA-licensed egg sharing scheme in the UK).
3. Women's autonomy will not be compromised if researchers take proper care to ensure that women are fully informed. Consent processes are not always ideal but every effort should be made to ensure the consent process is optimized for the local community and that the entire egg donation process, including the risks, is adequately considered. Competent adult women can decide for themselves whether to provide their eggs for research, as long as they are properly informed (Haimes et al., 2012). Recruitment systems can also be designed to avoid pressure on women to provide their eggs for research, such as a scheme that is based on women taking the initiative to come forward to provide eggs (as in the UK egg sharing scheme), rather than being put in the position of having to respond to direct requests for eggs from clinicians supervising their IVF treatment.
4. With regard to other equity issues, it is true that reward may be more attractive for women of limited means than for wealthy women. However, the objection that this makes the reward inequitable, and may lead poorer women to take more risks, may be met by noting that some of these women will not be able to get fertility treatment without a scheme of this kind. As long as their choice is free and informed, and as long as the terms are fair, compensation schemes can actually increase access to such treatment for women whose economic conditions would otherwise disallow it (Haimes et al., 2012). It is unrealistic and unfair to require them to wait for state funding schemes for fertility treatment to be changed. Nonetheless, policy debates on how to facilitate wider access to fertility treatment should continue.
5. Potential conflicts of interest for practitioners in fertility treatment (who might want to treat women successfully but also participate in research) could be minimized by applying the "principle of separation." This is an arrangement in which those who recruit tissue providers, and/or inform them of the research risks and benefits, are separate from the personnel who have the role of caring for women in treatment programs.
6. The question of "just participant selection" in the area of egg provision for research (whether or not for reward) raises the wider question of who makes, or should make, the decision about the appropriate use of eggs. Ongoing studies are investigating egg providers' preferences for the possible research uses of their eggs and we regard these studies as a vital component in this debate. If most women who provide eggs for research want those eggs to be used only in research on infertility, those wishes should inform the development of future policies on the provision of eggs for research.
Concerns Relating to Women Who Are Not Undertaking IVF Treatment
2. Other healthy people who participate in medical research, including sperm donors, commonly receive some payment and it is inconsistent to exclude egg provision from this established compensation system.
Concerns about the Exploitation of Potentially Vulnerable Women
2. However, it is the proper role of ethics and law to protect groups and individuals in situations in which they might become vulnerable. The suggestions, in points 3–6 below and in the Conclusions, for monitoring the effective functioning of protective measures must be taken seriously by all parties concerned and be subject to regular review and investigation (Isasi and Knoppers, 2007).
3. Possible exploitation of other vulnerable women can be addressed by the requirement of oversight of all research involving the use of human eggs by independent ethics committees. This should include, as a minimum requirement, periodic monitoring to identify any disparate level of contribution by women who are vulnerable for any reasons within areas of traditional concern about voluntariness, such as poverty, race, or mental condition.
4. Concerns about research tourism and the welfare of women in impoverished countries can be met by requiring researchers and ethics committees to follow robust and internationally accepted principles of ethics in the receipt and brokerage of tissue to be used in research. Again, ongoing monitoring should alert both researchers and ethics committees to possible abuse.
5. Researchers who import human eggs for use in research should be required, as part of the procedure for obtaining ethical approval for their project in their own country, to ensure that imported eggs are obtained by a process that would meet the ethical requirements within their own country.
6. To reduce the risk that some countries might have lower ethical requirements in dealings with their own citizens, international ethics bodies could be encouraged to stimulate discussion in other countries about the issues identified here.
Wider Concerns about Commodification and Altruism
2. Compensation for providing eggs need not be a precedent for procurement of blood, tissue, and organs for research. Peripheral blood may be donated for research but this is a minor procedure with few risks, so it is appropriate that it should be uncompensated, if that is the norm in any particular country. The same is arguably true of other tissue that may be donated by a living person for research. However, solid organs like kidneys cannot lawfully be removed from a living person for research (only for treatment), so there is no question of anyone being paid for providing a solid organ for research.
