August 31, 2007
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) can kill bacteria like the common pathogen E. coli by severely damaging their cell walls, according to a recent report from Yale researchers in the American Chemical Society (ACS) journal Langmuir. (ScienceDaily)
August 31, 2007
Increasing female feticide in India could spark a demographic crisis where fewer women in society will result in a rise in sexual violence and child abuse as well as wife-sharing, the United Nations warned. (Reuters)
August 31, 2007
In an effort to woo researchers and investors to Illinois, Gov. Rod Blagojevich Tuesday signed a bill that allows public funding of research on all types of stem cells, including controversial embryonic stem cells. (Chicago Tribune)
August 31, 2007
How do adult stem cells protect themselves from accumulating genetic mutations that can lead to cancer? (ScienceDaily)
August 30, 2007
Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer is famous for two primary reasons: First, he jump started the animal rights/liberation movement with his 1975 book Animal Liberation. Second, he is the world’s foremost proponent of the legitimacy of infanticide. Thus, writing on page … Read More
August 30, 2007
A company offers to generate and store stem cells from leftover IVF embryos. (Technology Review)
August 30, 2007
A 36-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis died in July, while participating in a gene-therapy clinical trial. Some experts say she shouldn’t have received such an unpredictable, potentially dangerous treatment in the first place. (Wired)
August 30, 2007
Zero-interest financing, a familiar sales incentive at car dealerships and furniture stores, has found its way to another big-ticket consumer market: doctors’ and dentists’ offices. (New York Times)
August 30, 2007
Unions, doctors and other powerful interests are arrayed against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s $12 billion-a-year plan to make medical insurance mandatory. He has threatened to veto the Democrats’ less ambitious alternative and take his plan to the ballot instead. (AP)
August 30, 2007
An Australian scientist’s radical therapeutic treatment for diabetes – using insulin-producing pig cells – could resume clinical trials within the next few months. (ABC News)
August 30, 2007
Official restrictions against surrogacy in China reportedly haven’t been able to stop the practice because of the financial incentive it offers needy women. (United Press International)
August 30, 2007
One young woman faces the temptation of selling her eggs. (New York Press)
August 30, 2007
The British Medical Association recently issued a new report on tactical pharmacology, “The Use of Drugs As Weapons,” the third of its publications warning about the militarization of medicine and its potential for new forms of warfare. (International Herald Tribune)
August 30, 2007
Republican presidential contender Sam Brownback pledged a goal of ending cancer deaths in 10 years while rival Mike Huckabee used a health care forum Tuesday to suggest that federal food stamp participants get more buying power for healthy foods and … Read More
August 29, 2007
The moral implications of this story are profound and complex. An Italian couple was pregnant with twins. One of the fetuses tested positive for Down syndrome. A eugenic abortion was performed. The baby without Down was destroyed. The Down child … Read More
August 29, 2007
Gov. Sonny Perdue’s cost-cutting move to convert most of Georgia’s Medicaid program to managed care has been a nightmare for patients and health care providers, dozens of speakers complained Tuesday. (Henry Daily Herald)
August 29, 2007
Britain is in the grip of a prescription drug-taking epidemic, with unprecedented numbers of medicines being handed out by GPs, costing billions of pounds and stretching already tight NHS resources to breaking point. (Belfast Telegraph)
August 29, 2007
According to Phan Kim Ngoc, Head of the Biotechnology Laboratory on Fauna of the HCM City-based University of Natural Sciences, experts will extract stem cells from the mucous membranes of the mouth, skin, blood and marrow of this patient to … Read More
August 29, 2007
At all Florida lethal injections, a man in a purple moon suit leans over the dying inmate to listen for a heartbeat and feel for a pulse. After a few seconds, he nods, and the witnesses are informed that the … Read More
August 29, 2007
When patients feel they might be having an adverse drug effect, doctors will very often dismiss their concerns, a new study shows. (MSNBC)
August 29, 2007
Italian prosecutors have opened an investigation into a botched selective abortion that the Vatican has described as the result of a “culture of perfection†resembling Nazi eugenics. (Times Online)
August 28, 2007
AUSTRALIAN euthanasia advocates have modified an ordinary coffee pot, so the terminally ill can concoct a banned suicide drug in their own kitchens. (Courier-Mail)
August 28, 2007
State Parliament will sit late into the evening tonight to accommodate debate on the Government’s controversial therapeutic cloning legislation. (ABC News)
August 28, 2007
The pursuit of cures from embryonic stem cells requires a focus that goes far beyond biology. Researchers, entrepreneurs and others working with this technology must attempt to master a tricky task of juggling science and politics. (Kansas City Star)
August 28, 2007
Members of the Catholic community vary in their definitions of emergency contraception, some believing it causes abortions. (Stevens Point Journal)
