May 10, 2021
Christian Bioethics (vol. 26, no. 2, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Christian Bioethics: Immanent Goals or a Transcendent Orientation?” by Mark J Cherry “Medicine and the Common Good in the Aristotelian-Thomistic Tradition” by Kyle E Karches … Read More
May 7, 2021
(Nature) – The debate has caught the attention of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) — which runs its own genome repository, called GenBank — and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has considered encouraging grantees to share … Read More
May 6, 2021
(Axios) – It will take more than waiving patent protections for coronavirus vaccines — which the Biden administration now says it supports — to fix the gaping global divide in access. Why it matters: Waiving drug companies’ intellectual property rights … Read More
May 6, 2021
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 384, no. 2, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The Purdue Pharma Opioid Settlement — Accountability, or Just the Cost of Doing Business?” by C.S. Davis “Drug-Coated Devices for Peripheral … Read More
May 3, 2021
(Wall Street Journal) – Brazil’s health authority said it has serious doubts about the safety and efficacy of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine and defended its decision to block the shot for emergency use, saying Russia lacks vaccine experience and … Read More
May 3, 2021
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 46, no. 6, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Minority Report: Can Minor Parents Refuse Treatment for their Child?” by Helen Lynne Turnham, et al. “Balancing the Duty to Treat with the … Read More
April 30, 2021
(STAT News) – Russia has emphasized that the vaccine costs less than $10 per dose and that it can be stored at 36-46 degrees Fahrenheit, making it easier to use around the world than the vaccines that have to be … Read More
April 29, 2021
(NPR) – Dozens of human skulls of Black people — some hundreds of years old — will be returned to their communities of origin for reburial, according to a commitment by the University of Pennsylvania’s Museum of Archeology and Anthropology. … Read More
April 28, 2021
(STAT News) – The humble pipette tip is tiny, cheap, and utterly essential to science. It powers research into new medicines, Covid-19 diagnostics, and every blood test ever run. It is also, ordinarily, abundant — a typical bench scientist might … Read More
April 26, 2021
(Wall Street Journal) – Imagine pigs with human hearts or mice whose brains have a spark of human intelligence. Scientists are cultivating a flock of such experimental creations, called chimeras, by injecting potent human cells into mice, rats, pigs and … Read More
