June 21, 2019
Culture
June 12, 2019
The Worst Patients in the World
June 12, 2019
Minorities Face More Obstacles to a Lifesaving Organ Transplant
May 30, 2019
Race Disparity in U.S. Prostate Cancer Deaths Disappears with Equal Care
May 15, 2019
Blurred Lines: A Pregnant Man’s Tragedy Tests Gender Notions
March 18, 2019
For Single Mothers and Lesbians in China, Accessing Fertility Treatment Is a Nightmare
(Australian Broadcasting Co) – Xiao Chen became pregnant via in vitro fertilisation and gave birth to the twins overseas.In China, non-married women face tight restrictions when accessing artificial reproductive procedures. IVF in China requires a marriage certificate, an ID card, … Read More
March 13, 2019
Renowned Sudanese Geneticist Behind Bars for Opposing Regime
(Science) – A leading Sudanese geneticist has been imprisoned for speaking out against the country’s repressive regime. Muntaser Ibrahim, who heads the University of Khartoum’s Institute of Endemic Diseases, was arrested on 21 February in Khartoum and has been detained … Read More
February 26, 2019
Documentary About Menstruation Wins Oscar: ‘I’m Not Crying Because I’m on My Period’
(People) – The film, which was created by Oakwood High School students who also founded a nonprofit organization called The Pad Project, aims to fight the stigma of menstruation, starting in a rural village outside of Delhi, India. For decades, … Read More
February 22, 2019
How Do I Know About Discrimination at Top Public Health Universities? I Lived Through It
(STAT News) – The study, conducted by 10 female researchers, was an investigation into gender- and ethnicity-related differences in career progression at the 15 highest-ranked social sciences and public health universities in the world. The conclusions were grim: In all … Read More
February 14, 2019
Hindu Nationalists Claim That Ancient Indians Had Airplanes, Stem Cell Technology, and the Internet
(Science) – The most widely discussed talk at the Indian Science Congress, a government-funded annual jamboree held in Jalandhar in January, wasn’t about space exploration or information technology, areas in which India has made rapid progress. Instead, the talk celebrated … Read More
February 12, 2019
Why Opioids Hit White Areas Harder: Doctors There Prescribe More Readily, Study Finds
(Los Angeles Times) – Across California, a blessing has become a curse for patients who dwell in overwhelmingly white communities: their ready access to opioid pain relievers. A new study of prescribing practices across all of California’s 1,760 ZIP codes … Read More
January 23, 2019
Unfair Diagnosis: Socioeconomic Gap Drives Cancer Outcomes
(Scientific American) – While the United States has experienced a 27 percent decline in death rates overall over the last 25 years, cancer outcomes continue to be greatly influenced by socioeconomic status and race. Specifically, poor people and people of … Read More
January 10, 2019
Banished from Home for Menstrual Cycle, Mother and Two Children Die in Nepali Hut
(CNN) – A Nepali mother and her two children were found dead Wednesday morning, after being exiled from their family home as part of a criminalized practice where women and girls are made to sleep alone during their menstrual cycle. In … Read More
January 8, 2019
Indian Scientist Claims Ancient Hindus Invented Stem Cell Technology and Test Tube Babies
(Newsweek) – Ascientist in India has claimed that ancient Hindus invented test tube babies and stem cell technology. G. Nageshwar Rao, the vice chancellor of Andhra University in southern India, referred to an ancient Hindu text in which one woman … Read More
January 7, 2019
Washington Bill Would Make It Legal to Compost Human Remains into Soil
(CNET) – Would you prefer to be cremated or buried in a casket? Washington might give residents an additional option if it becomes the first US state to legalize an unusual end-of-life practice — composting human remains. “Recomposting” — which … Read More
November 29, 2018
Why US Life Expectancy Is Falling, in Three Charts
(Quartz) – There were roughly 69,000 more deaths in 2017 than there were in 2016. Heart disease has been the number-one overall killer for many years and still topped the list in 2017. But it doesn’t explain the falling overall … Read More
November 6, 2018
She Sees Dead People
(Knowable Magazine) – Ellen Stroud, an environmental historian at Penn State University, explored the macabre history and legal ambiguities of American bodies in the Annual Review of Law and Social Science. From the one-footed 87-year-old man sold to a medical … Read More
October 12, 2018
Genetics Study Confirms: It’s Better to Be Born Rich Than Talented
(Chicago Tribune) – A revolution in genomics is creeping into economics. It allows us to say something we might have suspected, but could never confirm: money trumps genes.Using one new, genome-based measure, economists found genetic endowments are distributed almost equally … Read More
October 9, 2018
Genetics Research ‘Biased Towards Studying White Europeans’
(The Guardian) – People from minority ethnic backgrounds are set to lose out on medical benefits of genetics research due to an overwhelming bias towards studying white European populations, a leading scientist has warned. Prof David Curtis, a geneticist and … Read More
October 5, 2018
In a Study of Human Remains, Lessons in Science (and Cultural Sensitivity)
(Undark Magazine) – The subject matter was obscure, but the findings were provocative: A genomic analysis of a mysterious skeleton found in Chile’s Atacama Desert revealed that the remains weren’t those of an extraterrestrial, as was wildly speculated, but a … Read More
October 3, 2018
African-Americans Are Disproportionately Enrolled in Studies That Don’t Require Informed Consent
(STAT News) – African-Americans are enrolled in clinical trials that do not require patients to give individual consent at a disproportionately high level, according to a study published Monday. Scientists are allowed to conduct these experiments without obtaining consent from … Read More
September 13, 2018
Breaking the Taboo: The Director Who Has Filmed the Moment of Death
(The Guardian) – If you watch movies you’ll have seen umpteen deaths, sometimes in a single film. (According to the people who keep a tally of such things, the final Lord of the Rings has cinema’s highest body count, of … Read More
August 29, 2018
The Deep Unhappiness that Leads One-Quarter of 14-Year-Old British Girls to Self-Harm
(Quartz) – According to the survey from the Children’s Society, which included nearly 11,000 children in the UK, 22% of 14-year-old girls reported harming themselves last year, and almost one in 10 boys of the same age reported doing the … Read More
July 18, 2018
Police Killings of Unarmed Victims Tied to Poor Mental Health in Blacks
(Medscape) – Black individuals in the United States are three times more likely than whites to be killed by police, but new research suggests it is the killing of unarmed blacks that adversely affects the mental health of this population. … Read More
July 2, 2018
Film About Abortion Doctor Kermit Gosnell Gets US Cinema Release
(The Guardian) – A controversial film based on the real-life case of abortion clinic doctor and convicted murderer Kermit Gosnell will now be released in US cinemas, after the conclusion of legal action against it by the judge involved in … Read More
