April 10, 2007
India’s health biotech firms are emerging as a major global player, with growing means and know-how to produce innovative as well as generic drugs and vaccines at costs small relative to those of giant Western firms, according to ground-breaking Canadian … Read More
April 10, 2007
While the future for personalized medicine has far exceeded expectations, funding is critical in order to continue taking the necessary steps, health experts said Monday. (United Press International)
April 10, 2007
A majority of American doctors believe God or another supernatural being intervenes in patients’ health, a study has found. And nearly two in five doctors believe religion and spirituality can help prevent bad outcomes such as heart attacks, infections and … Read More
April 10, 2007
In January, the House of Representatives passed a bill to overturn President Bush’s embryonic-stem-cell funding policy. Sponsored by Democrat Diana DeGette of Colorado and Republican Mike Castle of Delaware, the bill was exactly identical to one passed by Congress and … Read More
April 10, 2007
If embryonic stem cell researchers have their way, young women will soon be paid to lay eggs on demand like chickens in a factory farm, but with more pain and personal risk. (Washington Times)
April 9, 2007
According to this poll, published by the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC).
April 9, 2007
We hear a lot of sturm and drang that President Bush is “anti-science” because of his opposition to human cloning and full federal funding of destroying embryos for ESCR. But these positions don’t make the President anti-science: That dispute is … Read More
April 9, 2007
The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M), which was founded in 1993 to support research on extending life and treating age-related disease, claims 19,000 members in 90 countries. Membership has nearly doubled in the past five years. The Business Communications … Read More
April 9, 2007
Installing one of those prefab, snap-together wood-flooring kits is a lot easier than shaping and sanding rough planks. Adapting a similar construction strategy, a biotech startup called Codon Devices, based in Cambridge, MA, aims to streamline genetic engineering. It makes … Read More
April 9, 2007
Stem cells will be at the top of the agenda for the U.S. Senate when it returns on Tuesday with supporters of the research hoping they can change the president’s mind on the issue and opponents hoping to have a … Read More
April 9, 2007
China published new rules governing human organ transplants in its latest effort to clean up a business critics say has little regard for medical ethics. (AP)
April 9, 2007
Globalization may be good for many of the world’s economies, but it also poses health challenges to the people who live in those countries. (HealthDay)
April 9, 2007
The accounts of intense religious and spiritual experiences are topics of fascination for people around the world. It’s a mere glimpse into someone’s faith and belief system. It’s a hint at a person’s intense connection with God, an omniscient being … Read More
April 9, 2007
Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) have negative implications on the lives of women in terms of furthering their subjugation in society, increasing pressure towards motherhood, and their exploitation by way of monetary incentives for selling or renting reproductive “raw material” such … Read More
April 9, 2007
SCOTTISH scientists have developed a computer the size of a matchstick head, thousands of which can be sprayed onto patients to give a comprehensive analysis of their condition. (Scotsman)
April 9, 2007
Researchers have conjured up a trickle of electricity by zapping tiny nanowires with ultrasound. If they can grow that trickle into a stream, the technology might turn everyday vibrations into power for miniature sensors that could be sprinkled in the … Read More
April 9, 2007
The timing of this book is perfect. An epidemic of anxiety over the cost of health care has catapulted reform back onto the national agenda, and states from California to Massachusetts are now experimenting with universal coverage. It also promises … Read More
April 9, 2007
Some words are powerful enough to create a physical response the moment we hear them. “Cloning” has had this effect as critics invoked scenarios of photocopied drones. (Indianapolis Star)
April 9, 2007
Here we go again. For the fourth time in eight years, a bill is moving through the California Legislature to legalize physician-assisted suicide. (San Francisco Chronicle)
April 8, 2007
“Kill the bill, not the ill!” was the demonstration chant a few years ago against a bill to legalize assisted suicide in California. Now, like a virus that won’t go away, assisted suicide advocates are once again trying to transform … Read More
April 7, 2007
It stuns me sometimes how utterly ignorant media can be about human cloning and embryonic stem cell research. Not only does ignorance drive bad public policies, but it can be harmful. The Joplin Globe committed both journalistic sins in this … Read More
April 6, 2007
Context. Context. Context. As editorial writers wax eloquent about how assisted suicide would just be about “choice” and managing one’s own end of life, story after story is being reported about how those on the margins are abused, neglected, and … Read More
April 6, 2007
Ted Berger has spent the past decade engineering a brain implant that can re-create thoughts. The chip could remedy everything from Alzheimer’s to absent-mindedness—and reduce memory loss to nothing more than a computer glitch. (Popular Science)
April 5, 2007
Scientists are reporting that the wide size variety in dogs is caused by variations in but one gene. From the story in the Telegraph: Ranging from toy to giant, dogs have the biggest size variation of any mammal and the … Read More
April 5, 2007
Of course they are adult stem cell derived. From the CNN story: Cytori (down $0.02 to $5.62, Charts) is planning to launch its first stem cell medical device in Europe this year, said Eric Daniels, senior director of business development … Read More