3. The moral value of altruistic donation need not be undermined by compensating some women who provide eggs for research. Altruistic donation could be maintained for women who do not wish to receive anything for donating eggs or other tissue (Isasi and Knoppers, 2007; Nuffield Council on Bioethics, 2011).
7. Conclusions
It is evident from the above that the research demand for eggs is part of a larger global market for human tissue. Anything that is said about eggs therefore has the potential to impact on wider debates about the provision and procurement of other tissue and organs for research and also on debates about the therapeutic uses of human tissue. However, those debates, while overlapping, also have their distinctive considerations and it would be irresponsible to make too glib a crossover from one area to another. Therefore, while acknowledging that potential for overlap, we confine our comments here to reiterating our views on the role of payments in egg provision for stem cell research.
For the reasons given above, our position is as follows.
2. We repeat our view, stated at the end of Section 1, and in agreement with the ISSCR Guidelines (Daley et al., 2007), that efforts should be made to avoid payments becoming undue inducements. We would regard such levels of payment as constituting "egg selling," a practice we reject in Section 1(3).
3. The ISSCR is an international organization and given the wide socioeconomic variations across its member countries, it would be inappropriate to specify actual payment amounts. However, we endorse the view that payments for providing eggs for research should be limited, even if higher amounts may be paid where eggs are provided for treatment purposes. For example, the UK's HFEA limit of £750 is well below the payments obtainable elsewhere in the world for providing eggs for treatment purposes. (We would also welcome research on whether payments for eggs for treatment purposes constitute undue inducements).
4. Fertility clinics and research centers that collect eggs should establish systems for collecting and, where possible, publishing data around the procurement and provision of eggs for research, including information on eggs providers' motivations and preferences, who applies to be an egg provider, who is rejected and why, and long-term tracking of egg providers' health.
5. Independent ethics committees should ensure that the informed consent documentation includes, among other things (Daley et al., 2007), full information about the risks involved, a statement that women need not participate, and a statement that women can withdraw from the research at any time until the eggs are actually used in research, without detriment to their treatment. Ongoing monitoring of consent should ensure that the documentation is effective when applied in actual everyday practices.
6. The roles of treating women undergoing fertility treatment and recruiting egg providers for research should be separated.
7. Stem cell researchers, as an additional interest group, have an obligation of prudent stewardship of this scarce resource (London et al., 2010) and should act to ensure that the tissue that they work on has been ethically sourced. This applies especially where the tissue is imported from another country for use in research, bearing in mind the ethical issues that have been highlighted in this paper.
8. National regulatory bodies must ensure that the ethical dangers of cross-border trade are avoided or minimized.
9. International ethics bodies should encourage discussion in other countries about the issues in this paper.
These conclusions should be reviewed in the light of the analysis of the views and values of egg providers themselves and the reports of different public bodies dealing with the ethics of medical and health-related research.
All authors are members of the ISSCR Ethics and Public Policy Committee.
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The only Division III opponent on Miami University's men's basketball schedule will be at Millett Hall this afternoon.
Wilmington is just 4-7 and has lost four of its last five games. That doesn't mean MU coach John Cooper is viewing the Quakers as an automatic win.
"Trust me, we're not going to win just walking out there," Cooper said. "We'll have to play well and do things. We're not at a point in our program where we can just walk out there and win games."
Cooper is willing to risk a humbling defeat in large part because Wilmington is coached by K.C. Hunt, his former teammate at Wichita State.
"Coop could play, there's no doubt about that," Hunt said. "He was just a super fundamental guy that could shoot the heck out of it and knew the game in and out."
Hunt approached Cooper about scheduling his team, and Cooper felt that an in-state opponent and a coaching friend were an appealing combination.
"This is a really good game for us," Hunt said. "If Miami would play us, I would do it every year."
It's a matchup of teams with similar styles. Both like to play high-tempo basketball.
"Coach Cooper must have stolen that from me," Hunt said with a laugh. "It could be a fun, up-and-down type of game. We've got to stay true to who we are. We try to guard the heck out of you, we try to share the ball, and we try to play as fast as we can."
