S GENETIC CURE FOR AIDS: MAKE BETTER BABIES A team led by Prof He Jiankui says the twin girls, born a few weeks ago, had their DNA altered as embryos to prevent them from contracting HIV. The team at the Southern University of Science and Technology, in Shenzhen, has been recruiting couples to[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Medical Ethics’
China to Edit Babies
Why Did Vanderbilt Fire Dr. Eugene Gu?
This Vanderbilt surgical resident sued Trump and won. Now he’s out of a job. Based on reports in The Tennessean and MedPage Today. Eugene Gu was dropped after three years from his surgical residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Vanderbilt ended Gu’s residency, the five-ye[...]
May 7th, 2015 - 7:14 pm § in Misc.
IGNORANCE IS BLISS
North Carolina lawmakers want to stop medical schools from teaching abortion procedures[...]
December 16th, 2013 - 8:15 am § in Misc.
What happened to HIPAA? .. Throwing medical records in the garbage?
How My Diabetes Became Public Knowledge, All physicians know that patient data is confidential … Unfortunately lawyers and businessmen are less bound by morality and I get a lot of calls from companies knowing that I have diabetes, As a medical school professor, I am required to take onerous[...]
The (Mad) Scientist
By Hannah Waters, The Scientist Mad science has always fascinated the public, but that isn’t why Jim Fields, video producer and journalist for Time Magazine, decided to make the documentary, A: Head, B: Body, about White. “I’m intrigued more by him than anything he particularly [...]
The Dangerous “Research Works Act”
Richard Price, founder and CEO of Academia.edu from TECHCRUNCH Congress is currently considering a bill called “The Research Works Act”, whose purpose is to restrict public access to publicly-funded research. The bill is sponsored by large academic publishers who are keen to keep all research, i[...]
January 23rd, 2012 - 10:03 pm § in Uncategorized
Paternalism in the Hippocratic Oath
Jules van Schaijik of the Personalist Project writes about the Hippocratic Oath (excerpted) “Toward a Reconstruction of Medical Morality”, by Edmund D. Pellegrino, provides a good example. The Hippocratic ethic, Pellegrino thinks, is paternalistic to a degree that is simply no longer acceptabl[...]
BREAKING NEWS: UW violates basic principles of law.
A good deal of the reason for The AVE has been my concern about administrative abuse of faculty rights. As one example, The AVE has provided extensive coverage of the Aprikyan affair. Now we will likely never find out whether Andrew Aprikyan ever did anything wrong. Instead a team of lawyers, h[...]
April 19th, 2011 - 9:07 pm § in UW
UW receives five-year cooperative agreement of up to $300 million for health training in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean
from UW Medicine by Tom Furtwangler As part of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a massive effort to combat infectious diseases and strengthen health systems worldwide, the U.S. government has awarded a $300 million five-year cooperative agreement to the Universi[...]
Medical Research During Slavery