April 30, 2013
Smiling is something 30-year-old Sarah Still constantly has to remind herself to do, especially when she is going into a job interview. Still has Asperger’s, a high-functioning form of autism. For the past 10 years, she has experienced the highs … Read More
April 30, 2013
It’s virtually impossible to get pregnant after the age of 45, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at the moms in Hollywood. (Toronto Star)
April 30, 2013
Using plastic fibers and human cells, doctors have built and implanted a windpipe in a 2 ½-year-old girl — the youngest person ever to receive a bioengineered organ. (New York Times)
April 30, 2013
Painful finger-prick blood tests for diabetics could become a thing of the past, say physicists who have built a sensor that measures glucose in saliva. (MIT Technology Review)
April 30, 2013
More than 200 people with heart failure are to receive a pioneering form of gene therapy to try to get their hearts beating properly again. “This is the first ever gene therapy trial to target heart failure,” says lead investigator … Read More
April 30, 2013
A Spanish doctor accused of running one of the world’s largest sports doping rings has received a one-year suspended sentence for endangering public health. (BBC)
April 30, 2013
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Monday he had sacked his justice minister for starting a row with Germany by accusing its scientists of embryo trafficking and testing. (AFP)
April 30, 2013
Lautenberg introduced a bill Thursday called the Peace Corps Equity Act of 2013, which echoes the law that extended the coverage for military women, the Shaheen Amendment. The new bill, also co-sponsored by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), would overturn a … Read More
April 30, 2013
The Navy sent extra medical personnel to the Guantanamo detention camp because of a growing hunger strike, and the American Medical Association questioned whether doctors were being asked to violate their ethics by force-feeding prisoners. (Chicago Tribune)
April 30, 2013
An EU-led court in Kosovo on Monday jailed five doctors for organ trafficking at a Pristina clinic in the first such case in the breakaway territory which has already faced allegations of similar crimes during and after its 1998-99 war. … Read More
April 30, 2013
Injection of human stem cells into mice with tumors slowed down tumor growth, finds research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Stem Cell Research & Therapy. Human mesenchymal stem cells (MSC), isolated from bone marrow, caused changes in blood … Read More
April 30, 2013
Increase in cord blood stem cell research seeds therapeutic advances, outpacing embryonic stem cells. (Sacramento Bee) Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/29/5380163/can-cord-blood-cure-aids.html#storylink=cpy
April 30, 2013
Major academic medical centers in New York and around the country are spending and recruiting heavily in what has become an arms race within the war on cancer. The investments are based on the belief that the medical establishment is … Read More
April 30, 2013
UNESCO Chair in Bioethics 9th World Conference in Bioethics, Medical Ethics, and Health Law November 19-21, 2013 Abstracts due May 15, 2013 World Continental Congress Center University of Napoli, Italy For more information, see here.
April 29, 2013
Lower mortality and improved patient outcomes at magnet hospitals are explained partly, but not completely, by better working conditions, U.S. researchers say. (UPI)
April 29, 2013
In America, when a woman goes to her gynecologist, she is typically given a pelvic exam whether or not she has symptoms or concerns that might warrant one. That’s one reason an estimated 63.4 million pelvic exams are performed annually … Read More
April 29, 2013
A House panel says the agency didn’t do enough to prevent a meningitis outbreak linked to compounded medications. The FDA says it needs more regulatory authority. (American Medical News)
April 29, 2013
A terminally ill Irish woman has lost the latest legal challenge in her fight to win the right to take her own life, with the assistance of her partner. (BBC)
April 29, 2013
Researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) have discovered a hormone that holds promise for a dramatically more effective treatment of type 2 diabetes, a metabolic illness afflicting an estimated 26 million Americans. The researchers believe that the hormone … Read More
April 29, 2013
Two pioneering researchers of brain disease among athletes in violent sports recommended Saturday that investigators conduct special autopsy tests on amateur boxer Tamerlan Tsarnaev to determine whether the Boston Marathon bombing suspect could have been affected by boxing-related brain damage. … Read More
April 29, 2013
In 2012, the Council of Europe (CoE) Parliamentary Assembly began the first steps towards nanotechnology regulation with a view to respecting the scientific precautionary principles. It commissioned an expert report, “Nanotechnology: balancing benefits and risks to public health and the … Read More
April 29, 2013
The appearance underscored the central role women played in helping to reelect Obama in November. It also marked the first time that a sitting U.S. president has delivered a keynote address to Planned Parenthood, one of the nation’s largest providers … Read More
April 29, 2013
Movies of early development show that neural cells decide what fate to adopt while rapidly traveling from place to place, making it hard to see how the textbook model can be true. Megason and colleagues propose that instead of the … Read More
April 29, 2013
Dr. François Jacob, a French war hero whose combat wounds forced him to change his career paths from surgeon to scientist, a pursuit that led to a Nobel Prize in 1965 for his role in discovering how genes are regulated, … Read More
April 29, 2013
Should people be allowed to sell their organs? That question lingers in Tales from the Organ Trade , a documentary by Toronto’s multiple award-winning filmmaker Ric Bienstock, making its North American premiere at Hot Docs , April 28, 29 and … Read More
