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Physicians practicing assisted suicide are asked to better screen patients for depression
jerry submitted, created time 1 month 1 week (www.reuters.com)
This article is particularly concerned with Oregon's Death with Dignity Act, which requires physicians who suspect that a patient requesting help in ending his or her live might be suffering from clinical depression to have said patient evaluated by a mental health professional. However, the proportion of such patients who actually are evaluated has dropped and continues to drop.
Last year, forty-six patients died by physician-assisted suicide in Oregon. None of them were evaluated to see if depression had affected their judgment. 
Patent fight over dog cloning keeps disgraced scientist busy
Darkfrog submitted, created time 4 months 2 weeks (www.nature.com)
It turns out that Woo Suk Hwang, formerly of Seoul National University before they booted him out for falsifying his research, is involved in a lawsuit with one of his former teammates, Byeong Chun Lee, or at least the preliminary pangs of a lawsuit.
Hwang is invovled with a U.S. company and Lee with a Korean one. The U.S. company has just told the Korean one to stop cloning dogs. In June, Lee's company managed to make four clones of a dog that can sniff out cancer in humans--so this technology does have more than sentimental application
Gene-testing firms face legal battle
kavin submitted, created time 4 months 3 weeks (www.nature.com)
The state of California is clamping down on companies that offer direct-to-consumer genetic testing in a move that threatens the burgeoning industry. Meredith Wadman looks at a grey area in US regulation.
Last Wednesday, as California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger prepared to tell a biotechnology industry convention in San Diego that his state “is one of the best places to set up shop,” Kári Stefansson was opening a letter that had just landed on his desk at deCODE genetics in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Top U.S. Scientists, Economists Urge Carbon Cuts
jerry submitted, created time 5 months 3 weeks (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
In an open letter published online yesterday, leading American scientists and economists urged U.S. policymakers to make deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. The action comes as the Senate is poised to vote on landmark U.S. climate legislation...
Ban on first-cousin marriages "not necessary"
sea-maid submitted, created time 5 months 3 weeks (www.newscientist.com)
It found that infant mortality is only 1.2 per cent higher among the children of first cousins compared with children that have more distantly related parents.
Stem cell therapy clinical trial halted by the FDA
Darkfrog submitted, created time 6 months 1 day (www.nature.com)
The FDA has put the brakes on a clinical trial, mentioned on DiscoveR8 a few months ago: Geron company in California wants to inject the spines of spinal injury patients with oligodendroglial progenitor cells grown from embryonic stem cells.
At first I thought, "Good, a little caution never hurt anyone," but then I read that this trial has been in the works for four years. You know what? That four-year delay probably has hurt someone.
The FDA has NOT STATED ITS REASONS for the delay
Hybrid Embryo Ban Is Defeated in Britain
Sue Wu submitted, created time 6 months 2 days (www.timesonline.co.uk)
The House of Commons has defeated a bill that would have banned the creation of so-called hybrid embryos—part human and part animal—for medical research. That means scientists who obtain proper licenses will be allowed to create hybrid embryos by transferring DNA from human cells into animal eggs that have had most of their genetic information removed. The embryos would then be grown in a laboratory and their stem cells would be harvested for up to 14 days, after which they would be destroyed
Dozens of patent decisions may be overturned!
Darkfrog submitted, created time 6 months 2 weeks (www.nytimes.com)
A professor at George Washington University--not one of us this time; he's a law professor--has brought to light some shades of U.S. law that suggest that the appointments of forty-six judges may have been unconstitutional. What does that mean for scientists? Well, these judges laid down decisions for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, both deciding whether patents should be issued for new inventions and resolving patent disputes.
If the appointments are declared unconstitutional, then who knows how many decisions may be overturned? The translogic decision alone was worth $86 million.
Organ trafficking cracked down upon in the Phillippines
Darkfrog submitted, created time 6 months 3 weeks (www.nytimes.com)
Poor Filipinos can make between $2000 and $10,000 (USD) by selling kidneys to sick foreigners. This has been illegal for many years, but a sixty percent increase in illegal kidney "donations" between 2004 and 2006 has sparked the government of the Phillippines to forbid foreign kidney donations entirely. With the exception of foreigners related by blood to Filipino citizens, this part of the Phillippines' medical tourism industry is to come to an end.
Genetic Information Nondescrimination Act passes!!
Darkfrog submitted, created time 6 months 3 weeks (www.nature.com)
The Genetic Information Nondescrimination Act has passed in the U.S. government. Now employers and insurance companies are forbidden on the federal level to use the results of genetic testing to hire, fire or give or deny insurance. Basically, this means that the movie Gataca won't happen in real life.
Genetic Information Nondescrimination Act poised to pass
Darkfrog submitted, created time 6 months 4 weeks (www.nytimes.com)
The U.S. Congress is preparing a bill that would forbid employers and insurance companies from denying or terminating employment or coverage based on the results of genetic tests. Federal law already prohibits group policies, such as those attained through one's employer or other organization, from discriminating using genetic information, but this bill would apply accross the board.
This bill is likely to pass, and I think it will remove one of the main fears associated with genetic testing (finally finding out that one has a 40% chance of lung cancer is still there, though).
When Is Sedation Really Euthanasia?
jane2007 submitted, created time 7 months 4 weeks (www.time.com)
Terminal sedation is the decision to keep dying patients, who cannot be made comfortable in any other way, unconscious until they die. But when is this the same as euthanasia?
Humans Marrying Robots? A Q&A with David Levy
sumsung submitted, created time 9 months 2 days (www.sciam.com)
Last year, David Levy published a book, Love and Sex with Robots, which marked a culmination of years of research about the interactions between humans and computers. His basic idea is that, for humans who cannot establish emotional or sexual connections with other people, they might form them with robots. The topic is ripe for ridicule: On the Colbert Report in January, host Stephen Colbert asked Levy, "
Germany's embryo protection law is 'killing embryos rather than protecting them
bianjie submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.eurekalert.org)
Instead of preserving life, Germany's embryo protection law has had the unintended consequence of increasing the number of fetuses killed after fertility treatment, according to new figures presented at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. A representative of the German IVF registry has called for the law to be changed urgently to ensure that this situation does not continue.
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