June 17, 2019
(NPR) – The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo “does not meet the criteria for a Public Health Emergency of International Concern,” the World Health Organization said Friday. The agency said that while the outbreak in the … Read More
June 17, 2019
(Science) – In a bold rejection of the widespread sentiment—and regulations in many countries—that no one should alter the genome of a human embryo and transfer it to a woman, Russian geneticist Denis Rebrikov last week went public with his … Read More
June 17, 2019
(Star Tribune) – Medical staff at HCMC continued to sedate people with ketamine and collect data for a study for months after the hospital’s leadership told elected officials they had voluntarily halted the research in response to questions over ethics … Read More
June 14, 2019
(Bloomberg) – The dossier on cancer researcher Xifeng Wu was thick with intrigue, if hardly the stuff of a spy thriller. It contained findings that she’d improperly shared confidential information and accepted a half-dozen advisory roles at medical institutions in … Read More
June 14, 2019
(STAT News) – Researchers say they have strong new evidence that a virus is involved in a rare and puzzling polio-like condition that began affecting children in the U.S. about five years ago. The researchers hope their work will lead … 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
June 14, 2019
(Bloomberg) – Researchers have discovered that ketamine, a drug of choice for club-goers for decades, can be used to fight severe cases of the blues. For more than three decades, patients seeking treatment for depression in the U.S. have been … Read More
June 14, 2019
(Nature) – China this week announced a new law restricting the collection and use of genetic resources from people in the country — including biological samples that yield DNA, such as blood, and data gleaned from sequencing them. There will … Read More
June 14, 2019
(USA Today) – A small town in Texas has declared itself the state’s first “sanctuary city for the unborn” after its city council, made up solely of men, passed a resolution banning most abortion procedures. Waskom, Texas, has no abortion … Read More
June 14, 2019
(The Conversation) – For the past two decades, the Chinese regime has been killing prisoners of conscience for their organs. The purchase and sale of human lives has become an industry, and Canada, among other developed countries, has been supporting … Read More
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