October 15, 2010
Twin girls born in Germany in June and a boy born in Italy in September are the first deliveries in a pilot study of a technique called comparative genomic hybridisation (CGH) by microarray, European scientists said on Friday. (Reuters)
October 14, 2010
Journal of Medical Ethics (Volume 36, Issue 10, October 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “A Pilot Study to Examine Research Subjects’ Perception of Participating in Research in the Emergency Department” by Carmen Paradis, Michael P Phelan, … Read More
October 14, 2010
WHAT good is a diagnostic tool if it is too complicated for doctors to use? This is the dilemma facing psychiatry. In the United States the release back in February of a draft version of the latest edition of the … Read More
October 14, 2010
Barack Obama promised a new era of integrity and openness for American science. Government scientists are now asking what has changed. (Nature News)
October 14, 2010
A weight loss study by Jenny Craig. A survey of sexual health and condom use by Church & Dwight, the company that makes Trojan condoms. Both have earned attention-grabbing headlines recently and raised questions about what constitutes good research practice. … Read More
October 14, 2010
A recent conversation with a physician at my hospital was laced with tension about the different roles of doctors and nurses. “When you get down to it,†he told me, “Patients come to me for care, Theresa, not you.†(New … Read More
October 14, 2010
An Australian right-to-die doctor will on Wednesday morning advise aging Torontonians on the “best drugs†and techniques to commit suicide so they can craft a reliable and peaceful “exit plan.†(National Post)
October 13, 2010
The Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics (Volume 38, Issue 3, Fall 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Achieving Health Equity on a Global Scale Through a Community-Based, Public Health Framework for Action” by Laura Anderko, 486-489. … Read More
October 13, 2010
Doctors in Atlanta are monitoring the first patient to receive an injection of millions of human embryonic stem cells in a government-sanctioned attempt to test the promising but ethically fraught therapy. (Washington Post)
October 13, 2010
The Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled to divine the balance Congress had meant to strike in a 1986 law that established a system to compensate people injured by vaccines while barring some, but not all, lawsuits against vaccine manufacturers. (New … Read More
October 13, 2010
Online health information and disease-risk tests can mislead, confuse and create needless anxiety, and governments should do more ensure the people who use them know what they are buying, experts said on Tuesday. (Reuters)
October 13, 2010
As our understanding of the human brain increases, so will our capability to use that knowledge for practical, engineering purposes. If one steps back and surveys the landscape, some things we can do currently (in the early phases of understanding) … Read More
October 12, 2010
The first patient has been treated with human embryonic stem cells in the first study authorized by the Food and Drug Administration to test the controversial therapy. A patient who was partially paralyzed by a spinal cord injury had millions … Read More
October 12, 2010
Scientists from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics called for increased surveillance of private firms that offer a range of genetic tests for conditions such as Alzheimer’s, body scans to look for tumours or other issues, and those that sell medicines … Read More
October 12, 2010
A GROUP of 12 genetics experts will expose their DNA to public view today to challenge the common view that such information is so private and sensitive that it should not be widely shared. (The Australian)
October 12, 2010
The flaws of the National Institutes of Health’s review board model hinder ethics protections. The White House’s new panel will provide a chance to rewrite the regulations. (Los Angeles Times)
October 12, 2010
Robot-assisted surgery has a number of advantages over traditional surgery – it’s steadier, more precise, less invasive, plus the surgeon doesn’t even have to be in the same room (or continent) as the patient. One of its drawbacks, however, is … Read More
October 12, 2010
The news last week that Robert Edwards won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work on the in vitro fertilization of human eggs may have seemed a little surprising to some observers: IVF has become so mainstream … Read More
October 12, 2010
Bioethics (Volume 24, Issue 9, November 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Moral Fictions and Medical Ethics” by Franklin G. Miller, Robert D. Truog, and Dan W. Brock, 453-460. “An Inquiry Into the Principles of Needs-Based Allocation … Read More
October 12, 2010
Dubai, United Arab Emirates February 7th-10th 2011 The conference will provide will provide a forum for in-depth assessment of the challenges involved in the dynamic and fast moving fields of drug discovery and therapy. It will bring together leading clinicians, … Read More
October 11, 2010
Amanda Boxtel hasn’t walked since a skiing accident left her paralyzed nearly two decades ago. In the video below, she stands and walks for the first time in 18 years using eLegs, a 45-pound wearable robotic exoskeleton aimed at getting … Read More
October 11, 2010
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (Volume 13, Issue 4, 2010) is now available through subscription only. Articles include: “Humanizing Personhood” by Adam Kadlac, 421-437.
October 8, 2010
The Center for Bioethics, Health and Society at Wake Forest University is pleased to announce a new initiative to give junior (untenured) faculty working in bioethics an opportunity to present works-in-progress to scholars in bioethics and related fields. Submission deadline: … Read More
October 8, 2010
The Center for Bioethics, Health & Society presents SciTech Europe 2010 The Square, Brussels, Belgium Wake Forest University November 23, 2010 For more information
October 8, 2010
Medical University of South Carolina presents The 17th Annual Thomas A., Pitts Memorial Lectureship in Medical Ethics. From Laboratory to Bedside:Â Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in Translational Research October 29-30, 2010 For more information Any question about this conference … Read More
