[Wired UK] The future of robotics in surgery will involve an increasingly powerful virtual environment, where surgeons are able to see through the body and potentially work side by side with autonomous robotic assistants.
Rows of gruesome medical art…
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[American Medical News] A study finds a gap between learning ethical terms and using them in a clinical setting, which can lead to a lack of shared understanding.
Do medical school students remember ethical principles when they start practicing medicin…
04/25/2013
Gene Patents: A Hindrance to Innovation?
[Guardian] Scientists researching diseases such as cancer are impeded by having to pay companies who own specific gene patents. You carry a set of instructions in every cell, encrypted in DNA. Your genome, 3 billion letters of genetic code, is not on…
[NPR] Banning cheaper, generic forms of a dangerous drug sounds like a worthy idea.
But the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to bar generic OxyContin may also push patients towards less effective drugs without eliminating the risk of addic…
[NPR] Banning cheaper, generic forms of a dangerous drug sounds like a worthy idea.
But the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to bar generic OxyContin may also push patients towards less effective drugs without eliminating the risk of addic…
03/28/2013
How Much Monitoring Is Too Much?
[Scientific American] It started in the ‘70s. A pregnant woman with diabetes faced a deeply entrenched medical routine: months in hospital having her blood glucose closely monitored. She managed to stay out by convincing her doctor, Clara Lowy, to le…
[Forbes] Today, our body temperature can be scanned from a distance quickly and simply. For a busy Mom with a sick child, this is a great idea. Just pointing a sensor at a spot of skin and obtaining an ‘instant’ reading is a real advance from…
02/28/2013
Testing Drugs on the Developing World
[The Atlantic] For people struggling to put food on the table and a roof over their heads, “voluntary” participation in clinical trials is a slippery slope. While disclosure of new data from pharmaceutical companies is a good first step, qu…
02/19/2013
Can They Patent Your Genes?
[The New York Review of Books] Can genes be patented? This spring, the Supreme Court will hear a case that may well decide the question, and the consequences for American biomedicine could be huge. Over three years ago, in May 2009, the American Civil …
06/12/2013
Pre-Medical Voluntourism in Developing Countries: Beneficent Intentions, Maleficent Consequences
Original commentary by BEI Young Professionals member Donna Hanrahan
Medical voluntourism programs that aim to alleviate poor health in developing countries with short-term programs for undergraduate students are on the rise. A 2004 survey reported tha…
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