Opinion | Ethics Consult: Potentially Hasten Baby’s Death to Ease Suffering? MD/JD Weighs In
Welcome to Ethics Consult — an opportunity to discuss, debate (respectfully), and learn together. We select an ethical dilemma from a true, but anonymized, patient care case, and then we provide an expert’s commentary. Last week, you voted on whether doctors should administer morphine to a baby with a severe terminal genetic disorder. Should the […]
Opinion | Ethics Consult: Potentially Hasten Baby’s Death to Ease Suffering?
Welcome to Ethics Consult — an opportunity to discuss, debate (respectfully), and learn together. We select an ethical dilemma from a true, but anonymized, patient care case. You vote on your decision in the case and, next week, we’ll reveal how you all made the call. Bioethicist Jacob M. Appel, MD, JD, will also weigh […]
Opinion | Ethics Consult: Genetic Testing for Potential Employees?
Welcome to Ethics Consult — an opportunity to discuss, debate (respectfully), and learn together. We select an ethical dilemma from a true, but anonymized, patient care case. You vote on your decision in the case and, next week, we’ll reveal how you all made the call. Bioethicist Jacob M. Appel, MD, JD, will also weigh […]
Tackling the Global Burden of Liver Cancer
MedPage Today brought together three leaders in the field of liver cancer to discuss the latest research and clinical advances. In this last of four exclusive episodes, moderator Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, is joined by Amit Singal, MD, of UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, […]
Opinion | Ethics Consult: Add Lithium to Town’s Drinking Water?
Welcome to Ethics Consult — an opportunity to discuss, debate (respectfully), and learn together. We select an ethical dilemma from a true, but anonymized, patient care case. You vote on your decision in the case and, next week, we’ll reveal how you all made the call. Bioethicist Jacob M. Appel, MD, JD, will also weigh […]
Study calls for change in guidance about eating fish during pregnancy
The findings, which drew together analyses on over 4,131 pregnant mothers from the Children of the 90s study in the UK, with similar detailed studies in the Seychelles, are published in NeuroToxicology. Importantly, the researchers also found that it does not appear to matter which types of fish are eaten because the essential nutrients in […]
Chemo-Free Maintenance Combo Promising in Pancreatic Cancer
Pairing a PARP inhibitor and immune checkpoint inhibitor together may be a viable non-cytotoxic maintenance therapy option for patients with platinum-sensitive pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), according to findings of a single-center phase Ib/II study. At a median follow-up of 23.0 months, combining the PARP inhibitor niraparib (Zejula) with the anti CTLA-4 antibody ipilimumab (Yervoy) achieved […]
Solving the puzzle of 2D disorder: An interdisciplinary team developed a new method to characterize disorder in 2D materials
When players try to solve word games, they attempt to put together clues to find the solution. Sure, it helps to have a strong vocabulary, but finding the right answers to those puzzles is as much about logic and strategy as it is about being a wordsmith. Using a surprisingly comparable process, an interdisciplinary team […]
Magnetic surprise revealed in ‘magic-angle’ graphene
When two sheets of the carbon nanomaterial graphene are stacked together at a particular angle with respect to each other, it gives rise to some fascinating physics. For instance, when this so-called “magic-angle graphene” is cooled to near absolute zero, it suddenly becomes a superconductor, meaning it conducts electricity with zero resistance. Now, a research […]
Prince Harry Talks About ‘Invisible Wounds’ At NYC Military Gala
NEW YORK — Prince Harry and his surprise guest, Meghan Markle, walked the red carpet together at the Intrepid Museum’s Annual Salute to Freedom Gala on Wednesday night. Though it was previously known that Harry would be attending and presenting at the event, Meghan’s attendance was merely suspected ― since she was also in the […]