SCBE In The News

August 2012:

KNTV-TV, 08/06/12
This segment discussed the International Olympic Committee’s newly adopted gender-policing policies and how they could discriminate against women who may not meet traditional notions of femininity. Katrina Karkazis, senior research scholar at Stanford’s Center for Biomedical Ethics, was interviewed.

CNN.com, 08/08/12
--Expert: Gender testing 'imperfect' for female athletes
This piece discusses the International Olympic Committee’s newly adopted gender-policing policies and how they could discriminate against women who may not meet traditional notions of femininity. Katrina Karkazis, senior research scholar at Stanford’s Center for Biomedical Ethics, was interviewed.

Hartford Courant (Hartford, Conn.), 08/08/12
--Rare genetic disease that mostly affects Puerto Ricans is topic of film
Hermansky Pudlak Syndrome (HPS), an extremely rare genetic disease, is the subject of a documentary by Maren Grainger-Monsen, director of the Program of Bioethics and Film, and Nicole Newnham.
http://www.courant.com/health/connecticut/hc-hps-disease-20120808,0,2883728.story
https://vimeo.com/46443548

San Jose Mercury News, 08/11/12
--IOC testosterone policy is not gender neutral
The International Olympic Committee’s newly adopted gender-policing policies could discriminate against women who may not meet traditional notions of femininity. Katrina Karkazis, senior research scholar at Stanford’s Center for Biomedical Ethics, is quoted in this article.

Los Angeles Times, 08/23/12
--Children of older fathers prone to certain disorders, study says
Men who become fathers later in life pass on more new genetic mutations to their children, increasing the risk of autism and schizophrenia, according to new research from the University of Iceland. Hank Greely, with the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, provides comment in this article.

Scope, 08/24/12
--Stanford bioethicist Christopher Scott weighs in on today’s human embryonic stem cell ruling
The federal government may continue to pay for controversial human embryonic stem cell research, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. Christopher Scott, director of Stanford’s Program on Stem Cells and Society and a senior research scholar at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, discusses the ruling in this Q&A on the medical school's blog.

--KQED to air two showings in September of Stanford documentary on living with rare disease
"Rare," a feature documentary by Stanford filmmakers, provides insight into the world of patients with rare diseases and the advocacy groups that provide them with support. The film was co-directed by award-winning filmmakers Maren Grainger-Monsen, director of the Program in Bioethics at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, and Nicole Newnham, a filmmaker and writer in the program.
http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2012/august/rare.html