December 8, 2014
(NBC News) – Plastic surgeons, other doctors and naturopaths at more than 100 clinics round the country are charging thousands of dollars for a controversial procedure called stem cell therapy to treat a range of disorders, including neurological diseases like … Read More
December 8, 2014
(Bioethics) – There are not enough solid organs available to meet the needs of patients with organ failure. Thousands of patients every year die on the waiting lists for transplantation. Yet there is one currently available, underutilized, potential source of … Read More
December 8, 2014
(R & D Magazine) – Researchers at Yale School of Medicine’s Dept. of Surgery and Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science have joined forces with a leading 3-D biology company, Organovo, to develop 3-D printed tissues for transplant research. … Read More
December 8, 2014
(Times of India) – While legal and medical counselling for surrogate mothers in many fertility clinics entail a couple of rounds of discussions that end in signing a sheaf of papers, salve for their emotional wellbeing often goes ignored. Very … Read More
December 8, 2014
(News-Medical) – Is the human immune system similar to the weather, a seemingly random yet dynamical system that can be modeled based on past conditions to predict future states? Scientists at VCU Massey Cancer Center’s award-winning Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) … Read More
December 8, 2014
(Nanowerk) – Stem cells offer great potential in biomedical engineering due to their pluripotency, which is the ability to multiply indefinitely and also to differentiate and develop into any kind of the hundreds of different cells and bodily tissues. But … Read More
December 8, 2014
(Newswise) – Study results of CD19-directed chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapy using the Sleeping Beauty non-viral transduction system to modify T cells has demonstrated further promise in patients with advanced hematologic malignancies. Patients who had acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), non-Hodgkin … Read More
December 8, 2014
(Montreal Gazette) – Quebec’s Bill 20 — which would no longer cover in vitro fertilization under medicare — raises a number of ethical and medical problems, say fertility experts. First is the requirement that couples engage in a period of sexual relations … Read More
December 5, 2014
(The Guardian) – Police investigating the death of Charlotte Bevan are looking at whether she had stopped taking medication for a mental health condition so she could breastfeed her baby.
December 5, 2014
(Scientific American) – You’d think doctors and patients would be clamoring for cells so versatile they could help reboot a body suffering from everything from leukemia to diabetes. But a new report shows that an important source of these stem … Read More
December 5, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – A Vietnamese court on Friday sentenced a cosmetic surgeon to 19 years in jail for throwing the body of a patient who died during a botched operation into a river. Le Thi Thanh Huyen, 37, died in … Read More
December 5, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – Already-strong public support for right-to-die legislation has grown even stronger in the days since the planned death of 29-year-old brain cancer patient Brittany Maynard, a new HealthDay/Harris Poll has found. An overwhelming 74 percent of American adults … Read More
December 5, 2014
(CNN) – Kidneys are a scarce resource. Fewer than 17,000 transplants are performed a year, and there are 101,954 people who need a donated kidney, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing, or UNOS, the organization that runs the … Read More
December 5, 2014
(The Economist) – Asimov’s three laws are merely a bit of science fiction that is often taken to be a serious basis for robot governance. But robotic devices raise many thorny legal, ethical and regulatory questions. For instance, if an … Read More
December 5, 2014
(ABC News) – A federal judge has ruled against an Indiana law that changed the classification of abortion clinics in a way that opponents said targeted a Planned Parenthood facility that only provides drug-induced abortions. The law violated equal protection … Read More
December 5, 2014
(Oncology Nurse Advisor) – Physician-patient communication about goals of care is a low risk, high value intervention for patients with a life threatening illness, the American College of Physicians (ACP) advised in a paper published in JAMA Internal Medicine (2014; … Read More
December 5, 2014
(Times Higher Education) – What has led to “adversarial relationships” between social scientists and the regulatory regimes they operate within – and how can they be made more harmonious? These are key themes in Research Ethics and Integrity for Social … Read More
December 5, 2014
(Times Higher Education) – More than a quarter of scientists have felt tempted or under pressure to compromise the integrity of their research, according to a report on the ethics culture at universities. The report, published by the Nuffield Council … Read More
December 5, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – Results from more than 100 families with children affected by a broad range of neurologic and developmental disorders who underwent genomic testing to end their quest for a diagnosis, were published today in Science Translational Medicine. This … Read More
December 4, 2014
(Wired) – Friday nights in the fall mean high school football. But that wholesome slice of Americana also contains a dark undercurrent–a marked rise in the use of human growth hormone by high school aged students. In a recent survey of … Read More
December 4, 2014
(Wired) – One of the two men involved pleaded guilty to the attacks in 2012. The other remained at large. Police had a suspect, but they couldn’t pin the crime on him due to a twist of genetic fate: He … Read More
December 4, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – Some National Football League (NFL) players have been seeking out unproven stem cell therapies to help accelerate recoveries from injuries, according to a new paper from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. While most players seem … Read More
December 4, 2014
(The Guardian) – China will stop using executed prisoners as a source of organs for transplants from 1 January, the head of the country’s organ donation committee has said. The move, which has been widely welcomed by human rights groups, … Read More
December 4, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – The Ebola outbreak, which is stabilizing in Liberia and Guinea, is spreading fastest in Sierra Leone. In a recent 21-day period, Guinea had 306 new Ebola cases. Liberia had 278. Sierra Leone had 1,455, according to the … Read More
December 4, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – In what is believed to be the first interview-style qualitative study of its kind among health care providers in the trenches, a team led by a Johns Hopkins geriatrician has further documented barriers to better care of … Read More
