September 18, 2017
(STAT News) – The rapid growth of Catholic-affiliated hospitals in the U.S. could significantly reduce access to inpatient sterilization procedures, according to a new study that examines the rising influence of religion on reproductive health services. The study, published by … Read More
September 7, 2017
(Scientific American) – Harvey is the first major storm since the federal government revised emergency preparedness standards for hospitals, in response to Katrina and 2012’s Superstorm Sandy. Now, health care providers that receive Medicare or Medicaid dollars must have disaster preparedness plans, including relocation … Read More
September 6, 2017
(TIME) – Two scientists who paved the way for widely used vaccines and another who discovered key players in cell growth have been awarded prestigious medical research awards. The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation also announced Wednesday that it was … Read More
September 4, 2017
(The Guardian) – Scientific pioneer, superstar surgeon, miracle worker – that’s how Paolo Macchiarini was known for several years. Dressed in a white lab coat or in surgical scrubs, with his broad, handsome face and easy charm, he certainly looked … Read More
August 31, 2017
(The Conversation) – Scientists who build artificial intelligence and autonomous systems need a strong ethical understanding of the impact their work could have. More than 100 technology pioneers recently published an open letter to the United Nations on the topic … Read More
August 9, 2017
(Korea Herald) – On Monday, Moon appointed Park Ky-young to lead the Science, Technology and Innovation Office at the Ministry of Science and ICT, triggering searing criticism from scientists, politicians and civic groups that called her unfit for the post … Read More
August 8, 2017
(STAT News) – Early this year, seeking a way to grow human organs for transplant, his group announced it had created pig-human chimeras — fetal pigs with human cells mixed in. His Salk Institute lab has discovered two new kinds … Read More
August 7, 2017
(Irish Times) – The Catholic Church in Ireland has voiced its total opposition to the use of embryos in research following a breakthrough study by scientists who “edited” human genomes to remove mutations linked to heart failure. Scientists believe such … Read More
August 7, 2017
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 43, no. 5, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Withholding Treatment: What, Whom and Why?” by Jonathan Pugh “Ethics of a Relaxed Antidoping Rule Accompanied by Harm-Reduction Measures” by Bengt Kayser and Jan … Read More
August 4, 2017
(Science) – Knoepfler, though housed in the Shriners Hospitals for Children here, isn’t a physician. And his University of California (UC), Davis, lab doesn’t study arthritis or eye disease, nor does he have any experience developing a stem cell therapy. … Read More
August 4, 2017
Studies in Christian Ethics (vol. 30, no. 2, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Ethics, Human Oocytes and the Teleology of the Body: An Appreciation of Gilbert Meilaender’s Work” by Paul Lauritzen “Gilbert Meilaender and the Tragedy … Read More
August 4, 2017
Bioethics Update (vol. 3, no. 1, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: ” In Defense of the Vulnerable in Medicine and the Life Sciences” by John M. Hass ” A Proposal for a Shared Care Plan at … Read More
August 3, 2017
(Science Daily) – Professor Dominic Wilkinson at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics says it is in the interests of all children that cases like Charlie Gard’s are accompanied by fair, accurate, and balanced discussion — and he asks, … Read More
August 3, 2017
(San Diego Union-Tribune) – Doudna said she wasn’t cognizant of the ethical issues when she and collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier began exploring CRISPR. Beyond the call for society to grapple with the ramifications of germline editing, Doudna said, it’s difficult to … Read More
July 26, 2017
Health Education Research (vol. 32, no. 2, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Exposure to Fictional Medical Television and Health: A Systematic Review” by Beth L. Hoffman et al.
July 17, 2017
(USA Today) – By virtue of the deep bonds between parents and their children, Charlie’s parents are the ones most directly responsible for him, most invested in his well-being and most profoundly affected by his fate. The primary authority of … Read More
July 10, 2017
(The Scientist) – John Robertson, a bioethicist at the University of Texas School of Law, passed away yesterday (July 5) at age 74. His work focused on reproductive technologies, and he served as chair of the ethics committee of the … Read More
July 5, 2017
(Science Daily) – A ground-breaking new study challenges the assumption that moral decisions are strongly context dependent and cannot be modeled or described algorithmically, finding that human behavior in dilemma situations can be modeled by a simple value-of-life-based model. The … Read More
June 30, 2017
(The Globe and Mail) – January 11 was the day my best friend, Beverly, chose for her physician-assisted death. After 18 months of trying to outsmart lung cancer and agreeing to stick around through Christmas, the relief in her voice … Read More
June 23, 2017
(BBC) – The idea of palliative or end-of-life care, to support people in the last months or years of their life, was well established in other countries. But in Mongolia, home of the conqueror Genghis Khan, where nomads have lived … Read More
May 31, 2017
(PBS Newshour) – A controversy was brewing. Delmonico, a leading voice on ethical organ transplantation, had planned a February 2017 summit in Rome for representatives of more than 40 countries to discuss the ethics of transplanting organs and to sign … Read More
May 23, 2017
(Nature) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has its first head to hail from Africa. Ethiopia’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus will take up the post of the agency’s director-general from 1 July – succeeding Margaret Chan – after winning a 23 … Read More
May 23, 2017
(The Guardian) – Facebook’s secret rules and guidelines for deciding what its 2 billion users can post on the site are revealed for the first time in a Guardian investigation that will fuel the global debate about the role and … Read More
May 22, 2017
(Wired) – For $150, you can buy a Crispr kit online and use it to engineer heartier gut bacteria in your kitchen. That’s thrilling, but the technology is giving Jennifer Doudna, an inventor of the gene-editing method, nightmares. Easy genetic … Read More
April 27, 2017
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (vol. 38, no. 2, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Hearing Sub-Saharan African Voices in Bioethics” by Kevin Gary Behrens “Giving Voice to African Thought in Medical Research Ethics” by Godfrey B. Tangwa “Ancillary Care Obligations in … Read More
