April 26, 2007
We read recently of the Brisbane woman who flew to India to receive injections of embryonic stem cells into her spinal injury. It is one of the unhappier jobs of a doctor to tell a patient he or she is … Read More
April 25, 2007
Bone marrow stem cells have apparently been helping to repair injuries in horses for some time. They are about to be tried in humans now. From the Reuters story in the Washington Post (good for it): Stem cell therapy may … Read More
April 25, 2007
A coalition of religious leaders took on the Catholic Church, the U.S. Supreme Court and the Bush administration on Tuesday with a plea to take religion out of health care in the United States. (Scientific American)
April 25, 2007
Professor Roger Smith examines a small vial of straw-colored liquid containing millions of stem cells before filling his syringe. (Reuters)
April 25, 2007
A team of scientists in Germany have “manufactured” human sperm from bone marrow, raising the prospect of mass-producing sperm that can be used in IVF treatment or to restore fertility to men made sterile by cancer therapy. (Expatica)
April 25, 2007
This week a man became the first in Britain to face jail for trying to sell a kidney. And as this Mail investigation reveals, he’s by no means the only one… (Daily Mail)
April 25, 2007
A significant number of Medicare hospice programs were not checked by state inspectors for nine years and were long overdue for certification, according to a federal report released Tuesday. (Times Union)
April 25, 2007
Sixty-year-old Valentina is gradually dying. She has Hepatitis C. But this St. Petersburg pensioner is not receiving treatment for her condition. Doctors have told her that the available medications would in fact serve to hasten her end. (The St. Petersburg … Read More
April 25, 2007
Leaders of a congressional effort to boost embryonic stem-cell research will huddle soon to develop strategies for passing their bill around President Bush’s promised veto. (The Denver Post)
April 25, 2007
In a scientific breakthrough that could have major implications for medicine and technology, IBM Corp. researchers say they’ve discovered a way to not just look at clusters of atoms but for the first time look inside them. (The Chronicle Herald)
April 25, 2007
MEPs are divided over EU rules on new types of treatment for diseases such as cancer or Alzheimer’s, with conservative deputies calling for safeguards against medicines developed through embryonic stem cell research, a practice that is illegal in some countries. … Read More
April 24, 2007
This strong editorial written by mainstream bioethicist Jonathan Moreno and colleagues at the well-funded and very left-leaning think tank, Center for American Progress, call for the overturning of President Bush’s funding restrictions, giving several reasons for their call. The authors … Read More
April 24, 2007
The Development Concepts and Doctrine Center, an independent think tank within the UK Department of Defense, has issued a paper predicting the challenges of the future. It is wide ranging, dealing with climate change, anti-Americanism in the context of a … Read More
April 24, 2007
Advanced brain-imaging techniques have begun to point to specific brain patterns common among sociopaths. (Technology Review)
April 24, 2007
Florida’s Senate Commerce Committee has approved two amendments to the constitution; one that provides for $20 million a year for ten years for stem cell research, including research using human embryos, and another, the ‘Florida Hope Offered through Principled, Ethically … Read More
April 24, 2007
Electrodes inserted in the brain may point the way to restoring sight lost to eye disease or trauma. The research in monkeys is in very early stages, but has shown some promise, Harvard Medical School researchers report in Tuesday’s issue … Read More
April 24, 2007
Paralyzed lab mice with spinal cord injuries have regained the ability to walk after being injected with a nanomaterial, a scientific conference heard Monday. (CBC News)
April 24, 2007
The drugs used to execute prisoners in the United States sometimes fail to work as planned, causing slow and painful deaths that probably violate constitutional bans on cruel and unusual punishment, a new medical review of dozens of executions concludes. … Read More
April 24, 2007
Advances in egg freezing have leapt from the lab to the public, particularly in the US where clinics are unregulated, to offer assisted reproduction using frozen eggs despite the long-term effects being little known, according to the journal Science. (BioNews)
April 24, 2007
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry released Monday a draft plan to revise guidelines concerning the Organ Transplants Law, changes that would in principle prohibit the removal and transplant of diseased kidneys. (The Daily Yomiuri)
April 24, 2007
It was in 1949 that Elvin Stakman, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, issued the membership their marching orders: “Science cannot stop while ethics catches up.†(New York Times)
April 24, 2007
The Catholic Church proclaims the principle that every human being — without regard to race, sex, or ethnicity, and equally without regard to age, size, stage of development, or condition of dependency — is entitled to the full protection of … Read More
April 23, 2007
The latest edition of the CedarEthics Podcast is entitled “Personhood: The View From the Womb,†and presents biblical arguments for human value before the time of birth. How close can we get to the actual moment of conception in the … Read More
April 23, 2007
Georgia General Assembly has passed a bill creating a statewide, umbilical cord blood donation bank to support stem-cell research after months of debating whether the measure came out too strongly against embryonic stem-cell research. (Savannah Morning News)
April 23, 2007
One night this spring, a couple from central China’s Hubei Province, Chen Zhengxian and his wife Yao Yuanxiang, tied themselves together and drowned themselves in the Yangtze River. (People’s Daily Online)
