October 23, 2017
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 43, no. 7, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Persistent Vegetative State and Minimally Conscious State: Ethical, Legal and Practical Dilemmas” by Lindy Willmott and Ben White “A Matter of Life and Death” … Read More
October 20, 2017
(Medical Xpress) – Many people suffering from debilitating and incurable illnesses or elderly patients who are frail and incapacitated sometimes choose to stop eating and drinking as a means to hasten their death. The decision is often accompanied by a … Read More
October 20, 2017
(Reuters) – The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the agency was working with several pharmaceutical and medical device companies in Puerto Rico to prevent shortages of medical products in the United States as it joins a … Read More
October 20, 2017
(Quartz) – Nearly 100 people have died from a plague outbreak on the island of Madagascar. The death toll from the outbreak has reached 94, with more than 1,100 suspected cases reported, the World Health Organzation told French news agency … Read More
October 20, 2017
(Scientific American) – Society’s embrace of cannabis to treat nausea, pain and other conditions proceeds apace with the drive to legalize the plant for recreational use. Pot’s seemingly innocuous side effects have helped clear a path toward making it a … Read More
October 20, 2017
(New York Times) – A federal judge on Wednesday ordered top United States government officials to allow a pregnant 17-year-old immigrant to get an abortion — the first ruling in a case that could eventually grow to include hundreds of … Read More
October 20, 2017
(Retraction Watch) – Journals are raising ethical concerns about the research of a doctor who offers controversial embryonic stem cell treatments. Two journals have issued expressions of concern for three papers by Geeta Shroff, who was the subject of a … Read More
October 20, 2017
(Washington Post) – The U.S. abortion rate has fallen dramatically, by 25 percent, in recent years. The procedure continues to be common: One in four women will have an abortion by 45, according to a report published in the American … Read More
October 20, 2017
The Linacre Quarterly (vol. 84, no. 2, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Personhood Status of the Human Zygote, Embryo, Fetus” by John Janez Miklavcic “Identifying Organisms” by Stephen Napier “Pope John Paul II and the Neurological Standard … Read More
October 20, 2017
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 377, no. 6, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Supporting Women’s Autonomy in Prenatal Testing” by J. Johnston, R.M. Farrell, and E. Parens “Health Insurance Coverage and Health — What … Read More
October 20, 2017
Christian Bioethics (vol. 23, no. 2, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The Scandal of Secular Bioethics: What Happens When the Culture Acts as if there is No God?” by Mark J. Cherry “A God’s-Eye Perspective after Onto-Theology: … Read More
October 20, 2017
Medical Law Review (vol. 25, no. 2, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Medical Tourism, Medical Migration, and Global Justice: Implications for Biosecurity in a Globalized World” by I. Glenn Cohen “Public Health Emergencies of International Concern: Global, Regional, … Read More
October 19, 2017
(The Atlantic) – In March, eye doctors based primarily at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami had published a widely covered report describing three eerily similar cases: Three elderly women with macular degeneration got stem cells derived from their … Read More
October 19, 2017
(Kaiser Health News) – A year later, their optimism has turned to uncertainty. Memories of kicking back in a Caribbean hotel during the trial have been overshadowed by the dread of side effects and renewed outbreaks. But they can’t turn … Read More
October 19, 2017
(The Atlantic) – While the Lischners got extremely lucky, researchers are now working on a new treatment that could help men like Lischner who didn’t save a sample before radiation, or even prepubescent boys who develop cancer and have no … Read More
October 19, 2017
(CNN) – As firefighters continue to battle blazes across the state of California, public health officials are dealing with another ongoing crisis: one of the largest person-to-person hepatitis A outbreaks in the country since the development of a vaccine, more … Read More
October 19, 2017
(Reuters) – Ukrainian lawmakers voted through a long-delayed overhaul of the health system on Thursday that the state’s Western backers say will raise standards and tackle a culture of bribe-taking in surgeries and hospitals. The European Union and the International Monetary … Read More
October 19, 2017
(STAT News) – The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a promising new treatment for a particularly deadly form of cancer, bringing hope to desperate patients while rekindling a global conversation about the escalating cost of new therapies. The … Read More
October 19, 2017
(Kaiser Health News) – Outrage over the high cost of cancer care has focused on skyrocketing drug prices, including the $475,000 price tag for the country’s first gene therapy, Novartis’ Kymriah, a leukemia treatment approved in August. But the total … Read More
October 19, 2017
(The Atlantic) – The rate of death from opioid overdoses in the United States has more than doubled over the past decade. Amid a deluge of reports on the national crisis, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that … Read More
October 18, 2017
(STAT News) – Most doctors have absorbed racist, sexist, and other bigoted verbal remarks from patients under their care, according to a new national survey. And in interviews, physicians say these ugly incidents, while not frequent, can leave lasting scars. … Read More
October 18, 2017
(Wired) – At the SynDaver factory in Tampa, Florida, mad scientists are bringing bodies to life. Not Frankensteining the dead, but using a library of polymers to craft synthetic cadavers that twitch and bleed like real suffering humans. Hospitals and … Read More
October 18, 2017
(STAT News) – Doctors were just guessing a decade ago when they gave Alison Cairnes’s husband a new drug they hoped would shrink his lung tumors. Now she takes it too, but the choice was no guesswork. Sophisticated gene tests … Read More
October 18, 2017
(STAT News) – A once-a-month shot to treat opioid addiction was as effective in maintaining short-term abstinence from heroin and similar drugs as a more commonly prescribed daily treatment, according to a Norwegian study released Wednesday. The study is believed … Read More
October 18, 2017
(Reuters) – The prices of injectable cancer drugs – even older medicines around since the 1990s – are increasing at a rate far higher than inflation, researchers report in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. The study, led by Dr. Daniel … Read More
