Blog Posts (9)
May 15, 2013
Here's a great Youtube video on PEG tube placement; it seems to be up as a marketing move by the company that made it. Is there any reason why patients and their families shouldn't always watch something like this in connection with informed consent fo...
May 15, 2013
A international team including scientists from Oregon Health & Science University and the Oregon National Primate Research Center have just announced in Cell that they have successfully used somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) to develop human emb...
May 15, 2013
The Vermont legislature has passed a new physician-assisted suicide law and is sending it to Governor Shumlin, who supports it and is expected to sign. The Oregon-style legislation will be the third such state law in the country and the first adopted b...
February 11, 2013
Require a transvaginal ultrasound before an abortion! Limit abortion availability by giving legal rights to fetuses and requiring abortionists to have local hospital admitting privileges that they don't use! Oppose gun control that women overwhelmingly...
January 28, 2013
Prof. Andrew Francis, an economist at Emory, is claiming that penicillin, rather than The (Birth Control) Pill, was the drug that gave us the sexual revolution of the 1960s. The idea is that the post-war availability of penicillin reduced the cost (to ...
January 22, 2013
Oh, good. This story isn't true. There isn't actually a Harvard professor who wants to recruit a woman to bear a Neanderthal child from an embryo constructed, using stem-cell and cloning technology, from Neanderthal bone DNA. Turns out there was some t...
January 22, 2013
I'm freshly back from the annual meeting of the Public Health Law Research program, sponsored by Robert Wood Johnson.
At most academic meetings, I prefer schmoozing in the halls to listening to the talks. That's part personal vice, and part stage-of-c...
December 28, 2012
I always enjoy and benefit from reading the reports of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. Its latest on Emerging Biotechnologies is no exception. I hope to have more to say about the substance of this report in future posts, but for now I want to singl...
