December 14, 2015
(The Guardian) – Voluntary euthanasia advocate and former medical doctor Philip Nitschke plans to hold Australia’s first conference on rational suicide – the idea that people do not have to be terminally ill or depressed to want to die – … Read More
November 30, 2015
(The Guardian) – The euthanasia campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke has burned his medical practising certificate, and will continue to advise terminally ill patients about how to take their lives. Nitschke has been embroiled in a fight with the Medical Board … Read More
November 24, 2015
(The Scientist) – Paolo Bianco, a stem cell biologist who fought against overhyped and understudied stem cell therapies, passed away November 7. He was 60. “Paolo made great contributions both in the science of stem cells itself and also in … Read More
November 19, 2015
(Michigan Radio) – He became known to the world as “Dr. Death.” His first so-called “medicide” happened in the Detroit area in 1990. From that point, Michigan pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian became the best-known face of the right-to-die movement. He … Read More
November 6, 2015
(USA Today) – Dr. Peter Rasmussen, a national advocate for legalizing physician aid in dying, died Tuesday with the help of Oregon’s Death with Dignity law, his family said. Rasmussen, 70, was an oncologist who was passionate about caring for … Read More
October 30, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – As a cardiologist in Los Angeles during the 1960s, Dr. Walter S. Graf became alarmed by the number of heart attack sufferers who died while en route to hospitals. Inspired by an Irish physician who sent hospital … Read More
October 27, 2015
(Herald Sun) – EUTHANASIA campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke has agreed to stop providing advice on assisted suicide or spruik his controversial end-of-life handbook, ending a 15-month legal dispute with medical boards. Dr Nitschke will be allowed to keep his medical … Read More
October 15, 2015
(Washington Post) – The slim young man with the Clark Kent glasses mingled easily at the conference of abortion providers. By day, he sat quietly in his company’s booth, under a sign festooned with a burbling lab flask. By night, he … Read More
October 14, 2015
(ABC News) – A University of Michigan library announced Tuesday that is has acquired the papers of Dr. Jack Kevorkian and is making them publicly available as part of an effort to help people better understand the assisted-suicide advocate and … Read More
October 8, 2015
(Yahoo!) – Death-with-dignity advocate Brittany Maynard speaks out about her cause in a new video released nearly a year after her death — and just one day after California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the state’s End of Life Option Act … Read More
October 7, 2015
(The New York Times) – Dr. Lindahl, of the Francis Crick Institute in London, was honored for his discoveries on base excision repair — the cellular mechanism that repairs damaged DNA during the cell cycle. Dr. Modrich, of the Howard … Read More
October 5, 2015
(New York Times) – William C. Campbell and Satoshi Omura won for developing a new drug, Avermectin. A derivative of that drug, Ivermectin, has nearly eradicated river blindness and radically reduced the incidence of filariasis, which causes the disfiguring swelling … Read More
September 24, 2015
(Medscape) – Mehmet Oz, by most accounts, is a talented cardiothoracic surgeon on the faculty at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. But there is a very different Dr Oz, a TV personality with a huge … Read More
September 16, 2015
(The Atlantic) – As celebrities push the boundaries of reproductive technology, we’re getting more than juicy gossip. These stories—a far cry from the cheery pieces about longed-for babies joining welcoming families—are the first chance the average person may have to … Read More
September 16, 2015
(Washington Post) – President Obama nominated Robert Califf, a prominent cardiologist and longtime researcher at Duke University, as the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday. The nomination comes after the resignation this spring of Margaret A. … Read More
September 14, 2015
(The Toronto Star) – If you are an animal, Peter Singer might be the closest thing you have to Moses. If you are a severely disabled human baby — or a disability activist — he’s more akin to the Angel … Read More
August 31, 2015
(Live Science) – The 46-year old Liu made the announcement through Instagram, where she posted a photo of herself holding her son. A representative for Liu said the actress had a gestational carrier for her son, according to the Los … Read More
August 24, 2015
(BioEdge) – Julian Savulescu is the editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics, one of the world’s leading platforms for academic debate in bioethics. Australian-born, he is Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. Xavier Symons, deputy … Read More
August 24, 2015
(Politico) – Carter’s decision comes amid a much more robust public conversation about care at the end of a individual’s life, one acknowledging that such care too often ignores patients’ wishes and brings unnecessary anguish. As a former president, Carter … Read More
August 10, 2015
(New York Times) – Dr. Kelsey, who died on Friday at the age of 101, became a 20th-century American heroine for her role in the thalidomide case, celebrated not only for her vigilance, which spared the United States from widespread … Read More
August 3, 2015
(New York Times) – Howard W. Jones Jr., a physician who pushed the boundaries of gynecologic surgery, opened the first sex-change clinic in an American hospital and helped achieve the first birth through in vitro fertilization in the United States, … Read More
July 30, 2015
(Bloomberg) – Gelsinger’s death, in 1999, sent the fledgling field of gene therapy into a decade-long funk in the U.S. Almost overnight, an area with seemingly limitless medical and commercial promise was tainted. Which is why what is happening now … Read More
July 24, 2015
(USA Today) – It was another small but significant moment for Starr, the legendary former Green Bay Packers quarterback. Before he underwent an experimental stem cell treatment in June, Starr, 81, could barely walk or feed himself. His condition had … Read More
July 16, 2015
(UPI) – Controversial South Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk is at the center of another dispute, this time involving the cloning of mammoths. Hwang, who successfully cloned an Afghan hound in 2005, had sought the help of another South … Read More
July 8, 2015
(The Telegraph) – Jane Hawking, the former wife of Professor Stephen Hawking, has urged the public to be cautious of the scientist’s support for assisted dying, saying: “While there’s life, there’s hope”. Jane, the mother of the professor’s three children, … Read More
