[FoxNews] Their entire genetic sequences will be posted on the internet as part of the Personal Genome Project, a Harvard-based endeavor that aims to discover the genetic basis of hundreds of diseases, conditions and even personality quirks.
The best way to find that out, some scientists believe, is to put everything out there in the open [...]

The Food and Drug Administration will establish its first office in China before the end of the year as part of a broader plan to assure the safety of imports from the developing world.  FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach on Thursday laid out a plan to place more than 60 food and drug regulators world-wide [...]

[Scoop] The permissibility of therapeutic cloning will be the focus of a United Nations ethics panel later this month when it considers whether a non-binding General Assembly declaration calling on Member States to ban all forms of human cloning should be reassessed in light of scientific, ethical, social, political and legal advances.
In 2005 the Assembly [...]

[The Independent] It might be termed the hallucinogenic way of death. Psychoactive drugs such as “magic mushrooms” could be used to enhance the experience of dying, according to an expert in medical ethics.
Robin Mackenzie, director of medical law and ethics at the University of Kent, is to call today for people to be given more [...]

“People before profit” states an AP picture… the banner protests Wall Street and the global financial industries’ profit first decisions .  But, the banner applies to many other industries were profits can take priority over individuals and communities.

In the case of healthcare, a profit first attitude can literally mean a life-death consequence or a life [...]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. provides interesting commentary on environmental sustainability in the below article:

“I think Americans and the press and most of our political leaders have now made the connection we’ve long been urging that the environment is intertwined with all the other critical issues that concern us, starting with national security, [...]

Following up with my last post on medical tourism, virtual medical tourism is also on the rise.  An increasing number of Americans are not only flying overseas in search of cheaper medical care, but they are medical globe-trotting via the internet. 
The October 2008 issue of the Harvard Health Letter reports that many countries are marketing their more competitively priced medical treatments to [...]