August 31, 2011
An 8-year-old girl born two years after her father died is not entitled to his Social Security benefits, a federal appeals court ruled this week, reversing a lower court’s decision in a case that could be headed to the U.S. … Read More
August 31, 2011
An exhaustive high-level review of unethical syphilis experiments conducted in Guatemala by U.S. researchers in the 1940s has found little to redeem the work or its lead researcher. The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues concluded that the … Read More
August 31, 2011
You’ve crashed your car on rural road at 2 a.m. on a rainy Saturday. Seriously injured and in pain, you are hauled into a noisy ambulance, then, because you’re so far from the nearest trauma center, into a waiting helicopter. … Read More
August 31, 2011
Researchers in Germany have developed a microchip sensor that can be implanted close to a tumour to monitor its growth. (BBC News)
August 31, 2011
An engineered virus, injected into the blood, can selectively target cancer cells throughout the body in what researchers have labelled a medical first. (BBC News)
August 31, 2011
A commission set up last year by President Barack Obama has revealed that 83 Guatemalans died in U.S. government research that infected hundreds of prisoners, prostitutes and mental patients with the syphilis bacteria to study the drug penicillin — a … Read More
August 31, 2011
Journal of Internal Medicine (August 2011) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Epigenetics and Assisted Reproductive Technology” by AN Iliadou, PCJ Janson and S Cnattingius.
August 31, 2011
Nature Genestics (Volume 43, Issue 9, September 2011) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Learning to Think Continentally” available on-line.
August 30, 2011
October 17, 2011 through March 13, 2012 Classes will be held on the NIH campus on Monday and Tuesday evenings from 5:00 p.m. to approximately 6:30 p.m. There is no charge for the course. Approximately 1,664 students registered for the … Read More
August 30, 2011
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (Volume 20, Issue 4, October 2011) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “A Call for Contextualized Bioethics: Health, Biomedical Research, and Security” by Margit Sutrop and Kadri Simm, 511-513. “Informed Consent: Its History, … Read More
August 30, 2011
New England Journal of Medicine (Volume 365, Issue 7, August 18, 2011) is now available on-line and by subscription only. Articles include: “Global Health: Pediatric HIV — A Neglected Disease?” by Marc Lallemant, M.D., Shing Chang, Ph.D., Rachel Cohen, M.P.P., … Read More
August 30, 2011
Jerry Walter, a semi-retired Army colonel who lives in North Carolina, said he has led a “charmed life,” surviving the terrorist attack on the Pentagon in 2001 and two life-threatening bacterial infections. (ABC News)
August 30, 2011
Most physicians will be sued at least once during their career, but the majority of cases will end in their favor. (American Medical News)
August 30, 2011
The randomized clinical trial, long the gold standard of medical research, supposedly provides the most reliable data regarding which drugs, devices and procedures prove effective on real patients and which don’t. But when the people enrolled in the trial are … Read More
August 30, 2011
Some pharmaceutical companies shut down Facebook pages, while others monitored and deleted visitor comments, after the social media site on Aug. 15 stopped giving drug companies the option of preventing public comments on their pages. (American Medical News)
August 30, 2011
Health Canada should publicly release results of clinical trials and allow greater access to safety and efficacy information about drugs and other health products to protect the public from harm, according to a new analysis in the Canadian Medical Association … Read More
August 30, 2011
Under a new Florida law, people applying for welfare have to take a drug test at their own expense. If they pass, they are eligible for benefits and the state reimburses them for the test. If they fail, they are … Read More
August 30, 2011
Journal of Medical Ethics (Volume 37, Issue 9, September 2011) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Bioethics in a Clinic for Women with Psychosis” by Mary V Seeman, Bob Seeman, 518-522. “Patients’ Perspectives of the Substitute Decision Maker: … Read More
August 30, 2011
November 10-11, 2011 Carnegie Institution for Science Confirmed speakers include Helen Mayberg, Michael Chorost, Husseini Manji, Alan Leshner, Pat Churchland, Jonathan Moreno, Steve Greenberg, Jorge Moll, Hank Greely, Martha Farah, and others. For more information
August 29, 2011
September 26 and 27, 2011 St. Louis Missouri The conference will have a Community Engaged Research theme that includes exploring the community-academic partnerships, addressing regulations, best practices, and current trends. This event is being hosted by: Washington University School of … Read More
August 29, 2011
For the past seven years, the Sethys had a faint but haunting feeling that they had let their daughter down. Danya, 10, is their only child and the Sethys strive for the best for her: She takes Japanese language, traditional … Read More
August 29, 2011
A new scoring system might be able to tell patients in the final stages of cancer how much time they have left so they can prepare for their passing, British researchers report. (US News and World Report)
August 29, 2011
The Texas Medical Board is seeking to put restrictions on stem cell transplants, a board member says. (UPI)
August 29, 2011
Doctors are too quick to recommend expensive genetic counseling or testing for ovarian cancer, but at the same time often fail to refer high-risk women, government researchers say. (Reuters)
August 29, 2011
Very few women choose to get an intrauterine device (IUD) inserted soon after giving birth, even though it’s one of the most effective methods of long-term contraception, according to a new study. (MSNBC)
