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most patients who die in intensive care units (ICUs) in the United States do so because life support was withheld or withdrawn.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
July 4, 2014
(ABC.net) – Australia’s leading euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke is under fire for communicating with a suicidal man, despite knowing he was not terminally ill or elderly. Perth man Nigel Brayley, 45, died in May this year after taking the … Read More
June 23, 2014
(CBC) – In an interview with CBC’s The Lang & O’Leary Exchange, Caplan said Dr. Oz was “getting too far down the road of non-traditional medicine, alternative medicine and then even further into unproven, even shyster medicine.” Caplan said the doctor, … Read More
June 20, 2014
(New York Times) – Dr. Lorna Wing, a British psychiatrist who was instrumental in identifying autism as a mental disorder of many gradations, affecting people across the spectrum of intelligence — and who gave autism in its mildest form the … Read More
June 17, 2014
(World Magazine) – Abortion should not be confused with women’s healthcare, philanthropist Melinda Gates wrote on June 2 in a blog post applauded by pro-lifers around the world. Gates, a long-time supporter of international women’s health, wrote the comments following … Read More
June 16, 2014
(San Francisco Gate) – A vascular surgeon who gained national and international acclaim as one of the pioneers in organ transplantation has died at the age of 87. Dr. John J. Bergan died Wednesday in Chicago, 50 years after he performed … Read More
June 12, 2014
(Billboard) – A judge ruled Monday that Casey Kasem should be fed, hydrated and medicated while a court-appointed attorney evaluates the health of the ailing radio personality after his daughter moved to implement end-of-life measures. Kasem, who has dementia, was … Read More
June 9, 2014
(Stuff) – A couple with long-term links to euthanasia group Exit International have been found dead together in their home in the Wellington suburb of Eastbourne. The bodies of Eneka and Reinier Odinot, aged 89 and 90, were found by … Read More
June 3, 2014
(National Geographic) – We know all this—and much more, including the results of his brain scans, sleep studies, and the sequencing of his DNA—because Church believes that the benefits of sharing such personal data vastly outweigh privacy concerns. The possibility … Read More
May 19, 2014
(New York Times) – Sidney J. Blatt, a psychologist whose theory about the origins of depression guided treatment decisions for a generation of psychotherapists and helped deepen scientists’ appreciation of the diverse nature of chronic distress, died on May 11 … Read More
May 13, 2014
(BBC) – Venezuelan scientist and doctor Jacinto Convit, renowned for developing a vaccine against leprosy, has died at the age of 100. His family said the centenarian had dedicated his life to humanity via medicine. Convit also discovered a vaccine … Read More
May 6, 2014
(Daily Mail) – Breakthroughs in IVF could ‘threaten our humanity’ by prompting parents to demand designer babies, Robert Winston has warned. Breakthroughs in IVF could ‘threaten our humanity’ by prompting parents to demand designer babies, Robert Winston has warned. And … Read More
April 17, 2014
(Wired) – Kiehl recounts the story in a new book about his research, The Psychopath Whisperer. He has been interviewing psychopaths for more than 20 years, and the book is filled with stories of these colorful (and occasionally off-color) encounters. … Read More
April 15, 2014
(Baylor College of Medicine) – In 1959, postdoctoral associate Dr. Thomas Caskey, participated in the Nobel Prize winning work of Dr. Marshall Nirenberg that helped unravel the genetic code of life. It was not just a “one-trick pony,” Caskey reflected. … Read More
