>You may have heard of Gerald Schatten, PhD, now of Pittsburgh, because of his prior collaboration with the University of California at Irvine fertility specialists who were accused of selling and misplacing – even using them in other women – the embryos of couples who came to them for treatment of infertility. Dr. Schatten needed … Continue reading
Thanks to bioethics.com for alerting me to this story. (Of course, it’s only the House – let’s see whether it gets through the Missippi Senate and is signed by the Governor. Hope so.) The story is common to all who work for laws, especially those which restrict funding for the “experts.” One of the legislators … Continue reading
>Thanks to bioethics.com for alerting me to this story. (Of course, it’s only the House – let’s see whether it gets through the Missippi Senate and is signed by the Governor. Hope so.) The story is common to all who work for laws, especially those which restrict funding for the “experts.” One of the legislators … Continue reading
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=37226 Here’s an article (from a reliable medical site, despite the typos and obviously poor translation from the original) on bone marrow cells taken from the patient and used to treat diabetes by injecting the appropriate stem cells into the pancreas. 85% of 16 – that sounds like 14 of the 16 began making their … Continue reading
>http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=37226 Here’s an article (from a reliable medical site, despite the typos and obviously poor translation from the original) on bone marrow cells taken from the patient and used to treat diabetes by injecting the appropriate stem cells into the pancreas. 85% of 16 – that sounds like 14 of the 16 began making their … Continue reading
I received an email from one of the readers. (Evidently, my spam program diverted it.) I make it my usual policy to only respond to reader’s comments on the blog, but I won’t post his name, since he chose not to post it here. Here’s the body of his message, and my reply: Dear Beverly … Continue reading
We had a perfect example of the “I want” (thanks, Stephen King) school of science and medicine in my own home town, last night. Our local State Representative raised the common lies and redefinitions about destructive embryonic stem cell research. “Just some cells,” Cells that behave in an organized manner – just like a human … Continue reading
>We had a perfect example of the “I want” (thanks, Stephen King) school of science and medicine in my own home town, last night. Our local State Representative raised the common lies and redefinitions about destructive embryonic stem cell research. “Just some cells,” Cells that behave in an organized manner – just like a human … Continue reading
One does not treat suffering by killing the sufferer. Treating pain control and the prescriptions intended to cause death as one issue is a red herring. Absolutely we must turn around the unjust abuse of power. But, killing is not pain control and the proper treatment of pain should not be a partisan issue. I … Continue reading
>One does not treat suffering by killing the sufferer. Treating pain control and the prescriptions intended to cause death as one issue is a red herring. Absolutely we must turn around the unjust abuse of power. But, killing is not pain control and the proper treatment of pain should not be a partisan issue. I … Continue reading