"On Sunday, October 30th over 12,000 people from around the world convened at the Colorado Convention Center to kick off the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) 144th Conference."
“...[cessation of the trials] threatens to perpetuate an ungrateful and potentially harmful reliance on women to be responsible for all aspects of reproductive planning.”
"If you have been scrolling through your newsfeed this past week, you probably noticed a backlash against discontinuing the study."
"This last decision allows them to embrace the right to believe, act, and express themselves one last time."
"It represents a complication for medical providers, researchers, and patients, and doesn’t provide any intrinsic information about the disease it’s describing."
"A few weeks ago, I wrote a news article discussing a successful procedure that produced a 3-parent baby."
Wrathful bacteria
Invade the body of the host,
A plight of various ailments ensue, prompting
Overdoses and poison of the remedies. Putative – false.
My fingers brush the brow of another. Wipe the sweat, the pained gasps for
Air.
Respire! Hear the triumph of war – the ominous silence within, the sound of silence.
The orchestra still breathes, but the timpanis have stopped, disabled. Cut off – finé.
The concertmaster plays his solo, anxious, panicked, hurried. And then,
The inevitable fumble of the fingers as the bow slips and falls with a clatter
To the stage, and the conductor casts away his baton. The
Audience draws its collective final breath and the exhalation is slow
As the ensemble drifts into its
Peaceful slumber
"However, the community at the epicenter for proposed trials – Key Haven, Florida – is strongly protesting the idea of releasing genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes in their neighborhood."
"Only with trust and community-wide understanding will biobanks extend to encompass all demographics."
"But from my perspective as the patient, the doctor who was about to place a piece of titanium inside my body came across as rude, unmoving, and generally unkind."
"The soda company is partnering with TB Alliance to create more palatable medications that fight tuberculosis."
"it is clear that the United States needs a change in the status quo when it comes to basic research."
"In the wake of political turnover, entire institutions are remolded to assert these values; healthcare systems are often conspicuous recipients of this remodeling."
"Parallels like these between biological and computer systems are seen throughout both fields."
"[...] modest normative beginnings do not preclude the possibility of ethicists one day having something like full-fledged moral expertise."
"Public opinion on the morality and legality of abortion in the United States remains sharply divided."
"The autonomy of the mother to make her own choices about her body is important, but the value our society designates to individuals in the genetic minority is equally important and deserves more attention than it currently has."
"Organizations that fight against the widespread use of GMOs have a misunderstanding of the science behind the most common GMOs."
"If used in place of conventional medical practices, the patient may be receiving treatment that poses a lesser benefit than conventional methods, essentially reducing the desired effect of medicine."
"the specimens are taken from saliva or drops of blood to match DNA in paternity or criminal cases."