Showing posts with label medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medicine. Show all posts
Friday, October 11, 2024

Medical Aid in Dying Laws in the U.S.

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  JAMA has a review of the current state of medical aid in dying in the 12 U.S. jurisdictions (if Delaware proceeds) that now allow it. Medi...
Thursday, October 10, 2024

Kidney exchange in Brazil, continued (with pictures)

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  In August I posted about a trip to Brazil  with  Mike Rees  where we traveled with  Dr. Gustavo Ferreira , the director of transplantation...
Wednesday, October 9, 2024

IV fluid shortages in the U.S.--perhaps we should allow international imports?

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There's a hurricane-induced shortage of intravenous (IV) fluid.  Maybe we should import some? (But...international borders...) An obstac...
Saturday, October 5, 2024

The NAS proposes that bans on studying marijuana and its effects should be relaxed

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 The National Academy of Sciences has just issued a new report on marijuana and public health.  Among their recommendations is that bans on ...
Sunday, September 1, 2024

The first four patients who received transplants of organs from genetically modified pigs

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 NBC reports on the four patients who have so far received organ transplants from genetically modified pigs. Their loved ones died after rec...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

Optimism and pessimism on psychedelic drugs as medicine

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 "Psychedelics" may prove to be a broad church, with psilocybin and LSD quite different from MDMA, etc., but here are two articles...
Sunday, August 25, 2024

Travel for medical aid in dying

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  CBS has the story: Why Americans are traveling to Vermont and Oregon to die ""Dying with medical assistance wasn't an option...
Thursday, June 6, 2024

Medical aid in dying debated in NY, extended in the Netherlands

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 Here are two related stories, one from the NYT about a debate on whether to allow medical aid in dying in New York State. The other is from...
Friday, May 31, 2024

Organs, tissues, and medical devices are regulated very differently

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 Here's an article in JAMA by a Michigan doctor and his Congresswoman, on the lack of regulation for some substances of human origin. Ur...
Sunday, April 28, 2024

Main causes of death around the world, 1990-2021

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  Here's a recent article from the Lancet that traces leading causes of death around the world, in more than a thousand countries and su...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Signaling in medical residency applications

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 We're starting to see descriptive studies of how signals are being used in the labor market for new doctors.  Each medical specialty ha...
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Vatican statement on gender-affirming surgery and human dignity

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 A new statement from the Vatican has been widely covered in the press. Here's the story from the National Catholic Reporter: Vatican co...
Thursday, April 4, 2024

Interviews by lottery at Queens University School of Medicine

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 Overwhelmed by large numbers of applications, and concerned about fairness, Queens University will set admissions thresholds (on grades and...
Friday, March 1, 2024

Medical aid in dying--the ongoing debate in Britain

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 The Guardian has this opinion piece, connected to the current debate in England about medically assisted dying, and the slippery slope: I’m...
Thursday, December 14, 2023

Managing blood supplies by using blood more judiciously

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Medpage has the story: Doing More With Less Blood — Blood management programs can save money and resources  by Steven Frank, MD  "At J...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Black market monkeys for medical research

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 Monkeys used in medical research are supposed to come from carefully bred laboratory colonies, but the rising price has led to black market...
Monday, December 4, 2023

Convalescent plasma: the picture is getting clearer

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  Slowly, there is evidence accumulating that convalescent plasma is helpful in treating patients with severe Covid, if it is administered e...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

Blood use in the U.S., in JAMA

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  Here are a collection of articles, some of which suggest that we may in the not so distant future face a shortage of whole blood in the U....