July 24, 2017
(BBC) – The parents of terminally ill baby Charlie Gard have ended their legal challenge to take him to the US for experimental treatment. A lawyer representing Chris Gard and Connie Yates told the High Court “time had run out” … Read More
July 24, 2017
(Undark) – “We need to appreciate just how muddled the concept of medically unexplained symptoms is,” said James Coyne, a professor of health psychology at University Medical Center, Groningen, in the Netherlands. It’s meant to serve as a placeholder for … Read More
July 24, 2017
(New York Times) – The approval of gene therapy for leukemia, expected in the next few months, will open the door to a radically new class of cancer treatments. Companies and universities are racing to develop these new therapies, which … Read More
July 24, 2017
(STAT News) – This month, more than 25,000 medical school graduates will begin working at hospitals and medical centers across the United States. By the end of September, nearly one-third of these new doctors could become depressed and 24 percent … Read More
July 21, 2017
(Reuters) – Musician Abhishek Prasad strummed his guitar throughout his neurosurgery to help doctors zero in on the part of the brain being operated on during the first such procedure in India. The 37-year-old had been suffering from musician’s dystonia, … Read More
July 21, 2017
(The Guardian) – Karen Ann Quinlan lived two lives. Her first life was that of a regular middle-class girl in Scranton, Pennsylvania: she swam, she skied, she dated, she attended mass with her family, she went to high school, and … Read More
July 20, 2017
(The Guardian) – After almost 11 hours of surgery involving four teams of doctors, Zion Harvey had earned his place in medical history. The eight-year-old had become the first child in the world to receive two new hands in a … Read More
July 19, 2017
(Wired) – Advocates of the therapy say that’s just the cost of doing cutting-edge medicine. Except, any proof they have that it is effective comes from data collected on patients who pay thousands of dollars for the treatment. Usually people … Read More
July 19, 2017
(STAT News) – School nurses offer far more than just Band-Aids these days. As the prevalence of childhood conditions like asthma and diabetes have risen, nurses treat a wide range of problems. Still, only an estimated 40 percent of U.S. … Read More
July 19, 2017
(Medscape) – “Incredibly exciting” is how experts are describing the new development with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells, as the first of these novel therapies approaches the market. After last week’s unanimous vote in favor of recommending approval by … Read More
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