In this edition of Blog Buzz;
- Buzzfeed Science Editor Virginia Hughes writes on the revelation by Sequenom Laboratories of rare cases where prenatal genetic tests have helped to find cancer in pregnant women. The numbers are still small but are bound to increase, and the ethical questions surrounding how inconclusive results, the possibility of false positives, and a largely unregulated industry interweave here are certainly significant. Read all about it here.
- Lots of posts on the Supreme Court arguments this week…there are several over on Health Affairs Blog, on Vox Understanding ‘Pennhurst’…by Adrianna McIntyre, and from Nicolas Bagley Avoiding Constitutional Avoidance.
- My bioethics “Spidey senses” are tingling again…From MIT Tech Review, a story called Germ Line Engineering with CRISPR Leads to Designer Human Embryos.
- And let’s not forget last week’s net neutrality rulings in which the Federal Communications Commission decided to regulate Broadband as a utility. The SCOTUS Blog provides some “plain English” explanations of the proceedings. You can also find coverage from the NY Times and here is an official joint statement from five library professional organizations, including the Medical Library Association, submitted to the FCC in July supporting net neutrality and Title II as a “practicable” way to protect it.