September 25, 2012
A South Korean private bioengineering laboratory led by disgraced stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk said Monday it is stepping up efforts to make progress in cloning an extinct woolly mammoth. (The Korea Herarld)
September 25, 2012
The World Medical Association will revise the Declaration of Helsinki before the core biomedical ethics document’s 50th anniversary in 2014, a process sure to spark intense debate over the use of placebos during clinical trials in poor countries, and guaranteed … Read More
September 25, 2012
When the federal government began providing billions of dollars in incentives to push hospitals and physicians to use electronic medical and billing records, the goal was not only to improve efficiency and patient safety, but also to reduce health care … Read More
September 24, 2012
The health board said it would no longer provide treatment to couples if either of them smoked, or if doctors considered the woman to be overweight. (BBC)
September 24, 2012
In a move that could alter the way that breast cancers are treated, researchers have redefined the disease into four main classes and determined that one type of breast cancer has more in common with an aggressive form of ovarian … Read More
September 24, 2012
The use of performance-enhancing drugs is now a public health matter rather than simply a sporting problem, delegates said at a top anti-doping conference. (Reuters)
September 24, 2012
A year after my mother’s uncomfortable decline, it’s a question with which I’m still wrestling. (Salon)
September 24, 2012
On Friday, Houston’s MD Anderson Cancer Center is announcing its own “Moon Shots Program,” aimed at significantly reducing the number of deaths from a handful of cancers by the end of this decade. (CNN)
September 24, 2012
Cuban scientists have developed a new variation of a drug used to prevent the rejection of organ transplants and which constitutes the first nanopharmaceutical product that the island has manufactured on an industrial scale. (Fox)
September 24, 2012
The prison population is particularly prone to this viral disease, which is transmitted largely through infected blood and can lead to liver cirrhosis and cancer. (New York Times)
September 24, 2012
Scientists at Cardiff University believe adding protein to human sperm could help improve male fertility. (BBC)
September 24, 2012
It’s not every day that a new academic discipline is born. But that’s exactly what happened in 2012, when the Project on Bioethics, Sexuality and Gender Identity – or “Queer Bioethics,” for short – came to life at the University … Read More
September 24, 2012
A judge who criticised UK abortion policies while sentencing a woman to eight years in prison for performing her own abortion at a late stage in her pregnancy is one of at least five members of the judiciary with links … Read More
September 24, 2012
Ex-Detroit Lions great Gail Cogdill has a failing heart but is too old for a transplant – so he’s turning to the Internet for help. (CBS News)
September 21, 2012
While public health efforts have curbed the number of car fatalities by 25% over the last decade, a new study shows suicide deaths rose by 15% during the same period. (WebMD News)
September 20, 2012
Health Policy and Planning (Vol. 27, No. 6Â September 2012) is now available online. Articles include: “Perceived quality of and access to care among poor urban women in Kenya and their utilization of delivery care: harnessing the potential of private clinics?” … Read More
September 20, 2012
Nursing Philosophy (Volume 13, Issue 4 Pages 233 – 306, October 2012) is now available online and by subscription only. Articles include: The excesses of care: a matter of understanding the asymmetry of power (pages 236–243) by Charlotte Delmar Furthering the … Read More
September 20, 2012
A team at the Allen Institute for Brain Science has created the first human brain-wide map of gene expression data. (L.A. Times)
September 20, 2012
Artificial wombs, lifelong fertility – it seems the stuff of dystopian sci-fi, but an author says it will happen. (Salon)
September 20, 2012
Who’s watching the health care professionals? A Johns Hopkins surgeon calls for a major paradigm shift. (The Atlantic)
September 20, 2012
Hundreds of hopeful couples ran a five kilometer race in Utah in a competition to win one free round of in vitro fertilization. (ABC)
September 20, 2012
Two Swedish women have received new wombs donated by their mothers in the first mother-to-daughter uterine transplants, officials said. (CNN)
September 19, 2012
For some women facing reproductive issues, a faster way of freezing and storing eggs is expanding their reproductive options. (Medical Xpress)
September 19, 2012
Britain faces a growing crisis in its ability to care for people dying of cancer, dementia and other long-term diseases, doctors are warning. (Telegraph)
September 19, 2012
Here is a recipe for anxiety: take China’s poorly enforced chemical-safety regulations, add its tainted record on product safety and stir in the uncertain risks of a booming nanotechnology industry. (Nature)
