January 5, 2015
(Daily Signal) – The issue of euthanasia created a divide among Belgians. Some, such as Tom Mortier, a 38-year-old chemistry professor at Leuven University College in Flanders, say his country has gone too far. On April 19, 2012, Mortier’s mother … Read More
January 5, 2015
(Wall Street Journal) – Poor lifestyle choices and inherited genes are known to raise a person’s risk of developing cancer. But new research concludes that the majority of our risk across cancer types is due to another factor: bad luck … Read More
January 5, 2015
(U. S. News & World Report) – Using stem cells derived from a patient’s own bone marrow, researchers have repaired a fistula — a potentially fatal tissue abnormality — in the man’s lower airway. “This is another interesting new therapeutic … Read More
January 5, 2015
(Tampa Bay Times) – A federal judge Wednesday declared Florida’s healthcare system for needy and disabled children to be in violation of several federal laws, handing a stunning victory to doctors and children’s advocates who have fought for almost a … Read More
January 2, 2015
(ABC News) – China appears set today to end its controversial, decades-long practice of harvesting organs from the bodies of prisoners executed by the state, according to state-run media. “Starting from January 1, China will end its reliance on the organs … Read More
January 2, 2015
(The Epoch Times) – Where can you go for a no-questions-asked organ transplant? If you said China, you win a free kidney, symbolically speaking of course. However, the dodgy Chinese hospital that Yoo-ri’s father has been referred to has a … Read More
January 2, 2015
(Nature) – The latest investigation into a debunked method of generating stem cells has left researchers grappling with questions about what went wrong in a laboratory at the RIKEN research institute in Japan. The final report from the independent investigation, … Read More
January 2, 2015
(New York Daily News) – Brittany Lauren Maynard was a strong-willed child. As a toddler, she spoke her mind and utilized toys with a sense of purpose. This quality carried her through life. When faced with the worst diagnosis imaginable, … Read More
January 2, 2015
(Washington Post) – This year the international spotlight turned with full-force on cross-border commercial surrogacy. The reality of children being born this way and the potentially devastating consequences of babies being abandoned and stateless shocked our collective consciousness. Such was … Read More
January 2, 2015
(Irish Times) – The burial of the brain-dead pregnant woman marks a closure of sorts for her family, following a long saga that began with her admission to hospital about four weeks earlier. Declared brain dead at a Dublin hospital … Read More
December 31, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – Belgian researchers have identified a new strategy for treating an inherited form of dementia after attempting to turn stem cells derived from patients into the neurons most affected by the disease. In patient-derived stem cells carrying a … Read More
December 31, 2014
(Scientific American) – This assault is far from an isolated incident. Health-care workers are hit, kicked, scratched, bitten, spat on, threatened and harassed by patients with surprising regularity. In a 2014 survey, almost 80 percent of nurses reported being attacked … Read More
December 31, 2014
(Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News) – As the biotech industry enters a new year the key trends to watch will be those involving the technologies and markets that are expected to grow quickly during 2015. They will be the important … Read More
December 31, 2014
(National Institutes of Health) – Three-year outcomes from an ongoing clinical trial suggest that high-dose immunosuppressive therapy followed by transplantation of a person’s own blood-forming stem cells may induce sustained remission in some people with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). RRMS … Read More
December 31, 2014
(Baltimore Sun) – A Baltimore anesthesiologist who made national news as “The New Doctor Death” held the hands of six elderly Marylanders as they asphyxiated themselves with helium and then covered up their suicides, officials said in a state order … Read More
December 31, 2014
(Phys.org) – Nature and nurture have found a new companion—historical context. A new study has produced the best evidence yet that the role of genetics in complex traits, including obesity, varies over time. Both the era in which scientific research … Read More
December 31, 2014
(RFI) – The Council of State upheld Tuesday the decision by the French Order of Doctors to dismiss mercy-killing Dr Bonnemaison, forbidding him to practise medicine. He was acquitted last June of his accusation of “poisoning” seven patients. The French … Read More
December 31, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – Ameer and his research team are working to engineer such a product by combining three components: polyester fibers that are braided to increase strength and toughness, an inherently antioxidant and porous biomaterial previously created in Ameer’s lab, … Read More
December 30, 2014
(Nature) – Sogbandi Botton was hired by the government to track down people who show symptoms of Ebola and deliver them to medical care. But Botton, a medical student, says that most of the health complaints he has heard lately … Read More
December 30, 2014
(Scientific American) – What makes incidental findings from genetic tests different, however, is their even greater level of uncertainty. Geneticists still do not know enough about how most mutations in the human genome affect the body to reliably recommend any … Read More
December 30, 2014
(Scientific American) – A health worker who has become the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in Britain was being treated at a London hospital on Tuesday after contracting the disease in West Africa. The woman arrived from Scotland … Read More
December 30, 2014
(ABC News) – A case of red measles, also known as Rubeola, was diagnosed earlier this week in Moorseville, North Carolina — worrying health officials and highlighting the renewed threat of measles in this country. The infected person was unvaccinated … Read More
December 30, 2014
(ABC News) – Utah’s abortion rate has dropped to the lowest level ever recorded, and there are differing opinions as to why. The rate fell to 4.6 abortions per 1,000 women in 2013, down from a high of 11.1 in … Read More
December 30, 2014
(Eurekalert) – The body has evolved ways to get rid of faulty stem cells. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published today in the journal Stem Cells shows that one of these ways is a “program” that makes stem … Read More
December 30, 2014
(Wired) – Most genetic research to date has focused on just 1 percent of the genome—the areas that code for proteins. But new research, published Dec. 18 in Science, provides an initial map for the sections of the genome that … Read More
