July 31, 2006
Drug Debate (MSNBC) Stem Cells: The Hope And The Hype (Time) Stem cell ethics challenging (CourierPress) Op-Ed: The Frankenstein syndrome (Washington Times) IVF Price To Be Reduced If Women Opt For Egg Sharing Scheme (MedIndia) Banking umbilical cords has its … Read More
July 28, 2006
Crisis of conscience (Washington Post) Australia: 3 Sisters Make 1 Baby (The Sydney Morning Herald) GAO Slams Direct-To-Consumer Gene Tests (AP) After the Veto: Placental Cells? (Wired News) U.S. stem-cell researchers sense a chill (USA Today) Surgical tool trade ethics … Read More
July 27, 2006
New Orleans arrests spark ‘mercy killing’ debate (Las Vegas Tribune) Op-ed:Flawed facts on stem cells (The Examiner) Psychologists’ Group Under Fire (AP) Stem-Cell Issue A Boon For Democrats? (CBS News) UK: Half-price IVF offer if women donate eggs (The Herald) … Read More
July 25, 2006
Analysis: More organs a heartbeat away? (UPI) Vatican calls EU decision on funding for stem cell research ‘unacceptable’ (AP) South Korean Scientist Denies Embezzling (AP) Experimental pill may prevent Alzheimer’s (Reuters) For-profit Research Ethics Committees: How Are They Performing? (Softpedia … Read More
July 24, 2006
EU to Continue Stem-Cell Research Funding (AP) Brain’s Stem Cells Hold Clues to Cancer (HealthDay) Judge Orders Teen to Cancer Treatment (AP) Fat stem cells turn into muscle in US experiment () Snow Apologizes for Stem Cell Comment (AP) FDA … Read More
July 24, 2006
While defending President Bush’s veto of legislation to expand federally financed research on embryonic stem cells, White House press secretary Tony Snow said,”The president believes strongly that for the purpose of research it’s inappropriate for the federal government to finance … Read More
July 21, 2006
Over the weekend, someone pointed out to me the complicated nature of the commenting process. As an author, I’m always logged in, so I wasn’t aware of what visitors had to go through post comments. In short, the commenting procedure … Read More
July 21, 2006
National Review Online’s Kathryn Jean Lopez interviews Dr. David Prentice on the debate over adult vs. embryonic stem cells. Lopez: As you listen to the debate in Washington — what’s most misunderstood about stem-cell research? Dr. Prentice: 1) The hope … Read More
July 21, 2006
Governor funds stem cell research (AP) Faith drives some to refuse patients medication or care (Washington Post) Ethics questions posed to expert (Lexington Herald-Leader) Germany seeking ban on stem-cell research funding (Gulf Times) Unlike stem cells, placental cells show promise … Read More
July 21, 2006
On the heels of President Bush’s veto of an attempt to expand federal funding of embryonic stem cell research in the United States comes word that Germany’s research minister, Annette Schavan, has sent a letter to the European Union pressing … Read More
July 21, 2006
Robert George and Patrick Lee skillfully dismantle a recent attack — launched as a letter to the editors of the journal Science — on DoNoHarm’s list of adult stem cell benefits to human patients. Excerpts: The letter was timed to … Read More
July 20, 2006
The peer-reviewed Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine contains an article (PDF) by a doctor in Lisbon Portugal who is treating spinal cord injury patients with their own stem cells. This is the same doctor who treated Jacki Rabon, a young … Read More
July 20, 2006
Medical and Ethical Questions Raised on Deaths of Critically Ill Patients (New York Times) For Christian Physician, Ethics Trump Science (Tampa Tribune) S.Korea wants to strip stem cell scientist of medal (Reuters) Op-Ed: The Health Care Choice Act (Hawaii Reporter) … Read More
July 20, 2006
James P. Kelly, a man who suffered a spinal cord injury in 1997 is probably all for embryonic stem cell research, right? Nope. In fact, he calls President Bush’s veto “A Cause for Hope.†Mr. Kelly has chronicled his personal … Read More
July 19, 2006
Associated Press: “the House voted 235-193 to overturn Bush’s veto, 51 short of the required two-thirds majority.â€
July 19, 2006
The law would have required large employers in the state such as Wal-Mart (on whose behalf the challenge was filed) to spend 8% of payroll on employee health care. A federal judge rejected the law on the grounds that it … Read More
July 19, 2006
Associated Press: This bill would support the taking of innocent human life of the hope of finding medical benefits for others. It crosses a moral boundary that our society needs to respect, so I vetoed it.–President Bush
July 19, 2006
Michael Fumento weighs in on a recent controversy over the actual number of diseases and conditions that adult stem cells help. He points out For that matter, aspirin is a drug but by [the writers and editors of Science] standards … Read More
July 19, 2006
Attorneys Say Doctor, Nurses Innocent (AP) Op-Ed: Science’s Stem-Cell Scam (National Review) Op-Ed: Anti-Life, Anti-Science (National Review) How profits, research mix at Stanford med school (San Jose Mercury News) Alzheimer’s Skin Patch on Horizon (Wired) Ethicists: No way to justify … Read More
July 19, 2006
Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, has a written a book entitled, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief. Looking at the reviews on Amazon, people of faith are receiving the book favorably, but it … Read More
July 19, 2006
National Review online has an article on an attack in the House of Representatives on the “alternatives†bill that passed the Senate 100-0 yesterday. In the article, Richard Doerflinger refutes point by point a memo sent around by Representatives Mike … Read More
July 19, 2006
A number of sources are reporting that the Senate has passed the bill that would expand federal funding for embryonic stem cell research 63-37. From a press briefing by White House spokesman Tony Snow: There is an enormous amount of … Read More
July 18, 2006
Francks on Ramesh Ponnuru’s Party of Death.
July 18, 2006
In response to the stem cell debate underway in the Senate, Wired has updated their stem cell overview.
July 18, 2006
The misery behind the baby trade (Daily Mail) The Quest for the $1,000 Human Genome (New York Times) Radio tags can expose surgical mistakes (Nature) Stem-cell results may be far off (Seattle Times) A Medical Crisis of Conscience (Washington Post) … Read More
