[Stanford Medical]- The resident is seated at the conference table giving her colleagues an overview of a patient in one of Stanford Hospital’s icus. The unconscious man with no ID had been brought in the previous day after being found in a pool of blood. He had vomited an additional 5 liters of blood and [...]

[Reuters] – California’s insurance regulator has thrown its weight behind a lawsuit accusing Bristol Myers Squibb Co of dishing out kickbacks to doctors who prescribe its drugs.
The whistleblower lawsuit, brought by former employees of the pharmaceutical giant and previously under seal, accuses Bristol Myers Squibb of resorting to bribes to try to ramp up sales [...]

[Scientific American]- Technology can help individuals weigh the risks and benefits of an invasive medical procedure, experts say, but only if doctors and patients keep talking.
Much of what happens to you in the hospital in the name of diagnosing and healing is invasive. Depending on what ails you, a doctor may need to ream out [...]

[Vancouver Sun]- Tens of thousands of human embryos hang in cold storage in Canada’s fertility clinics, an unknown number of which are “orphans.”
Increasingly, however, clinics are preparing to match these embryos — which could survive for decades in suspended animation — with infertile couples who long for a child of their own. It’s a form [...]

[Mar. 23, 2011, Vancouver]- Student Biotechnology Network (SBN) hosts Genomics, Ethics and Industry Practice panel to explore social, legal and ethical implications of current and future scientific endeavors with BEI’s Executive Director Jennifer Miller. More info here.
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  [Apr. 1, 2011, NC]- BEI’s Director Jennifer Miller speaks at North Carolina Central University School of Law’s  5th annual [...]

[NYTimes]- For years scientists have dreamed of developing a genuine memory booster, a drug that could tune the brain’s biological search engine so that it’s better at retrieving not only recently learned facts, like last night’s dinner menu, but details that seem all but lost in the fog of time, like childhood classmates’ names and [...]

[NYTimes]- First, do no harm?
For some doctors that may not be the case, at least when money is involved. A new study of thousands of doctors found that just 8 of 10 strongly agreed that they should put patient welfare before their own financial interests. And 4 of 10 did not think they needed to [...]

[LA Times]- A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel said Tuesday that genetic tests directly marketed to consumers should be allowed only under a doctor’s supervision.
Personal testing, which is mainly available online from firms operating outside traditional medical institutions, can produce ambiguous or misleading results without proper analysis, panel members said.
“I would suggest that we [...]

[Reuters] – A judge hearing a dispute between the Federal Trade Commission and a generic drug company slammed the U.S. agency on Wednesday, saying there was a “strong possibility” that it overstepped its bounds and shared confidential information.
The FTC has been seeking to interview Watson Pharmaceutical CEO Paul Bisaro as part of its probe of [...]

[WSJ]-Executives in financial services and technology are the most cutthroat in collecting intelligence about competitors, while pharmaceutical executives and government officials are the most trepid, according to a recent survey.
Fuld & Co., a competitive-intelligence consultant based in Cambridge, Mass., presented 104 business executives with hypothetical scenarios that would give the executive an opportunity to collect [...]