January 21, 2015
(The Telegraph) – Dying patients are receiving “wide variations” of care because of hospitals’ failures to replace the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway, the Chief Inspector of Hospitals for the Care Quality Commission, Professor Sir Mike Richards, has said. Sir Mike … Read More
January 21, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – Results from a preliminary study indicate that among patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS), treatment with nonmyeloablative hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (low intensity stem cell transplantation) was associated with improvement in measures of disability and quality of … Read More
January 21, 2015
(The Guardian) – Baby Gammy, an infant who was left behind in Thailand by his Australian parents in a major surrogacy scandal, has been granted Australian citizenship. The ABC reported on Tuesday that Gammy’s Thai mother, Pattaramon Chanbua, applied for … Read More
January 21, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – Chen, who is Penn State’s Verne M. Willaman Chair in the Life Sciences, directs a research team that is working on simultaneous research projects related to brain and spinal-cord disorders. These disorders include Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, … Read More
January 21, 2015
(The Wall Street Journal) – The doctor will see you now … in a chat room over the Internet. Reflecting the high use of the Internet in Indonesia, doctors and hospitals are increasingly making it possible for Indonesians to consult … Read More
January 20, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – University of Michigan alumna Brooke Kendrick and her husband Stephen were ready to start a family. But a devastating inherited nerve disease runs in her family, affecting her brother and threatening to kill or cripple any male … Read More
January 20, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – The use of an assisted reproduction technique known as intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) doubled between 1996 and 2012, although compared with conventional in vitro fertilization (IVF), use of ICSI was not associated with improved reproductive outcomes, according … Read More
January 20, 2015
(BBC) – Doctors have performed the first organ transplants from a newborn in the UK. In a procedure described as a milestone in neonatal care, a six-day-old baby girl’s kidneys and liver cells were given to two separate recipients after … Read More
January 20, 2015
(World Health Organization) – Malian authorities and the World Health Organization (WHO) today announced the end of the outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Mali since 42 days had elapsed after the last Ebola case tested negative in laboratory tests … Read More
January 20, 2015
(BBC) – The genetics underpinning resistance to a frontline malaria drug, artemisinin, have been revealed, scientists say. In South East Asia, malaria parasites have developed tolerance to the treatment, and there are fears that this will spread. Now, in the … Read More
January 20, 2015
(The Guardian) – Would you offer up your womb in exchange for public services? The news that the Danish region of Thisted has agreed to keep its schools, nurseries and leisure facilities open only as long as the local population … Read More
January 20, 2015
(DutchNews.nl) – A special clinic in The Hague, set up to help people whose doctors do not support euthanasia, has been reprimanded for helping a 47-year-old woman with chronic tinnitus to die, broadcaster Nos says on Monday. The independent commission … Read More
January 20, 2015
(New York Times) – Experts know of just a handful of people with directives like Mr. Medalie’s. But dementia rates and numbers have begun a steep ascent, already afflicting an estimated 30 percent of those older than 85. Baby boomers … Read More
January 20, 2015
(NBC News) – On a farm outside Sioux Falls, South Dakota, a herd of cloned, genetically engineered cattle are busy incubating antibodies against the Ebola virus. Researchers hope the cattle – which certainly don’t look like anything special – will … Read More
January 20, 2015
(Bloomberg) – In three recent deals, drugmakers are betting that personal genetic maps will finally fulfill their early promise to unlock secrets and cure diseases. At the same time, the agreements revived questions about privacy protections and how useful personal … Read More
January 20, 2015
(Scientific American) – Details about how the techniques finally cracked the Queen Elizabeth case, published recently in the journal Genome Medicine, suggest how theU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will employ whole genome sequencing to stop the spread of … Read More
January 19, 2015
(Daily Mail) – Surgeons were forced to stop operating on a ‘deceased’ patient after discovering he was not brain dead. Doctors at a hospital in the Bremen area of Germany realised their patient was still technically alive after making an … Read More
January 19, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – Stem cells derived from human amnion have for some time been considered promising for cell therapies because of their ease of access, ability to differentiate, and absence of ethical issues. Now, a Japanese research team has found … Read More
January 19, 2015
(Scientific American) – Women who want to have a baby after tubal sterilization and undergo in vitro fertilization (IVF) are likely to be as successful as their subfertile peers who have IVF, according to a study from Australia. In a … Read More
January 19, 2015
(PBS) – Belgium has the world’s most liberal law on physician-assisted suicide, which is not just for the terminally ill. Patients with psychiatric conditions – and now, even children – can request euthanasia. Surveys in Belgium show overwhelming public support, … Read More
January 19, 2015
(Nanotechnology Now) – If in the future electrodes are inserted into the human brain – either for research purposes or to treat diseases – it may be appropriate to give them a ‘coat’ of nanowires that could make them less … Read More
January 19, 2015
(New York Times) – How your immune system does its job seems to depend more on your environment and the germs you encounter than on your genes, says new research that put twins to the test to find out. After … Read More
January 19, 2015
(Medscape) – Few medical societies still recommend healthy adults undergo annual physicals, and some groups actively recommend against them, yet many physicians continue to offer the visits to their patients. This week, oncologist and health policy expert Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, … Read More
January 19, 2015
(Medscape) – It’s the health care holy grail: higher quality care at lower cost, and there are a growing number of accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the United States aiming to achieve it, in part by influencing where patients receive … Read More
January 19, 2015
(The Conversation) – Today the Netherlands has been joined by Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland; the US states of Oregon, Washington, Montana and Vermont; and most recently the Canadian state of Quebec as jurisdictions which have enacted legal provision to permit … Read More
