March 3, 2015
(Nature) – Last month saw a major landmark for regenerative medicine: the first time that a stem-cell therapy — beside the use of cells extracted from umbilical cords — had been cleared for sale by any regulatory agency in the … Read More
March 3, 2015
(Washington Post) – The United States faces a shortage of as many as 90,000 physicians by 2025, including a critical need for specialists to treat an aging population that will increasingly live with chronic disease, the association that represents medical … Read More
March 3, 2015
(NIH) – Good morning, Chairman Cole, Ranking Member DeLauro, and distinguished Members of the Subcommittee. I am Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., and I am the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It is an honor to appear … Read More
March 3, 2015
(Lung Cancer News Today) – In a new study entitled “Graphene oxide selectively targets cancer stem cells, across multiple tumor types: Implications for non-toxic cancer treatment, via “differentiation-based nano-therapy” researchers showed that graphene oxide, a nanomaterial, specifically targets lung cancer stem cells (as … Read More
March 3, 2015
(Minnesota Daily) – The University of Minnesota’s human subject research program has significant shortfalls that may put participants at risk, a report released Friday found. The report, in which an external committee reviewed how the University protects human subjects with … Read More
March 2, 2015
(The Telegraph) – A pioneering new stem cell treatment is allowing multiple sclerosis sufferers to walk, run and even dance again, in results branded ‘miraculous’ by doctors. Patients who have been wheelchair-bound for 10 years have regained the use of … Read More
March 2, 2015
(Medical News Today) – When receiving information about treatment options and prognosis, advanced cancer patients favor doctors who provide more optimistic information and perceive them to be more compassionate when delivering it. This is according to a new study published … Read More
March 2, 2015
(Drug Discovery & Development) – In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers have devised a single-step fermentative method for the industrial production of the active drug pravastatin that previously involved a costly dual-step … Read More
March 2, 2015
(The Guardian) – The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a hormonal device on Friday that gives American women another reversible contraceptive choice as effective as sterilization. The intrauterine device (IUD) device, Liletta, releases the hormone levonorgestrel to inhibit … Read More
March 2, 2015
Science, Technology & Human Values (Volume 40, No. 2, March 2015) is now available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Mind the gap: Formal ethics policies and chemical scientists’ everyday practices in academia and industry” by Laurel Smith-Doerr and Itai Vardi “Feeding … Read More
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