June 24, 2013
A “physician order for life-sustaining treatment†(POLST) is a medical order, signed by a doctor or other authorized medical provider. The product of a conversation between patient and provider, a POLST specifies a patient’s goals and desires as death closes … Read More
June 24, 2013
They have been searching for a human-cell model of early-disease progression. Now, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania scientists have used stem-cell technology to create a research cell line from a patient with advanced pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). (New-Medical.net)
June 24, 2013
After the arrest of Dr. Francisco José Mora in San José on Tuesday as part of a Judicial Investigation Police (OIJ) probe into his involvement in an international organ trafficking operation, legislators scrambled to draft an updated organ donation law … Read More
June 24, 2013
Robert P. George is one of the most prominent conservative backstagers. The McCormick professor of jurisprudence at Princeton, a former member of the President’s Council on Bioethics, author of myriad books and articles, he is embraced in social conservative circles … Read More
June 24, 2013
Written by Max Brooks and published in 2006 under the same title, the novel begins in China, where the initial patient to be infected with the zombie virus is said to be a young boy from a remote Chinese village. … Read More
June 24, 2013
Neurological surgeon David McKalip M.D., a Florida delegate to the American Medical Association (AMA), this week lead the effort to ensure the AMA would stand strongly in favor of organ transplantation for Medicaid patients; and not for rationing such medical treatments because … Read More
June 21, 2013
A deceased 65-year-old woman has provided scientists with the material for the first super high resolution three-dimensional digital model of the human brain. (The Telegraph)
June 21, 2013
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Plan B emergency contraceptive without a prescription for all women of child-bearing age, officials say. (UPI)
June 21, 2013
Now a new project called BioMosaic is building a more comprehensive picture of foreign-borne disease threats in the United States, by merging three separate data tools into a single app for guiding decisions at the time of an outbreak. (New … Read More
June 21, 2013
Patients given a clot-busting drug within six hours of a stroke are more likely to have a good quality of life 18 months afterwards, an international study suggests. However, the review of more than 3,000 patients found the drug – … Read More
June 21, 2013
The Silicon Valley startup is using mobile technology to build better relationships between expectant mothers and their doctors to keep them happy and healthy during pregnancy. It tracks more than 40 health points to create a series of personalized milestones … Read More
June 21, 2013
An Australian-based biomedical company has approached sports scientists and doctors, including those at AFL clubs, spruiking contentious ”frontier” stem cell treatment to help players recover from injury. The developmental and largely unproven treatment, banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency if … Read More
June 21, 2013
deCODE Genetics, the company known for mining the DNA of Iceland’s population to find links between genes and diseases, has hit a snag. As Science reports in this week’s print issue, a national agency that oversees data privacy in Iceland … Read More
June 21, 2013
Perhaps the biggest takeaway from last week’s stem cell conference in Boston is the variety of approaches scientists now have at their disposal to study disease and tissue development, and to test drugs. All through reprogramming. Turning one type of the human body’s … Read More
June 21, 2013
Skin regeneration after serious wounds often takes a long time. When skin grows back after an injury, a scar, marking the place of the once missing skin, can often remain. However, cell growth stem cells and their regulating proteins can … Read More
June 21, 2013
A panel of scientists and legal experts appointed by the government has drawn up a recommendation that will form the basis of new guidelines for Japan’s world-leading embryonic research. (The Telegraph)
June 21, 2013
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a new algorithm that can accurately measure the heart rates of people depicted in ordinary digital video by analyzing imperceptibly small head movements that accompany … Read More
June 20, 2013
The prevalence of dangerous strains of the human papillomavirus — the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States and a principal cause of cervical cancer — has dropped by half among teenage girls in recent years, a striking … Read More
June 20, 2013
But not all countries require that people who choose to donate organs register as organ donors at the Department of Motor Vehicles or online as we do here. Some countries have opt-out systems in which citizens are presumed organ donors … Read More
June 20, 2013
Jingwu Zang says he is baffled by the whole affair. Until last month, he was head of a neurodegenerative-disease research unit in Shanghai, China, for London-based drug firm GlaxoÂSmithKline (GSK). On 22Â May, as he tells it, his boss told him … Read More
June 20, 2013
The death of a 13-year-old girl during a genital mutilation procedure has brought the issue back into the spotlight in Egypt. While some Egyptians are fighting for the practice to be eradicated, others justify it in the name of religion, … Read More
June 20, 2013
Silver used for centuries to fight infection and other germs, with added to antibiotics in trace amounts makes the drugs as much as 1,000 times more effective in treating mice, researchers find. (Los Angeles Times)
June 20, 2013
It’s called ibrutinib, and it’s a potential breakthrough in treating chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) that could leave patients with fewer side effects than chemotherapy. In research published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), scientists report that the experimental … Read More
June 20, 2013
The American Medical Association voted Tuesday to oppose a decades long ban by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which prohibits gay men from donating blood. (ABC News)
June 20, 2013
Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google, believes we will be able to upload our entire brains to computers within the next 32 years – an event known as singularity. Our ‘fragile’ human body parts will be replaced by machine … Read More
