May 15, 2007
Last week the New York Times published the excruciating story of Anya Bailey, a teenager from East Grand Forks, Minn., who came down with crippling side effects after taking Risperdal, which had been prescribed by a doctor who received professional … Read More
May 14, 2007
No need to spend hours in the gym in pursuit of a perfect body; no fake tans, sunbeds or hours baking on the beach to get a tan; and you could say goodbye to facials and expensive anti-ageing treatments. (Daily … Read More
May 14, 2007
When a mother says that she is “always with†her children, it is literally true: Scientists recently found that a small number of maternal cells can persist in a woman’s offspring for decades or longer. Although researchers have suspected that … Read More
May 14, 2007
Lawyers failed to get apartheid’s “Dr Deathâ€, Wouter Basson, convicted of murder — but now the efforts of bioethicists such as Professor Ames Dhai of Wits University could torpedo his career. (Sunday Times)
May 14, 2007
Abortion rights supporters — who believe that a woman has the right to make decisions about her own body — have had to grapple with the reality that the right to choose may well be used selectively to abort fetuses … Read More
May 14, 2007
The parents of an eight-year-old girl with cerebral palsy are hoping to send their daughter to China for a revolutionary new treatment. (BBC)
May 14, 2007
Desperately ill patients will be able to instruct relatives to end their lives. They will have the right to appoint a family member or friend to tell doctors to withdraw the tubes feeding them when they become too ill to … Read More
May 14, 2007
This past February the unexpected deaths of two cloned sheep hardly made the headlines amidst all the drumbeating toward a war in Iraq. (Yemen Times)
May 14, 2007
Computers today barely connect with people. The human body evolved as a whole to sense and interact with the world, but computers sense us only at our fingertips. Even the fingertips aren’t allowed to do all they can; a computer … Read More
May 14, 2007
As the number of women delaying motherhood continues to rise, many fertility clinics are starting to offer a new service that allows them to freeze some of their eggs to buy more time on their biological clocks. At least 138 … Read More
May 11, 2007
Hugh Herr has spent the past decade building better prosthetic limbs, but this week was the first time he was able to demonstrate one of his own devices. A double amputee since he was in a rock-climbing accident in 1982, … Read More
May 11, 2007
Scientists have developed an artificial plastic blood which could act as a substitute in emergencies. (BBC)
May 11, 2007
A U.S. Senate bill that offers up the prospect of enhanced powers for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in its dealings with the pharmaceutical industry is drawing both praise and criticism from health experts. (HealthDay)
May 11, 2007
Researchers have figured out how to switch on a gene in adult mice that repaired their hearts after a heart attack, a finding that may one day help fix heart damage in humans. (Reuters)
May 11, 2007
Responding with alarm to the U.S. Supreme Court decision permitting the banning of late-term abortions reproductive rights activists have insisted that any restrictions on a woman’s right to choose must be fought. (IEET)
May 10, 2007
The most recent issue of Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 16(3) has a special section devoted to “Technology and the Body: Linking Life and Technology.” Articles are available by subscription only. TOC: “The Ethics of Enabling Technology” by SVEN OVE … Read More
May 10, 2007
The most recent issue of The American Journal of Bioethics 7 (4) has several articles devoted to the discussion of Gunther von Hagens’ BODY WORLDS exhibition. Articles are available by subscription only. TOC: Lawrence Burns, “Gunther von Hagens’ BODY WORLDS: … Read More
May 10, 2007
Aubrey’s meteoric rise to international prominence as an advocate for longevity research makes his forthcoming publication with co-author Michael Rae, Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Biotechnologies That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime , extremely important. (Ethical Technology Blog)
May 10, 2007
With concern rising about genetic privacy in the workplace, drug maker Eli Lilly and Co. is promising employees their health profiles won’t be used against them in making employment decisions or insurance coverage. (IndyStar.com)
May 10, 2007
An Australian biotechnology firm said on Thursday it had developed a means of delivering anti-cancer drugs directly to cancer cells, which aims to avoid the debilitating toxicity associated with chemotherapy. (Reuters)
May 10, 2007
When Anya Bailey developed an eating disorder after her 12th birthday, her mother took her to a psychiatrist at the University of Minnesota who prescribed a powerful antipsychotic drug called Risperdal. (New York Times)
May 10, 2007
The number of Britons with a terminal illness who are opting to die in a Swiss clinic has doubled in a year. Is it time for the law to change so they can end their lives in Britain? (The Independent)
May 10, 2007
Since euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide were legalized by the Dutch in 2002, use of the practices has dropped slightly and now has stabilized, a new report finds. (Forbes)
May 10, 2007
Prof Wilmut has transfered his research interests from animals to human biology, and in 2005 he moved from Roslin to Edinburgh University, where he holds the chair of reproductive science. He has subsequently become director of the Scottish Centre for … Read More
May 10, 2007
Creative Weblogging is currently look for a professional blogger to take over the Nanotechbuzz blog. Obviously, applicants should have experience and knowledge about nanotechnology. However, they should also have strong writing skills with a minimum of 30 days of blogging … Read More
