June 2, 2010
The emergent course of our human bio-technological transition is leading toward a species transformation. In light of this, approaches to transhumanism are varied and some are without clear conceptual apparatus; people want to extol its far-out promise or decry its … Read More
June 2, 2010
In selling the health care overhaul to Congress, the Obama administration cited a once obscure research group at Dartmouth College to claim that it could not only cut billions in wasteful health care spending but make people healthier by doing … Read More
June 2, 2010
At least 11 states have passed laws this year regulating or restricting abortion, giving opponents of abortion what partisans on both sides of the issue say is an unusually high number of victories. In four additional states, bills have passed … Read More
June 2, 2010
Costa Rica has ordered the country’s largest stem cell clinic to stop offering treatment, saying there is no proof that it is effective, the country’s health minister said on Wednesday. (Reuters)
June 2, 2010
In the first known case of genetic discrimination charges in the United States, a Connecticut woman claims she was fired from her job because she carries a gene linked to breast cancer. The woman, Pamela Fink, worked as a public … Read More
June 1, 2010
By discovering how adult neural stem cells navigate to injury sites in the central nervous system, UC Irvine researchers have helped solve a puzzle in the creation of stem cell-based treatments: How do these cells know where to go? (PhysOrg)
June 1, 2010
House Bill No. 5131 is a bill to amend four sections of the 1978 Public Act 368, “Public health code”. It also proposes to add two additional sections. The first section it proposes to change states that a person cannot … Read More
June 1, 2010
Lately it seems like we’re wired to want information. In the health sphere, we just can’t get enough. At the national level, the HITECH act would save our system, or at least give it some needed blood. Evidence-based medicine is … Read More
June 1, 2010
Freshmen and transfers are asked to send in a sample of their saliva to be analyzed for reactions to 3 dietary substances. Privacy watchdogs and ethicists criticize the move. (Los Angeles Times)
