April 12, 2013
After a crash inspection program, federal regulators said Thursday that they had found numerous unsafe practices at about 30 compounding pharmacies, the same type of facility responsible for the tainted drug that caused a deadly meningitis outbreak last year. (New … Read More
April 12, 2013
A new Global Action Plan launched today by the WHO and UNICEF has the potential to save up to 2 million children every year from deaths caused by pneumonia and diarrhoea, some of the leading killers of children under five … Read More
April 12, 2013
A team of researchers from the Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine are currently under fire for allegedly altering research data for favorable results, and possibly doing clinical stem cell trials on humans without the required animal testing phase. (Japan Daily … Read More
April 12, 2013
Hundreds of American couples are hiring women in India as surrogate mothers. For many couples, the only hope to create a child of their own is to fertilize an egg in a test-tube and implant it in a surrogate. (CBS … Read More
April 12, 2013
The US supreme court will hear oral arguments next week to decide whether companies can patent human genes, in a landmark case which could alter the course of US medical research and the battle against diseases such as breast and … Read More
April 12, 2013
Nanowires and nanotubes, slender structures that are only a few billionths of a meter in diameter but many thousands or millions of times longer, have become hot materials in recent years. They exist in many forms — made of metals, … Read More
April 12, 2013
Baby boomers, like Burzichelli, a former education manager at Rutgers University, are at the forefront of a new movement. They brought on the sexual revolution, demanded natural childbirth, fought for legalized abortion and turned the mid- life crisis into a … Read More
April 12, 2013
Infertility affects millions of people every year. Turning to in vitro fertilization (IVF) could give you the family you want – but the process can be confusing. (Fox News)
April 11, 2013
Personal genomics services are becoming popular for genealogical or ancestry-tracing purposes. But this direct-to-consumer practice undermines promises of sperm-donor anonymity, which is still common in clinics in many countries. (Nature, by subscription only)
April 11, 2013
The visible brain has arrived — the consistency of Jell-O, as transparent and colorful as a child’s model, but vastly more useful. Scientists at Stanford University reported on Wednesday that they have made a whole mouse brain, and part of … Read More
April 11, 2013
The federal agency that protects patients in U.S. clinical trials has concluded that leading universities didn’t adequately inform parents of the risk of death or blindness in a study of how much oxygen should be given to very premature infants. … Read More
April 11, 2013
Governments on both sides of the Atlantic are placing big new bets on the future of brain science, just as much of the pharmaceutical industry retreats from the field. (Reuters)
April 11, 2013
Deep inside your brain, a legion of stem cells lies ready to turn into new brain and nerve cells whenever and wherever you need them most. While they wait, they keep themselves in a state of perpetual readiness – poised … Read More
April 11, 2013
Stephen Hawking toured a stem cell laboratory Tuesday where scientists are studying ways to slow the progression of Lou Gehrig’s disease, a neurological disorder that has left the British cosmologist almost completely paralyzed. (ABC News)
April 11, 2013
Studies show 97 percent of American adults get less than 30 minutes of exercise a day, which is the minimum recommended amount based on federal guidelines. New research from the University of Missouri suggests certain genetic traits may predispose people … Read More
April 11, 2013
Physician-assisted suicide laws can raise controversy and concern with their passage, but a new study from Washington state suggests many of those fears may be unfounded. (U.S. News and World Report)
April 11, 2013
Mobile phones should be used to express and store our end-of-life medical care preferences, experts say. (Medical Xpress)
April 10, 2013
The long list of roles Margaret Thatcher played during her 87 years — potent politician, free-market evangelist, labor antagonist, dominant global leader — includes the one she never publicly discussed: person with dementia. (New York Times)
April 10, 2013
The biggest thing in operating rooms these days is a million-dollar, multi-armed robot named da Vinci, used in nearly 400,000 surgeries nationwide last year — triple the number just four years earlier. But now the high-tech helper is under scrutiny … Read More
April 10, 2013
UK scientists have embarked on a six-year project to map how nerve connections develop in babies’ brains while still in the womb and after birth. (BBC)
April 10, 2013
Twenty-five years after Prozac was introduced, the name has entered the cultural lexicon and helped define how people think of mental illness. (BBC)
April 10, 2013
Robert Edwards, a British Nobel prize-winning scientist known as the father of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) for pioneering the development of “test tube babies”, died on Wednesday aged 87 after a long illness, his university said. (Reuters)
April 10, 2013
Brain studies are the current darling of the sciences, research capable of garnering tens or even hundreds of millions in new funding for ambitious new projects, the kind of money that was once reserved only for big physics projects. (Scientific … Read More
April 10, 2013
The Vatican on Thursday will organize a conference to promote adult stem cell research as an alternative to research using destroyed human embryos, which is considered by the Roman Catholic Church as deeply unethical and less effective. (AFP)
April 10, 2013
As donors and surrogates make things potentially more complicated to explain, picture books remain eloquent ways of helping kids understand where they came from. (The Atlantic)
