Showing posts with label medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medicine. Show all posts
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Women in Thoracic Surgery,

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 The NYT reports on the second annual meeting of Women in Thoracic Surgery, a group for the less than 10 percent of heart and lung surgeons ...
Friday, November 28, 2025

Facing up to face transplants: Pioneering transplants and their pioneering patients

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The history of transplantation involves not only pioneering surgeons, but also pioneering patients.  Face transplants are yet another comple...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

The abrupt demise of the AMA Journal of Ethics

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Medical ethics is full of twists and turns, so it is perhaps fitting that the American Medical Association killed its Journal of Ethics, wit...
Monday, November 17, 2025

Physicians are now more likely employed than in private practice, and AMA membership has correspondingly declined

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  Medpage Today has the story: Medical Societies Are Facing an Existential Crisis — It's time to adapt to the employed physician era by ...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

John Gurdon (1933-2025)

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One hope for a future free of the need for human organ transplants is that it might become possible to re-initiate the process by which embr...
Friday, August 29, 2025

The science and politics (and lawfare) of abortion pills with other uses in reproductive healthcare

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Two recent articles shed some light on how the market for reproductive healthcare is evolving.  Dr. Jessica Chen writes "I dispensed mi...
Sunday, August 24, 2025

Meat and dairy allergy ( to alpha-gal), ticks and gene-modified pigs

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 A previously rare allergy to a sugar molecule called alpha-gal, found in almost all mammals but humans, is now being spread by tick bites. ...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Resuscitation theater ("slow codes"), and Medical Aid in Dying

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 Here's an article pointing out that "slow codes" often constitute resuscitation theater, i.e. they are a way to follow bureau...
Sunday, July 27, 2025

Medical aid in dying: the continuing debate in England

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In June, the British Parliament passed a law to permit medical aid in dying, which still needs further action before going into effect.   Th...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Organ donation after circulatory death: the NYT recounts some disturbing cases

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 The NYT has a disturbing story this morning about organ donation after circulatory death. These are cases in which a decision has been made...
Saturday, July 19, 2025

Aging in bursts

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It turns out we don't just fade away...  New Scientist has the story: Rapid bursts of ageing are causing a total rethink of how we grow ...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Informed consent and mortal sin, in the case of Medical Aid in Dying

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 Studying morally contested transactions doesn't always suggest paths by which consensus might be reached. It often suggests that confli...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

New York State senate passes medical aid in dying bill

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 Yesterday the NY State Senate took the next step in making medical aid in dying legal in NY.  Now the bill goes to the governor... The NYT ...
Monday, June 9, 2025

Medical aid in dying bill advances (controversially) in New York State

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 A bill to legalize Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) in New York state has passed the Assembly and been referred to the Senate (after which it wo...
Friday, May 30, 2025

American doctors moving to Canada

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 Many Canadian doctors practice in the U.S., where pay is generally higher and they may have more access to high tech imaging and other medi...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Thinking about the ethical, legal and political relationships between IVF and abortion (in JAMA)

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Some people support both IVF and abortion (women's right to choose) and some people oppose both (embryos are people), but many oppose ab...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Susan Athey on biggish data and machine learning

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 Susan Athey is interviewd in JAMA: How an Economist’s Application of Machine Learning to Target Nudges Applies to Precision Medicine    by ...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

There's a gray market for diabetes supplies

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 High prices and inadequate medical insurance force some patients to get their diabetes monitoring supplies second hand. Here's a sugges...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Chronic diseases in the U.S.

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 The top three chronic diseases--Hypertension, Obesity, and Diabetes--all contribute to the fourth, Kidney Disease. How Chronic Disease Beca...