August 9, 2010
Cameras were there taping her birth in 1981, and three days later she was the star of her first press conference, with her face on every newspaper and news station in America. But Elizabeth Comeau doesn’t want her new son … Read More
August 9, 2010
Academic medical centers need comprehensive policies to manage their physicians’ relationships with industry and other commercial interests, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). (KevinMD/a>)
August 9, 2010
The official installation of Unesco’s first francophone Africa chair of bioethics has taken place at the University of Bouaké, based in Abidjan. (University World News)
August 9, 2010
When scientists play politics with science, society and science both suffer, sometimes with life-threatening implications. One recent example is Climategate, with revelations that leading global warming researchers played with the data, concealed and tried to suppress data that challenged their … Read More
August 6, 2010
Developing World Bioethics (Volume 10, Issue 2, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “The Future of Bioethics” by Udo Schüklenk, ii-iii. “Reproductive Tourism in Argentina: Clinic Accreditation and its Implications for Consumers, Health Professionals and Policy Makers” … Read More
August 6, 2010
By simply switching on three critical genes, researchers have coaxed mouse skin cells into becoming heart muscle cells — without their first reverting back to an embryonic, stem-cell-like state. (Nature News)
August 6, 2010
FOR generations, the Avidians have been cloning themselves quietly in a box. They’re not perfect, but most of their mutations go unnoticed. Then something remarkable happens. One steps forward, and that changes everything. Tens of thousands of generations down the … Read More
August 6, 2010
One of the most controversial and potentially dangerous treatments for autism has gained another small foothold in the United States. (New Scientist)
August 6, 2010
A STRATEGY to improve end of life care should not focus solely on place of death, a health board member has warned. NHS Lothian has recently rubber stamped its Living and Dying Well in Lothian document, which is aimed at … Read More
August 6, 2010
Meat from the offspring of a cloned cow has entered Britain’s food chain, officials admitted yesterday. The Food Standards Agency made the discovery as it probed a report that milk from the offspring of a cloned cow had been put … Read More
August 6, 2010
A controversial new rule by the National Collegiate Athletic Association went into effect this month, requiring all Division I athletes to be screened for a genetic sickle cell trait. (CNN)
August 6, 2010
Experts concerned about the availability of DIY genetic tests have launched guidelines for the industry. (BBC News)
August 6, 2010
NEJM (Volume 363, Number 3, July 15, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Facing the Wild West of Health Care Reform – Donal Berwick, Pioneer” by J.K. Iglehart. “Disclosing Industry Relationships – Toward an Improved Federal Research … Read More
August 5, 2010
8TH Annual Quandaries in Health Care Conference “A Need to Confess?: Writing About the Healthcare Experience†September 30 – October 2, 2010 The Given Institute of the University of Colorado Aspen, Colorado Quandaries in Health Care is an annual conference … Read More
August 5, 2010
Archives of Internal Medicine (Volume 170, Number 14, July 26, 2010) is now available by subscription only. “Racial Differences in Admissions to High-Quality Hospitals for Coronary Heart Disease” by Ioana Popescu, Brahmajee K. Nallamothu, Mary S. Vaughan-Sarrazin, and Peter Cram, … Read More
August 5, 2010
JAMA (Volume 304, Number 4, July 28, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Reducing Diagnostic Error Through Medical Home-Based Primary Care Reform” by Hardeep Singh and Mark Graber, 463-464. “Medical Leadership in an Increasingly Complex World” by … Read More
August 4, 2010
The L.A.-based sperm bank offers an option to prospective parents of seeing which celebrity a donor looks like. That’s just silly. (Los Angeles Times)
August 4, 2010
Utilizing TCA Cellular’s proprietary therapy, a couple of thousand adult stem cells have been extracted from the patient’s own bone marrow, Mesenchymal Stem Cells have been separated, purified, multiplied to millions and will be infused into Cole’s spinal cord later … Read More
August 4, 2010
Last week the Food and Drug Administration gave its first approval for a clinical trial of an embryonic stem cell treatment. Embryonic stem cells are special because they can grow, or differentiate, into any kind of human tissue. Many believe … Read More
August 4, 2010
High-tech medical devices can raise tricky ethical questions — just consider the left ventricular assist device (LVAD). The pricey device essentially takes over the function of the left ventricle, helping a heart to continue beating when it would otherwise fail. … Read More
August 4, 2010
The recent decision by Sir Nicholas Wall, president of the Family Division of the English Court of Protection, to allow doctors to force surgery on a woman with learning difficulties who refused potentially life saving cancer treatment, has reopened the … Read More
August 4, 2010
I was sent an old article from 2001 that focused on personhood theory and the attempt to redefine death, which criticized bioethics for being unduly Western in its outlook,. (It seems to me that a great deal of energy in … Read More
August 4, 2010
Doctors have carried out pioneering lifesaving surgery to give a new windpipe to a British teenager suffering from cancer. The 19-year-old was able to speak within a few days of the operation carried out in Italy using her own stem … Read More
August 4, 2010
If we are to believe transhumanists, people who bill themselves as champions of superlongevity and artificial human enhancement, 2045 should be a very good year. (The Boston Globe)
August 3, 2010
NEJM (Volume 363, Number 4, July 22, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Efficacy of Gene Therapy for X-Linked Severe Combined Immunodeficiency” by Salima Hacein-Bey-Albina and Others “Patient-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem-Cell Models for Long QT Syndrome” by … Read More
