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"MEDICAL ETHICS: TOUGH CHOICES:"
TOWN HALL EVENT

Examining the Issues
Medical Ethics: Tough Choices

What diseases can gene therapy potentially treat or cure, and at what risk to the patient? Would it be acceptable to receive a life-saving transplant if the donor were an animal raised especially for the purpose? What are stem cells, and what is the related controversy all about?

Cutting-edge medical research taking place right here in Nebraska raises these and other difficult questions, offering tremendous promise to some but posing considerable ethical challenges to others. Often, though, the public learns about such research only after special interest groups bring it to public attention. The complete facts and the complex ethical issues involved are soon lost in emotionally charged debates.

Now, viewers statewide will have the chance to hear the issues addressed in a civil forum when citizens, experts and advocates discuss these concerns in front of a live audience under the guidance of a moderator.