Tag Archive | Global Health
MacLean Fellows Conference to focus on ethics of organ transplant, global health and pediatric immunization
The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics will host its 24th annual conference on ethical issues this Friday and Saturday, Nov. 9-10, at the University of Chicago Law School. This year’s conference will also feature the presentation of the second annual $50,000 MacLean Center Prize in Clinical Ethics to Peter Singer, MD, MPH, senior scientist […]
GW-As: The Toxicity Risk in the Genes
By Rob Mitchum Arsenic is a deadly toxin, but it’s not one dose fits all. Two people exposed to the same level of the chemical can have entirely different responses, with Patient A developing the skin lesions, cancers, and respiratory conditions that are a hallmark of arsenic toxicity, while Patient B is entirely unaffected. Currently, […]
Lactose Tolerance in the Indian Dairyland
The ability to drink animal milk into adulthood is something that most of us take for granted. But lactose tolerance is a genetic marvel, an exclusive human trait facilitated by a genetic mutation that only appeared in the last 10,000 years. In fact, the persistent production of the enzyme lactase (which digests lactose) has been […]
Sexual Identity, Health, and Stigma in India
Last November, a barrier was broken in the prolific Bollywood film industry of India. A film called Dunno Y featured the first on-screen male-male kiss – a provocative scene in a country that only the year before repealed a law making homosexuality illegal. Many tagged the film as India’s version of Brokeback Mountain, a controversial […]
The Global Health Gap: Why Fight It?
The final question of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics seminar series on health disparities was a seemingly obvious query that had gone unasked and unanswered the entire year: who is responsible for fixing the problem? For the self-selecting audience that had attended the lectures all year, the question may have seemed irrelevant – […]
Linkage 5/6: Shubin Honors, The Life Cycle of Drugs, & Bin Laden’s DNA
More Honors for Shubin In 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln signed an order creating the National Academy of Sciences, an organization bringing together the country’s most esteemed scientists to “investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art.” From the original 50 members, the group has blossomed […]
Linkage 3/18: Match Day, Podcast #0.3, and More
Yesterday wasn’t just St. Patrick’s Day for fourth-year medical students around the country – it was also Match Day, the tense and celebratory day when aspiring doctors learn the residency program where they will spend their next 3-7 years. At the Pritzker School of Medicine, green-clad students and supporters absolutely packed the hospital’s Billings Auditorium […]
Saving Lives & Lungs with Cleaner Stoves
By Dianna Douglas Cooking indoors over firewood and dung is a tough habit to break for billions of poor people around the world. But Sola Olopade, MD, professor of medicine and family medicine, found a way. He wanted to stop women from hunching for hours over open fires inside their houses, cooking with babies strapped […]
The Debut of Turnover Time
Last week, we brought you exclusive video from the rehearsal space of Turnover Time, the band of Medical Center employees formed to raise money for David Song‘s relief efforts with Medical Aid for Children in Latin America. The band’s big debut took place at the Lend an Ear fundraiser Saturday night at the University of […]
MacLean Center Ethics Seminar Videos: The First Batch
Since late September, ScienceLife has been posting near-weekly recaps of the annual Maclean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics seminar series. The topic for this academic year, “Health Disparities: Local, National, Global” (pdf), has brought together an all-star cast of physicians, biologists, economists, social scientists and other experts to present research on some of the biggest […]
