September 30, 2010
Presented by the National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Pajoohesh, km 15, Tehran – Karaj Highway, Tehran, Iran, P.O. Box: 14965/161 Abstract Submission Deadline: November 1, 2010 Registration Deadline: November 19, 2010 Following the “First International Congress of Bioethicsâ€, which … Read More
September 30, 2010
Federal health department inspectors have reopened a review of complaints by Food and Drug Administration scientists who say they were pressured by their managers to approve some high-tech medical devices, overriding their concerns about potential harm to patients. (Wall Street … Read More
September 30, 2010
Australian researchers have shown that assisted reproductive technology influences male-female birth ratios. (ABC Sydney)
September 30, 2010
The global cost of dementia will exceed $600 billion in 2009 alone, according to a new report. But it is not just the economic toll which is reason for alarm. (BBC News)
September 30, 2010
Until now the researchers have only tested the implant on lab mice. After a two-week period, both bones and fat like tissue from the same implant began growing, making the Danish researchers the first ever to successfully get stem cells … Read More
September 30, 2010
AUSTRALIAN Greens leader Bob Brown has kept his promise to introduce legislation to parliament allowing the NT and the ACT to make laws around voluntary euthanasia. (Herald Sun)
September 29, 2010
Researchers lack a standard about when to disclose unanticipated findings to study participants and their doctors, raising ethical–and financial–dilemmas. (Scientific American)
September 29, 2010
A few days ago, the Mayo Clinic released the results of a study on the relationship between burnout and ethics among students at seven medical schools across the country. The study’s first result, which was not surprising, was that more … Read More
September 29, 2010
I was honoured again this year to be invited by the Italian College of Family Doctors who held once again, in Caserta, a conference on medico-legal issues. I was asked to invite two colleagues from the UK and Holland. We … Read More
September 29, 2010
Over the past decade, Americans have seen what happens when insurance companies have free rein. The cost of health insurance has more than doubled, while millions of hard-working Americans lost their coverage or drained their savings to keep up with … Read More
September 29, 2010
An appeals court has permanently lifted an injunction imposed by a federal judge, thereby allowing federally funded embryonic stem-cell research to continue while the Obama administration appeals the judge’s original ruling against use of public funds in such research. (CNN)
September 28, 2010
Stem Cells is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Law, Ethics, Religion, and Clinical Translation in the 21st Century – A Discussion with Andrew Webster” by Majlinda Lako, Alan O Trounson, and Susan Rainey Daher.
September 28, 2010
Bioethics (Volume 24, Issue 8, October 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Equality and the Duty to Retard Human Ageing” by Colin Farrelly, 384-394. “A Right to Reproduce?” by Muireann Quigley, 403-411. “The Duty to Die and … Read More
September 24, 2010
With thousands of people on the waiting lists for organs, doctors are bending the rules about when to declare that a donor is dead. Is it ethical to take one life and give it to another? (Scientific American)
September 24, 2010
Researchers hope they can use human tissue created from stem cells to help identify potentially dangerous side-effects from drugs under development before human trials. (BusinessWeek)
September 24, 2010
For 15 years, AquaBounty Technologies has tried to win U.S. approval to sell a genetically modified salmon that can reach full size up to twice as fast as its naturally occurring brethren. Now the effort by the Waltham (Mass.) company … Read More
September 24, 2010
The Silicon Valley-based club BioCurious, seeking to bring life sciences within reach of do-it-yourself amateurs, is raising money to rent a local lab where anyone can learn how to extract their own DNA, test the waters of San Francisco Bay … Read More
September 24, 2010
Enrollment has begun for the first clinical trial to test a therapy developed from human embryonic stem cells. The trial’s primary aim is to assess the safety of Geron Corp.’s experimental oligodendrocyte progenitor cells, which have been in development for … Read More
September 24, 2010
It’s baa-ack! Just when you thought the political fight over federal funding of embryonic-stem-cell research (ESCR) was over, United States District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth ruled that President Obama’s ESCR policy violates the “Dickey-Wicker Amendment,†a federal law barring … Read More
September 23, 2010
In 1998, Kevin Warwick became what some people call “the world’s first cyborg.” To be exact, Warwick, a professor of cybernetics at Reading University, had a radio frequency ID chip implanted in his arm. Years before RFID chips became common, … Read More
September 23, 2010
Ten years ago a little girl from Colorado made medical history when her parents and her doctor at the University of Minnesota used genetic screening to create a baby that could save her life. (Star Tribune)
September 23, 2010
The funding fates of hundreds of US scientists were thrown into question last month when a federal district court judge issued an injunction stopping the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from funding human embryonic stem cell research (see Case History). … Read More
September 23, 2010
The September 2010 special issue of the Indiana Magazine of History examines Indiana’s leadership in the early 20th-century practice of eugenics — the effort to breed a better human race. (Do better babies make better Hoosiers?: IU News Room)
September 23, 2010
THE divisive issue of euthanasia is back on the Victorian political agenda, with MPs from across politics calling for Parliament to debate the issue after November’s state election. (The Age)
September 23, 2010
The controversy we were witnessing on stem cell research has seemed to calm down recently mostly because scientists have made progress in using non-embryonic stem cells for attaining almost the same possibilities of treatment that we were hoping to attain … Read More
