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
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
