August 30, 2017
(Kaiser Health News) – Defying U.S. safety protections for human trials, an American university and a group of wealthy libertarians, including a prominent Donald Trump supporter, are backing the offshore testing of an experimental herpes vaccine. The American businessmen, including … Read More
August 30, 2017
(NPR) – As health departments in Texas try to assist people with immediate medical needs following Hurricane Harvey, they’re also looking to ensure that those affected can get the prescription drugs they need and stay as safe as possible. “Our … Read More
August 30, 2017
(New York Times) – The question of ethnicity is enmeshed with another difficult challenge for DNA testers: geography. Genetics researchers generally know which DNA sequences originated on which continents. But pinpointing a particular country of origin, as many testing services … Read More
August 30, 2017
(Scientific American) – While more and more people have come to understand that eating disorders are diseases of the brain, there’s still a widespread belief that people with these devastating conditions are vain, attention-seeking, or lacking in will power. But … Read More
August 30, 2017
(NPR) – The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on “unscrupulous” clinics selling unproven and potentially dangerous treatments involving stem cells. Hundreds of clinics around the country have started selling stem cell therapies that supposedly use stem cells but … Read More
August 30, 2017
(OncLive) – End-of-life palliative care consultations can significantly reduce healthcare utilization, according to a broad-based population study published in the Journal of Oncology Practice (JOP). The authors said the study supports the findings of various smaller studies. The study drew … Read More
August 29, 2017
(ABC News) – German officials expect to bring new charges against a nurse already serving a life sentence for two murders after determining that he might have killed another 84 patients, if not more, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Oldenburg state … Read More
August 29, 2017
(STAT News) – Tropical Storm Harvey has flooded the roads in and around MD Anderson’s primary Houston hospital, leaving one of the world’s foremost cancer centers unable to see patients for appointments or previously scheduled treatments until Thursday at the … Read More
August 29, 2017
(Science Daily) – In 2010, there was an estimated total of 1,386 annual births with Down syndrome across the nine states, corresponding to 1 in 824 live births. Live birth prevalence ranged from 1 in 729 in Florida to 1 … Read More
August 29, 2017
(Reuters) – Up to half of cancer patients of reproductive age do not receive adequate information about the impact of treatment on their fertility, decreasing their options for family planning and support, a new study suggests. “When we look at … Read More
August 29, 2017
(Philadelphia Inquirer) – “This is who is dying from opiates – people in their 20s and 30s. Think about what that population is,” Nelson said. “It’s parents.” Now Nelson is working with county coroners across the nation to try to … Read More
August 29, 2017
(The Scientist) – From beating hearts to breathing lungs, organs-on-chips are some of hottest new tools for human biology research. Although these devices may bear closer resemblance to computer components than human body parts, scientists have now created working models … Read More
August 28, 2017
(STAT News) – More than 1 in 4 cases of possible sexual and physical abuse against nursing home patients apparently went unreported to police, says a government audit that faults Medicare for failing to enforce a federal law requiring immediate … Read More
August 28, 2017
(South China Morning Post) – The first such transplant surgery could be just two years away, according to one researcher from a national xenotransplantation project. Recent experiments conducted in China and elsewhere on animals including monkeys have shown they could … Read More
August 28, 2017
(New York Times) – After two and a half years of war, little is functioning in Yemen. Repeated bombings have crippled bridges, hospitals and factories. Many doctors and civil servants have gone unpaid for more than a year. Malnutrition and … Read More
August 28, 2017
(Reuters) – When children lose a parent during adolescence, their mental health as young adults may depend on how comfortable they were with the treatment and support provided at the end of their parents’ lives, a recent study suggests. To … Read More
August 28, 2017
(Washington Post) – Gene editing made great strides this month when scientists reported success using a technique called CRISPR — Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats — to correct a serious, disease-causing mutation in human embryos. Researchers fixed a mutation … Read More
August 28, 2017
(Denver Post) – The report showed that since screening tests were introduced in Iceland, nearly 100 percent of pregnant women who receive a positive test for Down syndrome terminate their pregnancies. The pro-life versus pro-choice debate is an important one … Read More
August 28, 2017
(Medical Xpress) – The “involuntary treatment” of unwilling psychiatric patients has long been accepted as necessary in some cases, for the sake of patients and society, though it can raise serious ethical concerns as well as legal barriers. In a … Read More
August 28, 2017
(TIME) – The findings have obvious implications for the many people waiting for a transplant. But one of the lead study authors, George Church, a geneticist at Harvard and founder of eGenesis, says the promise of pig organs that are … Read More
August 25, 2017
(Bloomberg) – If you could directly alter your kids’ genetic profile, what would you want? It’s hard to know how the social debate would turn out after years of back and forth, but I was dismayed to read one recent … Read More
August 25, 2017
(The Conversation) – A parliamentary inquiry is currently underway into Australia’s life insurance industry, which has raised several issues including discrimination by insurers against people with mental health problems. In our submission to the inquiry, we argue comparable discrimination is … Read More
August 25, 2017
(MIT Technology Review) – Less than a year after launching the world’s first national drone delivery service in Rwanda, Silicon Valley–based Zipline is expanding. Billed as the largest drone delivery service in the world, the new venture is in Tanzania, … Read More
August 25, 2017
(Yale News) – An individual’s reason for undergoing a medical intervention — be it to prevent or treat disease, earn money, or have a child — may result in variations in the bodily experience of the patient, Yale researchers have … Read More
August 25, 2017
(Al Arabiya) – Egyptian authorities announced on Tuesday evening the capture of a gang of medical staff for trafficking human organs in the area of Abu Nomros in Giza, southern Egypt. The authorities arrested 16 people involved in the case, … Read More
