October 8, 2010
ASBH Conference, San Diego, CA Friday, October 22, 2010 This year’s meeting of the hospice and palliative care affinity group will feature a talk and discussion led by Charles von Gunten, MD, PhD, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Palliative Medicine … Read More
October 8, 2010
ASBH presents “Health and Community” October 21-24, 2010 Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel San Diego, CA For more information
October 8, 2010
Ethnic disparities in health and delivery of health care are pronounced in many areas, including traffic accident fatalities, obesity rates and overall mortality. But a recent study in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that African American patients are also … Read More
October 8, 2010
Women who undergo fertility treatment on the NHS could be rationed to one embryo at a time, under an official review. (Telegraph)
October 8, 2010
A U.S. judge on Thursday upheld a key part of President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law that requires Americans to obtain coverage, rejecting a challenge by a conservative interest group. (Reuters)
October 8, 2010
Four Aids activists and a charity worker have been briefly arrested in India during demonstrations in Delhi. They were campaigning against EU trade negotiations which they say threaten the production of generic drugs. (BBC News)
October 8, 2010
All it takes is a quick cyber-jaunt through the world of online gamer forums to see that, for many of the millions that play them, video and computer games are much more than simple diversions. Eidos Montreal’s smash hit, the … Read More
October 8, 2010
For several decades now, studies have consistently shown that physicians have higher rates of suicide than the general population — 40 percent higher for male doctors and a staggering 130 percent higher for female doctors. While research has traced the … Read More
October 8, 2010
Fang Shimin claims that Xin Yu Si (New Threads), the website he runs, posts about 100 allegations of scientific fraud a year, and he has become a folk hero as a result. China has no proper procedures for dealing with … Read More
October 7, 2010
Advances in medical care have transformed our relationship to dying. Medical technology will continue to blur what we mean by death and its relation to our lives, foreshadowed by extraordinary cases such as 41-year-old American Terri Schiavo, who was in … Read More
October 7, 2010
A panel that advises the U.S. government on health and genetics met for the final time yesterday, amid questions surrounding its dissolution as well as concerns that its absence will be missed at a time when genetics is set to … Read More
October 7, 2010
Americans overwhelmingly support embryonic stem cell research, and that backing stretches across a broad range of demographic groups, including Republicans, Catholics and born-again Christians, according to a new Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll. (US News and World Report)
October 7, 2010
Some technologies are so cool they make you do a double take. Case in point: robots being controlled by rat brains. Kevin Warwick, once a cyborg and still a researcher in cybernetics at the University of Reading, has been working … Read More
October 7, 2010
It is estimated that this type of medical tourism could generate more than $3bn a year for India. So could the Indian model of offering cutting-edge medical care, while keeping costs extremely low, be the way forward? (BBC News)
October 7, 2010
Expansion of nurses’ scope of practice is just one of the ways to meet the growing demands for healthcare services created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that are detailed in a new report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM). … Read More
October 6, 2010
I was observing an operation once when, near the end of the long and tense procedure, a manual count of the surgical sponges showed one was missing. The following few minutes were not fun to watch as the exasperated surgical … Read More
October 6, 2010
Francis Collins explains why the NIH is launching a bid to help some doctoral students dramatically reduce the time required to start an independent career. (Nature News)
October 6, 2010
Their son died in a horrific car accident, but that was just the beginning of dealing with his heart-wrenching death for his parents. Next, after he was buried, they found out his brain was on display in the medical examiner’s … Read More
October 6, 2010
The arena of pesticides -– and the battle to fight bugs out in the world’s farm fields -– is expanding to include an unexpected new tool: nanotechnology. That shift has scientists and researchers more than a bit concerned over what, … Read More
October 5, 2010
Presented by The International Bioethics Committee of Unesco and The Joint Session of IBC and The International Bioethics Committee 1, rue Miollis 75732 Paris Cedex 15 – France October 26th and 27th Discussion topics include: The principle of respect for … Read More
October 5, 2010
The 2010 Annual Neuroethics Society Meeting in San Diego, California. Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, CA Thursday, November 11, 5 – 7:30 p.m. Friday, November 12, 8 a.m. – 6 p.m. The Neuroethics Society will hold its second meeting in … Read More
October 5, 2010
Presented by The Center for Practical Bioethics November 12th and 13th. Kansas City, Missouri Twenty years ago, bioethics and law teamed up to defeat a common enemy – paternalistic medicine. Armed with new weapons — the US Supreme Court’s decision … Read More
October 5, 2010
NanoEthics (Volume 4, Issue 2, August 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “From Speculative Nanoethics to Explorative Philosophy of Nanotechnology” by Armin Grunwald, 91-101. “What’s Different, Ethically, About Nanotechnology?: Foundational Questions and Answers” by Robert E. McGinn, … Read More
October 5, 2010
Because of the open market system, where even rich foreign patients can seek organs from local donors, the kidney trade flourished, endangering the lives of many poor donors, such as those from Quezon province. (Inquirer)
October 5, 2010
In 1978, the phrase in-vitro fertilization was something the experts said. The rest of the world spoke of test-tube babies. Newspaper columnists and editorial writers invoked Aldous Huxley’s image of baby hatcheries in his dystopian novel “Brave New World.” (NPR)