Said Cooper, who accumulated 1,153 points at Wichita State, "If he says I stole anything from him, I gave him a lot in college. I gave him a few assists back in the day."
The Quakers are led by senior guard Brandon Candella, a Lakota West High School graduate, and junior forward Malcolm Heard II. They're averaging 14.5 and 13.6 points per game, respectively, and Hunt called Candella "our glue guy."
Wilmington is coming off consecutive 2-point losses to Capital and Heidelberg.
"Quite honestly, we've underachieved a little bit early in the season," Hunt said. "We've had eligibility issues and injuries, and our continuity hasn't been great. But now we're to a point where we're finally healthy, and we're pretty athletic for our level.
"I like our talent. I like our pieces. We have a chance to be a very, very competitive Division III team."
Today will represent a reunion of sorts for three former Wilmington High School teammates: Miami point guard Quinten Rollins and a pair of Quakers, Heard and junior guard Jordan Berlin. The latter is a transfer from Ashland and made his WC debut Dec. 22 against Heidelberg.
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Time: April 18, 2009 from 8am to 10am Location: WBT Radio 1110AM City/Town: Charlotte Phone: 7043641784 Event Type: radio, broadcast Organized By: Don Rosenberg Latest Activity: Apr 3, 2009
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The Center for Research, Regional Education and Outreach at the State University of New York at New Paltz, the World Affairs Council of the Mid-Hudson Valley and the Gillespie Forum will host a presentation on "Climate Change and World Security" with Marc Levy at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 2, in the Coykendall Science Building auditorium on campus.
The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be available at 5 p.m. outside the auditorium.
Marc Levy serves as deputy director of the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), part of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Levy will speak on climate change trends and how they impact the stability of nations and the well-being of populations.
Levy said there is growing recognition that climate change can have significant impact on world security, particularly in regions that are already prone to instability. Multi-year droughts, rising sea levels and increasing temperatures are climate change trends affecting food and water resources, and the health and well-being of populations around the world. For example, the greatest number of people exposed to sea-level rise is in China, the Philippines, Egypt and Indonesia. China and the Philippines alone have 64 million people in the lowest elevation zones (1 meter above sea level).
Levy has published on environmental sustainability indicators, environment-security connections and the effectiveness of international environmental institutions. The common thread running through his work is a desire to deepen our ability to understand and manage the complex interactions between humans and their environment.
Levy leads CIESIN's work on climate-security connections, conflict early warning, environmental sustainability indicators and poverty mapping. He serves as lead project scientist of the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center, and was a convening lead author for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.
Levy is currently serving as a convening lead author for the UN Environment Program's Fourth Global Environmental Outlook. Before coming to CIESIN, Levy had teaching appointments at Princeton University and Williams College.
Gerald Benjamin, director of the CRREO and associate vice president for regional engagement, said "CRREO is delighted to be partnering with the World Affairs Council to bring this distinguished speaker on an issue of world importance to our region."
For more information or to request a sign language interpreter, contact Helise Winters at (845) 257-2906.
The event is sponsored by the World Affairs Council of the Mid-Hudson Valley, the Gillespie Forum and the Center for Research, Regional Education and Outreach (CRREO) at SUNY New Paltz.
The center serves as the principal locus of the college's efforts to raise its level of engagement within communities, government and businesses across the Hudson Valley.
For more information about the Center, visit www.newpaltz.edu/crreo.
Located in the heart of a dynamic college town, 90 minutes from metropolitan New York City, the State University of New York at New Paltz is a highly selective college of about 8,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
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Gerard Butler has just signed on to Olympus Has Fallen, a new action movie from Millennium Films.
Moviefone reports that the 300 actor will play a former Secret Service agent who is thrown back into the field when terrorists invade the White House. The studio bought the spec script from first-time writers Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt. Millennium is now looking for a director.
While Butler's last few films have been considered box office disappointments, the actor has several new projects on the horizon including Hunter Killer, Playing the Field and Movie 43.
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