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>If you think healthcare is expensive, now . .
>” . . . Just wait until it’s free.” Ending with one of my favorite quotes from P.J. O’Rourke, this article from the Washington Times is framed in political bias, but the statistics and the stories (which are verifiable elsewhere) are apolitical. They are particularly pertinent if you remember that all Medicare payments will be … Continue reading
1 in 10: How lucky do you feel?
If you want to save your child’s cord blood, there’s a nine in ten chance that the sample won’t be usable. That’s a good reason for us all to get behind the public banking of umbilical cord blood cells. From the San Antonio Express-News: . . . So far, the hospital has collected 2,500 units … Continue reading
>1 in 10: How lucky do you feel?
>If you want to save your child’s cord blood, there’s a nine in ten chance that the sample won’t be usable. That’s a good reason for us all to get behind the public banking of umbilical cord blood cells. From the San Antonio Express-News: . . . So far, the hospital has collected 2,500 units … Continue reading
Proven research in ethical stem cells
From Human Events author James Kelly: Faustman twice cured mice of Type I Diabetes without stem cells. She uses an inexpensive drug, called BCG, to block ongoing immune attacks on insulin producing “beta islets.” She then removes the cause of Diabetes by supplying a missing protein, which retrains the immune system to recognize the cells … Continue reading
>Proven research in ethical stem cells
>From Human Events author James Kelly: Faustman twice cured mice of Type I Diabetes without stem cells. She uses an inexpensive drug, called BCG, to block ongoing immune attacks on insulin producing “beta islets.” She then removes the cause of Diabetes by supplying a missing protein, which retrains the immune system to recognize the cells … Continue reading
Medical ethics, lawyers, bean counters and government guns
As you know, I’m studying for my Master’s in Bioethics at Trinity International University, an Evangelical university in Deerfield, Chicago. Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D., asks at her blog, Texas Advance Directives Blog, how medical ethicists are being trained today. TIU has a Masters in Bioethics program begun by Nigel Cameron and John F. Kilner in … Continue reading
>Medicare Regulations, Chronic Care, Legal Tests
>First, the good news: Mrs Ruthie Webster has been moved to a long term care facility that can offer her dialysis. The bad news, this case is still being used to test the Texas Advance Directive Act, Section 166.046. This was not a choice between death and life. This was a choice concerning where medical … Continue reading
Review: Plan B, How It Works and Doesn’t Work
I’m convinced that Plan B does not block implantation. Because I keep getting emails, hearing radio personalities and reading posts on various forums claiming that Plan B is an abortifacient, here’s a review of information on the medical effects of the pills and on the other effects and lack of effects. The overwhelming evidence – … Continue reading
Another Ethical Stem Cell Story from Texas
The Austin American Stateman August 30, 2006 article by Ashley Sanchez calls for common ground in Texas stem cell research. Ms. Sanchez describes just some of the many examples of cutting edge ethical science going on in Texas. In contrast to private banks, parents can donate cord blood to public banks that are available to … Continue reading
>Another Ethical Stem Cell Story from Texas
>The Austin American Stateman August 30, 2006 article by Ashley Sanchez calls for common ground in Texas stem cell research. Ms. Sanchez describes just some of the many examples of cutting edge ethical science going on in Texas. In contrast to private banks, parents can donate cord blood to public banks that are available to … Continue reading
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