I Love My Child. I Wish He’d Never Been Born.
Searing, intense, personal account of being mother to a child with Tay-Sachs, perhaps the archetypal disease used for discussing wrongful life. Emily Rapp’s take on prenatal testing is the opposite of...
View ArticleThe Undying
Michael Wolff says what must be said: in our desperate attempt to advance medicine we have created a population of millions who suffer because we will not let them die – every life is worth ending....
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Downloading Health
The X Prize Foundation has plunked down another gauntlet, this one to the tune of $2.25 million with the help of Nokia, to drag healthcare kicking and screaming into the 21st century. The objective? A...
View ArticleMaking Medicine User Friendly
I have no idea why the original headline references a TV remote control (notoriously shitty user-interfaces) , but the article gets it right: digitizing and technologizing medicine doesn’t help anybody...
View ArticleHow to Treat A Disease that Attacks Autonomy?
Should we force feed those with anorexia? Sounds like a question for the text books.
View Article“You Now Have, for the First Time in History, a Scientific Basis for Medicine.”
Larry Smarr is trying to save your life: Larry sees medicine as a stubborn holdout. Current efforts to reform the system—for instance, the Obama administration’s initiative to digitize all health...
View ArticleForcing Patients Into the Hands of Fools
A reader commenting on a home birthing thread on Andrew Sullivan’s the Dish sums up how medical regulations can fail better than I’ve heard before: The tragedy to me in this whole story is that once...
View ArticleiPS Cells Get Closer to Beta Cells
From Nature: [Takanori Takebe, a stem-cell biologist at Yokohama City University in Japan,] told how his team grew the organ using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS), created by reprogramming human...
View ArticleThe Stem Cell Hope and Our Indefinitely Delayed Future
Alice Park’s new book The Stem Cell Hope, convinced me it is time to retire, “Where is my jetpack!?” once and for all. After reading her new book, Park will have you screaming, “Where are my stem...
View ArticleKicking the Health Care Habit
Stanton Peele makes a compelling case that our obsession with being “treated” for every minor malady reflects our abject terror in the face of clinically based recommendations to cut back on testing....
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