April 6, 2009
The wife of the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has criticised the financial and bureaucratic barriers that prevent British mothers from donating discarded umbilical cords to a national tissue bank. Miriam Gonzalez Durantez, who married Mr Clegg in 2000, said … Read More
April 6, 2009
In the latest example of employee data-snooping, a Kaiser Permanente hospital located in a Los Angeles suburb has fired 15 workers and reprimanded eight others for improperly accessing the medical records of Nadya Suleman, the California woman who gave birth to … Read More
April 6, 2009
Doctors may soon be able to patch up damaged bones and joints anywhere in the body with a simple shot in the arm. Â A team at Keele University is testing injectible stem cells that they say they can control with … Read More
April 6, 2009
The Manuel Velasco-Suárez Award in Bioethics The Manuel Velasco-Suárez Award in Bioethics was created in 2002 to stimulate young scholars in the development of their capacities for bioethical analysis. It is one of five awards presented by the Pan American … Read More
April 6, 2009
Curso Intensivo de Actualización de Postgrado Ética de la Investigación y Responsabilidad Social en Salud VI Auspiciado por la Cátedra UNESCO de Bioética de la Universidad de Buenos Aires DÃas y hora de realización: Martes de 18 a 21 Lugar: … Read More
April 3, 2009
Last week the Singapore Parliament voted to amend the Human Organ Transplant Act. It is now legal for a needy patient to cover the expenses incurred by the generous soul who donated a kidney to him. “This is a bill … Read More
April 3, 2009
Intel Corp. and General Electric Co. are jointly investing $250 million over the next five years to develop personalized home health care devices. The companies envision products that will cut health care costs and help aging baby boomers and people … Read More
April 3, 2009
Nigeria’s Kano state and drugmaker Pfizer Inc have agreed the broad terms of an out-of-court settlement in a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit over a 1996 drug trial, lawyers for both parties said on Friday. The northern state of Kano sued the world’s … Read More
April 3, 2009
A new report on embryonic stem cell research from The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) reviews key issues likely to be debated in the coming months as Congress and the National Institutes of Health … Read More
April 3, 2009
How often have you dismissed a patient from your care? Why? How often have you wanted to? What are the ethical and legal issues surrounding this question? The following case includes an unexpected twist to the problem of terminating a … Read More
April 3, 2009
Human heart cells that can generate cardiomyocytes in culture have been identified before. But how the heart regenerates naturally has been hotly contested, says Kenneth Chien of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute in Cambridge. “This study shows for the first … Read More
April 2, 2009
Following up on my SHS post from earlier today that disagreed with Sally Satel’s push to legalize a market in live kidney donation to ease the organ shortage, I did a little digging on the risks. Although the surgery is … Read More
April 2, 2009
The founder of Swiss right-to-die organisation Dignitas has defended helping Britons, including some psychiatric patients, kill themselves. (BBC)
April 2, 2009
Scientists have announced a “major breakthrough†in attempts to find a cure for deafness after the cells vital for hearing were grown in a laboratory. Early versions of the sensory hair cells and the brain cells that enable hearing have … Read More
April 2, 2009
Transforming the World From the Bottom Up, Nanotechnology Could Change the Fields of Medicine and Energy. (ABC News)
April 2, 2009
Journal of Medical Ethics (Volume 35, Number 4, April 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Is it ethical to deny genetic research participants individualised results?” by P Affleck, 209-213. “Autonomy, religion and clinical decisions: findings from a national … Read More
April 2, 2009
Smithsonian Science and Scholarship in Society Series The Caring that is Health: The Gift of Nursing and Nursing Research in American Society April 30, 2009 National Museum of American History American healthcare is taking a quantum leap into the future. … Read More
April 1, 2009
In response to my recent post about the government deciding to take a closer look at cases of paralysis that occurred after Gardasil vaccination, I received comments and E-mails from several devastated mothers whose daughters became ill for no apparent … Read More
April 1, 2009
By combing through old scientific journals, medical-device companies are finding effective, but brutal treatments for common diseases that could be transformed by modern technology into safer, noninvasive procedures. Pairing a century’s worth of surgical history of glaucoma treatment with recent … Read More
April 1, 2009
This article examines a key ethical concern that has arisen in the work of the international research consortium GenoMEL (http://www.genomel.org) and that has relevance to all genetic research in humans. [Premium (Journal of Medical Ethics)]
April 1, 2009
Regulation of biomedical research is important in ensuring progress in research whilst minimizing potential harms. However, this is often a complex process involving a number of stakeholders and the formulation of appropriate regulations that are understood by all those involved. … Read More
