September 19, 2019
(CNN) – The American patent system has, since our nation’s founding, served as a cornerstone of innovation. But the pharmaceutical industry’s willingness to undermine this system is having real consequences for American patients. The skyrocketing cost of health care has … Read More
September 19, 2019
(Quartz) – Imagine you are about to welcome your second child into the world, and everyone is expecting you to fail. Disappointingly, this decision wasn’t always welcomed with open arms. Questions like “How are you going to cope being pregnant?” … Read More
September 16, 2019
(CNN) – Genes and genomes are based on code– just like the digital language of computers. But instead of zeros and ones, four DNA letters — A, C, T, G — encode all of life. (Life is messy, and there … Read More
September 10, 2019
(The Conversation) – Since the first mapping of the human genome there has been interest in understanding which genetic factors underpin performance in sport. With the rise of genetic testing among athletes, it remains to be seen exactly how the … Read More
September 4, 2019
(New York Times) – We should not be surprised, then, that some patients who do enroll in hospice end up back in the hospital. And yet we in palliative care often view these cases as failures. We wonder what the … Read More
September 4, 2019
(The Conversation) – Yet if China is fast becoming the world capital of controversial science, it is not alone in producing it. More babies produced using the “CRISPR” gene-editing technology are now planned by a scientist in Russia, where another … Read More
September 3, 2019
(Bloomberg) – China has long promoted its traditional medicinal system as a national treasure and more recently as a tool of soft power. While the ancient art remains a policy priority, however, it faces very modern challenges including rising costs, complexities of production and … Read More
August 30, 2019
(The Hill) – Unfortunately, a spotlight on the shortage of organs to transplant often opens the door for grandstanders who raise money to bend the rules and conduct rogue science by press release. Then there are some scientists and researchers … Read More
August 28, 2019
(STAT News) – The term “type 1 diabetes” generally conjures up images of insulin. That makes sense, because insulin is the main treatment for this common disease. But it isn’t a cure. A type of cell transplant that comes close … Read More
August 20, 2019
(Scientific American) – But that border between germ-line and somatic genome modification is blurring; the zeitgeist feels different. There is a growing sense of inevitability that we will eventually do human germ-line modification and that our only obligation is to … Read More
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