June 20, 2013
Francisco José Mora, chief of nephrology at the public Calderón Guardia Hospital, was arrested Tuesday in a broadening probe of human organ trafficking. (Tico Times)
June 20, 2013
Edmund D. Pellegrino, a physician and former Catholic University president who was a leading figure in bioethics, a field of inquiry that has pushed doctors, patients and society at large to confront essential quandaries of caring for the sick, died … Read More
June 20, 2013
An open letter published in the Lancet medical journal calls for hunger-striking Guantanamo Bay detainees to receive independent medical care. (BBC)
June 20, 2013
Stem cell researchers in Europe have gained ground in their challenge to a ban on embryonic patents after a High Court judge in London referred a question back to the European Court of Justice as to whether the ban should … Read More
June 20, 2013
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a new guideline to improve patient safety by reducing unexpected disease transmission through organ transplantation. This guideline updates the 1994 U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) guideline for preventing transmission … Read More
June 20, 2013
Over the past decade the number of births involving surrogacy with donor eggs and sperm has surged. What, experts wondered, does this mean for the mental and emotional health of the growing number of kids who may or may not … Read More
June 20, 2013
Bullying is a public health problem that can be prevented to improve the health of young people, researchers say. (CBC News)
June 19, 2013
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today unveiled the winners of an unusual competition in which academic researchers teamed up with pharmaceutical companies to propose new uses for abandoned drugs. The nine projects, funded at a total of $12.7 million … Read More
June 19, 2013
U.S. healthcare inflation is projected to drop to 6.5 percent next year despite millions more newly insured Americans added to the system, consultants say. (UPI)
June 19, 2013
The American Medical Association declared obesity a disease, which means 90 million U.S. adults and children have a medical condition requiring treatment. (UPI)
June 19, 2013
Pollutants in the air are known to affect brain development, but the first national study of in utero exposure and autism rates raises new concerns. (CNN)
June 19, 2013
The House of Representatives voted this evening to pass legislation to ban abortion after 20 weeks, except in what Democrats assailed as “narrow†cases of incest of a minor, rape, and health of the mother, prompting a partisan debate on … Read More
June 19, 2013
Japanese experts were on Tuesday set to discuss rules for experiments with animal-human embryos, as scientists seek permission for tests that could see human organs produced inside the growing body of an animal. (Fox News)
June 19, 2013
Forty-one states have enacted abortion restrictions at different stages of pregnancy. The chart below shows at which point after a woman’s last menstrual period that state laws ban abortion. Each bar’s height is proportional to the state’s population. (New York … Read More
June 19, 2013
Terminally ill patients are suffering wildly varying standards of end-of-life care depending on their disease, postcode and ethnicity, a new report has found. (The Telegraph)
June 18, 2013
A system which uses giant holograms to help medical students master their subject has been pioneered by two London-based junior doctors. (BBC)
June 18, 2013
The eyes of people with neurological conditions, including ADHD and Parkinson’s, have a distinctive motion that could form the basis of clinical diagnosis. (Scientific American)
June 18, 2013
A brand-name drug maker can be sued for violating antitrust laws if it agrees to pay a potential competitor to delay selling a generic version, the Supreme Court ruled. (Los Angeles Times)
June 18, 2013
In her new book, “What Doctors Feel,†Dr. Danielle Ofri tells the unforgettable story of a pediatrician she interviewed, a woman she calls Eva. In taut, vivid prose, Dr. Ofri describes a tragic event that occurred during Eva’s residency. She … Read More
June 18, 2013
Despite India’s enormous population, it would be cost-effective to fight its growing AIDS epidemic by testing all 800 million sexually active adults in the country every five years and treating all those infected, a new statistical study has concluded. (New … Read More
June 18, 2013
The beleaguered Susan G. Komen Foundation has named a nationally known health policy and research expert in Washington, D.C. to replace founder Nancy Brinker as its chief executive, the breast cancer charity announced Monday. (Washington Post)
June 18, 2013
The stigma associated with mental illness discourages investment in finding cures — even though the burden of the disorders on society is immense. (Nature)
June 18, 2013
Most people in the United States could soon know someone whose genome is held in a research database. Concerns are growing about our ability to properly control access to that information. Also growing among some scientists is the feeling that … Read More
June 18, 2013
A special type of in vitro fertilization, or IVF, may increase the risk for insulin resistance among children conceived in this way, according to a new study from Greece. The results will be presented Monday at The Endocrine Society’s 95th … Read More
June 18, 2013
In a world first, a healthy baby has been born using a “safer” method of the infertility treatment IVF. Baby Heath – who is now nearly eight weeks old – was conceived using a natural hormone to kick-start his mother’s … Read More
