April 6, 2020
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 381, no. 23, 2019) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Bracing for the Worst — Range Expansion of the Lone Star Tick in the Northeastern United States” by G. Molaei, E.A.H. … Read More
April 1, 2020
(The New York Times) – Dr. James T. Goodrich, a pediatric neurosurgeon known for successfully separating conjoined twins in a complicated and rare procedure, died on Monday at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. … Read More
March 27, 2020
The American Journal of Bioethics (vol. 19, no. 12, 2019) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Everything I Really Needed to Know to Be a Clinical Ethicist, I Learned From Elisabeth Kübler-Ross” by Mark G. Kuczewski “Psychotherapy at … Read More
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
December 20, 2019
(STAT News) – When science reporters look for researchers to profile, we put a premium on the importance of their work, of course, but an ability to spin telling anecdotes (extra points if beer is involved), and friends who can … Read More
December 19, 2019
(Nature) – The disgraced stem-cell entrepreneur Davide Vannoni, who in the past decade treated hundreds of people in Italy with an unproven treatment that health authorities considered ineffective and potentially dangerous, died on 10 December after a long illness. He … Read More
December 18, 2019
(BBC) – If you have needed a kidney transplant in the last few years your chance of getting one has improved dramatically because of an economist called Alvin Roth. Roth has revolutionised kidney donation around the world by using an … Read More
October 23, 2019
(BBC) – A scientist has been awarded £2m compensation by the UK’s highest court for his invention of pioneering technology to test blood sugar levels nearly 40 years ago. Professor Ian Shanks developed the system, used by many diabetics, while … Read More
October 21, 2019
(Spectrum) – The Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, launched by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2013, has a lofty goal: to unravel the cellular basis of cognition and behavior. Since the initiative’s launch, the … Read More
October 14, 2019
(The Australian) – Discussions with rational beings of another species are science fiction, of course. But such an imaginative exercise is necessary because in the absence of beings other than humans, the claim that we have rights by virtue of … Read More
