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June 19, 2013
How will this ruling shape efforts and resources to reverse the obesity epidemic? Will treating obesity as primarily a medical problem narrow the scope of possible interventions?
[Los Angeles Times] The American Medical Assn. voted Tuesday to declare o...
June 18, 2013
[The Guardian] A group of senior American doctors has called on military physicians at Guantánamo Bay to refuse to work in a mass force-feeding programme that is being used to keep hunger-striking detainees alive.
Writing in the prestigious and influ...
June 17, 2013
[Boston Globe] A group of Boston doctors is proposing to join a study that would provide emergency treatment for brain-injured patients without obtaining the trauma victims’ consent, arguing that they often arrive at the hospital unconscious or witho...
June 14, 2013
[International Business Times] The Belgian Federal Parliament is reportedly about to expand its controversial “right to die” policies to include access to euthanasia for some gravely ill children.
A consensus among members of the legislativ...
June 13, 2013
[FierceHealthcare] When it comes to quality and patient satisfaction, nonprofit church-owned hospitals outperform their public and for-profit counterparts, thanks in part to their religious mission, according to study results released this week by ...
June 13, 2013
[NBC News] The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that natural human genes cannot be patented by companies, but it said that synthetically produced genetic material can — a mixed ruling for the biotechnology industry.
A naturally occurring piec...
June 12, 2013
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...
June 12, 2013
[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...
June 7, 2013
[NYTimes] More than 70 medical, research and advocacy organizations active in 41 countries and including the National Institutes of Health announced Wednesday that they had agreed to create an organized way to share genetic and clinical information. Th...
June 6, 2013
[New York Times] Government officials, drug companies and medical experts, faced with outbreaks of antibiotic-resistant “superbugs,” are pushing to speed up the approval of new antibiotics, a move that is raising safety concerns among some critics....
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