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
September 8, 2017
(NPR) – Wealthy Chinese woman are hiring Americans to be surrogate moms. We explore how the relationship between a Chinese woman and her American surrogate changed during a particularly difficult pregnancy.
September 7, 2017
(ABC News) – A California judge ruled that a teen girl declared brain dead more than three years ago after a tonsillectomy may still be technically alive, allowing a malpractice lawsuit against the hospital to proceed. Alameda County Judge Stephen … Read More
September 7, 2017
(ABC News) – New York’s ban on assisted suicide will stand after the state’s highest court on Thursday rejected arguments from terminally ill patients who say they should have the right to seek life-ending drugs from a doctor. The Court … Read More
September 7, 2017
(Scientific American) – Harvey is the first major storm since the federal government revised emergency preparedness standards for hospitals, in response to Katrina and 2012’s Superstorm Sandy. Now, health care providers that receive Medicare or Medicaid dollars must have disaster preparedness plans, including relocation … Read More
September 7, 2017
(Kaiser Health News) – Although hospices now serve more than 1.4 million people a year, this specialized type of care, meant for people with six months or less to live, continues to evoke resistance, fear and misunderstanding. “The biggest misperception … Read More
September 7, 2017
(Reuters) – The couple had known from the 24th week of the pregnancy that their child would be born with Arnold Chiari Type II syndrome – a structural defect in the brain. Since abortions in India are allowed only up … Read More
September 6, 2017
(TIME) – Two scientists who paved the way for widely used vaccines and another who discovered key players in cell growth have been awarded prestigious medical research awards. The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation also announced Wednesday that it was … Read More
September 6, 2017
(Nature) – More than 11,000 people died when Ebola tore through West Africa between 2014 and 2016, and yet clinicians still lack data that would enable them to reliably identify the disease when a person first walks into a clinic. … Read More
September 6, 2017
(Medical Xpress) – A new national survey of more than 2,000 physicians across multiple specialties finds that physicians believe overtreatment is common and mostly perpetuated by fear of malpractice, as well as patient demand and some profit motives. A report … Read More
September 6, 2017
(Quartz) – Earlier this week, doctors at the Mayo Clinic and the Scripps Research Institute published a review article in the Journal of American Geriatrics calling and outlining designs for human clinical trials on the first class of drugs developed … Read More
September 6, 2017
(BBC) – A test that involves drawing a spiral on a sheet of paper could be used to diagnose early Parkinson’s disease. Australian researchers have trialled software that measures writing speed and pen pressure on the page. Both are useful … Read More
