August 13, 2007
Candidates for the 2008 presidential election should prepare themselves and voters for the tough choices that must be made to control rising health care costs, urge a panel of political and budget experts in a new paper from the Brookings … Read More
August 13, 2007
A study carried out by a team of American researchers has revealed that not all embryonic stem (ES) cell lines are created equal. Led by UCLA’s Yi Sun and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Thomas Sudhof at the University of … Read More
August 13, 2007
For a decade, state Sen. Carole Migden quietly battled a death sentence – an unusual form of leukemia. Now cancer-free, she wants to create a state system to collect and store umbilical cord blood, which shows enormous promise as a … Read More
August 12, 2007
Sociology of Health & Illness Issue 29(5) July 2007 is now available by subscription only. An article of bioethical interest is: “The (Ir)relevance of Genetics: Engendering Parallel Worlds of Procreation and Reproduction” by Victoria M. Grace and Ken R. Daniels, … Read More
August 12, 2007
Journal of Religious Ethics Issue 35(3) September 2007 is now available by subscription only. One of the articles of particular bioethical interest is: Book Discussion “Recurring Themes in the Debate about Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide” by Theo A. Boer, 529–555. … Read More
August 10, 2007
Well, it didn’t work out as the pro-cloners wanted. Missouri opponents of human cloning didn’t just roll over when Amendment 2 passed through one of the most deceptive campaigns I have ever seen, abetted by a totally biased and in … Read More
August 10, 2007
The Adult Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine (MSC 2007) will focus on technological and clinical advances of the use of mesenchymal stem cells derived from a variety of tissues (such as bone marrow, fat, cord blood, cord matrix, and … Read More
August 10, 2007
U.S. researchers hope to develop pliable, new vocal cord tissue to replace damaged tissue that can alter or silence a person’s voice. (HealthDay)
August 10, 2007
A debate regarding organ donation is getting underway in the UK: it is a debate about “presumed consent.†Presumed consent means that although no permission form is signed, and there is no documented mandated discussion with anyone, a deceased person’s … Read More
August 10, 2007
If we are going to create a culture of patient safety – the fashionable term in medical circles these days – then we need to back up the grand talk with good incident reporting and even better investigation and discipline. … Read More
August 10, 2007
When Missouri voters approved a constitutional amendment last November protecting human embryonic stem cell research, it was viewed as a key endorsement of the research even in states with deep religious roots and strong antiabortion forces like this one. (New … Read More
August 10, 2007
Bone marrow transplantation restored reproductive capability to female mice that had undergone fertility-destroying chemotherapy, according to a study by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. (Washington Post)
August 9, 2007
Purdue University researchers have developed new miniature devices designed to be implanted in the brain to predict and prevent epileptic seizures and a nanotech sensor for implantation in the eye to treat glaucoma. (ScienceDaily)
August 9, 2007
In 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sailed to present-day Florida in search of the Fountain of Youth, a spring that would reportedly restore youth to those who drank from its waters. (WGAL Lancaster)
August 9, 2007
California’s $3 billion stem cell research program appointed an interim president, Richard A. Murphy, while it continued a longer-than-expected search for a permanent chief. (New York Times)
August 9, 2007
The great hope of every health care reformer is that better care will mean cheaper care. (New York Times)
August 9, 2007
Targeted Genetics said it was “premature as well as irresponsible” to draw any conclusions on what caused the death of a patient who participated in a clinical trial testing the safety of the firm’s new gene therapy. (US-Pharma)
August 8, 2007
This PR press release contains two stories instead of one: First, researchers at UCLA apparently morphed embryonic stem cells into neural stem cells, and then, into working neurons. This is only the second time of which I am aware that … Read More
August 8, 2007
This legislation requires the New York State Department of Health to develop a program to make the public aware of umbilical cord blood banking and to develop educational programs about the benefits of cord blood banking. (mediLexicon)
August 8, 2007
Adults aged 19 to 29 are the biggest group of the newly uninsured, according to an independent research group’s report released on Wednesday. (Reuters)
August 8, 2007
Terminally ill patients do not have a constitutional right to be treated with experimental drugs, even if they likely will be dead before the medicine is approved, a federal appeals court said Tuesday. (AP)
August 8, 2007
Scientists with the Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at UCLA were able to produce from human embryonic stem cells a highly pure, large quantity of functioning neurons that will allow them to create models of and study diseases … Read More
August 8, 2007
Some deaf way wish to revolt against the hearing world and defend the autonomy of deaf culture. But not everyone has the luxury to revolt. For the unwilling deaf, there are now cochlear implants. (IEET)
August 8, 2007
Within the remote confines of Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Palo Alto, California, something big was brewing, the implications of which would make the likes of Bertrand Russell, Norbert Wiener, and Mephistopheles himself cackle. (Executive Intelligence Review)
August 8, 2007
Robb Mohr sat by his wife’s hospital bed two weeks ago, trying to take it all in. His wife, Jolee Mohr, was breathing with the help of a ventilator in a Chicago intensive-care unit — her body bloated from internal … Read More
