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Cutting Edge Juvenile Diabetes Adult Stem Cell Research
Interrupting our discussion on State force and conscience, but this news is just too cool to postpone:Regenetech, the company that has the license agreement with NASA for the “Intrafuge” that processes cord blood cells and bone marrow cells for the production of embryonic-like and select stem cell treatments, has announced a two year agreement for … Continue reading
Give me liberty or give me condoms!
Where are the condom squads who go around making sure that every grocery store, drug store, and 24 hour convenience store stocks latex condoms and the appropriate lubricants, “at all times”? Condoms are a much more basic public health issue than Plan B, which only works (when it works) for about 5 days in the … Continue reading
Some Bloggers shouldn't reproduce
They shouldn’t reproduce their thoughts in writing, that is. Take a look at the comments on “Laws, conscience, medicine and bloggers,” for a perfect example of “they just don’t get it.” Freedom of conscience is part of the Washington State law. The Governor threatened to replace the members of the State Pharmacy Board if they … Continue reading
10% decrease in Medicare payments to Doctors
From the TMA comes another reason to distrust Government healthcare, the “negative update:“ Unless Congress pulls its usual trick of averting disaster at the last minute, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will lower physicians’ Medicare fees 10.1 percent on Jan. 1. For some services in some parts of the country – including … Continue reading
>10% decrease in Medicare payments to Doctors
>From the TMA comes another reason to distrust Government healthcare, the “negative update:“ Unless Congress pulls its usual trick of averting disaster at the last minute, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will lower physicians’ Medicare fees 10.1 percent on Jan. 1. For some services in some parts of the country – including … Continue reading
Government Health: Intervention, Restrictions, and Penalties
What do Massachusetts and Great Britain have in common? Mandated health coverage. Today is the last day that citizens of the State of Massachusetts may buy health insurance or risk penalties on their State income tax. The BBC News from Britain reports that the Nuffield Council on Bioethics proposes that the government do more to … Continue reading
Laws, conscience, medicine and bloggers
In contrast to the hype that you might read on blogs and in the press, the Federal District Court judge in Washington has upheld the law of that State. The basic right to not be forced into action that one considers unethical or immoral – the right to liberty – was upheld first, by the … Continue reading
Bioethics on the Ballot
Texas approved Billions in bond debt, some $3 Billion of which will fund the new Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. There is already private funding of embryonic and fetal tissue research in Texas already.(See this report on the Brown Institute in Houston.) While Texas is a leader in ethical stem cell research and … Continue reading
Wesley Smith reviews Physician Assisted "Suicide"
Bioethics.com, the blog of the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity published Wesley Smith’s excellent review of a British report on so-called “Physician Assisted Suicide.” PAS is not medicine in any sense of the word. Medicine, at the very least involves the intention of bringing health to the body and relief from unpleasant symptoms. It … Continue reading
Mind Whiplash
Read the discussion about women’s sufferage at Vox Populi and then go read the eulogies at the Women’s Bioethics Project blog. Buckle your (mental) seatbelt first. (The mention of “airbags” seemed to risky.) (“Vox Day” and the posters at Vox Populi are not representative of libertarians or Libertarians, by the way.) I explained my philosophy … Continue reading
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- Counterintuitive abortion report
- Paris at Café de la Paix
- Political, purposeful lies (Francis Collins & Anthony Fauci)
- Comprehensive review of Texas’ Heartbeat Act
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