Thursday, May 08, 2008

Conference May 23rd in NYC: New Dilemmas in Medicine

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Conference : New Dilemmas in Medicine, co-hosted by the IHEU-Appignani Bioethics Center & Bioethics Internatio...
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Girls & sports & character

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Not a bioethics story, but I can't resist sharing this one.
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Monday, May 05, 2008

Albany Medical Center Prize Awarded to Two Female Biomedical Researchers

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For the first time since its inception, the Albany Medical Center Prize, ( the largest prize for medicine in the United States , and second ...

Wanted: Women to Eat Chocolate

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What woman wouldn't want to sign up for this clinical trial? From across the pond : "Researchers in Norwich have set themselves an ...

Iron Man: Not So Far From Reality

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Iron Man, the upcoming summer blockbuster, has captured the attention of kids and comic book aficionados everywhere -- Isn't this every...
Sunday, May 04, 2008

More on Malaria -- It really is a preventable disease.

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One of the places I teach is at the University of Sciences in Philadelphia , in the Department of Biomedical Writing. The Chair of Biomedic...

The “third tier” in US health care?

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It’s a sickening situation. Physicians’ incomes are under attack: think lower reimbursements, higher costs for malpractice premiums an...

The God Squad Redux?

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There has been a simple problem with organ transplants, for as long as it has been technologically possible to do so: there are never, ever ...
Friday, May 02, 2008

Random Acts of Mindfulness

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Grrl Scientist posts about a Lakewood, WA police officer who stopped traffic so a duck and her family could finish crossing a highway. (sil...
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Thursday, May 01, 2008

Cochlear Implant Manufacturer Facing Multi-Million Dollar Fine

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As a quick search on this blog for the word deaf shows, I am a pretty vocal advocate of Deaf rights, and quite anti-cochlear implant for d/...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

No wrongful-dismissal verdict for creationist postdoc

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From The Scientist (free subscription may be required) comes this report of the outcome of Nathaniel Abraham's lawsuit against the Wo...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

The FDA blows it ... again.

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Despite all of the recent, largely negative press that the US Food and Drug Administration has received, one of their biggest screw-ups has ...
Monday, April 28, 2008

Sex selection in India ...

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It took then-US President Ronald Reagan several years to even mention the word "AIDS," by which time thousands had died and tens o...

The Boycott to Help Global Warming

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Living in Vermont, I get to meet really interesting people sometimes -- and this weekend, I had the serendipitous fortune to meet a woman wh...

Reversal in life expectancy for some Americans

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Ok, ok, I'll spare you the suspense: it's poor women, mainly. According to a study published last week in PLoS Medicine , available...

Sexual Assault Awareness Month

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April is (at this point, was) Sexual Assault Awareness Month - something I'm rather embarrassed to admit I didn't realize until this...
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Sunday, April 27, 2008

Breakfast - Now Determining the Sex of Your Baby?

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When I was in my teens, a few of us used to sit around and daydream about our futures and the families we would have (yes, complete with whi...
Saturday, April 26, 2008

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Adding to our collection of posts about Gardasil and the HPV vaccine is the news that HPV is one of two viral links to lung cancer . Two ne...

Art Caplan: It's not immoral to want to be immortal

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For those of us who are very interested in life-extension and regenerative medicine, our colleague Art Caplan has a brand new column on the...
Friday, April 25, 2008

once more, with feeling*

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Once again, experts have testified that abstinence only sex education programs don't work . This time, groups of experts, including repr...
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