November 21, 2022
(Axios) – Elizabeth Holmes on Friday was sentenced by a California judge to 11 years and three months in prison for defrauding investors in her failed blood-testing company, Theranos. Why it matters: This is the end of a years-long saga … Read More
November 11, 2022
(Science) – Throughout his career, Vonnegut wrote about hypothetical technologies that foresaw not just emergent fields of science such as artificial intelligence and geoengineering, but the ways in which culture and politics shape their effect on society. In doing so, … Read More
October 28, 2022
(Newsweek) – When does life begin? It’s one of those questions which, as Keats put it, “tease us out of thought, as doth eternity.” From the bar to the pulpit, the metaphysics are difficult, the argument is interminable, and the … Read More
October 3, 2022
(Associated Press) – Swedish scientist Svante Paabo won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries in human evolution that unlocked secrets of Neanderthal DNA that helped us understand what makes humans unique and provided key insights into our immune … Read More
September 28, 2022
(Associated Press) – A Johns Hopkins University scientist who created a website to track COVID-19 cases worldwide is the recipient of this year’s Lasker award for public service. The $250,000 awards, announced Wednesday by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, … Read More
September 14, 2022
(CBS News) – Actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are bringing a new meaning to the term “lead from behind.” The two are raising awareness about colon cancer by filming their colonoscopy experiences. Reynolds’ colonoscopy was performed by CBS News … Read More
August 22, 2022
(Associated Press) – Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert who became a household name — and the subject of partisan attacks — during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Monday he will leave the federal government in December after … Read More
July 29, 2022
(Deutsche Welle) – When we talk about genetics, we often see visions of superhumans — people whose DNA has been altered to enhance their abilities, allowing them to outperform others and survive multiple diseases while also having conventional good looks, … Read More
July 21, 2022
(STAT News) – Pesident Biden tested positive for Covid-19 Thursday — a coronavirus case that reflects both the high ongoing levels of transmission of the virus and its ability to cause infections even in people who have layers of protection. … Read More
June 21, 2022
(Wired) – Lemoine is a scientist: He holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in computer science from the University of Louisiana and says he left a doctoral program to take the Google job. But he is also a mystic Christian priest, … Read More
April 29, 2022
(Medscape) – Eric J. Topol, MD: This is really a great occasion to have a chance to meet with Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg and discuss the remarkable progress and dedication at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). CZI has been … Read More
March 22, 2022
(STAT News) – Niels Birbaumer, once a prominent neuroscientist at the University of Tübingen in Germany, fell hard from his pedestal three years back. He was accused of scientific misconduct for his controversial “brain-reading” research, stripped of funding, and fired … Read More
February 22, 2022
(NPR) – Dr. Paul Farmer, global health champion, Harvard Medical School professor, anthropologist and co-founder of the nonprofit health organization Partners in Health, has died at age 62. PIH confirmed his death in a tweet on Monday. According to the … Read More
February 16, 2022
(Medscape) – Near-death experiences continue to be thought of as a mysterious phenomenon, although anyone who takes the time to seek out and speak with people who have been close to death will quickly discover that they are not, in … Read More
February 7, 2022
(New York Times) – Two years after the death of Li Wenliang, the doctor who tried to warn China about the coronavirus only to succumb to it himself, his memory remains a source of equal parts grief, anger and hope … Read More
December 20, 2021
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy (vol. 24, no. 3, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “On the Use of Evolutionary Mismatch Theories in Debating Human Prosociality” by Andrés Segovia-Cuéllar and Lorenzo Del Savio “From Hostile Worlds to … Read More
December 15, 2021
European Journal of Human Genetics (vol. 29, no. 7, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Origins of Human Genetics. A Personal Perspective” by Eberhard Passarge “Atrial Fibrillation—A Complex Polygenetic Disease” by Julie H. Andersen, Laura Andreasen and … Read More
December 14, 2021
Research Ethics (vol. 17, no. 3, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Queer Considerations: Exploring the Use of Social Media for Research Recruitment within LGBTQ Communities” by Catherine Littler and Phillip Joy “Ethical Approval: None Sought. How … Read More
December 13, 2021
Clinical Ethics (vol. 16, no. 2, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Ethical Conflicts in Patient-Centred Care” by Sven Ove Hansson and Barbro Fröding “The Moral Challenges of Health Care Providers Brain Drain Phenomenon” by Faith Atte … Read More
December 9, 2021
Public Health Ethics (vol. 14, no. 1, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “An Effort Worth Making: A Qualitative Study of How Swedes Respond to Antibiotic Resistance” by Mirko Ancillotti, et al. “Return of Results in Population … Read More
December 3, 2021
(Associated Press) – The Botswana scientist who may well have discovered the omicron variant of the coronavirus says he has been on a “rollercoaster of emotions,” with the pride of accomplishment followed by dismay over the travel bans immediately slapped … Read More
December 2, 2021
Medico-Legal Journal (vol. 89, no. 2, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Medicines and Murder” by Robin Ferner “Is it Discriminatory to Require Hospital Staff to be clean Shaven to Facilitate the Effective Wearing of Personal Protective … Read More
December 1, 2021
(Science) – The move put EcoHealth—and Daszak—at the center of an incendiary debate about whether SARS-CoV-2 has a natural origin or is the result of a “lab leak” from the research EcoHealth had supported. Daszak’s emails, tweets, letters, journal articles, … Read More
November 19, 2021
Nursing Ethics (vol. 28, no. 3, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The Summit of a Moral Pilgrimage: Confucianism on Healthy Ageing and Social Eldercare” by Jing-Bao Nie “Eastern Perspectives on Roles, Responsibilities and Filial Piety: A … Read More
October 13, 2021
(ABC News) – The chief of the World Health Organization on Wednesday honored the late Henrietta Lacks, an American woman whose cancer cells were taken without her knowledge during the 1950s and ended up providing the foundation for vast scientific … Read More