Department of Health and Human Services August 15, 2006 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The President's Council on Bioethics (Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD, Chairman) will hold its twenty-sixth meeting, at which, among other things, it will hear presentations on and discuss issues in two broad areas: (1) Organ procurement, allocation, and transplantation and (2) the personal, social, and policy-related significance of genetic information and knowledge. The discussions in both areas are continuations of previous Council discussions. Subjects discussed at past Council meetings (although not on the agenda for the September 2006 meeting) include: human dignity, therapeutic and reproductive cloning, assisted reproduction, reproductive genetics, neuroscience, aging retardation, 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), and Taking Care: Ethical Caregiving in Our Aging Society (September 2005).

In accordance with section 10(a) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, this notice announces a meeting of the Citizens' Health Care Working Group (Working Group) mandated by section 1014 of the Medicare Modernization Act.

This notice announces the eighth meeting of the American Health Information Community Biosurveillance Workgroup in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 5 U.S.C., App.)

This notice announces the rescheduled date of the first meeting of the American Health Information Community Confidentiality and Security Workgroup in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 5 U.S.C., App.). The Confidentiality and Security Workgroup was created by the American Health Information Community as a cross-cutting Workgroup comprised of privacy, security, clinical, and technical experts, as well as representation from the consumer perspective. New Date Time: August 21, 2006, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. This meeting was previously scheduled to be held on August 4, 2006.