Walgreens v. Theranos Walgreens is suing a lab-testing affiliate federally over breach of contract, the proceeding will be taking place in Delaware. ‘Walgreens Boots Alliance’ is suing for 140 million dollars in damages (same amount invested). the civil suit is filed privately under seal so as to not become a public matter. Walgreens is claiming 'Theranos' misled them about they’re technology though Theronos will “ hold Walgreens responsible for damage it has caused” in june the partnership was terminated after concerns about Theranos’ technology and operations which possible put the store chain’s customers at risk.
Dr. William Harvey Dobelle made the first functioning bionic eye by a brain implant although limited it’s better than no sight at all. He is also known for the breathing pacemaker which is the only FDA approved device for phrenic nerve pacing. I chose this inventor because I thought it is cool to be able to have the ability to see without your natural eye or eyes. William H. Dobelle is the son of Martin and Lillian Mendelson Dobelle. He was born in Pittsfield Massachusetts, on October twenty-fourth in the year of 1941.
The life and death of Henrietta Lacks is a cautionary tale that reflects the inherent contradiction between the stated purpose of medical research to provide benefit to humankind and the reality of blatant profiteering in the name of the advancement of
In the year of 1988, a woman named Rebecca Skloot first learned about a woman known as Henrietta Lacks. Ever since then, Skloot had been deeply fascinated by her. Henrietta is quite fascinating, and did wonders for the world of science. It started in the year of 1951, when Lacks was just 31 years old. She first noticed she was bleeding, when it was not her time of the month.
In the early 2000’s St. Jude began to expand more in staff cures and new patients. The C.E.Os. of St. Jude are Dr. Donald Pinkel (1961-1973) he was the first director and ceo of St. Jude he focused most of his time of the frequent cancer in children, he and his colleges used most of their time trying to find cures for cancer. Dr. James R. Downing is the 6th and current ceo and director of St. Jude. He works a s a Genome sequencing pioneer, and over sees the Pediatric Cancer Genome Project.
Every doctor is allowed that fact; however, an excuse for lack of ethics is never the case. The amount of pure defiance of any ethical practice in the case of Henrietta, her cells, and her family is absurd and almost unrealistic. “There's no indication that Henrietta questioned [her doctor]; like most patients in the 1950s, she deferred to anything her doctors said. This was a time when “benevolent deception” was a common practice- doctors often withheld even the most fundamental information from their patients, sometimes not giving them any diagnosis at all. They believed it was best not to confuse or upset patients with frightening terms they might not understand, like cancer.
The injustice of taking Henrietta’s cells and using them for research without her consent or of her family for that matter; until 20 years later is incomprehensible. Many believe that the history of medical ethics such as the Hippocratic Oath and complying the federal law in protecting human research and confidentiality wasn’t yet recognized. All the same, the Lacks’ family isn’t given credit or acknowledgement for what Henrietta, has contributed to science, known as the HeLa cell line. Henrietta’s
Craig Bartholomaus 13113 16 March 2016 Essay 2: People Need Protection from Scientist I recently finished reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lack, a biography about Henrietta Lacks and how human tissue was taken without consent then used for medical research. Henrietta Lacks, was a colored woman, she was the daughter of a tobacco farmer, she came from a very poor, with very little education, she died from uremic poisoning, due to the treatment for cervical cancer October of 1951 at age 31. In January of 1951, Henrietta went to Johns Hopkins Hospital because she found a knot on her womb and was bleeding and had pain in her abdomen. Johns Hopkins is known for being the best research hospital around, but Henrietta did not go because
Researchers believed that the person behind the cell line HeLa, was Helen Lane. After the death of George Gey, it was later discovered that the real name behind the cells was in fact Henrietta Lacks. As the discovery of the name Henrietta Lacks, researchers by the name of Susan Hsu and Victor McKsick began contacting the Lacks family under the misconception of they wanted to test them to be sure they did not have the cancer their mother had. Throughout the further research of Deborah, Henrietta’s daughter, they began requesting more blood for extended research that she was unaware of. They wanted more blood for a researcher in California who requisitioned samples of blood for his research on HeLa.
Johns Hopkins nor the doctors profited directly, because Gey gave the cells internationally to anyone who wanted
During the Great Depression there was huge separation of wealth. This is one of the key problems in The Grapes of Wrath. Many families, including the Joads, were forced into starvation, homelessness, and migration because of the economic and natural problems facing the United States. Today this problem still exists. While it does not affect citizens in such a drastic way, many families are forced to live off of a lower income and suffer while the few hold a high percentage of wealth.
The doctors at Johns Hopkins created a billion dollar industry on her cells and there was no compensation for the family. In Rebecca Skloots book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” she talks about how Henrietta signed a consent form allowing her doctors to perform whatever procedure for the care and treatment of her cancer but there is no indication that of permission from Henrietta that allowed the doctors to take samples of her for medical research. Because of Henrietta’s socio-economic status, she might of felt as if she had no choice and she wasn’t educated enough to ask questions about what was being done to her. The same goes for her family they had no idea what procedure were being done on her and it was this vulnerability that the family faced exploitation. The ethical and moral obligation of
His wife Julia worked as the Vice Chairman at nanorobotics comapany Xymos which was working on incorporating biological process in the new robots that they were creating. They had contract with the Military to work on a project about developing a new innovative Spycamera which is made at nanoscale and is so small that it can even go inside the blood stream of human beings.
Inventions such as movies, cars, the telephone, and the radio were advancing quickly. As Robert J. Collins put it, “technology bread more technology” . One very important technological advancement was in 1922, when Dr.Banting discovered Insulin. In an article from The Globe and Mail it claimed that T. Marshall and J. W. Curry “thought that Dr. Banting should receive a personal reward. A direct individual recognition of the service he had rendered humanity”
Once appraised by Silicon Valley Press tech, Theranos, a biotechnology company, is losing its name value as days go by. Elizabeth Holmes, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Theranos, was known for her unique story of how Theranos has started. Upon start of the company, Holmes claimed that the Theranos’ technology is new, but different from what is out in the market. New and innovative, this company’s propaganda attracted many people’s attentions. From the start, Holmes’ plan was to provide higher accuracy tests, multiple tests from a drop of blood, and, in bigger picture, more access to its technology to the public.
