March 9, 2021
The New Bioethics (vol. 26, no. 1, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Ethical Aspects of Translating Research with Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Products into Clinical Practice: A Stakeholder Approach” by Clemens Heyder, Solveig Lena Hansen and … Read More
February 16, 2021
(Vox) – Covid-19 vaccines are becoming available, but not everyone wants to get a shot. Which raises a fraught question: Should it be up to each individual to decide whether or not to get vaccinated against a disease that poses … Read More
January 26, 2021
(The New Yorker) – The Blackwells were medical pioneers, but, except for a few professional awards named in their honor and a plaque commemorating the location of their infirmary, they have largely been forgotten. A new biography by the writer … Read More
January 21, 2021
(Associated Press) – The French doctor who discovered the genetic basis of Down syndrome but spent his career advocating against abortion as a result of prenatal diagnosis has taken his first major step to possible sainthood. Pope Francis on Thursday … Read More
January 18, 2021
(The Conversation) – While Galton is primarily remembered today, 110 years after his death, as the father of the shameful pseudoscience of eugenics, during his life he was considered one of the most influential thinkers of his day. He made … Read More
November 10, 2020
(San Francisco Chronicle) – Patients have a right to tell their doctors what kind of treatment they want, said Albert Jonsen, and doctors have an obligation to listen. Jonsen, one of the founding scholars of the field of bioethics and … Read More
October 7, 2020
(Nature) – A trio of scientists who identified and characterized the virus responsible for many cases of hepatitis and liver disease — hepatitis C — are the recipients of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The winners are … Read More
September 11, 2020
(STAT News) – The revelation that AstraZeneca paused its clinical trials for a Covid-19 vaccine has focused attention on the company and the clinical trial process. The hold occurred after a participant in the trial developed symptoms consistent with a … Read More
August 19, 2020
(TIME) – The work that led up to his achievement left a trail of surgeons, patients, politicians and everyday people. When I set out to investigate the heart transplant race of the late 1960s, I found that—despite the success in … Read More
June 9, 2020
(Knowable Magazine) – The need is great, and so are the challenges. To learn about them, Knowable Magazine turned to Kathryn Edwards, a pediatrician and vaccine researcher at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Edwards has decades of … Read More
