June 18, 2012
Bioethics (Volume 26, Issue 6, July 2012) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “‘Because We See Them Naked’ – Nurses’ Experiences in Caring for Hospitalized Patients with Dementia: Considering Artificial Nutrition or Hydration” by Els Bryon, Bernadette Dierckx … Read More
June 15, 2012
Medical paper claims some trials of already licensed medicines are carried out to increase sales rather than improve drug. (Guardian)
June 15, 2012
When Erika Royer’s lupus led to kidney failure four years ago, her father, Radburn, was able to give her an extraordinary gift: a kidney. (NY Times)
June 15, 2012
If all goes as the wireless health industry plans, it can start introducing far more products that allow physicians to monitor patients with no wires attached. (American Medical News)
June 15, 2012
Images of patients on ventilators on cigarette packets help smokers heed the health warnings about smoking, says US research. (BBC News)
June 15, 2012
The New England Journal of Medicine (Volume 366, Issue 24, June 14, 2012) is now available on-line and by subscription only. Articles include: “Court-Ordered Care — A Complication of Pregnancy to Avoid” by Julie D. Cantor, available on-line. “Geographic Variation … Read More
June 14, 2012
Nature Biotechnology (Volume 30, Issue 6, June 2012) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Discontent with Consent” available on-line. “Proof of Concept for Next-Generation Nanoparticle Drugs in Humans” available on-line. “Agency Defies Advice and Rejects Gene Therapy for … Read More
June 14, 2012
Researchers from Harvard Medical School soon will begin testing a checklist-style approach to helping cancer patients get the kind of end-of-life care they want. The plans, detailed in June at a meeting of the International Society of Advance Care Planning … Read More
June 14, 2012
Nurses and carers will also face a legal duty to consider the “well-being and dignity†of the elderly. The legal ban on age discrimination in public services will come into force in October, the Coalition will confirm. (Telegraph)
June 14, 2012
If New York City bans big sodas, what’s next on the list? Large slices of pizza? Double-scoop ice cream cones? Tubs of movie-theater popcorn? The 16-ounce strip steak? (Washington Post)
June 14, 2012
Feng Jianmei says she was manhandled by seven people, some of them local family planning officials, some of whom she didn’t know. Feng, 22 years old and seven months pregnant, was dragged out of her relative’s home, carried and shoved … Read More
June 13, 2012
Adrian Owen still gets animated when he talks about patient 23. The patient was only 24 years old when his life was devastated by a car accident. Alive but unresponsive, he had been languishing in what neurologists refer to as … Read More
June 13, 2012
The use of CT scans has tripled in the last 15 years, a new study found, which means the average American is exposed to twice as much radiation from medical imaging as in the mid-1990s. (ABC News)
June 13, 2012
Scientists in Sweden are reporting a medical first: a vein grown in a lab for a 10-year-old girl using her body’s own cells. (ABC News)
June 13, 2012
UCLA continues to make advances in stem cell research. Their latest breakthrough involved the use of fresh, purified fat stem cells to grow bone. (Examiner)
June 13, 2012
The United States voiced opposition Monday to China’s one-child policy after activists reported that a five-month-pregnant woman faces an imminent forced abortion. (AFP)
June 13, 2012
Right-to-die activists hope more countries will allow assisted suicide or euthanasia in coming years as the world population ages, but opponents are determined to stop them, a dispute that flared ahead of competing conferences in Switzerland. (Reuters)
June 12, 2012
Physicians are accustomed to fielding many challenging questions from patients, but there is one query that they may find especially flummoxing, considering the delicate terrain it requires them to traverse. The question: “Doctor, will you pray with me?†(American Medical … Read More
June 12, 2012
Pavle Mircov and his partner Daniella nervously scan their e-mail in-box every 15 minutes, desperate for economic salvation: a buyer willing to pay €30,000 for one of their kidneys. (NY Times)
June 12, 2012
The genteel but lucrative world of academic publishing is being stirred up by a dispute over who pays for and who profits from scientific research funded largely by taxpayers. (Reuters)
June 12, 2012
Officials in Hungary united this week to condemn ongoing ethnic violence and anti-Semitic attacks, including an assault on the former Chief Rabbi on 5 June. But a cause for further soul-searching has emerged: a scientific scandal recalling discredited notions of … Read More
June 12, 2012
U.S. health spending is expected to grow at historically low levels for the next two years before increasing temporarily if most of the federal health overhaul takes effect, according to new government projections released Tuesday. (Wall Street Journal)
June 12, 2012
An influential British bioethics group says that couples who face the risk of having a baby with certain genetic diseases should be allowed to use eggs from two women to produce the embryo. (Washington Post)
June 11, 2012
Each day, Yoshica Smalls-Jones cleans and prepares a feeding tube, administers medicines with a nebulizer and operates a ventilator to aid a patient’s breathing. (Wall Street Journal)
June 11, 2012
He steered into the high school parking lot, clicked off the ignition and scanned the scraps of his recent weeks. Crinkled chip bags on the dashboard. Soda cups at his feet. (NY Times)
