March 30, 2023
(Science) – For decades, Chinese-born U.S. faculty members were applauded for working with colleagues in China, and their universities cited the rich payoff from closer ties to the emerging scientific giant. But those institutions did an about-face after they began … Read More
March 29, 2023
(STAT News) – Lupus is a disease long-plagued by failed clinical trials. And hopeful patients, many of them young women of color, are waiting — just three lupus drugs have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration in six … Read More
March 28, 2023
HEC Forum (vol. 34, no. 1, 2022) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The Hidden Curriculum and Integrating Cure- and Care-Based Approaches to Medicine” by Divya Choudhury and Nico Nortjé “Ethics Consultation in Surgical Specialties” by Nicole A. … Read More
March 27, 2023
(Reuters) – Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink has approached one of the biggest U.S. neurosurgery centers as a potential clinical trials partner as it prepares to test its devices on humans once regulators allow for it, according to six … Read More
March 27, 2023
(Associated Press) – United States Catholic bishops have issued guidelines that seek to stop Catholic hospitals from providing gender transition care, a move LGBTQ advocates say could harm the physical and emotional health of transgender people within the church. The … Read More
March 24, 2023
(Undark) – Today, scientists’ understanding of the human microbiome is vastly incomplete, based primarily on samples collected from the U.S. and Europe. A 2022 study analyzing the world’s three largest genomic repositories found that more than 70 percent of human … Read More
March 24, 2023
European Journal of Human Genetics (vol. 30, no. 1, 2022) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Confirmation of COL4A6 Variants in X-linked Nonsyndromic Hearing Loss and its Clinical Implications” by Alexander O’Brien, et al. “Genomic Analysis of Childhood … Read More
March 23, 2023
(Wall Street Journal) – Researchers are hoping that they can grow a patient’s own iPS cells into an array of healthy cells to treat diseases that now have no cure. Among them, a team at the National Institutes of Health … Read More
March 22, 2023
(New York Times) – Dr. Wozniczka, 35, left the C.D.C. in July 2021 and sought help from Whistleblower Aid, a nonprofit legal organization. He testified before a House subcommittee on the pandemic last August and October, describing a disconnect between … Read More
March 20, 2023
BMC Medical Ethics has new articles available online. Articles include: “Beyond Biopolitics: the Importance of the later Work of Foucault to Understand Care Practices of Healthcare Workers Caring for Undocumented Migrants” by Dirk Lafaut “Genetic/Genomic Testing: Defining the Parameters for … Read More
