January 27, 2009
Archives of Internal Medicine (Volume 169, Number 1, January 12, 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Osteoporosis Case Manager for Patients With Hip Fractures: Results of a Cost-effectiveness Analysis Conducted Alongside a Randomized Trial” by Sumit R. Majumdar, … Read More
January 27, 2009
Artificial Organs (Volume 33, Issue 1, January 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “A Novel Approach to Align Adult Neural Stem Cells on Micropatterned Conduits for Peripheral Nerve Regeneration: A Feasibility Study” by Shan-hui Hsu, Chien-Hsiang Su, and … Read More
January 27, 2009
1st Global Conference Ethics in Public Life: Understandings, Applications, Controversies March 13-15, 2009 Salzburg, Austria This inter-disciplinary project seeks to explore the role, character, nature and place of ethics in public life. Politicians might use moral rhetoric and justifications for … Read More
January 26, 2009
Controversy continues in the US over stem-cell research, and in particular the use of human embryos to create stem cell lines. New president Barack Obama has previously said he will rescind a previous directive imposed by former president George Bush, … Read More
January 26, 2009
The House on Jan. 14 adopted a 4½-year reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, a move largely supported by physicians. But the bill also would effectively ban new or expanded doctor-owned hospitals. (American Medical News)
January 26, 2009
More Than Two Decades After Baby M, More Couples Are Using Surrogate Mothers To Carry Their Embryos. (CBS News)
January 26, 2009
A 41-old-woman is the first to become pregnant after undergoing a speedy new technique to screen her eggs. The procedure identifies the eggs most likely to develop into viable embryos so quickly that embryos do not need to be frozen … Read More
January 26, 2009
Clinical Medicine in the Genome Era 26th & 27th February 2009 An International Symposium to review recent developments and current trends in the applications of genome science and technology to clinical medicine and population health. Organised by: Dr Dhavendra Kumar … Read More
January 26, 2009
Bioethics (Volume 23, Issue 2, February 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “The Ethical Implications of the Social Determinants of Health: A Global Renaissance for Bioethics” by Patricia Illingworth and Wendy E. Parmet, ii-v. “Epidemiology and Social … Read More
January 23, 2009
In a research milestone, the federal government will allow the world’s first test in people of a therapy derived from human embryonic stem cells. Federal drug regulators said that political considerations had no role in the decision. Nevertheless, the move … Read More
January 23, 2009
JUST how identical are identical twins? That is the question Art Petronis at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto and his colleagues investigate in a paper just published in Nature Genetics. The answer is “not as identical … Read More
January 23, 2009
Studies have shown that donor DNA in blood transfusion recipients persists for a number of days, sometimes longer, but its presence is unlikely to alter genetic tests significantly. Red blood cells, the primary component in transfusions, have no nucleus and … Read More
January 23, 2009
Patents on scientific knowledge may not be as useful — or valuable — as many claim them to be. The speed of the global economic collapse is provoking a widespread — many would say belated — realisation that many of … Read More
January 22, 2009
“Do you want to see my flashlight?” Five-year-old Beatrice Rienhoff bounds into the foyer of her family’s home, sporting a blond Prince Valiant haircut and a bashful smile. She plops down on the floor and starts unscrewing the top of … Read More
January 22, 2009
From car makers to cosmetic surgeons, everyone is scrambling to develop and market more economical products–and the consumer-genetics industry is no exception. DecodeMe, a division of Iceland-based Decode Genetics, launched two new services this week: a test that detects genetic … Read More
January 22, 2009
Consumer-directed health care has received recent attention as a fundamentally new approach to organizing the financing and delivery of health care. Consumer-directed health care consists of tax-advantaged health savings accounts, coupled with high-deductible health plans, which theoretically would make consumers, … Read More
January 22, 2009
The UK was touted as a “leader in the field” of stem-cell research by those advocating the use of human-animal hybrid embryos during debates over regulation last year. The arguments helped to ensure that the sector has a regulatory framework … Read More
January 21, 2009
Plans for a registry of egg and sperm donors in Australia has Dr. Joel Bernstein, a fertility specialist in Sydney, worried: “It could turn responsible reproduction into irresponsible reproduction,” he has said. (“Register ‘threatens’ fertility programs”) Dr. Bernstein is concerned … Read More
January 21, 2009
A piece of functional human tissue made from stem cells. British scientists will soon begin trialling a cutting-edge treatment using adult stem cells that could help cure certain types of blindness, they announced Monday. (PhysOrg)
January 21, 2009
The Journal of Evolution and Technology of the IEET has a very interesting and thoughtful article by Eric Steinhart on Teilhard de Chardin and Transhumanism. Teilhard is almost surely the first to discuss the acceleration of technological progress to a … Read More
January 21, 2009
In 2004, when Bristol-Myers Squibb said it would close its factory in East Syracuse, N.Y. — the last plant in the United States to manufacture the key ingredients for crucial antibiotics like penicillin — few people worried about the consequences … Read More
January 20, 2009
The agitation to increase the pool of potential organ donors by allowing people who are unquestionably not dead, but who have profound cognitive disabilities, to be killed for their organs continues. An article in the American Medical News, primarily concerned … Read More
January 20, 2009
Drugs are regularly prescribed to children in outpatient care that have not been licensed for children. Pharmacologist Bernd Mühlbauer and his colleagues present the result of their health services analysis in the new edition of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International. (ScienceDaily)
January 20, 2009
Barack Obama’s incoming science adviser plans to make science a factor in White House decisions. (Seed)
January 20, 2009
Supporters say the federal regulation will prevent discrimination against physicians for their personal convictions, but opponents seek a quick reversal to protect access to care.American Medical News
