March 12, 2008
Here’s just another indication of the potential power of ethically derived stem cells to alleviate human suffering. In rat studies, the stem cells improved the creation of adult stem cells and improved inflammation in aged animals. From the study: The … Read More
March 12, 2008
Jack Kevorkian is running for Congress. From the story: Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian is planning to run for Congress in Michigan. Kevorkian is on parole since being released from prison last year.He tells The Oakland Press newspaper that he … Read More
March 11, 2008
Well, all of the patents over ESCR held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation have been upheld by the Patent Office. From the story: The rulings mean the foundation will continue to control primaryintellectual property rights to embryonic stem cell … Read More
March 10, 2008
Whatever happened to good old fashioned adoption? It’s still here, of course. But in our sense-of-entitlement times, why adopt when we can rent a poor woman’s uterus to gestate a baby for us? That’s seems to be a growing business … Read More
March 9, 2008
We have discussed the issue of a deaf couple wanting to use embryo selection to choose a deaf child before, and now the issue is again being discussed in connection with the UK’s hopeless mess of a bill that seeks … Read More
March 5, 2008
The media like to portray opponents of assisted suicide as almost all conservative, religious, and pro life on abortion. That has never been true. Medical professional organizations–which are secular and support abortion rights–have always opposed legalization. Disability rights activists are, … Read More
March 5, 2008
I have written about Haleigh Poutre nationally and several times here at SHS (here, here, here as examples), but this bears repetition until it finally sinks in. Scenario: Child badly beaten. Within a week or so Haleigh’s doctors write her … Read More
March 4, 2008
If anyone thought that the international death with dignity crowd would allow Washington voters to decide for themselves whether to legalize assisted suicide, they were living in a fantasy world. The campaign was barely born last November and the Oregon … Read More
March 4, 2008
Oregon has been trying to insure the uninsured in the state who do not qualify for its (rationed) Medicaid program. So many people want to sign up for subsidized insurance that the state his holding a lottery. From the story: … Read More
March 4, 2008
Here are some more important points in the newly released study, which I discussed more extensively here, that I think deserve special note. It turns out doctors have written lethal prescriptions for patients who weren’t yet suffering serious symptoms of … Read More
March 4, 2008
Assisted suicide advocates, when they are not striving to word engineer through use of the gooey euphemism “physician assisted death (PAD)”–which, alas, has been picked up by some professional journal authors–use scare tactics about unrelievable pain to sell the agenda. … Read More
March 3, 2008
A nurse in the UK has been convicted of murdering four frail elderly patients with overdoses of insulin. From the story: Colin Norris, 32, believed he could kill with impunity, claiming four “frail and helpless” victims within six months by … Read More
March 3, 2008
This is a nice profile of Denise Fuastman, who cured diabetic mice with a combination of substances, including spleen stem cells. As the story notes, she was severely criticized, but look at the nonsense reason the paper gives for those … Read More
March 1, 2008
While “the scientists” have groused about the Bush policy as interfering with ESCR advances, the real hindrance in the field have been the patents claimed by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, based on James Thomson’s original work. As I wrote … Read More
February 29, 2008
In the last debate between Senators Obama and Clinton, the candidates were asked what their greatest mistake had been. Clinton went to her Iraq vote but Obama said it was his agreeing to the federal law that tried to save … Read More
February 26, 2008
With the exception of the Missouri media and perhaps, the New York Times, it is now clear that adult stem cells offer tremendous hope for treatments for a wide variety of ailments. The Journal of the American Medical Association reports … Read More
February 25, 2008
George Soros is a big fan of euthanasia and assisted suicide and wants to see it legalized everywhere. Toward this end, Soros has donated millions to groups promoting the cause–which I believe to be an ultimately abandoning policy that implicitly … Read More
February 22, 2008
Doctors deciding who will be allowed to fight to remain alive and who will be forced out of treatment is epidemic in the UK where nationalized health care combined with huge influence by utilitarian bioethicists results in some patients being … Read More
February 21, 2008
A few years ago this would have been a huge story. No more. The wind is slackening behind the embryonic stem cell research sails. Still, it is worth pointing out what the Times reported, and then, what they–so unsurprisingly–left out … Read More
February 20, 2008
I admit that I am pleasantly surprised. The pro cloning bias among the political elite and media in Missouri make it almost impossible to get the straight information to the people of MO about this crucial ethical issue. When a … Read More
February 20, 2008
I am still taken aback by the Hastings Center Report publishing a pro infanticide article–bringing that agenda into the heart of the bioethics mainstream. As is my wont, I wrote about it. This is a piece just published in the … Read More
February 19, 2008
I wrote the other day about the hype merchant, William Neaves of the Stowers Institute, continuing to tout embryonic stem cells–which he usually intentionally confuses with human cloning–as moving on the fast track to provide cures: The rapid pace of … Read More
February 19, 2008
Can you imagine? Say, you are hit by a car and are rushed to the hospital by ambulance. It arrives at the entrance, and instead of being taken into the ER for immediate treatment–you are left waiting for hours so … Read More
February 19, 2008
I just learned about this blog, “Medical Futility,” that tracks futility care cases. The author is a law professor named Thaddeus Pope who, from what I have seen of his entries, clearly supports Futile Care Theory. In reading his entries, … Read More
February 18, 2008
Bobby Schindler has a column in today’s Washington Times entitled “False Compassion.” He writes about some notable food and fluids cases past and present in an overall piece against dehydrating people with cognitively impairments. He concludes strongly: Make no mistake: … Read More
