November 8, 2017
(Nature) – Somewhere in Germany’s Ruhr valley, a nine-year-old boy is doing what children do: playing football, joking around with friends and going to school. Two years ago, he was confined to a hospital bed, dying of a rare and … Read More
November 8, 2017
(STAT News) – At an NHL hockey game, it’s not uncommon to see some blood. The other day, it turned out to be some of my own. The good news is that it was all in the name of science. … Read More
November 8, 2017
(ABC News) – The city of Delhi, India, is surrounded by a thickening blanket of smog that covers the city, making the sky less visible and the air less breathable. The Indian Medical Association (IMA) declared a public health emergency … Read More
November 8, 2017
(GEN) – Stem cells have been a boon to biological research, allowing researchers to visualize and develop potential therapies for diseases where intervention has hit a wall. However, not all stem cell therapies are as simple as adding undifferentiated cells … Read More
November 8, 2017
Bioethics (vol. 31, no. 7, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Wrongness, Responsibility, and Conscientious Refusals in Health Care” by Alida Liberman ‘You Are Inferior!’ Revisiting the Expressivist Argument” by Bjørn Hofmann A Pragmatic Analysis of Vulnerability … Read More
November 8, 2017
JAMA Internal Medicine (vol. 177, no. 8, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Cosmetics, Regulations, and the Public Health: Understanding the Safety of Medical and Other Products” by Robert M. Califf, Jonathan McCall, and Daniel B. Mark
November 8, 2017
Genetics in Medicine (vol. 19, no. 5, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Diagnostic Cytogenetic Testing Following Positive Noninvasive Prenatal Screening Results: A Clinical Practice Resource of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG)” by Athena … Read More
November 8, 2017
Nursing Ethics (vol. 24, no. 3, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Nurse Ethical Awareness: Understanding the Nature of Everyday Practice” by Aimee Milliken and Pamela Grace “The Development of Ethical Guidelines for Nurses’ Collegiality Using the Delphi … Read More
November 8, 2017
JAMA (vol. 318, no. 6, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Can Patients Make Recordings of Medical Encounters? What Does the Law Say?” by Glyn Elwyn, Paul James Barr, and Mary Castaldo “Challenges in International Comparison of Health Care Systems” by … Read More
November 7, 2017
(Bloomberg) – The high-tech testing lab’s raw material has become liquid gold for the doctors who own Comprehensive Pain Specialists. This testing process, driven by the nation’s epidemic of painkiller addiction, generates profits across the doctor-owned network of 54 clinics, … Read More
November 7, 2017
(Gizmodo) – The newly proposed regulations will allow genetic health tests to make it to market without prior review. Companies seeking to sell such tests would have to come to the FDA for a one-time review. But after getting that initial … Read More
November 7, 2017
(The Atlantic) – Stefania Druga and Randi Williams, the researchers behind the study, want to know how children perceive smart robots, and, eventually, to study how those bots affect kids’ cognitive development. So far, they’ve discovered that little children (ages … Read More
November 7, 2017
(Science Daily) – Researchers have found that patients with different types of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have impairments in unique brain systems, indicating that there may not be a one-size-fits-all explanation for the cause of the disorder. Based on performance on … Read More
November 7, 2017
(Los Angeles Times) – In an opioid epidemic that currently claims an average of 91 lives per day, there have been many paths to addiction. For some, it started with a fall or a sports injury, a trip to a … Read More
November 7, 2017
(New York Times) – Yet there are no widely accepted guidelines for dealing with these patients as they near death. Cancer specialists regularly move their patients to hospice at the end of life, for instance, but few cardiologists even think of … Read More
November 7, 2017
(Newsweek) – A chatbot programmed to be a seven-year-old boy has become the first AI bot to be granted official residence in Tokyo, Japan. Shibuya Mirai is the latest resident of Shibuya, a Tokyo ward with a population of around … Read More
November 7, 2017
(Politico) – Patrick Soon-Shiong, the medical entrepreneur who has expanded his influence in Washington by cultivating close ties to both parties, has struggled to meet analysts’ expectations for sales of his GPS genetic test, the key to his plan to … Read More
November 6, 2017
(BMJ) – Of 33 DCNM, [due care not met], cases identified (occurring 2012–2016), 32 cases (97%) were published online and included in the analysis. 22 cases (69%) violated only procedural criteria, relating to improper medication administration or inadequate physician consultation. … Read More
November 6, 2017
(Sacramento Bee) – Medical treatments for transgender people have gone “mainstream,” according to Richard Paulson, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Los Angeles and the president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. With that comes the prospect for a medical development that … Read More
November 6, 2017
(The Scientist) – The Expert Group on Scientific Misconduct at Sweden’s Central Ethics Review Board (CEPN) has found evidence of scientific misconduct in all six of Paolo Macchiarini’s synthetic trachea transplantation publications it reviewed. The papers reported on the implantations … Read More
November 6, 2017
(Medscape) – History tells us that fears about designer babies are exaggerated when it comes to the alteration, deletion, or swapping of genes in human embryos, renowned bioethicist Alta Charo, PhD, said during a TEDMED 2017 talk in Palm Springs, … Read More
November 6, 2017
(Undark) – Harvard medical geneticist Robert C. Green, reflective, cautious, and as decent as a scientist can sound, took to television last month to make people aware of an open trial at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, which uses genomic sequencing to … Read More
November 6, 2017
(NPR) – People who abhor the thought of being kept alive with feeding tubes or other types of artificial nutrition and hydration have, for years, had a way out: They could officially document their wishes to halt such interventions using … Read More
November 6, 2017
(U.S. News & World Report) – More than half of U.S. physicians have at least one symptom of professional burnout, Shanafelt said, and the problem is getting worse. “We are seeing increasing rates of distress,” he said, and that equates … Read More
November 3, 2017
(Quartz) – Researchers at Imperial College London conducted a study on 200 patients who had one severely blocked artery to the heart, which starves the heart of oxygen and causes chest pain, especially when someone with the condition tries to … Read More
