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>Texas in Front on Ethical Stem Cells, Again
>Here’s evidence of private funds backing adult stem cell therapy. Dr. James Willerson will lead a team investigating a special technique to isolate a special population of bone marrow stem cells. The stem cells will be used to attempt to increase the circulation in the legs of patients with “Critical Limb Ischemia,” or very low … Continue reading
Reports on kidney repair by (ethical) stem cells (and more!)
You may not have read it in the New York Times, but there’s exciting news supporting the hope that ethical – non-embryonic – stem cells may be used to treat not only diabetes, but to repair kidney damage. The most significant article is from The Procedings of the National Academies of Science, which, although largely … Continue reading
Fetal vs. umbilical cord neural stem cells
The news about “Stem Cells, Inc.’s” phase I trials of fetal neural stem cells in the treatment of Batten disease reports improvement in the condition of the first patient. I’m a little shocked at how matter-of-fact the article treats the use of brain cells from aborted infants. Why is there not more questioning about the … Continue reading
Hypothetical end of life dilemma
Suppose there was a patient, Mr. B., with adenocarcinoma, a fast growing malignancy that begins in the liver, the pancreas, or another intestinal organ. Although the patient has lived twice the predicted 3 month life expectancy, the cancer has finally spread throughout the body – to the liver, the lungs, the intestines, and, now, the … Continue reading
More on End of Life – Family Dilemmas
Increased medical technology creates a burden on family decision makers and loved ones as well as doctors, nurses and pharmacists. Listen to the (free) National Public Radio interview with journalist Stephen Kiernan on medical care at the end of life, from December 4, 2006. It’s not surprising that there would be misunderstandings between doctors and … Continue reading
>More on End of Life – Family Dilemmas
>Increased medical technology creates a burden on family decision makers and loved ones as well as doctors, nurses and pharmacists. Listen to the (free) National Public Radio interview with journalist Stephen Kiernan on medical care at the end of life, from December 4, 2006. It’s not surprising that there would be misunderstandings between doctors and … Continue reading
Agreement: no euthanasia for children
Art Caplan, the pseudoeditor at blog.bioethics.net, head of the Center for Bioethics at Pennsylvania University, and a columnist for MSNBC, has posted a note at the bioethics.net blog that calls for an end of the suggestion that sick babies should be killed by their doctors. Good going, Art!
Human enough to think about
Watching the changing definitions and necessary and sufficient conditions for any of us to be deemed human enough to be afforded the protection against infringement of the right not to be killed , an observant being would just about have to assume we’re dealing with a fairly significant group of entities. The Supreme Court went … Continue reading
>Human enough to think about
>Watching the changing definitions and necessary and sufficient conditions for any of us to be deemed human enough to be afforded the protection against infringement of the right not to be killed , an observant being would just about have to assume we’re dealing with a fairly significant group of entities. The Supreme Court went … Continue reading
On stem cells and media bias
I report frequently on the media and its bias against reporting successes in adult stem cell research. Sometimes, what appears to bias is just early results and sometimes I’m wrong – there is no bias. JivinJehosaphat mentioned my blog from yesterday comparing the reports on non-embryonic stem cells and embryonic stem cells in Parkinson’s, and … Continue reading
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