September 23, 2015
(Med Page Today) – How can physicians better navigate the alphabet soup of end-of-life care forms? That was the question on the mind of Ferdinando Mirarchi, DO, of UPMC Hamot in Eerie, Pa., when he approached Michael Barton, MD, of … Read More
September 10, 2015
(The World Post) – J. Craig Venter is the pioneering cartographer of the human genome, the sequence of which he and other scientists mapped in 2000. The WorldPost recently spoke with this modern Prometheus about the promises and perils of … Read More
August 24, 2015
(The Guardian) – Neil Harbisson, the world’s first certified cyborg, speaks to the media in Brisbane. Harbisson, who is completely colour blind, has an antenna with a camera at its end permanently implanted in his head that allows him to … Read More
July 21, 2015
(CNN) – An anti-abortion group says a second under cover video proves that Planned Parenthood is selling the body parts of aborted fetuses, a practice that is illegal and that the group denies doing. The Center for Medical Progress, an … Read More
July 17, 2015
(Time) – Egg freezing has been hailed as a game-changer for women, an “insurance policy” to revitalize waning fertility, a breakthrough as revolutionary as the birth control pill. But how well does it really work? In this week’s issue of … Read More
July 13, 2015
(Huffington Post) – It seems an obvious thing to do, right? I mean why shouldn’t research be used to help alleviate the struggles of some of the world’s most vulnerable people? Well, as it turns out, researchers do not exactly … Read More
June 3, 2015
(BBC) – When she penned comedies like Bhaji on the Beach and Goodness Gracious Me, Meera Syal looked to her own family’s experiences to tell stories about the lives of Asian women. But it was a chance viewing of a … Read More
May 28, 2015
(CNN) – “The experiment worked,” the doctor told me, “but the patient died.” The patient was my father, who was diagnosed with leukemia. Three months earlier, the doctor said my father would probably live only three months. No effective therapy … Read More
May 1, 2015
(ABC.net) – The recent case of baby Gammy shed light on the underground world of international commercial surrogacy. Gammy was the Down syndrome baby abandoned to his surrogate mother in Thailand when the Australian couple who’d paid for him didn’t … Read More
April 7, 2015
(ABC News) – The United Kingdom is set to open its first three proton beam therapy centers to treat cancer after a 5-year-old boy appeared to make a complete recovery after seeking the treatment in the Czech Republic. The parents … Read More
March 24, 2015
(New York Times) – Five states, in various forms, countenance doctor-assisted dying. Others are considering it. In California, legislation to permit such assistance is scheduled to receive a hearing this week. A lawsuit in New York that seeks a similar … Read More
February 20, 2015
(CNN) – The United Nations is looking into claims that ISIS — already considered the wealthiest terrorist group on record — may be harvesting organs from slain civilians and gaining financial benefits by trafficking the body parts, officials said Wednesday. … Read More
January 19, 2015
(PBS) – Belgium has the world’s most liberal law on physician-assisted suicide, which is not just for the terminally ill. Patients with psychiatric conditions – and now, even children – can request euthanasia. Surveys in Belgium show overwhelming public support, … Read More
December 19, 2014
(The Telegraph) – A US man has made history by becoming the first double amputee to control two shoulder-level prosthetic arms with his mind. A groundbreaking experiment by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Maryland has enabled Les … Read More
November 7, 2014
(Deutsche Welle) – In the Philippines, catholic leaders led a sixteen-year battle against a reproductive health bill that would allow the government to distribute contraception for free through public health centers. Earlier this year, the country’s Supreme Court finally passed … Read More
October 9, 2014
(ABC News) – (Video) Dr. Tom Frieden raises alarm on response to the Ebola epidemic at World Bank.
October 2, 2014
(The Guardian) – Continent-wide summaries and country-by-country breakdowns of abortion rights, including where the procedure is permitted and for what reasons – to save a woman’s life, to preserve her health, after rape or incest, for economic or social reasons … Read More
September 16, 2014
(CNN) – What we know — and psychiatrists have diagnosed for decades — as schizophrenia may really be eight separate diseases, research published in The American Journal of Psychiatry suggests. Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis analyzed the DNA … Read More
September 16, 2014
(Washington Post) – It’s a well-known truth in the public health world: African Americans run an elevated risk of kidney disease. And if they get it, a gene variant common among people of African descent makes the disease more likely … Read More
September 15, 2014
(NPR) – Geneticist Wendy Chung describes what it’s like to chip away at the mysteries of autism, and the excitement of uncovering tiny but critical clues. Wendy Chung is the director of clinical research at the Simons Foundation Autism Research … Read More
September 9, 2014
(CNN) – Enteroviruses, which can cause a variety of symptoms, aren’t unusual. If you’ve ever had a bad summer cold, it was likely caused by an enterovirus. The CDC estimates there are 10 to 15 million viral infections each year … Read More
September 4, 2014
(CNN) – Another American doctor infected with the deadly Ebola virus is coming home for treatment in the United States. Dr. Rick Sacra was stationed in Liberia when he was exposed to the virus. He will be flown to Nebraska, … Read More
September 3, 2014
(SBS) – Kajsa Ekis Ekman, Insight guest and recent Festival of Dangerous Ideas panellist, says surrogacy is against women’s fundamental rights and has likened it to prostitution. “I’ve studied surrogacy since 2008, and I take a stand against all forms … Read More
August 27, 2014
(Scientific American) – According to the Mayo Clinic, about 13% of Americans—more than 1 in 10—take an antidepressant. Of women between the ages of 50 and 64, nearly 1 in 4 take an antidepressant. Second only to antibiotics, antidepressants are the … Read More
August 26, 2014
(ABC.net) – It’s perfectly rational for someone who is desperately ill to seek a miracle cure and that leads some to scour the internet for new treatments like stem cell therapies. But Australia’s leading group of stem cell scientists is … Read More
