Bioethike

Science Daily is reporting that the drug Abraxane, which uses human albumin to aid in the delivery of chemotherapy drugs to the body, nearly doubled non-progressive survival of patients with metastatic breast cancer. Unlike traditional chemicals that are combined with chemotherapy drugs, Abraxane also appears to have fewer side effects. You can read the entire [...]

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My mom was a registered nurse for many years before becoming a teacher at the local high school. Due to her service in the health field, and with thanks to her for the many dinnertime conversations about health care issues that, humorously, often made my father squirm in his seat, I’m sensitive to the consciences [...]

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The BBC is reporting that the Scottish abortion rate rose to a high of 13, 817 last year, of which 25% were carried out on pregnant teenagers. As I noted here, the English government’s push for contraception resulted in an increase in abortions. Scotland’s most senior Roman Catholic cleric, Cardinal Keith O’Brien, had this to [...]

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David Prentice at the Family Research Council is finding more and more publications discussing iPSCs (induced pluripotent stem cells; these are reprogramed adult cells), versus ESCs (embryonic stem cells, or cells taken from human embryos, typically blastocysts, in which the tiny human is destroyed). More news, and good news, indeed. Notes Prentice, iPS cells fulfill [...]

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