November 26, 2012
Warwick, celebrated as the first cyborg (a superhuman who has both biological and artificial parts in the body), is best known for being the world’s first human to have a chip surgically implanted in his arm and conducting experiments on … Read More
November 26, 2012
Each year, CDC requests abortion data from the central health agencies of 52 reporting areas (the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and New York City). The reporting areas provide this information voluntarily. For 2009, data were received from 48 … Read More
November 26, 2012
India’s ambassador here has agreed to ask Prime Minister Enda Kenny of Ireland for an independent inquiry into the death of an Indian-born woman last month after doctors refused to perform an abortion when she was having a miscarriage, the … Read More
November 23, 2012
As the debate intensifies between those for and against nanotechnology, the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development of the Parliamentary Assembly proposed today that the Council of Europe should draw up legal standards which would be designed to … Read More
November 23, 2012
U.S. abortions fell 5 percent during the recession and its aftermath in the biggest one-year decrease in at least a decade, perhaps because women are more careful to use birth control when times are tough, researchers say. (Wall Street Journal)
November 23, 2012
Hobby Lobby Stores has appealed a federal judge’s decision denying the craft supply chain’s request to not provide employees with insurance that covers morning-after and week-after birth control pills, as mandated by the ObamaCare law. (Fox News)
November 23, 2012
The dangers of unchecked research into artificial intelligence will be explored at a conference held at Oxford University next month. The Winter Intelligence Conference is organised by the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University and will be held 8-11 … Read More
November 23, 2012
Patent thickets occur in other high-tech fields, but the consequences for nanotechnology are dire because of the potential power and immaturity of the field. Advances are being stifled at birth because downstream innovation almost always infringes some early broad patents. … Read More
November 23, 2012
Access to radiation treatments to ease cancer symptoms in the last days of life may be driven by costs and other non-medical considerations, a new U.S. study concludes. (Reuters)
November 23, 2012
This is the second half of a panel discussion about the social and medical implications of the new science of genomics. Will it change the way we think about behaviour and personal responsibility? How well equipped are people to judge … Read More
November 21, 2012
‘I did this as a human being, not as a gay man.†New York resident Kevin Moran is reflecting on his decision to have a family as a 50-year-old single man, by means of egg donation and surrogacy. He is … Read More
November 21, 2012
Scientists have used a special cell to regenerate damaged parts of dogs’ spines. Researchers are cautiously excited about these results which could potentially have a future role in the treatment of human patients with similar spinal injuries. (Medical News Today)
November 21, 2012
The bright line between “social” and “economic” issues in American politics is perhaps blurrier than one might think. One study shows the economic effects of abortion, finding significant economic consequences for women who carried unwanted pregnancies to term. (U.S. News … Read More
November 21, 2012
Sebastian Thrun, winner of the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for education is redefining the modern classroom. (Smithsonian Magazine)
November 21, 2012
EVERY week about five elderly Australians commit suicide, and euthanasia advocates say most of them hang themselves for lack of a better way to end their pain. (The Herald Sun)
November 21, 2012
The Obama administration proposed new rules Tuesday that would loosen some of the 2010 health-care law’s mandates on insurers while tightening others. (Washington Post)
November 20, 2012
The human longevity bonanza that gives newborns today three decades more of life expectancy than they would have had a century ago appears to have no real stopping point. (Herald Tribune)
November 20, 2012
What would your doctor do in a tricky ethical situation? Medscape, WebMD’s physician web site, recently surveyed 24,000 doctors to find out. They asked doctors how they’d handle a wide range of ethical dilemmas, including sex with patients, assisted suicide, … Read More
November 20, 2012
In a broad new expansion of HIV screening, an influential government panel now says everyone ages 15 to 65 should be tested for the virus that causes AIDS. (U.S.A. Today)
November 20, 2012
At what point does your everyday computing device turn you into a cybernetic organism? We are on the cusp of a new revolution, ushering in an age of head-mounted computing and augmented reality. The most successful wearable computers won’t just … Read More
November 20, 2012
Tesla was hardly alone in believing this. Support for eugenics was one of the few things that people across political lines in the early 20th Century would agree on, from socialists like H.G. Wells to the Supreme Court of the … Read More
November 20, 2012
A mother has given birth to a record-breaking set of twins from eggs frozen 12 years ago, giving fresh hope to cancer survivors wanting to become parents. (Times of India)
November 20, 2012
A federal judge on Friday temporarily prevented the Obama administration from forcing a Christian publishing company to provide its employees with certain contraceptives under the new health-care law. (Washington Post)
November 19, 2012
VOLUNTARY euthanasia is being pushed to the political forefront again, as a new survey shows that 70 per cent of people believe euthanasia should be legal. (Herald Sun)
November 19, 2012
The family of former vice president Lien Chan has been reveling in the joy of three new granddaughters after his eldest daughter, Lien Hui-hsin, sought to end 17 years of infertility with her husband, Chen Hung-yuan, through surrogates in the … Read More
