March 24, 2020
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (vol. 29, no. 1, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “In Memoriam. Dan Callahan: Writing a Life in Bioethics” by Joseph J. Fins “Xenia: Refugees, Displaced Persons and Reciprocity” by John Harris … Read More
March 24, 2020
BMC Medical Ethics has new articles available online. Articles include: “Ethical Values Supporting the Disclosure of Incidental and Secondary Findings in Clinical Genomic Testing: A Qualitative Study” by Marlies Saelaert et al. “Addressing Harm in Moral Case Deliberation: The Views … Read More
March 16, 2020
(STAT News) – With Gates and NIH funding, the emerging field of synthetic biology is answering the SOS over Covid-19, aiming to engineer vaccines that overcome these obstacles. “It’s all of us against the bug,” said Neil King of the University … Read More
March 13, 2020
(STAT News) – Friday morning a ray of light cracked through the ominous cloud of the pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus: The Swiss health care giant Roche introduced a new test for the virus that could be run more … Read More
March 9, 2020
(Capitol Weekly) – Forty Seven, Inc., was gobbled up last week for $4.9 billion by its neighbor, Gilead Sciences, Inc., in Foster City. The figure represents a 1,600 percent increase in Forty Seven’s stock price since last October. “To say … Read More
March 9, 2020
(Popular Mechanics) – It costs an estimated $868 million to $1.24 billion to develop a drug, according to research published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology. But the real price tag is even higher when you consider how many drugs … Read More
March 6, 2020
(Open Democracy) – Technophile politicians and tech companies are making big promises. But the broader impact of the digital transformation of our health and public services has been too little examined.
March 6, 2020
(WSJ) – The World Health Organization has avoided labeling the spread of the new coronavirus a “pandemic” and it remains an “epidemic’’ at least for now. In a media briefing on Feb. 24, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus explained that … Read More
March 5, 2020
(The Next Web) – A new AI device can identify babies at risk of going blind by analyzing images of their eyes. The system could help save the vision of babies born prematurely, who are particularly at risk of damage … Read More
March 5, 2020
(Wired) – In an ordinary lab at the University of Michigan, Joseph Hamilton, of Flint, does the also-ordinary: He grabs a shiny ball and a bottle; he presses buttons and stacks little cubes; he zips and unzips zippers. Well, it … Read More
