February 26, 2008
Under criticism that its ads are misleading, Pfizer said Monday that it would cancel a long-running advertising campaign using the artificial heart pioneer Robert Jarvik as a spokesman for its cholesterol drug Lipitor. (New York Times)
February 26, 2008
A proposed new law regulating in-vitro fertilization in the United Kingdom is under fire from the Church and bioethics groups, who are concerned over the loosening of regulations regarding the procedure. The Human Fertilization and Embryology Bill has finished its … Read More
February 26, 2008
Selling of body organs is against the law but this practice is thriving in the country. Why? Humans need to survive. Persons suffering from end-stage renal diseases need a kidney transplant to become healthy again. The lack of access to … Read More
February 26, 2008
South Korean scientists on Monday said they have successfully used nano and bio technologies to grow nerve, muscle and liver tissues from stem cells. (Therapeutics Daily)
February 25, 2008
Journal of the American Medical Association (Vol. 299, No. 7, 20 February 2008) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Who Is Accountable for Racial Equity in Health Care?” by Jan Blustein, 2008, 814-816 “Drug-Resistant Bacteria” by Joan Stephenson, … Read More
February 25, 2008
George Soros is a big fan of euthanasia and assisted suicide and wants to see it legalized everywhere. Toward this end, Soros has donated millions to groups promoting the cause–which I believe to be an ultimately abandoning policy that implicitly … Read More
February 25, 2008
How cool are those Gardasil Girls? Riding horses, flinging softballs, bashing away on drum sets: on the television commercials, they are pugnacious and utterly winning. They want to be “One Less,†they chant — one less victim of cervical cancer. … Read More
February 25, 2008
Among the sharpest policy disputes between Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is whether all Americans should be required to get health insurance, as Sen. Clinton proposes. She has said repeatedly that her plan is the only one … Read More
February 25, 2008
One of California’s largest for-profit insurers stopped a controversial practice of canceling sick policyholders Friday after a judge ordered Health Net Inc. to pay more than $9 million to a breast cancer patient it dropped in the middle of chemotherapy. … Read More
February 25, 2008
The article, entitled “Ending the Life of a Newborn”, penned by a pair of bioethicists – Hilde Lindemann and Marian Verkerk – ostensibly sets out to clarify eight separate “misunderstandings” about The Groningen Protocol. In the process, the pair defies … Read More
February 25, 2008
Public concern about social and ethical issues associated with scientific advancements in genetic medicine is widespread. Genetic testing, gene therapy trials, and stem cell and human embryo research are discussed by media around the world. (Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News)
February 25, 2008
In some cases, doctors say, patients who could make more informed health care decisions if they learned whether they had inherited an elevated risk of diseases like breast and colon cancer refuse to do so because of the potentially dire … Read More
February 25, 2008
AT&T Inc. (ATT) is partnering with Tennessee to provide the country’s first statewide system to electronically exchange patient medical information, the telecommunications company said Monday. (AP)
February 25, 2008
I understand why no politician wants to get between a childless couple and the doctors who offer an answer to their prayers. This is the longing that burns and scars so deeply that we don’t know how to talk about … Read More
February 22, 2008
Doctors deciding who will be allowed to fight to remain alive and who will be forced out of treatment is epidemic in the UK where nationalized health care combined with huge influence by utilitarian bioethicists results in some patients being … Read More
February 22, 2008
Science and Engineering Ethics (Volume 13 Number 3) is now available by subscription only. Editorial “The Ethics of Research in Emergency Medicine” by Michelle H. Biros, August 03, 2007, 279 – 280 Original Paper “Balancing Ethical Principles in Emergency Medicine … Read More
February 22, 2008
Poiesis & Praxis (Volume 5 Number 1) is now available by subscription only. “Polymorphism-screening: genetic testing for predisposition—guidance for technology assessment” by Claudia Wild, June 20,2007, 1 – 14
February 22, 2008
UCLA scientists have reprogrammed human skin cells into cells with the same unlimited properties as embryonic stem cells. The process doesn’t use human eggs or destroy human embryos, so you may not have heard of it. (Investor’s Business Daily)
February 22, 2008
Health care was the flash point of one of the most contentious exchanges between Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday night, with Mrs. Clinton again taking the offensive. (New York Times)
February 22, 2008
A new strain of genetically engineered mice has allowed researchers to pinpoint, for the first time, the precise cellular connections that form as a memory is created. By tracing a protein tagged to glow fluorescent green as it migrates through … Read More
February 22, 2008
Google Inc. will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that’s likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted to the Internet search leader. (Associated Press)
February 22, 2008
Samuel Golubchuk can’t talk and barely moves, but he is forcing a legal battle that some experts say hits on our most fundamental right to life. (Epoch Times)
February 22, 2008
Australian scientists have discovered tiny particles of pure silica coated with an active nanomaterial can be used to remove toxic materials from water. (UPI)
February 22, 2008
An international congress will consider the topic of care for dying persons. The ‘no’ to euthanasia, and the right to refuse aggressive therapies. (Asia News)
February 21, 2008
A few years ago this would have been a huge story. No more. The wind is slackening behind the embryonic stem cell research sails. Still, it is worth pointing out what the Times reported, and then, what they–so unsurprisingly–left out … Read More
