Document Headings

                    Document headings vary by document type but may contain                    the following:                  
                -                       the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document                    
                -                       the number of the CFR title and the number of each part                      the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly                      related to                    
                -                       the agency docket number / agency internal file number                    
                -                       the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in                      the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory                      Actions                    

                    See the                                          Document Drafting Handbook                                        for more details.                  

###### Department of Health and Human Services

# AGENCY:

The President's Council on Bioethics, HHS.

# ACTION:

Notice.

# SUMMARY:

                        The President's Council on Bioethics (Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD, Chairman) will hold its thirty-first meeting, at which it will continue (1) its inquiry into the “crisis” of the healing professions with expert presentations and Council discussions; and (2) its inquiry into the moral foundations of health care.  Subjects discussed at past Council meetings (although not on the agenda for the November 2007 meeting) include:  Therapeutic and reproductive cloning, assisted reproduction, reproductive genetics, neuroscience, aging retardation, organ transplantation, newborn screening, human dignity, 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 ResponsibilityL: 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).  Reports on (a) the bioethical significance of the concept of human dignity, (b) controversies in the determination of death, and (c) organ procurement, transplantation, and allocation are forthcoming.                    

# DATES:

The meeting will take place Thursday, November 8, 2007, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., ET; and Friday, November 9, 2007, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. ET.

# ADDRESSES:

                        Hotel Washington, 515 15th Street (at Pennsylvania Avenue), NW., Washington, DC 20004. Phone 202-638-5900.                              ( print page 59094)    

*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 10:45 a.m. on Friday, November 9. 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 the addresses given below.                    

# 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:                         *http://www.bioethics.gov*.                    

Dated: October 10, 2007.

F. Daniel Davis,

Executive Director, The President's Council on Bioethics.

[FR Doc. 07-5145 Filed 10-17-07; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4154-06-M