Thursday, January 2, 2025

Diane Coleman, Fierce Foe of the Right-to-Die Movement, (1953-2024)

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 A courageous, long-lived disability-rights activist who made an eloquent case against medical aid in dying has died. Diane Coleman, Fierce ...
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

The right to contraception is open to question again in the U.S.

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  Here's a paper in the J. of Women's health that brings us up to date on contraception law in the U.S. The Right to Contraception A...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The year in passings

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  More reminders of mortality. Friday, March 8, 2024 Dr. Guy Alexandre (1934-2024), gave birth to brain death in deceased organ transplantat...
Monday, December 30, 2024

Should big Tobacco fund (and program) continuing medical education?

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 Should physicians learn about tobacco from the source? The Tobacco Industry Has No Business Funding Continuing Medical Education, by Robert...
Sunday, December 29, 2024

"Rhino horns are a renewable resource." Would a legal market help save endangered rhinoceroses?

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 Right now it is illegal to buy or cell rhino horn, to protect endangered rhinoceroses from poachers who kill them.  But could a legal, tigh...
Saturday, December 28, 2024

Pardon me: JAMA Network Statement on Potentially Offensive Content

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 JAMA asks your pardon. (I don't know when they started including this statement, but I just noticed it...) JAMA Network Statement on Po...
Friday, December 27, 2024

Sports gambling presents problems for gamblers, athletes, and sports

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  Sports betting has some potentially dire implications both for betters and for athletes and sports. Gamblers can find in-app gambling whil...
Thursday, December 26, 2024

Regulating emerging technologies

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  Here's a recent RAND report, on the current diverse attempts to regulate emerging biotechnologies, focusing on organoids,* embryos, ge...
Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Kidney exchange chain at Ohio State--a gift transforms 20 lives

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  Here's a recent big kidney exchange chain, begun by a nondirected donor, involving patient-donor pairs all at OSU's medical center...