Saturday, June 30, 2007

Sicko : What Lies Beneath

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Michael Moore’s Sicko suggests that the ill health of our health care system is itself a symptom of a more virulent disorder by Mary D....
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“Human-made life form” provokes ethical concerns

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Washington Post reported yesterday (June 29) a landmark study on DNA transplant. “Scientists said yesterday that they had transplanted a mic...
Friday, June 29, 2007

It's a Sicko Weekend

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The last few days and this weekend promise to be filled with commentary about Michael Moore's film, Sicko , which illustrates that the...

Pluripotent Stem Cells from Unfertilized Human Eggs

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Research collaborators from Maryland and Moscow have produced six pluripotent stem cell lines from human eggs that were never fertilized ( f...
Thursday, June 28, 2007

Studies of SSRI antidepressant use during pregnancy reassuring

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Two new studies ( CDC study and Slone study ), published in the June 28, 2007 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine , examine wheth...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

A Week of Medical Misconnections

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[Hat tip to R. Alta Charo, for bring our attention to this] The Wisconsion State Journal is doing a week long series on medical mistakes and...

The Church: Chimera embryos have right to life

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From the UK and the Telegraph : Under proposed legislation to be debated by Parliament later this year, scientists will be given permission ...

The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Becoming a (Real) Cyborg

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If you're interested in becoming one with your computer, the blog Free Geekery offers some tongue-in-cheek handy tips, such as implantin...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

ACT creates embryonic stem cell line; keeps embryos alive

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This is cross-posted at http://www.bioethics.net/ Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) announced in Nature Magazine in August of 2006 that they we...

Estrogen Protects the Brain, Study Suggests

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Proving again that the debate on the potential benefits of postmenopausal hormone therapy is not yet over, a recent study at Mount Sinai sug...
Monday, June 25, 2007

Unite For Sight Fifth Annual International Health Conference

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Building Global Health For Today and Tomorrow April 12-13, 2008 Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut http://www.uniteforsight.org/confer...

Harnessing the Power of Thought

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From the Discovery Channel this past week -- Forget the 'clicker' the old-fashioned TV remote, where you have to manually change th...
Saturday, June 23, 2007

burning out the good ones

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Thomas, a colleague from my University of Washington days, dropped me a line today wondering if anyone at this blog was going to write abou...
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Thursday, June 21, 2007

Yet another reason for reproductive docs to avoid multiple births

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In 2003, researchers reported on the stigma and quality of life issues for mothers of multiples following fertility treatment. (Ellison MA, ...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Advances in cardiovascular care not reaching diabetic women?

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A recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine revealed some alarming statistics regarding mortality rates for diabetic women v...
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Researchers Light Up for Nicotine, the Wonder Drug

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From Wired this morning: "Smoking may be bad for you, but researchers and biotech companies are quietly developing pharmaceuticals that...

On the Horizon, Personalized Depression Drugs

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From the NY Times: "Imagine that you are depressed and see a psychiatrist who explains that you have clinical depression and would bene...

The Link between Autism and Thimerosal

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Robert Kennedy, Jr. has some interesting things to say about recent vaccine/autism debate in his column in the Huffington Post: "I have...

Manuel Velasco-Suárez Award in Bioethics

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Call for Nominations 2007 The Pan American Health and Education Foundation is accepting nominations for the Manuel Velasc...
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Art Caplan on The Madness of MegaMultiples

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Art Caplan explains on MSNBC that the media cooing over sextuplets is doing the public a disservice: News outlets go gaga and forget to repo...
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