October 17, 2017
Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 2, no. 3, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Sensitising Intern Doctors to Ethical Issues in a Doctor–Patient Relationship” by Nilima D Shah, Ritambhara Y Mehta, and Kamlesh R Dave “Harnessing … Read More
October 17, 2017
The New Bioethics (vol. 23, no. 2, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Sperm Donation and the Right to Privacy” by Oliver Hallich “Kinship Identities in the Context of UK Maternal Spindle Transfer and Pronuclear Transfer Legislation” by … Read More
October 17, 2017
New Genetics and Society (vol. 36, no. 3, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Regulatory Controls for Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests: A Case Study on How the FDA Exercised its Authority” by Margaret Curnutte “Testing the NHS: The Tensions … Read More
October 17, 2017
Nursing Philosophy (vol. 18, no. 3, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Reconciling Concepts of Space and Person-Centred Care of the Older Person with Cognitive Impairment in the Acute Care Setting” by Carole Rushton and David Edvardsson “Against … Read More
October 16, 2017
(InSerbia News) – It looks like the ghoulish practice of abducting children and smuggling them across the Albanian-Kosovo border for subsequent use as organ donors has never ceased. Former Albanian President and Prime Minister Sali Berisha posted on his Facebook … Read More
October 16, 2017
(Los Angeles Times) – In fact, Iran offers people a legal way to sell their kidneys — and is the only country in the world to do so. A government foundation registers buyers and sellers, matches them up and sets … Read More
October 16, 2017
(MedPage Today) – Olympic and Paralympic athletes from the U.S. headed to Brazil in 2016 with Zika virus on their minds, but it turns out they might have missed the true mosquito-borne threats, researchers suggested at the IDweek meeting in … Read More
October 16, 2017
(Newsweek) – The risks women face from becoming egg donors are unknown. And we can’t know the risks because long-term studies with a large population of women who have donated eggs have not been done. Now, one woman is calling … Read More
October 16, 2017
(Quartz) – Psilocybin—the naturally occurring psychedelic compound in hundreds of kinds mushrooms—has been reported to show promise as a treatment for depression. Now researchers are trying to find out more about how that works. Scientists looking at how the brain … Read More
October 16, 2017
(New York Times) – “If you ask somebody on the street, ‘What are the main differences between races?,’ they’re going to say skin color,” said Sarah A. Tishkoff, a geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania. On Thursday, Dr. Tishkoff and … Read More
October 16, 2017
(Washington Post) – In August, two psychologists, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, settled a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of three former CIA detainees. The psychologists were accused of designing, implementing and overseeing the CIA’s … Read More
October 16, 2017
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 376, no. 23, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Bridging the Data-Sharing Divide — Seeing the Devil in the Details, Not the Other Camp” by L. Rosenbaum “Whose Data Are … Read More
October 16, 2017
British Medical Bulletin (vol. 122, no. 1, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Ethical Issues of CRISPR Technology and Gene Editing through the Lens of Solidarity” by John J. Mulvihill et al.
October 16, 2017
Qualitative Health Research (Vol. 27, No. 8, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Toward a Better Understanding of Patient Health Literacy: A Focus on the Skills Patients Need to Find Health Information” by Sara Champlin, Michael Mackert, … Read More
October 16, 2017
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (vol. 110, no. 6, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “We’re Training Robots: We Need Humans” by Kamran Abbasi “”A Crisis in Caring’: A Place for Compassionate Care in Today’s Medicine” … Read More
October 16, 2017
JAMA (vol. 317, no. 23, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Text Messaging and Protected Health Information: What Is Permitted?” by Brian C. Drolet
October 13, 2017
(STAT News) – Nearly 26 million people around the world die each year with serious suffering in part because of a huge gap in pain relief: The U.S. may be awash in opioid painkillers, but they’re rare or unavailable in … Read More
October 13, 2017
(STAT News) – The de facto leader behind the leaderless collective Four Thieves Vinegar, Laufer is now on to his next project: He’s developing a desktop lab and a recipe book meant to equip patients to cook up a range … Read More
October 13, 2017
(Kaiser Health News) -An Oregon woman with Alzheimer’s disease, whose husband claimed she was kept alive with spoon-feeding against her written wishes, has died. Nora Harris, 64, died early Wednesday at the Fern Gardens senior care center in Medford, Ore. … Read More
October 13, 2017
(San Francisco Chronicle) – Swedish prosecutors have abandoned an investigation against a disgraced Italian stem cell scientist suspected of involuntary manslaughter in connection with three patients who died after windpipe transplants. Prosecutor Jennie Nordin said it can’t be proven that … Read More
October 13, 2017
(Sydney Morning Herald) – If it were a train, this debate would have set off from Euthanasia Central, stopped at Voluntary Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, moved on to Medically Assisted Death and Assisted Dying, before arriving at Voluntary Assisted Dying, … Read More
October 13, 2017
(Nature) – Advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have paved the way for the agency’s first approval of a gene therapy to treat a disease caused by a genetic mutation. On 12 October, a panel of external … Read More
October 12, 2017
(PhysOrg) – HeLa cells are used in biomedical research around the world. HeLa was named after Henrietta Lacks, the woman whose cervical cancer cells were biopsied and used for medical research. Those cells were found to reproduce indefinitely in the … Read More
October 12, 2017
(Aeon) – When someone is sick or needs the help of a physician, who should decide what is appropriate – what blood tests and imaging studies to order, what medicines to prescribe, what surgeries to perform? Should it be the … Read More
October 12, 2017
(STAT News) – The National Institutes of Health on Thursday announced a $215 million public-private partnership with 11 pharmaceutical companies in what the agency bills as a significant next step in its cancer moonshot. The Partnership for Accelerating Cancer Therapies, … Read More
