July 7, 2015
(ABC.net) – Euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke wins his NT Supreme Court appeal to retain his medical licence, but says he is too busy with his comedy career to practise medicine. Dr Nitschke’s medical licence was suspended in July last … Read More
June 26, 2015
(ET Online) – Nearly five months after Bobbi Kristina Brown was found unconscious and unresponsive in a bathtub, her family announced on Wednesday the decision to move her from an Atlanta rehab hospital into hospice care. “Despite the great medical … Read More
June 23, 2015
(The Guardian) – London police have dropped an investigation into allegations that voluntary euthanasia advocate, Dr Philip Nitschke, encouraged or assisted suicide while in Britain. London police have dropped an investigation into allegations that voluntary euthanasia advocate, Dr Philip Nitschke, … Read More
June 23, 2015
(New York Times) – Dr. Frederick P. Li, who helped prove to a doubting medical establishment that heredity and genetics play a major role in some forms of cancer, died on June 12 at his home in Brookline, Mass. He … Read More
June 22, 2015
(ABC News) – Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame quarterback Bart Starr is participating in a clinical trial using stem cells as a possible treatment for strokes. Starr suffered two strokes and a mild heart attack last September. His family … Read More
June 15, 2015
(The Scientist) – Austen Heinz, the founder of the synthetic biology startup Cambrian Genomics, died last month (May 24). He was 31. According to an obituary posted last week (June 5) on thepilot.com, Heinz “worked to change the world by … Read More
June 10, 2015
(ABC.net) – Suspended doctor and voluntary euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke has been called on to help with a medical emergency on a flight from Los Angeles to Sydney. Dr Nitschke was approached by staff on Qantas flight QF12 to help … Read More
June 4, 2015
(The Guardian) – Stephen Hawking has said he would consider ending his own life if he became a burden to others or if he had “nothing more to contribute”. But the physicist and cosmologist told a forthcoming BBC programme he … Read More
June 3, 2015
(Reuters) – American Nobel laureate Irwin Rose, a biochemist whose groundbreaking work helped in the development of treatments for cervical cancer and cystic fibrosis, died on Tuesday, the University of California, Irvine said. He was 88.
May 12, 2015
(New York Times) – Three years ago, Dr. Doudna, a biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley, helped make one of the most monumental discoveries in biology: a relatively easy way to alter any organism’s DNA, just as a computer … Read More
May 6, 2015
(New York Times) – James Watson and Francis Crick worked out the spiral structure of DNA in 1953, but they were not proved right until Dr. Alexander Rich used X-rays to produce a distinct image of the famous double helix … Read More
April 22, 2015
(People) – After months of battling her ex-husband in court over financial responsibility for their baby born via surrogate last August, Sherri Shepherd is now officially listed as the mother of the 8-month-old. “It’s bittersweet,” Lamar Sally told PEOPLE outside … Read More
April 21, 2015
(Washington Post) – It was 1964, and Irwin Schatz, a young Detroit doctor with a penchant for flipping through medical journals, had come across a headline that stunned him. He reread it several times, convinced that he could not be interpreting … Read More
April 2, 2015
(NIH) – Douglas Lowy, M.D., today was officially named the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Acting Director. NCI is one of the 27 Institutes and Centers that comprise the National Institutes of Health. Lowy has served as NCI’s deputy director since … Read More
March 27, 2015
(Time) – It was an unusual murder trial, given that the victim’s wife and relatives were the killer’s staunchest defenders. But the support of Thomas Youk’s family was not enough to keep Jack Kevorkian out of prison. On this day, … Read More
March 24, 2015
(New York Times) – TWO years ago I wrote about my choice to have a preventive double mastectomy. A simple blood test had revealed that I carried a mutation in the BRCA1 gene. It gave me an estimated 87 percent … Read More
March 23, 2015
(Washington Post) – A Christian author and blogger with terminal cancer who tried to persuade Brittany Maynard to reconsider her November decision to die through doctor-assisted suicide, has died. Maynard, 29, made headlines because she chose to die on Nov. … Read More
March 19, 2015
(The Cavalier Daily) – John D. Arras, University Porterfield professor of biomedical ethics and of philosophy and public health sciences, died of a stroke Mar. 16 in Galveston, Texas while on a spring break vacation. Arras authored numerous articles on … Read More
March 16, 2015
(NPR) – After his diagnosis, Pratchett became an inspiration to dementia patients and an advocate for physician-assisted suicide for those suffering terminal illnesses. In 2011, he told NPR, “I believe everyone should have a good death. … The ideal death, … Read More
March 12, 2015
(New York Times) – John D. Arras, a plain-spoken philosopher who preached that doctors should consider fairness and morality, as well as medical issues, in making life-or-death decisions about patient care, died on Monday in Galveston, Tex. He was 69. … Read More
March 12, 2015
(People) – A Pennsylvania judge is set to make a final decision Wednesday on whether Sherri Shepherd is the legal mother of a 7-month-old baby born via surrogate last August. “We believe it’s in this child’s best interest to have … Read More
March 9, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – Author and surgeon Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, described how witnessing the untimely and inevitable passing of patients, friends and his father revealed to him the shortcomings of the American medical system’s and society’s approach to dying. “I … Read More
March 5, 2015
(NIH) – Harold Varmus, M.D., who has led the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for nearly five years, announced today that he will step down from his post, effective March 31, 2015. “It has … Read More
February 25, 2015
(Quartz) – The very first place we’ve gone is to non-technology innovations. Such as, what are the 19 critical things that have to happen when the patient comes in an operating room and goes under anesthesia? When the incision is … Read More
February 24, 2015
(New York Times) – Dr. John Willke, an obstetrician who helped shape the modern anti-abortion movement with ideas including a belief that a woman can resist conception from a sexual assault, has died, his daughter said Saturday. He was 89. … Read More
