January 11, 2006
fMRI: An Introduction
Don’t know what fMRI is? You’re going to be hearing a lot more about it and related technologies. Slate.com has a first-person introduction.
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January 11, 2006
WSJ Interviews Leon Kass
The Wall Street Journal has an interview with Leon Kass, member and former chair of the President’s council on Bioethics, posted on their (free!) OpinionJournal site. Dr. Kass is adept at looking past the minutiae of specific debates to the … Read More
January 9, 2006
Stem Cells: State by State
No doubt about it, stem cell research is on the minds of state lawmakers as they head back to their capitols this month. The National Conference of State Legislatures has ranked stem cell research #9 on its list of top … Read More
January 6, 2006
45 Million Uninsured Americas: One Proposal
Here’s an interesting proposal for extending health insurance to those Americans who lack it: Wal-Mart. It’s a fair bet that there’s a pretty big overlap between people lacking health insurance and Wal-Mart’s customer base. Clearly, low-income consumers of preventive health … Read More
December 30, 2005
In The News — December 26-30
Chinese Inmates’ Organs For Sale To Britons A Chinese company has begun marketing kidneys, livers and other organs from executed prisoners to sick Britons in need of transplants.(Washington Times) Embryo Cloning Cheat Resigns in Disgrace The world’s most successful cloning … Read More
December 28, 2005
Grand Rounds
The Health Care Blog hosts the final Grand Rounds of 2005 and highlights some of the best medical and health care posts of the year.
December 21, 2005
Developing Story: Korean Cloning Backlash
The New York Times is reporting that the investigative television news program in South Korea that played no small part in bringing the cloning scandal to light has been cancelled. It appears to be a combination of backlash against the … Read More
December 21, 2005
President Signs Cord Blood Stem Cell Legislation
In a ceremony yesterday in the Roosevelt Room of The White House, President Bush signed into law the “Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005.” The law “creates a new Federal program to collect and store cord blood, and … Read More
December 20, 2005
Grand Rounds
The latest edition of Grand Rounds medical blogging wrap up posted at Medpundit. This week has a little something for everyone: literary medical blogging, nurse blogging, patient blogging, doctor blogging, and more.
December 20, 2005
No Embryos were Harmed
As you may know, Don Ho recently underwent surgery in Thailand. Stem cells were isolated from his own blood and injected directly into his heart. He has just returned to Hawaii, and is recovering “at an undisclosed location.” According to … Read More
December 19, 2005
In The News — December 19
Swiss Hospital to Allow Assisted Suicide A Swiss hospital has agreed to let an assisted-suicide organization help terminally ill patients take their own lives on its premises.(AP) Alzheimer’s, Dementia Cases to Rise Drastically The number of people suffering from dementia … Read More
December 16, 2005
Kathryn Jean Lopez on Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research ActNational Review Online
In May the House of Representatives passed the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act by a vote of 431-1. Wait! Don’t go anywhere! Even if your eyes glaze over at the embryonic-stem-cell-research debate, this vote was different. There are no … Read More
December 16, 2005
Bioethics & Health NewsDecember 16, 2005
Go-Ahead for First Full Face Transplants British surgeons are preparing to carry out an unprecedented full face transplant operation next year after being granted ethical approval to actively seek patients. The 30-strong team headed by Peter Butler, a leading plastic … Read More
December 15, 2005
South Korean Cell Scientist Faked Results According to CollaboratorReuters.co.uk
South Korea’s most renowned stem cell scientist fabricated key parts of a ground-breaking paper and is seeking to have the work withdrawn, a close collaborator told South Korean media on Thursday. [more]
December 13, 2005
Grand Rounds
Derek Lowe, a chemist working in pharmaceutical research, hosts this week’s edition of Grand Rounds.
December 12, 2005
Latest on the South Korean Cloning Scandal
South Korea’s Hwang Returns to Hospital (The Associated Press) South Korean stem cell pioneer Hwang Woo-Suk briefly left a hospital Monday and made a tearful return to work after being treated for extreme stress brought on by an ethics scandal … Read More
December 10, 2005
CBHD Welcomes President’s Bioethics Council Focus on Human Dignity
The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity (CBHD) welcomes the President’s Council on Bioethics’ renewed focus on human dignity, the central concept in bioethics. [more]
December 9, 2005
President’s Council on Bioethics to Discuss Human Dignity
According to the published schedule, The President’s Council on Bioethics is today hearing a presentation on “Human Dignity as a Bioethical Concept,” and will be discussing a Staff Working Paper on “Bioethics and Human Dignity.”
December 8, 2005
Bioethics for Sports Fans
Jacques Rogge, President of the International Olympic Committee is worried: I am getting more and more anxious that this (gene doping) may be misused by athletes and coaches. Rogge is calling on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to begin drafting … Read More
December 8, 2005
Interview of MIT Professor on Stem Cell Research and Cloning
MercatorNet has an interview with James Sherley, an associate professor of biological engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sherley is an outspoken critic of both cloning and destructive embryo research. In fact, Sherley raises questions about the potential usefulness … Read More
December 7, 2005
Q&A with William Hurlbut on Altered Nuclear TransferNational Review Online
Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review Online editor, has an interesting and wide-ranging interview with William Hurlbut. Hurlbut, a physician and ethicist who is a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics, is a leader in the movement to find a … Read More
December 7, 2005
Stem Cells in the News
David Christensen, Director of Congressional Affairs for Family Research Council, has an informative Op-Ed in The Washington Times on the history and status of stem cell legislation in the U.S. Congress. At first, the Senate attempted to package a series … Read More
December 7, 2005
Nanotech News
Monday’s Washington Post carried an article describing the current state of nanotechnology oversight/regulation/safety. The first two paragraphs capture it well. Amid growing evidence that some of the tiniest materials ever engineered pose potentially big environmental, health and safety risks, momentum … Read More
December 7, 2005
Grand Rounds 2.11
Dr. Charles hosts this week, arranging the posts to answer the question “Is Grand Rounds, still in its infancy, becoming the contemporary weekly portrait of medicine?”
December 5, 2005
Health Insurance
The New York Times reports that while the number of Americans without health insurance grows, the number of children who lack insurance is actually decreasing. The article cites a combination of federal and state programs as the source of the … Read More
