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[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 31 (Thursday, February 14, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 8699]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-2779]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


 Public Meeting of the President's Council on Bioethics

AGENCY: Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Public 
Health and Science, The President's Council on Bioethics.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The President's Council on Bioethics (Edmund D. Pellegrino, 
MD, Chairman) will hold its thirty-second meeting, at which it will 
discuss and hear presentations on (1) newborn screening and (2) the 
problems of cost, access, and quality in American health care. The 
Council will also unveil its most recent publication, Human Dignity and 
Bioethics: Essays Commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics. 
Subjects discussed at past Council meetings (although not on the agenda 
for the March 2008 meeting) include: therapeutic and reproductive 
cloning, assisted reproduction, reproductive genetics, neuroscience, 
aging retardation, organ transplantation, personalized medicine, and 
lifespan-extension. Publications issued by the Council to date include: 
Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry (July 2002); Beyond 
Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness (October 2003); 
Being Human: Readings from the President's Council on Bioethics 
(December 2003); Monitoring Stem Cell Research (January 2004), 
Reproduction and Responsibility: The Regulation of New Biotechnologies 
(March 2004), Alternative Sources of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: A 
White Paper (May 2005), Taking Care: Ethical Caregiving in Our Aging 
Society (September 2005), and Human Dignity and Bioethics: Essays 
Commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics (March 2008). 
Reports on (a) controversies in the determination of death, and (b) 
organ procurement, transplantation, and allocation are forthcoming.

DATES: The meeting will take place Thursday, March 6, 2008, from 9 a.m. 
to 5 p.m., ET; and Friday, March 7, 2008, from 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon, 
ET.

ADDRESSES: Hotel Palomar Arlington, 1121 North 19th Street, Arlington, 
VA 22209. Phone 703-351-9170.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Diane M. Gianelli, Director of 
Communications, The President's Council on Bioethics, 1425 New York 
Avenue, NW., Suite C100, Washington, DC 20005. Telephone: 202/296-4669. 
E-mail: info@bioethics.gov. Web site: https://www.bioethics.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The meeting agenda will be posted at https://
www.bioethics.gov. The Council encourages public input, either in 
person or in writing. At this meeting, interested members of the public 
may address the Council, beginning at 11:45 am, on Friday, March 7. 
Comments are limited to no more than five minutes per speaker or 
organization. As a courtesy, please inform Ms. Diane M. Gianelli, 
Director of Communications, in advance of your intention to make a 
public statement, and give your name and affiliation. To submit a 
written statement, mail or e-mail it to Ms. Gianelli at one of her 
contact addresses given above.

    Dated: February 1, 2008.
F. Daniel Davis,
Executive Director, The President's Council on Bioethics.
[FR Doc. E8-2779 Filed 2-13-08; 8:45 am]
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