Bioethics & Health News
January 19

January 19, 2006

In The News — January 19

Cancer Study Was Made Up, Journal Says

A large study concluding that anti-inflammatory drugs reduce the risk of oral cancer was based on fabricated data, according to The Lancet, the prominent British medical journal that published the report last year.
(New York Times)

Face Transplant Patient Smokes Again

he world’s first face transplant recipient is using her new lips to take up smoking again, which doctors fear could interfere with her healing and raise the risk of tissue rejection.
(AP)

Coffee ‘Boosts Female Sex Drive’

Coffee could help boost a woman’s sex drive, a US study says.
(BBC)

FDA Unveils New Prescription Drug Labels

Package inserts that accompany every prescription drug are getting a major makeover that will provide doctors and patients with the clear and concise information they need while cutting down on the small-print warnings that only lawyers seem to understand.
(AP)

Revenge Replaces Empathy in Male Brain

The Germans have a word for it: schadenfreude, loosely translated as “taking joy in the misery of others.” It’s what many folks feel when movie villains get blown away or a nasty co-worker gets fired. Now a new brain-imaging study suggests schadenfreude might be a distinctly male phenomenon.
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NIH Halts International AIDS Study

A major international study of a drug-conserving AIDS therapy has been halted because patients trying the on-again, off-again strategy got sicker than those who never took a break from the high-powered drugs, U.S. researchers announced Wednesday.
(AP)