Senate Nears Deal for at Least $1.1 Billion to Fight Zika
Virus - NYTimes.com
6 Measles Cases Reported in Memphis Area, Exceeding Rest
of U.S. - NYTimes.com
Federal Rules about Genetic Discrimination
Should Parents of Severely Disabled Children Be Allowed to Stop Their Growth? NYTimes Magazine.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/magazine/should-parents-of-severely-disabled-children-be-allowed-to-stop-their-growth.html
Genetic Screens: A Route to Rapid Progress in Disease
Targeting and Drug Development | The Scientist Magazine®
Book Review: Personal Trials | The Scientist Magazine®
Bad Luck Or Bad Genes? Dealing With BRCA And 'A Cancer In
The Family' : NPR
How generic medicines wind up costing nearly as much as
their brand-name competitors | Public Radio International
Vietnam’s Battle With Tuberculosis - NYTimes.com
Document Claims Drug Makers Deceived a Top Medical
Journal - NYTimes.com
Week in Review 21-25 March The Scientist.com http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/45661/title/Week-in-Review--March-21-25/&utm_campaign=NEWSLETTER_TS_The-Scientist-Daily_2016&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=27687509&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8ho2Lg0DR7aUkWcALvlACAOiTviQ-HagS1Um8xmVeX-uqRKpeGbdA4cQf9st1XXtGNHkxf2_OKH02LRV3hAR06Le--SaeCgn9p7numHD-XsKQU9fk&_hsmi=27687509
Robert De Niro Defends Screening of Anti-Vaccine Film at Tribeca Festival
By PAM BELLUCK and MELENA RYZIK
The decision to screen the movie, which was directed by a former doctor whose medical license was revoked, has reignited a debate about autism and vaccines. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/health/vaccines-autism-robert-de-niro-tribeca-film-festival-andrew-wakefield-vaxxed.html?emc=edit_th_20160326&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=25414714&_r=0Abortion Rights Advocates Cry Foul at New Step in Fetal Tissue Inquiry - NYTimes.com
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Minimal Genome Created
Scientists build a living cellular organism with a genome smaller than any known in nature. | March 24, 2016
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The following article is one that mentioned at the beginning of class. It talks about the FDA requiring new black box warnings on opioids. They are saying that this will hopefully educate the doctors more so on what they are prescribing and will also help with overdoses and addiction. This article offers some counters arguments for the new labels and caps like a veteran that needs pain meds.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2016/03/22/health/fda-opioid-black-box-warning/index.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/160331-car-parts-plastics-dead-whales-germany-animals/
ReplyDeleteThis is an article about how scientists who collect Whale Sperm have found that they have plastic and pieces from cars in their diets. (Haha). I feel like this is somewhat hysterical, but sad for all of the animals in the sea that have to deal with the pollution.
http://www.albanydailystar.com/science/cloning-will-give-second-chance-to-floridas-famous-liberty-tree-chesapeakef-daily-health-14926.html
ReplyDeleteI found this article interesting. They are planning to expand the population of a landmark tree in Florida, by cloning it. If it works, it could be applied to other rare plants and trees. I thought others might find this article interesting, especially since cloning keeps popping up in our discussions. Enjoy!
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/03/ebolas-hidden-impact-on-the-eye/475992/
ReplyDeleteSome of the people who have beaten the Ebola virus are now going blind. This is making doctors worry that if they did treatment, the virus would be released back into the population, therefore making them powerless in helping those patients. I found this interesting that the doctors are unsure on how to help without harming more people in the process.
http://abc13.com/health/blood-test-could-detect-concussions/1266744/
ReplyDeleteThis article above is a must read especially for athletes. Scientists believe that they may be able to detect concussions by doing a simple blood test. The way that they believe they can do this is by a protein that is released after head trauma. This protein should be present in the blood at least a week after the injury has occurred. This could be groundbreaking in athletes, especially young players in contact sports.
