January 15, 2010
When Amillia Taylor was born at Baptist Children’s Hospital in Miami on October 24, 2006, she made headlines across the world. She weighed just 280 grams and was 240 centimetres long. More importantly, she was born after just 21 weeks … Read More
January 15, 2010
Patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) often do not receive adequate end-of-life care and are unhappy with the medical decisions made as their conditions worsen, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of … Read More
January 15, 2010
Four years ago, Donald Robinson Hollingsworth and Sean Hollingsworth, a gay couple living in New Jersey, set in motion their plan to become first-time parents. They contracted with a woman to carry an embryo from donated eggs and sperm from … Read More
January 14, 2010
Some progressives have progressed so far that they’ve become technophobic reactionaries. (Reason Magazine)
January 14, 2010
Consumers will be able to view more than 100 quality measures for each hospital, as well as cost information. (American Medical News)
January 14, 2010
More than 30 million family caregivers play major role in maximizing the health and quality of life of individuals with acute and chronic illnesses. (EurekaAlert)
January 13, 2010
A new trend to harvest transplant organs from people whose hearts have just stopped — but may not be yet brain dead — has underlined the “pressing need” for federal legislation to define exactly when someone has perished, a leading … Read More
January 13, 2010
Spain led the world in organ donations in 2009 for the 18th consecutive year despite a sharp drop in road death fatalities, a key source of donated organs, Health Minister Trinidad Jimenez, said Monday. (AFP)
January 13, 2010
Five years after a budget-busting $3 billion was allocated to embryonic stem cell research, there have been no cures, no therapies and little progress. So supporters are embracing research they once opposed. (Investors)
January 12, 2010
Children conceived from donor sperm during the fertility-industry boom of the 1980s are now becoming adults, and many of them believe they have a basic right to know their genetic heritage. In Canada, as in many other countries, sperm donors … Read More
January 12, 2010
It’s a conversation that most people dread, doctors and patients alike. The cancer is terminal, time is short, and tough decisions loom — about accepting treatment or rejecting it, and choosing where and how to die. (New York Times)
January 12, 2010
Recent proposals to restrict or even ban the practice of euthanasia have emerged in Switzerland, where doctors have been permitted to offer the option not only to Swiss residents but also foreigners. (RT Top Stories)
January 12, 2010
Cancer researchers who have the greatest ability to influence research are also the researchers with the greatest financial ties to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, according to a report released today. (Reuters)
January 12, 2010
Patients for whom surgery is recommended often have many questions, concerns and fears. The process is fraught with ethical issues that frequently go unrecognized. (American Medical News)
January 12, 2010
BioSocieties (Volume 4, Issue 04, December 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Informed Consent in Forensic DNA Databases: Volunteering, Constructions of Risk and Identity Categorization” by Helena Machado and Susana Silva, 335-348. “Models of Cloning, Models for … Read More
January 12, 2010
Journal of Medical Ethics (Volume 36, Issue 01, January 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Clinical Ethics: Ascribing Intentions in Clinical Decision-making” by L A Jansen and J S Fogel, 2-6. “Clinical Ethics: ‘It’s Crucial They’re Treated … Read More
January 11, 2010
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Not Dead Yet: Controlled Non-Heart-Beating Organ Donation, Consent, and the Dead Donor Rule” by Dale Gardiner and Robert Sparrow, 17-26. “Just … Read More
January 11, 2010
JAMA (Vol. 302; No. 24; December 23, 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Medical Care for the Final Years of Life: ‘When You’re 83, It’s Not Going to be 20 Years’” by David B. Reuben, 2686-2694. “Improving … Read More
January 11, 2010
The 2005 culmination of the legal battle over Terri Schiavo’s life-sustaining treatment was as a flash point for public discussions about bioethics. While the field encompasses a wide range of complex and controversial subjects, debates over these issues often remain … Read More
January 11, 2010
A “slippery slope” to “a world of eugenics,” as bioethics authorities once worried, or a healthy life for a teenage girl? Once at the center of a science controversy, Molly Nash, 15, represents the human answer to the debate over … Read More
January 11, 2010
Legendary philosopher Peter Singer once imagined a scenario where a pill could double human lifespan, and argued that such a world would never be as happy as one without the medicine. Science fiction author and philosopher Russell Blackford disagrees. (io9)
January 11, 2010
At stake in a court case is whether any human gene or test based on it can be covered by a patent. (Los Angeles Times)
January 11, 2010
State money from 2004’s Proposition 71 is being channeled toward research with the most potential for near-term benefits. (Los Angeles Times)
January 10, 2010
JAMA (Volume 302; Number 23; December 16, 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Health Insurance Cooperatives: Lessons from the Great Depression” by Michael R. Grey, 2587-2588. “The Global Breast Cancer Disparity: Strategies for Bridging the Gap” by … Read More
January 8, 2010
Medical journal The Lancet has urged China to tighten measures against scientific fraud after dozens of papers written by two teams of Chinese chemists were found to be faked. (Times LIVE)
