October 24, 2014
(Associated Press) – The whistleblower who exposed breakthrough cloning research as a devastating fake says South Korea is still dominated by the values that allowed science fraudster Hwang Woo-suk to become an almost untouchable national hero. In an interview with … Read More
October 24, 2014
(Bloomberg Businessweek) – Originally the procedure had been scheduled for Sooam’s headquarters in Seoul, where Hwang, 61, runs the only facility on earth that clones dogs for customers willing to pay $100,000. He led the team that cloned the first … Read More
October 10, 2014
(Times Higher Education) – Enter eugenics. Whereas Charles Darwin’s natural selection described what he saw in nature, his half-cousin Francis Galton’s national selection prescribed what action we should take in society. Crucially, this was a prescription for British society, since, … Read More
October 10, 2014
(The Atlantic) – When Pincus met the feminist crusader Margaret Sanger in 1950 and she implored him to go to work on the development of a birth-control pill, he knew the project carried enormous risk. Such a pill would never … Read More
October 8, 2014
(New York Times) – Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, the patient with the first case of Ebola diagnosed in the United States and the Liberian man at the center of a widening public health scare, died in isolation at a hospital … Read More
October 7, 2014
(Reuters) – British-American John O’Keefe and Norwegians May-Britt and Edvard Moser won the 2014 Nobel Prize for medicine for discovering the brain’s navigation system and giving clues as to how strokes and Alzheimer’s disrupt it. The Nobel Assembly, which awarded … Read More
September 30, 2014
(ABC.net) – Euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke has called for Australian prisoners jailed with no prospect of release to be given the option of euthanasia. The calls came after a court in Belgium granted killer Frank van den Bleeken the right … Read More
September 29, 2014
(Boston Globe) – Gerald A. Larue, an ordained minister, scholar, and eventual agnostic who, as the first president of the Hemlock Society, was an early and leading advocate of giving the terminally ill the option to end their own lives, … Read More
September 25, 2014
(The Atlantic) – In 1956, Dr. Felix Deutsch was invited to Boston to address the American Psychosomatic Society and offer reflections on Sigmund Freud’s 100th birthday. He asked the assembly to consider the following question: “How much and when shall … Read More
September 25, 2014
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September 22, 2014
(The Atlantic) – On the second day of March 1950, Helen Keller showed up at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics. There, she encountered Norbert Wiener, the mathematician and engineer best known as the father of cybernetics. It was a meeting … Read More
September 19, 2014
(BBC) – Referrals to breast cancer clinics more than doubled in the UK after Angelina Jolie announced she had had a double mastectomy to prevent breast cancer. The actress revealed in May last year she had had the surgery, after … Read More
September 18, 2014
(Daily Mail) – Sherri Shepherd has removed the newborn baby boy she had via surrogate from her health insurance, claims estranged husband Lamar Sally. The TV writer opens up about the custody battle over Lamar Jr (or as he calls … Read More
September 17, 2014
(ABC News) – The doctor who was the first U.S. Ebola patient to be treated in America testified before a congressional committee today recalling the horror and “humiliation” of a disease that has killed thousands. Dr. Kent Brantly, working on … Read More
September 12, 2014
(The Wall Street Journal) – The trial has also captivated a vast audience abroad. Journalists tweeted and transcribed every moment of proceedings that traced Mr. Pistorius’s transformation from a fearless competitor to a shaky witness in his own murder trial, … Read More
September 8, 2014
(Communities Digital News) – Studies show that most patients who die in intensive care units (ICUs) in the United States do so because life support was withheld or withdrawn. Withholding and withdrawal of life support means various medical interventions are … Read More
August 29, 2014
(The Guardian) – One of the father figures of Egyptian social activism, Ahmed Seif el-Islam, died on Wednesday aged 63. He had been in coma for several days following heart surgery. A leading human rights lawyer whose career spanned four … Read More
August 28, 2014
(The Guardian) – On the other side of the door, scientists in the Laboratory for Organogenesis and Neurogenesis are working on something that has fired the imagination of science fiction authors for many years. They are at the cutting edge … Read More
August 15, 2014
(ABC.net) – Voluntary euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke has hosted his first public seminar since being deregistered by the medical board. Dr Nitschke said he had been inundated with requests for information about assisted suicides since being deregulated last month. Dr … Read More
August 15, 2014
(Retraction Watch) – Charles Vacanti, a Harvard anesthesiologist and stem cell pioneer whose name appeared on both retracted STAP stem cell papers, is giving up his post as chair of anesthesiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and taking a year-long … Read More
August 14, 2014
(Washington Post) – Williams’s media agent said he had “severe depression,” but he hadn’t been so public about possible mental health struggles. Williams had been open about his experience with substance abuse, including cocaine-fueled hallucinations that he recounted in his 1986 one-man show. His … Read More
August 13, 2014
(Irish Examiner) – At the age of 47, her survival was a race against the clock but the life-giving power of organ transplantation carried Vera Dwyer through another quarter of a century and into the record books. The 73-year-old from … Read More
August 5, 2014
(New Scientist) – A senior Japanese stem cell scientist has died in an apparent suicide. Yoshiki Sasai, who recently co-authored two controversial papers on stem cells, was found dead at his laboratory, the Riken Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, … Read More
July 25, 2014
(The Guardian) – Euthanasia campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke has had his medical registration suspended after the medical board found he posed “a serious risk” to the health and safety of the public. The South Australian Board of the Medical Board … Read More
July 18, 2014
(New York Times) – Dr. Joep Lange, a leading AIDS researcher, is presumed dead in the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was apparently shot down over Ukraine, according to a statement issued on Friday by the University of … Read More
