September 13, 2017
(Reuters) – Indian police are investigating a major organ trade racket after they arrested two men, including an alleged kingpin, at Mumbai airport for trafficking poor people for their kidneys to Egypt, officials said on Monday. The men – identified … Read More
September 12, 2017
Position Type: Post-doctoral/Post-baccalaureate Bioethics Fellowship at the NIH Position Title: BIOETHICS FELLOWSHIP Position Description: The Department of Bioethics is pleased to offer a limited number of two-year post-doctoral and post-baccalaureate fellowships. Fellows participate in the activities and the intellectual … Read More
September 12, 2017
(New York Times) – With gene therapy, scientists seek to treat or prevent disease by modifying cellular DNA. Many such treatments are in the wings: There are 34 in the final stages of testing necessary for F.D.A. approval, and another … Read More
September 12, 2017
(Medical Xpress) – Primary care physicians spend more than one-half of their workday interacting with the electronic health record during and after clinic hours. Based on data from EHR event logs (an automated tracking feature) and confirmed by direct observation … Read More
September 12, 2017
(UPI) – Research shows individuals with developmental disabilities experience significant disparities in healthcare quality, access, status and unmet needs. Researchers at The Ohio State University conducted a telephone survey of 42,876 adults and 10,122 proxy interviews for children under 18 … Read More
September 12, 2017
(Reuters) – Texas has launched aerial attacks on mosquitoes swarming coastal regions of the state and threatening to spread disease and hinder disaster recovery in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. U.S. Air Force C-130 cargo planes began spraying insecticides over three … Read More
September 12, 2017
(Reuters) – Punjab is Pakistan’s most prosperous region, but alongside thriving sectors from farming to textiles, another business is booming — the illegal trade in human organs, say police, activists and victims. Fueled by a cycle of poverty and debt, this … Read More
September 11, 2017
(BBC) – The rather more futuristic-sounding concept of transhumanism – the idea that every human should have the right to enhance themselves beyond the so-called “norm” through science and technology – was the subject under scrutiny at a debate this … Read More
September 11, 2017
(The Wall Street Journal) – In the 16 years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Sal Turturici has watched as friends he worked with at the World Trade Center site fell ill. Now Mr. Turturici is sick too, battling stage 4 Neuroendocrine Cancer … Read More
September 11, 2017
(Vox) – I asked Gawande to weigh in on a question I hadn’t seen him discuss elsewhere: What role did doctors and professional medicine play in the proliferation of opioids? “We started it,” Gawande told me flatly. He argued that … Read More
September 11, 2017
(USA Today) – The recent news that scientists have successfully edited a human embryo to fix a potentially lethal heart defect is an exciting medical and biotechnological advance. However, the cases for and against human embryo editing are both full of hype. … Read More
September 11, 2017
(Sydney Morning Herald) – In a study of states with euthanasia law, published in Current Oncology, Dr J. Pereira writes that “laws and safeguards are regularly ignored and transgressed in all the jurisdictions and that transgressions are not prosecuted. For … Read More
September 11, 2017
(The Guardian) – A prominent Iranian journalist has lost an eye and part of his face due to a sinus cancer that activists say was left untreated while he was kept in jail. Alireza Rajaee, a former political editor of … Read More
September 11, 2017
(Nature) – More than a decade after a fraud scandal in stem-cell science rocked South Korea, scientists in the field are ramping up pressure on the government to relax the country’s strict regulations on human-embryo research — which many researchers … Read More
September 11, 2017
(Tech Crunch) – 23andMe is best known for its $199 at-home spit-tube DNA test, but the consumer genetics company has been making strides in the last few years to get into drug development and research. The company first began making … Read More
September 11, 2017
Journal of Genetic Counseling (vol. 26, no. 1, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Standards for the Reporting of Genetic Counseling Interventions in Research and Other Studies (GCIRS): an NSGC Task Force Report” by Gillian W. Hooker, D Babu, MF Myers, … Read More
September 11, 2017
JAMA Neurology (vol. 74, no. 5, 2017) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The Catch-22 of Neuroimaging, Disorders of Consciousness, and End-of-Life Decisions” by Emanuel Cabral and Judy Illes
September 11, 2017
Science as Culture (online first, 2017) has new articles available online by subscription only. Articles Include: “Research Misconduct in the Age of Open Science: The Case of STAP Stem Cells” by Mianna Meskus, Luca Marelli, and Giuseppe D’Agostino
September 8, 2017
(STAT News) – But in some respects, the herpes vaccine trial isn’t all that unusual. Nearly all drug makers seeking U.S. approval today rely in part on overseas locations and populations to test their drugs, the result of a decades-long … Read More
September 8, 2017
(STAT News) – It isn’t terribly reassuring to know that doctors who might need to make life or death decisions about your health could be doing so after having been awake for so long. Would they be on top of … Read More
September 8, 2017
(Medical Xpress) – Why are so many teenagers taking their own life? One factor is what I call “toxic socialization” —a process of physical or emotional childhood and adolescent abuse. Those who grow up in toxic environments are up to … Read More
September 8, 2017
(Philadelphia Inquirer) – As more doctors choose to work past the traditional retirement age, health systems are navigating a complex set of issues that revolve around what may sometimes be competing interests: keeping valued “late-career” employees happy and keeping patients … Read More
September 8, 2017
(Kaiser Health News) – As large hospital systems like Sutter Health, Stanford Medicine and UCSF Medical Center gobble up doctor practices, they gain market muscle that pushes costs upward. It’s a key reason why Northern California is now the most … Read More
September 8, 2017
(The Conversation) – Shakespeare’s Seven Ages of Man (from As You Like It) famously and effectively portrays humans in deep old age as returning to infancy. But in many societies, the approach to end of life care requires us to … Read More
September 8, 2017
(Managed Care Magazine) – States have taken action on curbing drug costs before, but state-level laws and regulations have usually focused on Medicaid and prescription drug coverage for state employees. But now they are venturing into new territory with laws … Read More
