1. The National Institutes of Health Bioethics Resources on the Web provides a compilation of web links to information of potential use and interest to diverse audiences—biomedical and behavioral researchers, health care professionals, research participants, patients and patient advocates, students and faculty in different disciplines, and the general public.

2. The National Bioethics Advisory Commission is the President’s Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues that advises the President on bioethical issues that may emerge from advances in biomedicine and related areas of science and technology. The Commission works with the goal of identifying and promoting policies and practices that ensure scientific research, health care delivery, and technological innovation are conducted in an ethically responsible manner.

The website offers copies of published reports such as,  Controversies in the Determination of Death: A White Paper by the President’s Council on Bioethics (December 2008). No reports have yet been published by Presedent Obama’s Commission but those published under Presedent Bush and since the Commission’s creation in 1995 are provided on the site.

3. If you are unsure where to look, USA.gov provides a search portal for topics and government programs and agencies.

4. The Catholic Heatlh Association offers Health Care Ethics USA, a quarterly electronic newsletter jointly published by the Center for Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University and CHA. This publication is an ethics vehicle for the Catholic health ministry but offers ethicists and those responsible for ethics in their organizations ethical analyses and reflections, leading practices, policies, tools, case studies, literature reviews and bibliographies, and other important resources. A free subscription is available by writing servicecenter@chausa.org.