August 27, 2010
Newspapers across the country published editorials reacting to U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth’s recent ruling challenging the legality of the Obama administration’s guidelines allowing federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. Summaries of the editorials appear below. (Medical News … Read More
August 27, 2010
A group of medical specialists is speaking out against euthanasia ahead of a Quebec-wide consultation on the controversial practice, warning that previous attempts at legislation elsewhere in the world have failed. (CBC News)
August 26, 2010
Concern has been growing in the academic literature and popular media about the licensing, introduction and adoption of surgical devices before full effectiveness and safety evidence is available to inform clinical practice. Our research will seek empirical survey evidence about … Read More
August 26, 2010
The 20th century broke open both the atom and the human genome. Physics deftly imposed mathematical order on the upwelling of particles. Now, in the 21st century, systems biology aims to fit equations to living matter, creating mathematical models that … Read More
August 26, 2010
Is it necessary first to enhance in order to decide whether or not enhancing is a good idea? (IEET)
August 26, 2010
Confusion still lingers after the recent news that Harvard University has found that noted cognitive scientist Marc Hauser engaged in scientific misconduct. Researchers don’t know whether to consider all of Hauser’s work suspect, or just some of it. (ScienceInsider)
August 26, 2010
Scientists at Cambridge University have used stem cell technology to convert skin from patients with metabolic diseases into liver cells. (Financial Times)
August 26, 2010
Congress may take up the issue of embryonic stem cell research when it reconvenes next month. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colorado) says there is a “new urgency” to pass legislation after a federal judge’s ruling on Monday essentially halted the research. … Read More
August 26, 2010
When selecting a doctor, you might want to ask about his or her religious views. Why? The strength of a physician’s feelings of faith can influence the types of treatment they offer to their patients. (Los Angeles Times)
August 26, 2010
Monday’s decision from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia halting all federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research is a surprising milestone in the decade-long debate over this morally fraught field — and another opportunity to make the … Read More
August 24, 2010
There are so many developments on the euthanasia front in the UK this week that they are best grouped together. (BioEdge)
August 24, 2010
Ruben Betancourt died on May 29, 2009. Last week, a New Jersey appellate court declined to rule on the heated dispute that had broken out between his family and a North Jersey hospital over stopping his medical care prior to … Read More
August 24, 2010
How should clinics that treat patients with injections of their own stem cells be regulated? That question is about to test the jurisdiction of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in a landmark legal battle — and is fuelling … Read More
August 24, 2010
Legislators have begun to recognize the medical, humanitarian and economic value of helping terminally ill patients and their families navigate treatment options as they approach the end of life. (New York Times)
August 24, 2010
The idea that humans may not inherently deserve more respect than animals or even robots is a very dangerous one. (THE MARK)
August 24, 2010
A U.S. district judge granted a preliminary injunction Monday to stop federal funding of embryonic stem cell research that he said destroys embryos, ruling it went against the will of Congress. (CNN)
August 13, 2010
Ensuring science is conducted with integrity requires a supportive culture, not draconian rules and sanctions. (SciDev)
August 13, 2010
The university has said that it will continue with the programme, which was intended to provoke discussion, but provide collective, pooled findings as opposed to individual results, in compliance with the regulatory edict. A university facility will be used to … Read More
August 13, 2010
The American public bought into the specialist mystique, partly thanks to stories in the media about miracle cures that could only be provided by the right medical expert. Family doctors, general internists and pediatricians started to look a little inadequate. … Read More
August 13, 2010
Using a shorter informed consent form did not hamper — or improve — research participants’ understanding of a study, but may ultimately save time in writing and reviewing important information, researchers found. (MedPage Today)
August 13, 2010
Picture an active, mentally acute man with prostate cancer who loves life, loves his family, and is described by his urologist as being “remarkable†and possessing “incredible resilience.†Twenty-two years after a radical prostatectomy the man now has extensive disease, … Read More
August 13, 2010
Valuing Lives: A Conference on Ethics in Health and the Environment The NYU Center for Bioethics New York University March 5, 2011 The NYU Center for Bioethics in conjunction with the NYU Environmental Studies Program will be hosting ‘Valuing Lives: … Read More
August 12, 2010
A BRAIN damaged teenager has been ordered by a Sydney court to undergo blood tests against her wishes in an effort to explain her disability. (The Australian)
August 12, 2010
Mimicking the behaviour of ants, bees and birds started as a poor man’s version of artificial intelligence. It may, though, be the key to the real thing. (The Economist)
August 12, 2010
This presentation will draw from a larger project: ‘After the Culture War? America in the Obama Era’, which examines the competing themes of normalisation of the ‘core’ culture war issues (abortion, same-sex marriage, aid-in-dying, stem cell research) against the contemporary … Read More
