New CRISPR Tools Can Cut, Splice Whole ChromosomesSeptember 3, 2019 |
The new tools will likely open the doors for scientists to explore many novel areas. With comments from our Alan Regenberg
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New from Berman Institute faculty Nancy Kass and Len Rubenstein in JAMA Viewpoint: “Can Physicians Work in US Immigration Detention Facilities While Upholding Their Hippocratic Oath?”
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WHO Joins Coalition for Free Digital Access to Health ResearchAugust 30, 2019 |
Today, WHO announces it is the first of the United Nations agencies to join a coalition of research funders and charitable foundations (cOAlition S), an initiative to make full and immediate open access to research publications a reality
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Sick Migrants Undergoing Lifesaving Care Can Now Be DeportedAugust 30, 2019 |
Last week, Ms. Bueso received a letter from the United States government that told her she would face deportation if she did not leave the country within 33 days, an order described by her doctor, lawyer and mother as tantamount to a “death sentence.”
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Do you work in situations where you might be able to make a difference even if the working conditions include serious limitations to what you can do and how—or even how much—you can provide care? A new paper from Paul Spiegel with our Nancy Kass and Len Rubenstein provides a response
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WHO Warns of ‘Dramatic’ Rise in Measles in EuropeAugust 29, 2019 |
Measles has returned to four European countries this year amid a “dramatic resurgence” in the disease on the continent, the World Health Organization said on Thursday, a reversal fueled in part by a rising wave of people who are refusing to be vaccinated
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Many Genes Influence Same-Sex Sexuality, Not a Single ‘Gay Gene’August 29, 2019 |
The largest study of same-sex sexual behavior finds the genetics are complicated, and social and environmental factors are also key
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Shakkaura Kemet, MPH writes, “At my mother’s first oncology appointment, I sat beside her, swaddled in my Harvard sweatshirt. I hoped that the name of the august institution where I was an undergraduate would, in the doctor’s eyes, transport my mother from the wasteland of “difficult,” “noncompliant,” and “welfare queen” to which black female patients are often relegated and deliver her to the promised land of “human being.””
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