[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 157 (Tuesday, August 15, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46913-46914]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-13350]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


Public Meeting of the President's Council on Bioethics on 
September 7-8, 2006

AGENCY: The President's Council on Bioethics, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: 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:

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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).

DATES: The meeting will take place Thursday, September 7, 2006, from 9 
a.m. to 5:15 p.m., ET; and Friday, September 8, 2006, from 8:30 a.m. to 
12 noon, ET.

ADDRESSES: The Westin Embassy Row, 2100 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20008. Phone 202-293-2100.
    Agenda: The meeting agenda will be posted at http://www.bioethics.gov.
    Public Comments: 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 a.m., on Friday, September 
8. Comments are limited to no more than five minutes per speaker or 
organization. As a courtesy, please inform Ms. Diane 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 the addresses 
given below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Diane Gianelli, Director of 
Communications, The President's Council on Bioethics, Suite 700, 1801 
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20006. Telephone: 202/296-4669. 
E-mail: [email protected]. Web site: http://www.bioethics.gov.

    Dated: August 7, 2006.
F. Daniel Davis,
Executive Director, The President's Council on Bioethics.
 [FR Doc. E6-13350 Filed 8-14-06; 8:45 am]
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