January 19, 2012
The insignificant size of penalties awarded this month (1 January) against doctors involved in irregular clinical trials has refuelled a national debate on how to protect volunteers recruited to take part in this growing industry. (Nature News)
January 19, 2012
Proposed changes in the definition of autism would sharply reduce the skyrocketing rate at which the disorder is diagnosed and may make it harder for many people who would no longer meet the criteria to get health, educational and social … Read More
January 19, 2012
A rising proportion of abortions worldwide are putting women’s health at risk, researchers say. (BBC News)
January 19, 2012
Researchers in California are attempting to make an artificial testicle that will produce human sperm. (ABC News)
January 19, 2012
The New England Journal of Medicine (Volume 366, Issue 1, January 5, 2012) is now available on-line and by subscription only. Articles include: “The Irrelevance of the Broccoli Argument against the Insurance Mandate” by E. Elhauge, available on-line. “Efficacy Results … Read More
January 18, 2012
Stem Cells (Volume 30, Issue 1, January 2012) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Our Top 10 Developments in Stem Cell Biology over the Last 30 Years” by Lyle Armstrong, Majlinda Lako, Noel Buckley, Terry R.J. Lappin, Martin … Read More
January 18, 2012
The Journal of the American Medical Association (Volume 307, Issue 1) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Where Are the Health Care Cost Savings?” by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, 39-40. “Two Years and Counting: How Will the Effects of … Read More
January 18, 2012
A fetus’s gender should not be revealed until after 30 weeks of pregnancy, says an editorial in the Canadian Medical Journal. (CBC News)
January 18, 2012
For most adults, a cavity calls for a quick prick of Novocain and a 20-minute filling. But for 40-year-old Tina Lumbley of Moreno Valley, Calif., the routine procedure was a day-long ordeal. (ABC News)
January 18, 2012
Physicians should consider data on cost-effectiveness when making treatment recommendations and ought to behave professionally when using social media. (American Medical News)
January 18, 2012
Three-year-old Amelia Rivera desperately needs a kidney transplant to live. But Amelia’s mom, Chrissy, says the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia won’t let her daughter get a transplant because she is “mentally retarded.” (CBS News)
January 17, 2012
America’s obesity epidemic is proving to be as stubborn as those maddening love handles, and shows no sign of reversing course. (Washington Post)
January 17, 2012
To head off medical conflicts of interest, the Obama administration is poised to require drug companies to disclose the payments they make to doctors for research, consulting, speaking, travel and entertainment. (NY Times)
January 17, 2012
The procedure starts with a surgeon drilling two holes in the patient’s skull. “Every bone and tooth in my head was rattling,” says Lisa Battiloro, who was awake, but not in pain, during the eight-hour operation. (Wall Street Journal)
January 17, 2012
When a CT scan showed multiple tumors in Dawna Harwell’s pelvis, abdomen and spine in 2008, her doctors in Dallas told her she might have ovarian cancer, which can be especially deadly. (Wall Street Journal)
January 17, 2012
Fake and poor quality anti-malarial drugs are threatening efforts to control the disease in Africa and could put millions of lives at risk, scientists say. (BBC News)
January 17, 2012
The New England Journal of Medicine (Volume 365, Issue 26, December 29, 2011) is now available on-line and by subscription only. Articles include: “Building the Path to Accountable Care” by E.S. Fisher, M.B. McClellan, and D.G. Safran, available on-line. “Copyright … Read More
January 17, 2012
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (Volume 21, Issue 1, January 2012) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Terminal Suffering and the Ethics of Palliative Sedation” by Ben A. Rich, 30-39. “Research Priorities and the Future of Pregnancy” by … Read More
January 16, 2012
Journal of Medical Ethics (Volume 38, Issue 1, January 2012) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Fear of a Female Planet: How John Harris Came to Endorse Eugenic Social Engineering” by Robert Sparrow. “Innovative Surgery: The Ethical Challenges” … Read More
January 13, 2012
Bioethics (Volume 26, Issue 1, January 2012) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “‘To Thine Own Self Be True:’ On the Loss of Integrity as a Kind of Suffering” by Henri Wijsbek, 1-7. “On the Need for Improved … Read More
January 13, 2012
Surgeons in Sweden have replaced the cancerous windpipe of a Maryland man with one made in a laboratory and seeded with the man’s cells. (NY Times)
January 13, 2012
Efforts to increase the primary care work force, such as expanding medical school classes and offering incentives to those who go into primary care, aren’t enough to meet growing demands for care, said a report from the National Institute for … Read More
January 13, 2012
India has gone a full year without recording a new case of polio, a significant benchmark for the South Asian nation and an encouraging development for health professionals fighting to eradicate the stubborn disease worldwide. (LA Times)
January 13, 2012
The Obama administration said Thursday that rate increases sought by a health insurance company were unreasonable, and it ordered the insurer to rescind them or justify its refusal to do so. (NY Times)
January 13, 2012
For years, doctors around the country taking an exam to become board certified in radiology have cheated by memorizing test questions, creating sophisticated banks of what are known as “recalls,” a CNN investigation has found. (CNN)
