Tommy Thompson's Parting Words

Chris Mooney blogs Thompson's last comments on stem cell research before he is to depart his Bush administration role. MSNBC/Newsweek covered the final conference by Thompson.

Belmont Report Now Officially Too Old to Live With Mom

From PR Newswire: "HHS today marked the 25th anniversary of the Belmont Report that articulated the founding principles for federal human research subject protections, with the release of an oral-history video about the report and a ceremony to honor the report's authors. The ceremony honored the members of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, 1974-1979, which produced the Belmont Report and related seminal documents in bioethics and human subject protections." Among those honored for their role in the report were more than a dozen who literally helped organize the framework for research ethics in the United States.