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
April 14, 2014
(Nature) – Stem-cell biologist Mahendra Rao, who resigned last week as director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine (CRM) at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), has a new job. On 9 April, he was appointed vice-president for regenerative … Read More
April 11, 2014
(The New York Times) – On Friday, President Obama is to nominate Ms. Burwell, currently director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, to take over one of the largest and most unwieldy parts of the federal bureaucracy … Read More
April 8, 2014
(The Telegraph) – The ‘religious’ obsession with health and safety is putting off a generation of children from science because they are banned from taking part in experiments, one of Britain’s leading scientists has claimed. James Lovelock, 94, who first … Read More
April 7, 2014
(CNN) – The painting is called “Coma.” It depicts an unconscious patient being slowly pulled into the mouth of a macabre death mask. Helpless. The death’s head resembles the opening of a CAT scan machine, a symbol of modern medical … Read More
March 27, 2014
(Phys.org) – Today the National Science Board (NSB) announced that renowned bioethicist Arthur Caplan, a global leader in medical ethics, is the 2014 recipient of its Public Service Award for an individual. NSB’s Public Service Award honors an individual’s exemplary … Read More
March 18, 2014
(New York Times) – With a name that most Americans can’t pronounce (it is Shoe-KHRAHT Mee-tuhl-EE-pov) and an accent that sounds like the villain’s in a James Bond film, Dr. Mitalipov, 52, has shaken the field of genetics by perfecting … Read More
March 6, 2014
(ABC News) – Dr. Sherwin Nuland, a medical ethicist who opposed assisted suicide and wrote an award-winning book about death called “How We Die,” has died at age 83. He died of prostate cancer on Monday at his home in … Read More
March 5, 2014
(Reuters) – Craig Venter, the U.S. scientist who raced the U.S. government to map the human genome over a decade ago and created synthetic life in 2010, is now on a quest to treat age-related disease. Venter has teamed up … Read More
February 24, 2014
(The Guardian) – Ray Kurzweil popularised the Teminator-like moment he called the ‘singularity’, when artificial intelligence overtakes human thinking. But now the man who hopes to be immortal is involved in the very same quest – on behalf of the … Read More
February 18, 2014
(Las Vegas Review Journal) – Dr. Warren Wheeler begins his workday with morning rounds. Accompanied by a handful of students and medical staff members, Wheeler visits his patients and greets them by name, introduces himself and asks how they feel, … Read More
February 12, 2014
(Science) – It would have been a personal triumph for Marthe Gautier, an 88-year-old pediatric cardiologist and scientist living in Paris. On 31 January, during a meeting in Bordeaux, Gautier was to receive a medal for her role in the … Read More
February 6, 2014
(New York Times) – Catherine Hamlin, an Australian gynecologist who has spent most of her life in Ethiopia, is a 21st-century Mother Teresa. She has revolutionized care of a childbirth injury called obstetric fistula, which occurs when the baby gets … Read More
