April 9, 2009
The FDA today announced that manufacturers of 25 types of medical devices marketed prior to 1976 must submit safety and effectiveness information to the agency so that it may evaluate the risk level for each device type. (News-Medical)
April 9, 2009
A transplant attempt meant to save the life of a second girl failed last night after Kaylee, who has a rare condition that causes her organs to shut down in sleep, stayed awake when taken off life support. (Globe and … Read More
April 9, 2009
Stem cells collected from human corneas restore transparency and don’t trigger a rejection response when injected into eyes that are scarred and hazy, according to experiments conducted in mice by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Their … Read More
April 9, 2009
More Americans losing their jobs and health insurance are turning to volunteer-run free clinics and government-funded community health centers for free or low-cost medical care. The safety net is being strained as demand grows and budgets shrink. (USA Today)
April 9, 2009
In 1954, Joseph Fletcher, father of “Situational Ethics†wrote, “[W]e shall attempt, as reasonably as may be, to plead the ethical case for our human rights (certain conditions being satisfied) to use contraceptives, to seek insemination anonymously from a donor, … Read More
April 9, 2009
Biobank Summer School  July 1-5, 2009  Wellcome Trust Conference Center – Hinxton, Cambridge  Organized & Sponsored by: The Wellcome Trust & Public Population Project in Genomics (P3G) Selection of candidates to participate in the summer school will take place in April … Read More
April 9, 2009
European Summer University Health Law and Bioethics July 1st to 10th, 2009 Toulouse (France) and Namur (Belgium) TOULOUSE SESSION July 1 to 10th, 2009:Â A -YOUNG RESEARCHERS FORUM July 1st, 2009Â Researchers under 35 are invited to make an oral … Read More
April 9, 2009
End of Life Decisions: Ethics in clinical practice, research and policy XI Annual Swedish Symposium on Biomedicine, Ethics and Society Seglarhotellet, Sandhamn 8-9 June 2009 Death is the most personal and yet impersonal event in our lives. Death is necessarily … Read More
April 8, 2009
A revolution in genome screening has been promised by a biotech company in the US. Complete Genomics, says it will sequence one thousand complete genomes between June 2009 and the end of the year and one million over five years. … Read More
April 8, 2009
AMERICA’S dysfunctional health care financing system needs to be reformed. But the goal should not be universal coverage. Reform should simply aim to make health insurance more affordable and portable. (New York Times)
April 8, 2009
China announced plans Wednesday to build thousands of new hospitals and put a clinic in every village in the next three years, the first steps in a decade-long reform plan to provide universal health care coverage. (AP)
April 8, 2009
An organization of Christian physicians argued Wednesday against an impending rollback of a federal rule allowing health care workers to refuse to provide certain reproductive services, saying it’s discriminatory. (CNN)
April 8, 2009
Bioethics (Volume 23, Issue 4, May 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Empirical Ethics: Who is the Don Quixote?” by Bert Molewijk and Lucy Frith, ii-iv. “Empirical Ethics and its Alleged Meta-Ethical Fallacies” by Rob De Vries and … Read More
April 8, 2009
NanoEthics (Volume 3, Number 1, April 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Nanotechnology, Contingency and Finitude” by Christopher Groves, 1-16. “Researching and Teaching the Ethics and Social Implications of Emerging Technologies in the Laboratory” by Joan McGregor and Jameson M. Wetmore, 17-30. … Read More
April 7, 2009
Medical personnel were deeply involved in the abusive interrogation of terrorist suspects held overseas by the Central Intelligence Agency, including torture, and their participation was a “gross breach of medical ethics,†a long-secret report by the International Committee of the … Read More
April 7, 2009
Laid off last fall and left to find $1,400 a month for continued family health coverage, I felt as if I’d struck pay dirt when I learned in February that Congress had decided to spend billions helping millions of Americans … Read More
April 7, 2009
The brains of patients who’ve received double hand transplants can recreate lost neurological control systems, according to new brain data from a French surgical team. The doctors extensively analyzed two patients, of the six total who had the surgery, for … Read More
April 7, 2009
Cell Stem Cell (Volume 4, Issue 4, April 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Cardiovascular Regeneration: Pushing and Pulling on Progenitors” by Matthew L. Steinhauser and Richard T. Lee, 277. “Recreating Stem Cells: A Novel Entrance to the Fountain … Read More
April 7, 2009
JAMA (Volume 301, Number 13, April 1, 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Association Between Hospital-Reported Leapfrog Safe Practices Scores and Inpatient Mortality” by Leslie P. Kernisan, Sei J. Lee, W. John Boscardin, C. Seth Landefeld, and R. Adams … Read More
April 6, 2009
Suppose scientists could erase certain memories by tinkering with a single substance in the brain. Could make you forget a chronic fear, a traumatic loss, even a bad habit. (New York Times)
April 6, 2009
This intriguing possibility of an organ bank in Jamaica has medical, moral, ethical, religious, cultural as well as legal considera-tions, in Jamaica’s cultural context. Establishing a databank of organ and tissue donors and potential recipients, as well as a regulatory … Read More
April 6, 2009
The court declared that an invention owned by Amgen Inc. in Thousand Oaks, California, was so obvious as to be unpatentable. The invention, first discovered by scientists at Immunex near Seattle, Washington, and then sold to Amgen, was the sequence … Read More
April 6, 2009
A University of Pittsburgh stem cell researcher has renewed his efforts to win a patent on a process to clone human embryonic stem cells, despite lingering questions from his past efforts. (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
April 6, 2009
Nearly 8 percent of students have illegally used prescription stimulants – such as Adderall, Dexedrine and Ritalin – during this academic year, according to a recent Herald poll. (Brown Daily Herald)
April 6, 2009
Merely tweaking what we already have won’t do; we need bold new thinking that reduces costs and improves care. (Los Angeles Times)
