April 30, 2009
Journal of Applied Philosophy (Volume 26, Issue 2, May 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Why ‘Health’ is not a Central Category for Public Health Policy” by Stephen John, 129-143. “The Metaphysical Foundations of Reproductive Ethics” by … Read More
April 30, 2009
Biomedical Microdevices (Volume 11, Number 3, June 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Selective trapping of live and dead mammalian cells using insulator-based dielectrophoresis within open-top microstructures” by Chun-Ping Jen and Teng-Wen Chen, 597-607. “An implantable MEMS drug delivery device … Read More
April 30, 2009
The American Journal of Bioethics (Volume 9, Issue 5, 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Bioethics and the Explosive Rise of Animal Law” by Richard L. Cupp Jr., 1-2. “Bioethical Considerations in Translational Research: Primate Stroke” by Michael E. … Read More
April 30, 2009
GENETIC clues contained in the cells that nurse and nurture developing eggs could help identify which ones to choose for IVF. There is currently little that can be done to predict which eggs are most likely to generate healthy embryos. … Read More
April 30, 2009
Researchers used a simple brain-computer interface to post a message on the social networking Web site Twitter, an achievement that shows the potential for developing new communications systems for people whose bodies don’t work but who have normal brain function. … Read More
April 30, 2009
… According to German law, a woman can have up to three embryos planted in her womb, but unlike in other countries, there is no selection process – so these embryos are not chosen from a larger number. Crucially, all … Read More
April 30, 2009
The first pieces of what will become sweeping legislation to overhaul the nation’s healthcare system have arrived at last. The proposals float a new payment system for doctors and a new focus on primary care and care coordination for patients. … Read More
April 30, 2009
Until now, it has been extremely difficult to control stem cells in such a way that they grow into new blood vessels outside the body, or – when injected into an organ – lead to the creation of new small … Read More
April 29, 2009
South Korea on Wednesday conditionally lifted a ban on stem cell research using human eggs, three years after outlawing the practice because a scientist was found to have faked his work. (PhysOrg)
April 29, 2009
Using lasers, researchers at the MIT Media Lab were able to activate a specific set of neurons in a monkey’s brain. Though the technique has been used to control and explore neural circuits in fish, flies and rodents, this is … Read More
April 29, 2009
The federal government has opened the door for human embryonic stem cell research, and it’s now figuring out which ethical strings to attach. But California researchers are worried that the expected limits could still cause them aggravation if they don’t … Read More
April 29, 2009
In a scolding report, the nation’s most influential medical advisory group said doctors should stop taking much of the money, gifts and free drug samples they routinely accept from drug and device companies. (New York Times)
April 28, 2009
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized emergency uses of the flu drugs Tamiflu and Relenza on Monday and a diagnostic test to help get a grip on a new strain of swine flu, the agency said on Monday. (Reuters)
April 28, 2009
When the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh installed a digital drug-ordering system to replace its old paper one in late 2002, the medication error rate declined sharply. But a strange thing happened among some of the sickest kids: Five months after … Read More
April 28, 2009
Of the many possible issues that could snarl health-care reform, one of the biggest is whether the measure should include a government-run health plan to compete with private insurers. The public plan has become an unfortunate litmus test for both … Read More
April 28, 2009
As the Obama administration prepares to greatly expand the government’s investments in embryonic stem cell research, the next big biomedical research debate in Congress is shaping up: whether to allow government funding of experiments using cloned human embryos. (CQ Politics)
April 28, 2009
Government legal and ethical experts are to discuss whether families can ‘bank’ embryos not just for procreation but also for use by doctors to create personalised treatments for parents and their children. (Daily Mail)
April 28, 2009
Sociology of Health & Illness (Volume 31, Issue 4, May 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Indeterminacy and technicality revisited: how medicine and nursing have responded to the evidence based movement” by Michael Traynor, 494-507. “‘Futureless persons’: shifting life … Read More
April 28, 2009
Launch of consultation on medical profiling and online medicine: the ethics of ‘personalised’ health care in a consumer age The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is holding a public consultation on the ethical issues raised by online healthcare, telemedicine and commercial … Read More
April 28, 2009
The Division of Ethics of Science and Technology Sector for Social and Human Sciences UNESCO UNESCO Ethics Teacher Training Course in Windhoek, Namibia (24-28 August 2009) One of the activities undertaken to disseminate information concerning the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, adopted … Read More
April 27, 2009
Republican legislators are poised today to attempt an override of the Democratic governor’s veto of a bill that would have made it a crime for a scientist to perform any form of embryonic stem cell research. Gov. Brad Henry waited until … Read More
April 27, 2009
…Â Moreover, we should remember that as soon as a second person is consciously involved in the suicide of a person, and that this is accepted by society, it is then society as a whole that gives its consent to this … Read More
April 27, 2009
Mrs Turnball wants to die. “Will you talk to her, Max?” asks one of her doctors. “Maybe prescribe her something?” I glance down at her notes. Mrs Turnball is in her late forties. Fourteen years ago she suffered horrific injuries … Read More
April 27, 2009
If you wonder why an anti-abortion Republican would oppose legislative limits on embryonic stem cell research, meet state Rep. Rick Hardcastle. Yes, he’s a GOP lawmaker (from Vernon). Yes, he’s against abortion. But as a man with multiple sclerosis, and … Read More
April 27, 2009
Primary care physician Matt Handley believes that information technology enables him to provide better patient care. + So much so that he recently spent an afternoon hooking up a computer and DSL line at the home of a patient so … Read More
