October 11, 2005
A woman who gave birth to triplets using donated eggs is the legal mother of the children even though she has no genetic link to them, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled Thursday. . . . “Recent developments in reproductive technology … Read More
October 11, 2005
Let others wrestle with the ethics of destroying tiny human embryos to collect the powerful stem cells inside. Dr. Charles Vacanti of Brigham and Women’s Hospital is quietly making enormous progress in coaxing the same life-saving potential out of stem … Read More
October 10, 2005
LEON KASS HAS STEPPED DOWN as chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics Read More
October 10, 2005
Patients with liver failure have been successfully treated using their own bone marrow stem cells, it was reported yesterday. Doctors extracted the stem cells from the patients’ blood. They were then injected back into blood vessels connected to the liver. … Read More
October 7, 2005
Gov. Rod Blagojevich is proposing to make Illinois the first state to offer health insurance coverage for all children, including 250,000 who now lack any such benefits. [more]
October 6, 2005
The Food and Drug Administration is expected to rule soon that milk from cloned animals and meat from their offspring are safe to eat, raising the question of whether Americans are ready to welcome one of modern biology’s most controversial … Read More
October 6, 2005
U.S. health officials proposed new rules Wednesday in an effort to make it easier for doctors, especially those with small practices, to receive free software, computers and related services for electronic health records. [more]
October 6, 2005
A trading scheme among patients with access to live kidney donors is needed to more readily match recipients and organs because differing blood types are blocking transplants, said the authors of a study published on Tuesday. [more]
October 6, 2005
Time was when our best medical minds thought peptic ulcers were a “lifestyle disease,” the result of too much stress, too much spicy food, or some combination thereof. Read More
