April 2, 2008
Dentistry has taken the same approach to tooth decay — filling cavities — for decades, but new techniques for rebuilding teeth from the inside out could transform the profession over the next decade. (Wired)
April 2, 2008
While insurers increasingly have been measuring doctors’ performance through public report cards or designating tiers of physicians that try to steer people to certain doctors, so far such rating efforts have been controversial. Doctors complain that the health plans have … Read More
April 2, 2008
Very few people could have looked upon Chantal Sébire at the end of her life and not understood why the former schoolteacher wished to end it. Left horribly disfigured and in frequent torment from incurable tumors that amassed in her … Read More
April 1, 2008
NanoEthics (Volume 2 Number 1, April 2008) is now available by subscription only. “The Role of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Nanotechnology Research and Development” by Mette Ebbesen, 1-13 “Beyond Therapy and Enhancement: The Alteration of Human Nature” by … Read More
April 1, 2008
Pain Medicine (April 2008 – Vol. 9 Issue 3) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Pain Medicine 2008: Past, Present and Future” by Rollin M. Gallagher, MD, MPH, 267–270 “Actual and Potential Drug Interactions Associated with Methadone” by … Read More
April 1, 2008
Scientists in the UK claim to have made embryos using cow eggs and human DNA through SCNT. Although the work has yet to be verified via peer review, Newcastle scientists told the press that the embryos lasted three days. From … Read More
April 1, 2008
Neuroethics (Volume 1, Number 1, March, 2008) is now available online. Articles include: “Introducing Neuroethics” by Neil Levy, 1-8 “Neuroethics and the Problem of Other Minds: Implications of Neuroscience for the Moral Status of Brain-Damaged Patients and Nonhuman Animals” by … Read More
April 1, 2008
Scientists at Newcastle University have created part-human, part-animal hybrid embryos for the first time in the UK, the BBC can reveal. The embryos survived for up to three days and are part of medical research into a range of illnesses. … Read More
April 1, 2008
Recently, no area has contributed more and increasingly complex layers to the bioethics debate than research employing human genetic material. One such layer involves the use of patient samples for in vitro diagnostic (IVD) device studies and informed consent requirements, … Read More
April 1, 2008
In parts of the city’s largely African-American South and West Sides, kidney failure rates are more than twice as high as the national average and three times higher than in the rest of the city, federal statistics show. Those differences … Read More
April 1, 2008
More than half of U.S. doctors now favor switching to a national health care plan and fewer than a third oppose the idea, according to a survey published on Monday. (Reuters)
April 1, 2008
“There’s a consensus in the scientific community that it’s wrong and scientifically unsafe to use this technology for reproductive purposes. Our goal is to basically clone cells in a petri dish so that we can create replacement parts for the … Read More
April 1, 2008
It is a cliché but nevertheless true that philanthropists and government bureaucrats often do more harm than good, not least when they set out to change the world. In the second half of the 20th century they actually tried to … Read More
April 1, 2008
Some critics imply that research on adult stem cells (for instance from bone marrow) could substitute for all the use of embryonic stem cells. My research colleagues strongly deny this, but see the possibility that knowledge from stem-cell research might … Read More
April 1, 2008
Sources of funding for research should be noted completely to highlight potential conflicts of interest. (The Daily Cardinal
April 1, 2008
Whenever most people hear the term “egg donor,†they usually consider this a good thing, as most of us assume that anyone who donates is altruistically motivated and thus engaged in something intrinsically good. And besides, it’s for a great … Read More
