First, a correction. The Forbes article concerning the treatment of Huntington’s disease does have this line: The procedure replaces striatal neurons lost to the debilitating illness with striatal neuroblasts and neural precursors obtained from embryos. These transplants grow to form mature replacement cells. I assume that I made a mistake. There is an earlier, 2000, … Continue reading
>First, a correction. The Forbes article concerning the treatment of Huntington’s disease does have this line: The procedure replaces striatal neurons lost to the debilitating illness with striatal neuroblasts and neural precursors obtained from embryos. These transplants grow to form mature replacement cells. I assume that I made a mistake. There is an earlier, 2000, … Continue reading
>WebMD has a news release on an early on-line publication by Lancet Neurology of a French trial of therapy for Huntington’s Disease. I couldn’t figure out from the article where the stem cells came from, and do not have a subscription or access to that Journal. So, I did a “Google News” search and found … Continue reading
WebMD has a news release on an early on-line publication by Lancet Neurology of a French trial of therapy for Huntington’s Disease. I couldn’t figure out from the article where the stem cells came from, and do not have a subscription or access to that Journal. So, I did a “Google News” search and found … Continue reading
Monday we learned about the Supreme Court’s decision against the National Organization of Women’s use of RICO against Operation Rescue and Joseph Scheidler. Essentially the Court said that NOW and other pro-abortionists should use the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrance laws and forget “RICO.” I’ve never been convinced that Operation Rescue is a violent … Continue reading
>Monday we learned about the Supreme Court’s decision against the National Organization of Women’s use of RICO against Operation Rescue and Joseph Scheidler. Essentially the Court said that NOW and other pro-abortionists should use the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrance laws and forget “RICO.” I’ve never been convinced that Operation Rescue is a violent … Continue reading
From the Journal of Medical Ethics, which declares itself the “Highest ranked journal globally in Medical Ethics,” For many years now, social and political struggles over the issue of abortion have given practical urgency to philosophical debate about whether human zygotes, embryos and fetuses have moral rights, such as a right not to be destroyed … Continue reading
>From the Journal of Medical Ethics, which declares itself the “Highest ranked journal globally in Medical Ethics,” For many years now, social and political struggles over the issue of abortion have given practical urgency to philosophical debate about whether human zygotes, embryos and fetuses have moral rights, such as a right not to be destroyed … Continue reading
More on healthcare funding and rationing, today. It’s important to remember that the Canadian government health system began rationing by limiting services years ago. The doctor in this article in the NYT is correct that it is easier to get desired and even necessary care for dogs than it is for humans. More than ten … Continue reading
>More on healthcare funding and rationing, today. It’s important to remember that the Canadian government health system began rationing by limiting services years ago. The doctor in this article in the NYT is correct that it is easier to get desired and even necessary care for dogs than it is for humans. More than ten … Continue reading