June 18, 2013
The beleaguered Susan G. Komen Foundation has named a nationally known health policy and research expert in Washington, D.C. to replace founder Nancy Brinker as its chief executive, the breast cancer charity announced Monday. (Washington Post)
June 17, 2013
One of the most prominent founders of the field of bioethics and a longtime professor and professor emeritus at Georgetown passed away yesterday at the age of 92. Dr. Edmund D. Pellegrino, who would have been 93 on June 22, … Read More
June 13, 2013
U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin says she plans to step down next month after four years as “America’s doctor.†(Washington Post)
June 10, 2013
Rao tells Sulogna Mehta of TOI about his experiences of curing ‘given-up’ cases and medical ethics, healthcare in rural and tribal areas, and the stigma associated with HIV. (Times of India)
June 10, 2013
Chenara, Aaron and Jessica Guare – the world’s first triplets born through IVF technology – turn 30 today. (News.com.au)
May 30, 2013
Ken Tada married Joni Eareckson in 1982 for better, for worse and for all the things that were uniquely her — including the fact that she was a quadriplegic in a wheelchair. (ABC News)
May 30, 2013
Dr. Henry Morgentaler, Canada’s most heralded and vilified abortion doctor, who was assaulted and imprisoned for defying restrictive laws but who won the landmark Canadian Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationally in 1988, died on Tuesday at his home … Read More
May 27, 2013
The death of Angelina Jolie’s aunt, Debbie Martin, has once again highlighted the genetic risk of breast cancer. Martin, 61, was the younger sister of Jolie’s mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who died from ovarian cancer at the age of 56. Martin’s … Read More
May 14, 2013
MY MOTHER fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance … Read More
May 7, 2013
What is science revealing about the nature of the criminal mind? Adrian Raine, a professor at the university of Pennsylvania, is an expert in the expanding field of “neurocriminology.†He has written The Anatomy of Violence, a sweeping account of … Read More
May 7, 2013
Eminent Belgian scientist Christian de Duve, aged 95, a winner of the Nobel prize for medicine, died on Saturday after committing euthanasia, which is legal in Belgium, his family said. (Times of India)
May 6, 2013
The veteran 73-year-old arts critic, novelist and broadcaster was deeply affected by watching Alzheimer’s take its toll on his 95-year-old mother for five years until her death last year, and said assisted suicide was an issue for people his age. … Read More
April 29, 2013
Dr. François Jacob, a French war hero whose combat wounds forced him to change his career paths from surgeon to scientist, a pursuit that led to a Nobel Prize in 1965 for his role in discovering how genes are regulated, … Read More
April 26, 2013
Dr. Vincent L. Gott was part of an innovative group of doctors who trained with Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, considered to be the father of open-heart surgery. (CNN)
April 22, 2013
The man who pioneered in vitro fertilization also stirred deep unease about what he was doing. (The Wall Street Journal)
April 11, 2013
Stephen Hawking toured a stem cell laboratory Tuesday where scientists are studying ways to slow the progression of Lou Gehrig’s disease, a neurological disorder that has left the British cosmologist almost completely paralyzed. (ABC News)
April 10, 2013
The long list of roles Margaret Thatcher played during her 87 years — potent politician, free-market evangelist, labor antagonist, dominant global leader — includes the one she never publicly discussed: person with dementia. (New York Times)
April 10, 2013
Robert Edwards, a British Nobel prize-winning scientist known as the father of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) for pioneering the development of “test tube babies”, died on Wednesday aged 87 after a long illness, his university said. (Reuters)
April 8, 2013
The astonishing story of Henrietta Lacks, who died of cancer in 1951 but whose still living cells are now the basis for much medical research, has captivated the U.S. for the past two years — and there is no sign … Read More
March 14, 2013
From the Vatican to Buenos Aires, Catholics worldwide rejoiced when Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio became the new pope. (CNN)
March 14, 2013
Discovering your DNA sequence is cheap and easy, and that genetic knowledge could change – even save – your life. [Op-ed by one of the founders of 23andMe]. (The Guardian)
March 1, 2013
In this interview given the day before a seminar for the creation of a National Bioethics Committee in Trinidad and Tobago, held in Port-of-Spain on 28 February and 1 March 2013, Dr D. Simeon, Director of the Caribbean Health Research … Read More
February 27, 2013
Dr. C. Everett Koop, who was widely regarded as the most influential surgeon general in American history and played a crucial role in changing public attitudes about smoking, died on Monday at his home in Hanover, N.H. He was 96. … Read More
February 4, 2013
A Quebec woman in the process of challenging Canada’s law against assisted suicide has died after struggling with Lou Gehrig‘s disease, her family said. (UPI)
February 1, 2013
The Grammy winner reveals she suffered a miscarriage – and slams rumors she used a gestational surrogate – in her upcoming HBO documentary, Life Is But a Dream – slated to air Feb. 16. (People)
