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Political news in Nature Reports
Rather than science news, Nature Reports focuses on the political (I believe this is available without subscription, but let me know if you need a copy and can’t access it): News Feature Nature Reports Stem Cells Published online: 17 October 2007 Scientific definition by political request (by) Monya Baker The NIH must set criteria for … Continue reading
>Watson un – reasonable
>Dr. James Watson, the man who is credited with discovering the structure of DNA, along with Francis Crick and Rosalin Franklin, has lost his laboratory and much of his status as a respected science icon after allegedly making racist remarks. From the Times Online (London, UK): In his interview Watson had said that he was … Continue reading
The Politics of Embryonic Stem Cells: Gearhart “pressures” Atala
I was able to attend the “Understanding Stem Cells: Science and Policy” lecture at the Koshland Science Museum, the museum of the National Academies of Sciences, in Washington, DC last week where I heard Jonathan Moreno, PhD, – the ethicist who works for and advances the American Center for Progress and Dr. John Gearhart, Director … Continue reading
>Between two cultures
>There’s been a lapse in my blogging this week as I’ve been in Washington DC for the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities annual conference, with a few forays into the Washington Briefing, “Value Voters” forum. The ASBH is full of conferences like the Panel Session entitled “Collaborated Death: An Exploration of the Swiss Model … Continue reading
>Texas has funds for SCHIP without Federal increase
>Threats to the contrary, the Houston Chronicle has picked up on the fact that Texas has enough Federal funds to continue CHIP in our State for “at least a year,” even with the expansions and improvements passed by the 80th Legislature earlier this year. And in spite of the President’s veto. This news was also … Continue reading
>New President of California Stem Cell Institute
>Alan Trounson, PhD, the researcher responsible for the first in vitro (IVF) birth in Australia, who once had to apologize for misleading the Australian Parliament after showing them a video that he claimed showed a mouse that walked after human embryonic stem cell treatment for spinal cord injury (in fact, they were fetal cells from … Continue reading
>AMA editorial on Partial Birth Abortion Ban
>I would like to respond to the Commentary by Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, “Abortion Politics: Clinical Freedom, Trust in the Judiciary, and the Autonomy of Women.” in the Journal of the American Medical Association, October 3, 2007.(behind a pay wall) Declaring that the Supreme Court’s consideration of the “respect for the dignity of human life” … Continue reading
>Abortion restrictions can be healthy
>The last couple of weeks I’ve been getting ready for the American Academy of Family Physicians’ Annual Scientific Assembly and the hearing of several controversial resolutions at our Academy’s Congress of Delegates, held last week in Chicago, Illinois. One of the resolutions called for the protection of “physician-patient confidentiality” by restricting the information that insurance … Continue reading
>Privacy, politics, and medical records
>The editors and pseudoeditors of the American Journal of Bioethics blog are talking about all the people who accessed the hospital records of George Clooney after his motorcycle accident. Somehow, according to the author of the post, it’s all President Bush’s fault. In light of the news and comments on the latest iteration of SCHIP … Continue reading
>Review: What we know about stem cells
>The Journal, Stem Cells, has published a free open access article about those cells that become the different blood cells, including red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets, entitled “Concise Review: Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Tissue Stem Cells: Current Concepts and Unanswered Questions” by Donald Metcalf, MD, of Australia. An interesting point from this … Continue reading
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