December 30, 2005
Chinese Inmates’ Organs For Sale To Britons A Chinese company has begun marketing kidneys, livers and other organs from executed prisoners to sick Britons in need of transplants.(Washington Times) Embryo Cloning Cheat Resigns in Disgrace The world’s most successful cloning … Read More
December 28, 2005
The Health Care Blog hosts the final Grand Rounds of 2005 and highlights some of the best medical and health care posts of the year.
December 22, 2005
Second Journal Probing Stem Cell Scientist A second scientific journal is investigating research by an embattled stem cell scientist — this time his claim that he cloned a dog.(AP) Bad Students Can Turn Out To Be Bad Doctors Doctors who … Read More
December 21, 2005
The New York Times is reporting that the investigative television news program in South Korea that played no small part in bringing the cloning scandal to light has been cancelled. It appears to be a combination of backlash against the … Read More
December 21, 2005
Group Sues to Halt Ill. Contraceptive Rule A group founded by evangelist Pat Robertson is suing to stop Illinois from requiring pharmacies to fill prescriptions for emergency contraception, saying the rule violates a druggist’s right to refuse on religious and … Read More
December 21, 2005
In a ceremony yesterday in the Roosevelt Room of The White House, President Bush signed into law the “Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005.” The law “creates a new Federal program to collect and store cord blood, and … Read More
December 20, 2005
Federal Survey Shows Unwanted Births Up More American women are having babies they didn’t want, a survey indicates, but federal researchers say they don’t know if that means attitudes about abortion are changing.(AP) South Korean University Begins Stem Cell Probe … Read More
December 20, 2005
The latest edition of Grand Rounds medical blogging wrap up posted at Medpundit. This week has a little something for everyone: literary medical blogging, nurse blogging, patient blogging, doctor blogging, and more.
December 20, 2005
As you may know, Don Ho recently underwent surgery in Thailand. Stem cells were isolated from his own blood and injected directly into his heart. He has just returned to Hawaii, and is recovering “at an undisclosed location.” According to … Read More
December 19, 2005
Swiss Hospital to Allow Assisted Suicide A Swiss hospital has agreed to let an assisted-suicide organization help terminally ill patients take their own lives on its premises.(AP) Alzheimer’s, Dementia Cases to Rise Drastically The number of people suffering from dementia … Read More
December 16, 2005
In May the House of Representatives passed the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act by a vote of 431-1. Wait! Don’t go anywhere! Even if your eyes glaze over at the embryonic-stem-cell-research debate, this vote was different. There are no … Read More
December 16, 2005
Go-Ahead for First Full Face Transplants British surgeons are preparing to carry out an unprecedented full face transplant operation next year after being granted ethical approval to actively seek patients. The 30-strong team headed by Peter Butler, a leading plastic … Read More
December 15, 2005
Doctor: Cloning Pioneer Withdrawing Paper A doctor who provided human eggs for research by cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-suk said in a broadcast Thursday that the South Korean scientist agreed to withdraw a key research paper because most of the stem … Read More
December 15, 2005
South Korea’s most renowned stem cell scientist fabricated key parts of a ground-breaking paper and is seeking to have the work withdrawn, a close collaborator told South Korean media on Thursday. [more]
December 14, 2005
Face Transplant Gives Hope to Disfigured When doctors decide to perform the world’s second face transplant, burn victims just might be among the first to volunteer. Burn survivors “love the idea,” said Bernhard Heitz, who suffered extensive disfiguring burns to … Read More
December 13, 2005
Derek Lowe, a chemist working in pharmaceutical research, hosts this week’s edition of Grand Rounds.
December 13, 2005
NIH to Study Genetic Makeup of Cancer If all the ways genes run amok to cause cancer were laid out in a dictionary, scientists would be able to decipher only a small part of the first page. Hoping to change … Read More
December 12, 2005
South Korea’s Hwang Returns to Hospital (The Associated Press) South Korean stem cell pioneer Hwang Woo-Suk briefly left a hospital Monday and made a tearful return to work after being treated for extreme stress brought on by an ethics scandal … Read More
December 12, 2005
Should Bias Be Treated as a Mental Illness? The 48-year-old man turned down a job because he feared that a co-worker would be gay. He was upset that gay culture was becoming mainstream and blamed most of his personal, professional … Read More
December 10, 2005
The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity (CBHD) welcomes the President’s Council on Bioethics’ renewed focus on human dignity, the central concept in bioethics. [more]
December 9, 2005
According to the published schedule, The President’s Council on Bioethics is today hearing a presentation on “Human Dignity as a Bioethical Concept,” and will be discussing a Staff Working Paper on “Bioethics and Human Dignity.”
December 9, 2005
Medical Journal Criticizes Merck Over Vioxx Data An influential medical journal accused Merck yesterday of misrepresenting the results of a crucial clinical trial of the painkiller Vioxx to play down its heart risks(New York Times) FDA concerned about trendy brew … Read More
December 8, 2005
Jacques Rogge, President of the International Olympic Committee is worried: I am getting more and more anxious that this (gene doping) may be misused by athletes and coaches. Rogge is calling on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to begin drafting … Read More
December 8, 2005
MercatorNet has an interview with James Sherley, an associate professor of biological engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sherley is an outspoken critic of both cloning and destructive embryo research. In fact, Sherley raises questions about the potential usefulness … Read More
December 8, 2005
Face Transplants: Medicine’s New Ethical Dilemma French doctors who recently performed the world’s first partial face transplant pushed not only scientific frontiers, but ethical ones as well.(HealthDay) Scientists Discover How Cancer Spreads Scientists have discovered how cancer spreads from a … Read More
