FDA Approves Clinical Studies of a Novel Anti-Cancer Drug Developed by Italian Researchers.
NERVIANO, Italy, February 10 /PRNewswire/ -- - Nerviano Medical Sciences (NMS): Green Light From the FDA for the CDC7 Inhibitor Nerviano Medical Sciences (NMS) has secured Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to conduct for the first time clinical trials of a novel antitumoral agent. The drug...

Toxic disregard.
Whilst 'This Toxic Life' (Keynote, Drowning in plastic, NI 415) is informative and shocking, I was dismayed at the disregard for animal experimentation issues. The so-called 'safety testing' of chemicals involves the incarceration, force-feeding, injecting, burning and poisoning to death of hundreds of millions of animals annually....

Comparing drug effectiveness at health plans: the ethics of cluster randomized trials.
"Cluster randomized trials," in which groups of patients are randomly assigned to different therapeutic interventions, provide a powerful way of evaluating drugs. CRTs have not been widely used, in good part because of concerns about whether patients must give informed consent to participate in them. A better understanding of...

The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution.
The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution, by Deborah Harkness. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2007. xxii, 349 pp. $32.50 US (cloth). Deborah Harkness takes up her examination of Elizabethan science with the generally accepted principle that the history of science cannot be limited to...

The problematic nature of conflating use and advocacy in CAM integration: complexity and differentiation in UK cancer patients' views.
Introduction Calls for the integration of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) into cancer care are ubiquitous. The notion of 'integrative medicine' has been hotly debated in the medical literature over the last decade (e.g. Caspi et al 2000; Ernst 2005a). However, there still exists little or no...

The sex kitten of bioethics? Research ethics comes of age.
To the Editor: A few years ago Greg Koski, then-director of the Office of Human Research Protections, and I sipped a glass of wine in the Delta Crown Room at the Cincinnati airport after we'd each presented a talk at a conference on research ethics. I peered at Greg...

Breathe easy: one teen's science project helped pass a law to protect people from invisible danger.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WINNING SCIENCE PROJECT GUIDE True or false: An air purifier can help you breathe easier. You might think the answer is a no-brainer, especially since advertisers claim that these machines improve air quality. But California teen Otana Jakpor suspected that instead of helping,...

Fresh networks: science, literature, feminism, and cultural studies.
Herrnstein Smith, Barbara. 2006. Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth and the Human. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. $74.95 hc, $21.95 sc. viii + 198 pp. Levine, George. 2006. Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-Enchantment of the World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. $29.95 hc. xxvii +304...

Vatican airs stand on bioethics issues.
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican hardened its opposition Friday to using embryos for stem-cell research, cloning, and in-vitro fertilization. But in a major new document on bioethics, it showed flexibility on some forms of gene therapy and left open questions surrounding embryo adoption. The Vatican's Congregation...