September 19, 2019
European Journal of Public Health (vol. 29, no. 10, 2019) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Unexplained Variations in General Practitioners’ Perceptions and Practices Regarding Vaccination in France” by Fanny Collange et al. “Recommendations for Design and Analysis … Read More
September 18, 2019
Medical Law International (vol. 18, no. 4, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Communication of Genetic Information in the Palliative Care Context: Ethical and Legal Issues” by Katie M. Saulnier et al. “The EU General Data Protection … Read More
September 18, 2019
Developing World Bioethics (vol. 18, no. 4, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The Patient?Worker: A Model for Human Research Subjects and Gestational Surrogates” by Emma Ryman and Katy Fulfer The Views of Ethics Committee Members and … Read More
September 17, 2019
(STAT News) – Amid last year’s backlash against the birth of the world’s first genetically edited babies, some experts preached prudence: Editing the genomes of embryos, they argued, could one day “cure” people of diseases before they’re even born. But … Read More
September 17, 2019
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (vol. 28, no. 1, 2019) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Introduction: The Ethical Frontiers of Gene Editing” by Arthur Caplan and Vojin Raki? “Why We Should Defend Gene Editing as Eugenics” by … Read More
September 17, 2019
Medical Law International (vol. 18, no. 2-3, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The Immediate Futures of Health Law after Brexit: Law, ‘A-Legality’ and Uncertainty” by Tamara Hervey and Elizabeth M Speakman “How Do We Make Sense … Read More
September 16, 2019
(Wall Street Journal) – The startup had something incredible: a cure for babies with a deadly neurological disease. Last year, the company was snapped up by pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG NVS -0.98% , and by this past May, its drug … Read More
September 16, 2019
BMC Medical Ethics has new articles available online. Articles include: “Exploring the Ethics of Global Health Research Priority-Setting” by Bridget Pratt, Mark Sheehan, Nicola Barsdorf, and Adnan A. Hyder
September 13, 2019
(Undark) – In 2015, George Church, a geneticist at Harvard University, announced a stunning breakthrough: Working with pig embryos, he and his colleagues had managed to disable 62 different retrovirus genes in one fell swoop. “This would have been virtually … Read More
September 11, 2019
(Wired) – In July of 2017, doctors in Beijing blasted the patient with chemicals and radiation to wipe out his bone marrow, making space for millions of stem cells they then pumped into his body through an IV. These new … Read More
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