January 24, 2010
Archives of Internal Medicine (Vol. 170; No. 1; January 11, 2010)Â is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “HIV/AIDS: Better Drugs, Better Technologies, and Lingering Problems” by Mitchell H. Katz, 6-8.
January 22, 2010
Life is complicated — especially when it comes to our health. Once we reach a certain age, we start to realize that health is a variable, not a constant. Our knees ache, our pace slows, and we’re diagnosed with diabetes … Read More
January 22, 2010
A paper in Nature Medicine has been has been heralded as a major advance for bone marrow transplantation, reporting a new way of manipulating cord blood stem cells to expand their numbers without causing differentiation from stem cells into normal … Read More
January 22, 2010
Need a gene promoter? You may soon be able to order one from a catalog. California synthetic biologists are launching a production facility that will provide free, standardized DNA parts for scientists around the world. (The Scientist)
January 22, 2010
THE Catholic Church last night vowed to challenge in court any move to legalise assisted suicide, after veteran MSP Margo MacDonald launched her right-to-die bill. The Church has questioned the legality of the proposed law that could introduce suicide clinics … Read More
January 21, 2010
It is one of the great ironies of China’s rise on the international stage: a nation that reveres Confucius and the devotion to truth and learning symbolized by the great sage has become one of the world’s leading perpetrators of … Read More
January 21, 2010
Three-month-old Isaiah May, who suffered brain damage at birth, breathes on a ventilator in an Edmonton neonatal intensive care unit. (Parentcentral.ca)
January 21, 2010
For the first time in the United States, stem cells have been directly injected into the spinal cord of a patient, researchers announced Thursday. Doctors injected stem cells from 8-week-old fetal tissue into the spine of a man in his … Read More
January 20, 2010
Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy (Volume 13, Number 1, February 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Molecular Medicine and Concepts of Disease: The Ethical Value of a Conceptual Analysis of Emerging Biomedical Technologies” by Marianne Boenink, 11-23. … Read More
January 20, 2010
JAMA (Vol. 303; No. 1; January 6, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Optogenetics Illuminates Brain Function” by Bridget M. Kuehn, 20. “Obesity Prevalence Among Low-Income, Preschool-Aged Children- United States, 1998-2008” by JAMA, 28-30.
January 20, 2010
The health ministry plans to question Kanazawa University Hospital officials to clarify how unlicensed brokers approached doctors there to help patients receive organ transplants overseas. (The Japan Times)
January 20, 2010
Imagine two deer trying to escape a searing forest fire. One deer is old and hobbled; the other young and fit. Which one tries harder? Of course, they both try as hard as they can. Would anyone expect the older … Read More
January 20, 2010
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, are facing increased scrutiny of their grants by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) following revelations that the university was not complying with the agency’s financial conflict-of-interest policy. (Nature News)
January 19, 2010
Johns Hopkins neurologist asks leaders to question ‘futile and expensive’ care in terminally ill adults and infants. (EurekaAlert)
January 19, 2010
For couples trying to have a baby, the No. 1 question that can be answered with a simple test is, Am I pregnant? No. 2 may soon be, Is it a boy or a girl? (Los Angeles Times)
January 19, 2010
California is poised to become the first state to set time limits for doctors to see patients, the Department of Managed Health Care said. Regulations to be announced Wednesday require family practitioners in health maintenance organizations to see patients seeking … Read More
January 19, 2010
Trends in Pharmacological Sciences (Volume 31, Issue 1, January 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Homeopathy, a ‘Helpful Placebo’ or an Unethical Intervention” by Edzard Ernst, 1. “Small Molecules that Modulate Embryonic Stem Cell Fate and Somatic … Read More
January 19, 2010
Cell Stem Cell (Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Keratinocytes: How Close to Clinics?” by Graziella Pellegrini and Michele De Luca, 8.
January 18, 2010
Senior fertility doctors rejected calls for a ban on women over 50 receiving fertility treatment at British clinics after it emerged that a 59-year-old woman was in the process of trying to obtain IVF at the London Women’s Clinic in … Read More
January 18, 2010
If you’ve got health insurance, get ready for higher premiums to pay for the health care bill. (Why ObamaCare Will Raise Your Bill – Forbes)
January 17, 2010
NanoEthics (Volume 3, Number 3, December 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Moral Imagination, Trading Zones, and the Role of the Ethicist in Nanotechnology” by Michael E. Gorman, Patricia H. Werhane, and Nathan Swami; 185-195. “The Mind … Read More
January 17, 2010
The Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics (Volume 37, Issue 4, Winter 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Commentary: Emerging Technologies Oversight: Research, Regulation, and Commercialization” by Robbin Johnson, 587-593. “Evaluating Oversight of Human Drugs and Medical … Read More
January 15, 2010
Transplant International (Volume 23, Issue 2, February 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Faith Leaders United in Their Support for Organ Donation: Findings from the UK Organ Donation Taskforce Sudy” by Gurch Randhawa, Anna Brocklehurst, Ruth Pateman, … Read More
January 15, 2010
Bioethics (Volume 24, Issue 2, February 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Are Recent Defences of the Brain Death Concept Adequate?” by Ari Joffe, 47-53. “Ethical Debate Over Organ Donation in the Context of Brain Death” by … Read More
January 15, 2010
American bioethics was born out of a desire to be relevant. The philosopher Daniel Callahan has said that he and his colleagues founded the Hastings Center–the premier bioethics think tank–in 1969 because they wanted to give philosophy “some social bite, … Read More
