March 31, 2006
Researchers: Epilepsy Cause Identified (AP) Preventable Disease Blinds Poor in Third World (New York Times) Power of prayer flunks an unusual test (MSNBC) Long mobile phone use raises brain tumor risk (Reuters) Baby breathing aid study cleared (BBC) Groups Want … Read More
March 31, 2006
The Coalition for Healthcare Communication, a coalition of advertising and public relations groups, wants to strip most of the warnings from prescription drug ads aimed at consumers and replace them with a boilerplate statement that all prescription drugs have potential … Read More
March 30, 2006
Hormone Injections’ Promise Brings Risk (AP) Boost for ‘superbug’ drugs race (BBC) Growth spurts tied to peaks in teen cancers: study (Reuters) Scans Show Different Growth for Intelligent Brains (New York Times) Jell-O Fix for Spinal Cords (Wired)
March 29, 2006
‘Designer baby’ clinic to charge £6,000 per child (Telegraph) EU stem cell funding in jeopardy? (The Scientist) India sex selection doctor jailed (BBC) Mutations Change the Boolean Logic of Gene Regulation (RxPG News) Op-Ed: Needed: Integrative health care (St. Paul … Read More
March 29, 2006
Cephos Corporation and No Lie MRI, Inc. will each soon be marketing a new kind of lie detector based on fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging). I’ve mentioned fMRI before, and its potential use as a lie detector. Now people are … Read More
March 28, 2006
Foundation moves to grab a piece of stem cell profits (MSNBC) Democrats to hit GOP on stem cell issue (Chicago Tribune) Birth, Controlled (New York Times) World’s 10 Best-Selling Drugs (Wired)
March 28, 2006
According to Forbes.com, global spending on prescription drugs has topped $600 billion, even as growth slowed in Europe and North America. The top ten best-selling drugs are: 1. Lipitor (high cholesterol) $12.9 billion 2. PLAVIX (heart disease) $5.9 billion 3. … Read More
March 27, 2006
A Controversial Therapy for Diabetes Is Verified (New York Times) Very premature babies’ rights defended (Daily Mail) Pursuing Healthier Bacon Through Biotech (AP) Mouse testicles may hold stem cells’ promise (MSNBC)
March 27, 2006
(via Washington Post and AP) Saturday’s Washington Post carried an article whose headline trumpeted, “Embryonic Stem Cell Success.” The story reports that German scientists have retrieved cells from the testes of mice and transformed them into cells capable of forming … Read More
March 24, 2006
Typical U.S. Pregnancy Now Just 39 Weeks (MSNBC) Germany’s striking doctors march (BBC) Dr. James H. Schwartz, 73, Who Studied the Basis of Memory, Dies (New York Times) Battle to overturn S. Dakota abortion law begins (Reuters)
March 23, 2006
Panel Advises Disclosure of Drugs’ Psychotic Effects (New York Times) Korea fears for gene doping (Fox Sports ) Medical safety net shrinks with less charity care (Reuters) Report raises flag on fluoride (USA Today)
March 22, 2006
Two Die After Using Abortion Pill (Wired) Illnesses Raise Drug-Safety Questions (AP Medical) Doctor’s bedside manner still what counts (MSNBC) Doctors take a new stab at allergy shots (USA Today) Flaw Seen in Genetic Test for Breast Cancer Risk (New … Read More
March 22, 2006
Since 1997, only 40 human organs have been transplanted in Japan. Because the demand greatly exceeds the supply, Japanese citizens are turning to China’s burgeoning human organ transplant industry. According to The Independent, a single broker has helped more than … Read More
March 21, 2006
Moraga discovers flexible stem cell in adult tissue (Pharmaceutical Business Review) Nanotech database compiles consumer items on the market (Food Production Daily) Judge closes Web site over copyright issues (Kansas City Star) Bird flu virus ‘now in two forms’ (BBC) … Read More
March 21, 2006
. . . is a relatively new (and somewhat more precise) term for what used to be called outsourcing. In short, offshoring involves moving business processes (e.g., manufacturing, customer service) to a foreign country in order for a company to … Read More
March 20, 2006
South Korea cloning expert fired (BBC) Fate of California stem cell agency again rests in judge’s hands (AP) Missouri: Adult stem-cell bills move through House, Senate (St. Louis Review) Wanted: A Few Good Sperm (New York Times) Op-Ed: This Essay … Read More
March 20, 2006
(via National Review Online) Today’s National Review Online carries an opinion piece by Robert George and Eric Cohen encouraging us to view the Korean cloning scandal as an opportunity to rethink stem cell research and cloning. George and Cohen make … Read More
March 20, 2006
(via New York Times) Novelist (and M.D.) Michael Crichton has an essay in yesterday’s New York Times on a patenting case the Supreme Court is to hear tomorrow. In short, a company is claiming that it owns “licensing rights on … Read More
March 17, 2006
Stem Cell Researcher’s License Revoked (Washington Post) Growing Nerve Cells (ScienCentral) Egg-donor business booms on campuses (USA Today) More Kids Are Getting Anti-Psychotic Drugs (AP)
March 16, 2006
Relatives’ fury over calamitous drug trial (The Guardian) Scientists counter Wilmut criticisms (The Scientist) Connecticut: Bill would establish center for umbilical cord blood (AP) A Doctor? He Is One on TV (New York Times) Op-Ed: Embryology and euphemisms (Carthage Press)
March 16, 2006
At a recent meeting of the American College of Cardiology, Japanese researchers reported that have harvested stem cells from human menstrual blood. Dr Shunichiro Miyoshi of Keio University in Tokyo said that he and his colleagues were able to obtain … Read More
March 15, 2006
Bush Admits Rocky Start to Drug Plan (New York Times) Nanotechnology May Repair Damaged Brains (HealthDay) Plundered body parts implanted in thousands (MSNBC) Family wins right-to-life fight (BBC) Playing Stem Cell Lottery (Forbes) Gene therapy gives hope to haemophiliacs (Sydney … Read More
March 15, 2006
(via HealthDay News) Scientists at MIT have restored the vision of brain-damaged hamsters using nanotechnology. They used the tiny particles to build a kind of scaffold so that brain cells could re-grow. One of the main controversies with nanotechnology is … Read More
March 14, 2006
Op-Ed: The Body: Bulletproof (Fast Company) Cochlear Implants Aim for Age-Related Loss (AP) Silent Struggle: A New Theory of Pregnancy (New York Times) Four Research Institutes To Build A Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Facility In California (Medical News Today)
March 14, 2006
“With all the sex in ads this is the one place where we can’t use sex,” laments Andrew Schirmer, managing director of McCann Humancare, an agency specializing in health care ads. Schirmer has the daunting task of creating a new … Read More
