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>UK Psychiatrists urge informed consent for abortion
>The United Kingdom’s Royal College of Psychiatrists have released a statement on the correlation of mental health status and subsequent mental illness after elective, intentional abortion. London’s Times and Daily Mail are cover the story. While acknowledging that women can experience mental illness after normal full term birth, the doctors rightly note that if a … Continue reading
Secretary of Health Supports Conscience
Secretary of Health Michael O. Leavitt has stepped up to protect the right of conscience and conscientious refusal, specifically in the right not to be forced to commit or be complicit in abortion and other forms of killing. The Secretary has sent a letter to the President of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology … Continue reading
"Expelled, The Movie" Conversation Continues
The many Anonymice are still discussing world views on a post from last October. (In case you wondered where I’ve been: We’ve had our primary, with one hotly contested local Republican race ending in a cliff-hanger. The same seat was decided by 54 votes out of about 20,000 in 2006. This time, it looks like … Continue reading
Nature Reviews Stem Cell Heart Treatments
The journal, Nature, has published a review article, “Stem-cell therapy for cardiac disease,”about treatment of heart disease with stem cells, focusing on the many types of cells that are being used in research, including bone marrow derived stem cells and progenitors and “resident” cardiomyocyte stem cells. The latter are actually found in the heart and … Continue reading
Tulane Stem Cell Scientist Coming to Texas
From the Temple, Texas news, we hear that the “brain drain” is gaining Texas another adult stem cell pioneer. Read about Dr. Darwin Prockop’s move to Texas and his research in adult stem cells, here. He will serve as inaugural holder of the Stearman Chair in Genomic Medicine, professor of molecular and cellular medicine in … Continue reading
>Tulane Stem Cell Scientist Coming to Texas
>From the Temple, Texas news, we hear that the “brain drain” is gaining Texas another adult stem cell pioneer. Read about Dr. Darwin Prockop’s move to Texas and his research in adult stem cells, here. He will serve as inaugural holder of the Stearman Chair in Genomic Medicine, professor of molecular and cellular medicine in … Continue reading
Time flies
Someone pointed out to me that it has been a while since I’ve posted anything. It turns out that I’m not as good and multi-multi-tasking as I used to be. Nowadays, it seems that I can only handle 3 or 4 really big things at time. Work, family and politics are eating up my days … Continue reading
>Time flies
>Someone pointed out to me that it has been a while since I’ve posted anything. It turns out that I’m not as good and multi-multi-tasking as I used to be. Nowadays, it seems that I can only handle 3 or 4 really big things at time. Work, family and politics are eating up my days … Continue reading
New York Times article on cloned humans
The New York Times (free one time registration required) has a news piece on the Stemagen cloned human embryos, with reference to “making copies of people” and implantation of cloned embryos for reproduction. One of the men who donated the fibroblast skin cells is also the owner of Stemagen. The NYT has more on the … Continue reading
Human embryos cloned in California
Scientists at Stemgen, a La Jolla, California laboratory have published a report on the successful cloning of human embryos in the journal, Stem Cells. (The article is available free, due to the open access policy of the journal.) The authors are very clear: these are human embryos produced by somatic cell nuclear transfer or cloning. … Continue reading
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