Thursday, December 28, 2006

No Labeling of Cloned Food, says FDA

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From the AP and CNN: The government has decided that food from cloned animals is safe to eat and does not require special labeling. The Food...
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Most horrific story of 2006

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It sounds beyond belief . . . I can only hope that this is not true -- newborn babies killed for their stem cells to create beauty products....

Maintaining Your Brain

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From the NY Times, some interesting questions and one of the health trends in 2007: As Minds Age, What’s Next? Brain Calisthenics By PAM BEL...
Saturday, December 23, 2006

Enjoy your Chocolate this Holiday Season!

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[Hat tip to R. Alta Charo for this Christmas gift] -- I know this bit of info will make my Christmas cheerier! And very Happy Holidays for t...
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Sex Matters When It Comes to Pain

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An article in the Washington Post this morning by Francesca Lunzer Kritz made me chuckle because it could have been written about my self an...
Monday, December 18, 2006

Paying Addicts Not to Have Children: Project Prevention

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A very interesting article in the New Haven Register describes the situation which promoted a Connecticut mother to start a Project Preventi...
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Breast Cancer Treatment and Evidence Based Medicine

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A fellow Blogger, Daniel Goldberg J.D., from medical humanites blog, has written a piece which is pertinent to us and he has given me persm...
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Sunday, December 17, 2006

Who's Your Daddy?

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18 year old Katrina Clark writes a compelling article about life as a child whose father was an anonymous sperm donor in the Washington Post...

Defibrillators Disrupt Peaceful Dying

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Cardiac defibrillator implants -- small, internal versions of the paddles that emergency rooms use to shock patients' malfunctioning hea...

IVF Risky to Mom and Babes

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High-dose fertility drugs put mothers and babies at risk, according to two studies discussed at a conference in London last week. The studi...
Thursday, December 14, 2006

Circumcision Study Cut Short

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In the NY Times this morning: Circumcision appears to reduce a man’s risk of contracting AIDS from heterosexual sex by half, United States g...
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Monday, December 11, 2006

The Top 10 health stories of 2006

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H arvard Health Letter has come out with what they see as the top 10 health stories of the year: A new shot in the arm against cancer. ...
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Friday, December 08, 2006

Taking Reproductive Technology Too Far

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A few days ago an article entitled, “Wanting Babies Like Themselves, Some Parents Choose Genetic Defects” was published in the NY Times . ...
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Thursday, December 07, 2006

International Force... Feeding

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Newspapers across Europe and the U.S. reported yesterday that high-profile prisoner Vojislav Seselj, held on charges of war crimes, would be...
Wednesday, December 06, 2006

The Hague Declaration on the Human Rights and Dignity of Dalit Women

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The Dalits, a caste of around 260 million people in South Asia (accounting for roughly 1/4 of India’s population), are facing systemic and s...

Blood Diamonds Are For Never

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One of things I love about teaching is that I learn new things all the time from my students -- for example, two of my students recently rea...
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Using PGD to select for disability

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In IVF procedures, preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is generally used to help prospective parents bear healthy children. Genetic test...
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Sunday, December 03, 2006

Another View on Palliative Sedation

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After reading the post written by aeb, I have added my own beliefs on the topic of palliative sedation. Aeb and I are currently taking a nu...
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What's Wrong with this Picture?

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A series of articles in the NY Times looks at how family practitioners and emergency room physicians have also jumped over into the cosmetic...
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Friday, December 01, 2006

Palliative Sedation

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Before taking one of my most recent nursing classes, I had not been exposed to the concept of palliative sedation. Throughout this class I h...