June 17, 2014
(World Magazine) – Abortion should not be confused with women’s healthcare, philanthropist Melinda Gates wrote on June 2 in a blog post applauded by pro-lifers around the world. Gates, a long-time supporter of international women’s health, wrote the comments following … Read More
June 13, 2014
(Time) – A paraplegic man in a state of the art brain-controlled body suit will make the first kick of the World Cup on Thursday in front of 1 billion people. Miguel Nicolelis, a Brazilian neuroscientist at Duke University, led … Read More
June 12, 2014
(Billboard) – A judge ruled Monday that Casey Kasem should be fed, hydrated and medicated while a court-appointed attorney evaluates the health of the ailing radio personality after his daughter moved to implement end-of-life measures. Kasem, who has dementia, was … Read More
June 9, 2014
(Stuff) – A couple with long-term links to euthanasia group Exit International have been found dead together in their home in the Wellington suburb of Eastbourne. The bodies of Eneka and Reinier Odinot, aged 89 and 90, were found by … Read More
June 4, 2014
(BBC) – With figures showing that many people around the world die painfully due to scarce access to morphine, the World Health Organization is calling for improvements to end of life care. But even when pain medication is available, the … Read More
June 2, 2014
(The Atlantic) – When I was a young geriatrician practicing in Baltimore, I operated under the light provided by my medical training, which prepared me to prevent or treat the health concerns affecting my patients. My training was invaluable, and … Read More
May 15, 2014
(ABC News) – A Brooklyn-based photographer is turning the lens on herself to transform a rare skin disorder into art. Ariana Page Russell has dermatographia, a condition that causes her skin to swell into puffy red welts with the slightest … Read More
May 12, 2014
(The Atlantic) – Hawking, along with MIT physics professor Max Tegmark, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek, and Berkeley computer science professor Stuart Russell ran a terrifying op-ed a couple weeks ago in The Huffington Post under the staid headline “Transcending Complacency … Read More
May 5, 2014
(USA Today) – How people approach death and near-death experiences can vary widely among cultures. Belief systems affect whether a patient asks to die at home or in the hospital, whether an individual will make decisions about final care alone … Read More
April 25, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – A pair of bioethics experts have added “playwright” to their resumes in an effort to aid the genomics community in grappling with an onslaught of ethical issues as genomic science transitions to bedside healthcare, a decade after … Read More
April 22, 2014
(Pew Research) – The teen birth rate in the U.S. is at a record low, dropping below 30 births per 1,000 teen females for the first time since the government began collecting consistent data on births to teens ages 15-19, … Read More
April 21, 2014
(Union Times San Diego) – A majority of Americans believe that future changes in technology will generally improve people’s lives. But a survey of 1,001 adults by the Pew Research Center also found lots of public anxiety about the rise … Read More
April 17, 2014
(Washington Post) – Americans agree: It’s immoral to have an affair. Drinking alcohol or using contraception, on the other hand? Nobody cares. That’s according to the results of a new Pew Research Center survey. Interestingly, infidelity was the only category … Read More
April 2, 2014
(ABC News) – For a growing number of gravely ill patients running out of options, social media has become their last bastion of hope. And they’re sharing their private struggles to motivate public action. A young newlywed woman smiles for … Read More
March 28, 2014
(The Atlantic) – The introduction of complex issues into television plots is both a driver and a reflection of cultural shifts. Once a subject gets widespread treatment in scripts, the popular conversation can take on a new urgency, giving people … Read More
March 17, 2014
(Slate) – A good kids’ book delivers knowledge fundamental to living in the world, such as the (now apparently out of print) classic Everyone Poops. But Death Is Wrong, a new children’s title from transhumanist author Gennady Stolyarov, can only … Read More
March 14, 2014
(New York Times) – Nearly 750,000 people, most of them members of a Muslim minority in one of the poorest parts of Myanmar, have been deprived of most medical services since the government banned the operations of Doctors Without Borders, … Read More
February 7, 2014
(New York Times) – By a strange coincidence, two leading medical journals on Thursday published case studies of the same arcane medical mystery. In one, doctors solved the riddle only after the patient, a middle-aged woman, got so sick she … Read More
February 4, 2014
(Wired UK) – Since then, that technique — floating words representing text messages, internet searches, or some other form of technological interface — has become a core element of the series’ identity. And while there are plenty of tech-savvy shows … Read More
January 28, 2014
This year the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on at least two cases that weigh constitutional and statutory law against religious or moral beliefs. Both involve challenges to the Obamacare provision that requires for-profit companies to offer health insurance policies … Read More
January 22, 2014
Rival sides in such conflicts describe each other in ways that deny their shared humanity: they may liken each other to vermin, or pests to be exterminated. The words onlookers use to describe such conflicts – bloody religious factionalism in … Read More
January 21, 2014
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. described inequality in healthcare as the “most shocking and inhumane” form of injustice, a U.S. health official says. Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said as America honors … Read More
January 13, 2014
The Justice Department has argued that the nuns’ group is already exempt from providing birth control under the ACA, as long as it certifies its standing as a religious nonprofit. But the Little Sisters of the Poor, represented by the … Read More
January 9, 2014
This year marks the anniversary of two significant events from the last century, perhaps the most significant of any century: 100Â years since the outbreak of the First World War and 75Â years since the start of the Second World War. It … Read More
January 9, 2014
The first Healthcare Worry Scale survey of more than 1,000 Americans nationwide shows that 74% are extremely concerned or very concerned about healthcare, just slightly behind the 79% concerned about the economy and ahead of the 67% about joblessness. In … Read More