Wow this is very interesting. I am not sure as a football player that I am ready for this to happen just because even though it is very dangerous to have a concussion this might also evolve the sport of football. Which I believe is already evolving to fast as it is.
DeleteThis research is a significant step in identifying concussions because there is not really a medical procedure that can identify a concussion 100% of the time, such as an MRI or a CAT scan. Someone who is trained to handle concussions can identify them by using a baseline tests. I hope that this will be used in the future to identify concussions.
DeleteI really hope this takes effect in the future. This would also help differentiate between a concussion and a "concussion".
DeleteHere is a small article that discuss Purdue University offering free measles vaccinations, since there was an outbreak on their campus.
ReplyDeletehttp://indianapublicmedia.org/news/purdue-offers-free-mumps-vaccines-university-community-96884/
For a university to understand what it's like to be a college student and to give free measles vaccinations is absolutely amazing.
Deletehttps://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/genetic.cfm
ReplyDeleteI appreciate that we require regulation regarding genetic information and discrimination. This makes society safer and more effective in the hiring process within businesses. Some other countries do not have the luxury of having regulations on this aspect of life. This may cause discrimination that would make it harder to get a job in other places in the world.
The article Vietnam's Battle with Tuberculosis describes how tuberculosis is regaining its notoriety as one of the world’s great killers: an airborne bacterium that spreads easily among people living crowded together. It insinuates itself deep in the lungs and grows, slowly tearing apart the tissue until victims are coughing up blood. Tuberculosis now kills 4,100 people a day making it the leading infectious cause of death in the world. According to the article, Vietnam's success comes from their country being Communist. In Vietnam, treatment standards set at the national level are followed by the entire public health network. Every tuberculosis patient in the district reports once a day to take his or her pills in front of a nurse. Each dose taken is checked off on a yellow card. They do experience some difficulty because not everyone takes their pills and they do not lock up those who refuse to take them. However, Vietnam has a 90 percent cure rate for uncomplicated tuberculosis and cures 75 percent of its drug-resistant cases, easily beating the global average of 50 percent.
ReplyDeleteMy grandmother actually had TB for several years when she was younger and it was still prevalent in the United States so I found this article to be particularly fascinating. I'm not a big fan of communism but in this case it actually proves to be beneficial. In my opinion, the growing threat of bacteria gaining resistance to antibiotics is not the fault of the doctors for over prescribing but rather the fault of the patients for not taking the whole dose of antibiotics. In Vietnam where people are forced by the government to take and finish their antibiotics, bacteria are effectively killed and there is a reduced chance of them gaining antibiotic resistance.
Deletehttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160224223115.htm
ReplyDeleteHere's an interesting article regarding the use of genetic engineering in Mitochondrial replacement therapy for multi-system genetic diseases.
A very interesting article for a very interesting man.
Deletehttp://theconversation.com/genetics-what-it-is-that-makes-you-clever-and-why-its-shrouded-in-controversy-56115
ReplyDeleteI just found this article. It is about genetics and what about them that make you clever. It also goes into the controversy surrounding this. They even discuss twin studies for a little bit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/opinion/sunday/tweaking-genes-to-save-species.html?
ReplyDeleteThis article is about tweaking genes in species to help change or prevent extinction. But this makes controversy because the question is do we want to alter insects DNA? It might change the environment.
http://www.bioedge.org/
ReplyDeleteIn this link there are a ton of articles ranging from IVF to illegal organ trade in Iraq. Personally the IVF article was interesting to me, it was about mosaic embryos.
Here is the link to that one: http://www.bioedge.org/bioethics/ivf-experts-divided-over-mosaic-embryos/11841
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160418120706.htm
ReplyDeleteType 1 Diabetes is an epidemic that of which we have no cure for. This article informs the reader of a Islet Transplantation to which would help the pancreas produce insulin by itself again.
https://newrepublic.com/article/133067/dead-mans-sperm
ReplyDeleteThis article is about where or not its ethical for a wife to still have kids with her husband's sperm after he passes away.