November 5, 2012
The Medical tourism industry in India has a potential to contribute around 25 per cent in the country’s GDP (gross domestic product) over the next five years if the potential will be fully-tapped, according to Varsha Lafargue, founder and chairperson … Read More
November 5, 2012
China plans to launch a national voluntary organ donation system early next year in a bid to fulfill growing transplant lists and phase out its long-criticized reliance on organs from executed prisoners. (Wall Street Journal)
November 5, 2012
Arthur R. Jensen, an educational psychologist who ignited an international firestorm with a 1969 article suggesting that the gap in intelligence-test scores between black and white students might be rooted in genetic differences between the races, died on Oct. 22 … Read More
November 2, 2012
Imagine you’re a Belgian industrialist with an idea for a device that treats certain cancers. You’re convinced it would be a huge improvement over the existing standard. But it would also be hideously expensive, at least initially, and your specialized … Read More
November 2, 2012
In this article, we focus on the cellular therapy space, which we define as the “deployment of various stem cell classes for the explicit use in the restoration of a given physiological function in vivo that has been damaged by … Read More
November 2, 2012
Of the numerous ballot initiatives that will be decided at the state level on Tuesday, none is more hotly contested than the Massachusetts bill to decide whether to legalize physician-assisted suicide. The citizens of Massachusetts, my home state, should vote to … Read More
November 2, 2012
New noninvasive methods of selecting the most viable embryo could revolutionize in vitro fertilization. (The Scientist)
November 2, 2012
If one were to rank a list of civilization’s greatest and most elusive intellectual challenges, the problem of “decoding” ourselves — understanding the inner workings of our minds and our brains, and how the architecture of these elements is encoded … Read More
November 1, 2012
Bioethics (Vol. 26 Issue 9) is now available online and in print.  Articles include questions about religion, enhancment.  A large portion of the issue is dedicated to a debate over homeopathy. Human Enhancement And Sexual Dimorphism By Rob Sparrow ‘They … Read More
November 1, 2012
Journal of Medical Ethics (Vol. 38 Issue 11, November 1, 2012) is now available in print and online. Articles include: Evaluating a patient’s request for life-prolonging treatment: an ethical framework by Eva C Winkler, Wolfgang Hiddemann, Georg Marckmann (full text … Read More
November 1, 2012
NEXT week, voters in Massachusetts will decide whether to adopt an assisted-suicide law. As a good pro-choice liberal, I ought to support the effort. But as a lifelong disabled person, I cannot. (New York Times)
November 1, 2012
If the information Myriad Genetics has collected about breast cancer mutations remains proprietary, costs of gene tests could increase while quality declines, argues Robert Cook-Deegan, a policy researcher at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. In a paper published today … Read More
November 1, 2012
Planned Parenthood will continue to receive funds from a joint Texas and federal program providing health care to low-income women, despite the state’s promise to exclude its clinics by Nov. 1 because they are affiliated with abortion providers. (Huffington Post)
November 1, 2012
A television chef has told how she stepped in after hearing that her elderly mother was on an end-of-life care pathway despite staging a dramatic recovery. (Telegraph)
