September 13, 2019
(Chemical & Engineering News) – For anyone familiar with the slow crawl of drug development, gene therapy is moving at lightning speed. The approval of the first two gene therapies in the US and promising clinical data on many more … Read More
August 12, 2019
(The Globe and Mail) – Can taking a philosophy class – more specifically, a class in practical ethics – lead students to act more ethically? Teachers of practical ethics have an obvious interest in the answer to that question. But … Read More
July 22, 2019
(America Magazine) – Kevin Clarke, America’s senior editor, e-mailed me yesterday afternoon with the news that a very special friend had died. Dan Callahan was world-renowned as a pioneer in the field of bioethics. Even before the term had been … Read More
July 16, 2019
(Reuters) – The leader of reproductive services provider Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its political arm said on Tuesday that she was leaving both organizations over philosophical differences in their approaches to abortion rights. Dr. Leana Wen, the first … Read More
June 19, 2019
(BBC) – South Africa’s leading pro-euthanasia activist is to serve three years under house arrest after he was found guilty of premeditated murder for helping three people to kill themselves. Sean Davison was arrested in September last year in connection … Read More
June 14, 2019
(NPR) – “The exclusion of people with disabilities from the biomedical workforce undermines the goal of achieving true diversity and is a missed opportunity for science and medicine,” she wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine at the end … Read More
March 22, 2019
(BBC) – The philosopher and IVF ethics pioneer Baroness Mary Warnock has died at the age of 94. She chaired a number of inquiries to inform government policy. They included a report which led to the creation of the Human … Read More
March 13, 2019
(Science) – A leading Sudanese geneticist has been imprisoned for speaking out against the country’s repressive regime. Muntaser Ibrahim, who heads the University of Khartoum’s Institute of Endemic Diseases, was arrested on 21 February in Khartoum and has been detained … Read More
March 5, 2019
(Reuters) – U.S. Food and Drug Administration chief Scott Gottlieb said on Tuesday he plans to step down in a month, calling into question how the agency will handle critical issues such as e-cigarette use among teens and efforts to … Read More
February 27, 2019
(CNN) – Bill Jenkins had already started a promising career in public health in the mid-1960s when he learned about one of the darkest chapters in American medical history: the Tuskegee syphilis experiment. Jenkins, an epidemiologist, played a significant role … Read More
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