by Shelley Ross | Apr 17, 2015 | Archives
Calling him a quack, a fake and a charlatan, a group of doctors Wednesday asked Columbia University to remove television talk show host Dr. Mehmet Oz from his position of Vice Chair of the Department of Surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. On Friday, Dr....
by Shelley Ross | Apr 14, 2015 | Archives
Dr. Sergio Canavero recently delivered a Ted Talk in Limassol, Cyprus suggesting how a Frankenstein-like human head transplant could be ready within two years. It certainly begs the more-than-obvious question: shouldn’t we master spinal cord re-attachments and...
by Shelley Ross | Apr 9, 2015 | Archives
U of M to Debate New Florida Law Friday The Cure Alliance wants to hear from you. Is “informed consent” enough for terminally ill patients to try experimental drugs? Advocates argue the FDA’s compassionate use process is slow and bureaucratic. Opponents...
by Shelley Ross | Apr 5, 2015 | Archives
Imagine a dinner party of billionaires hosted by PayPal mogul Peter Thiel, 47, worth a reported $2.2B. Then imagine what he and the titans of Google, Facebook, eBay, Napster and Netscape talked about all night long that turned into this story: Here’s the...
by Shelley Ross | Apr 3, 2015 | Archives
GOV’T BARRIER TO A CURE? He’s a Nobel laureate, the former president of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Director of the National Cancer Institute for five years. Dr. Harold Varmus left that post last Tuesday, but not before telling the New York...
