November 3, 2022
(BBC) – Harmonie-Rose, from Bath, has been training with an assistance dog to help her do tasks. The eight-year-old had all her limbs amputated after she contracted meningitis when she was a baby. She became the youngest person to have … Read More
October 25, 2022
(La Maison Simons) – A Canadian film project that promotes Canada’s medical aid-in-dying from La Maison Simons, Canada’s style authority since 1840.
October 13, 2022
(New York Times) – It’s known as the troubled teen industry. Spread across the country, this array of boot camps, wilderness therapy programs, therapeutic boarding schools and residential treatment centers is supposed to help children with mental health and behavioral … Read More
October 7, 2022
(New York Times) – A New York Times video investigation into the final days of Dr. Li Wenliang at Wuhan Central Hospital. >
August 18, 2022
(Vox) – On any given day at the Hogeweyk, you can see locals wandering the streets, going out for coffee, folding laundry, and tending gardens, all surrounded by lush outdoor space. Located in Weesp, a Dutch city just outside Amsterdam, … Read More
July 1, 2021
BMC Medical Ethics has new articles available online. Articles include: “Withholding and Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatments in Intensive Care Units in Lebanon: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Intensivists and Interviews of Professional Societies, Legal and Religious Leaders” by Rita El Jawiche, … Read More
May 31, 2021
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 384, no. 19, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Bringing Harm Reduction into Health Policy — Combating the Overdose Crisis” by K.L. Sue and D.A. Fiellin “The Number Needed to … Read More
May 24, 2021
European Journal of Human Genetics (vol. 28, no. 7, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The Genetic History of France” by Aude Saint Pierre, et al. “Clinical Genomic Testing: What Matters to Key Stakeholders?” by Stephanie Best, … Read More
April 26, 2021
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 383, no. 21, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Regulation of Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids — Deafening Silence from the FDA” by K.H. Franck and V.K. Rathi “Transgender Women on College … Read More
April 16, 2021
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 383, no. 15, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Fundamentals of U.S. Health Policy: The Role of Market Forces in U.S. Health Care” by M.E. Chernew “Beyond a Moment — … Read More
April 8, 2021
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 383, no. 9, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Fundamentals of U.S. Health Policy: Improving the Quality of U.S. Health Care — What Will It Take?” by E.A. McGlynn “Covid-19 … Read More
March 15, 2021
The Journal of Medicine & Philosophy (vol. 45, no. 2, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Health and Reference Classes” by Sander Werkhoven “Strategies in Abduction: Generating and Selecting Diagnostic Hypotheses” by Donald E Stanley and Rune … Read More
March 12, 2021
Developing World Bioethics (vol. 20, no. 1, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Developing World Bioethics is Turning 20: Why are We Needed?” by Debora Diniz “Transnational Policy Migration, Interdisciplinary Policy Transfer and Decolonization: Tracing the Patterns … Read More
December 3, 2020
(The Guardian) – The database unmasked, with detached clarity, a dark secret hidden in plain sight for decades: the physician once named Nevada’s doctor of the year, who died in 2006 at age 94, had impregnated numerous patients with his … Read More
October 1, 2020
(Medscape) – After some US states issued stay-at-home orders to fight the spread of SARS-CoV-2, one study noted a 54% increase in national sales of alcohol for the week ending March 21, 2020, relative to 1 year earlier and a … Read More
July 13, 2020
(NYT) On Wednesday, Peacock premieres an adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s 1932 science fiction novel. The world the book anticipated — designer drugs, casual sex, near-instant gratification — is already here.
December 6, 2019
(The Atlantic) – It’s prohibitively difficult to access mental-health services in rural America. That’s because, relative to urban areas, rural counties have so few mental-health professionals. The majority of nonmetropolitan counties in the U.S. don’t have a psychiatrist, and almost … Read More
September 30, 2019
(Idaho Statesman) – Idaho is a hub for surrogacy. People come to Idaho from around the nation and the world, hoping to become parents with the help of a surrogate. The increased demand created a cottage industry in the Treasure … Read More
June 20, 2019
(The Atlantic) – Until the day he died, in 2011, Robert Ettinger hoped humanity would figure out a way to cheat death. Today, his body is stored in a cryonic vessel filled with liquid nitrogen and frozen to –196 degrees … Read More
February 11, 2019
(NPR) – This week, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked Louisiana from enforcing a restrictive abortion law. The court will likely hear a challenge to the merits of that law this fall. Many states are moving to pass a number of … Read More
October 17, 2018
(The Atlantic) – A new video from Jill Rosenbaum at Retro Report, in association with American Experience, premiering on The Atlantic today, depicts some major bioethics quandaries that have resulted from advances in genetic screening technology. With prenatal and carrier … Read More
August 24, 2018
(The Atlantic) – Newman’s short documentary, Motherhood and Meth, focuses on the drug’s frequently overlooked and arguably most vulnerable victims: children. Although no scientific research has been conducted that directly correlates meth addiction to child abuse or neglect, many experts … Read More
October 26, 2017
(TIME) – The investigation analyzed 20,000 government inspection records, revealing that missed visits and neglect are common for patients dying at home. Families or caregivers have filed over 3,200 complaints with state officials in the past five years. Those complaints … Read More
October 24, 2017
(Medscape) – It’s a common confusion and misconception. The short answer is that all hospice is palliative care, but not all palliative care is hospice. That is the elevator speech version. The more nuanced version is that the Medicare Hospice … Read More
October 10, 2017
(ABC News) – On Thursday, U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisers will consider whether to recommend approval of a gene therapy that improved vision for these three youths and some others with hereditary blindness. It would be the first gene … Read More
