August 2006

Hands Off Our Ovaries

As you prepare to send your daughter off to college here is a tip you probably have not gotten from any parent information meeting. ” The business of donating human eggs for money is booming amongst the student population in the US.” And if you have an attractive, bright and athletic daughter–tell her beware! Serious [...]

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Sushi Yes — Stem Cells No

Japanese researchers of Kyoto University’s Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences have announced it will not begin research in human cloning or embryo research. And these guys could pursue this research if they wanted to. Why won’t they be doing this research anytime soon? Three reasons. First, Japanese ministry guidelines have strict regulations to protect women [...]

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Stem Cell Debate is Corrupting Science and Undermining Media Integrity

Reading the papers last week, one would have thought that researchers had achieved one of the great embryonic stem cell research advances in the history of science. “New Stem Cell Method avoids destroying embryos,” the New York Times headline blared. “Stem cell breakthrough may end political logjam,” chimed in the Los Angeles Times. “Embryos spared [...]

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Stem Cell Debate is Corrupting Science and Undermining Media Integrity

p>Reading the papers last week, one would have thought that researchers had achieved one of the great embryonic stem cell research advances in the history of science. “New Stem Cell Method avoids destroying embryos,”the New York Times headline blared. “Stem cell breakthrough may end political logjam,” chimed in the Los Angeles Times. “Embryos spared in [...]

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Probe into an IVF Related Death Begins

“An independent inquiry has been set up to investigate the death of a young woman who died more than three years ago while undergoing fertility treatment in the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin. A British expert in fertility will head the inquiry into the death of Jacqueline Rushton (32), of Ardleigh Park, Mullingar, Co Westmeath, who [...]

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Cord Blood Banking is a Great Way to Go!

How many babies are born each day? About 11, 000 a day in the U.S., based on CDC figures. Here is a great story about a newborn with a brain injury that was successfully treated with a cord blood stem cell transplant. And here is another story of a little seven year old boy who [...]

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A Press Release is Worth a Thousand Words

In November 2004, California voters passed the now infamous Proposition 71, calling for a constitutional amendment to guarantee the sale of $3 billion dollars of bonds to fund human embryonic cloning research. Some say that proposition 71 passed by a majority. I say it passed by deception, false promises and whipping up fear that we’d [...]

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Human Subjects in Research

Today’s New York Times has a piece on the use of prison inmates for medical research . The now famous Tuskegee studies of the 1930′s (40 years of not treating black inmates who had syphilis) and then the 1970′s abuses at Holmesburg prison, where inmates were paid $100s of dollars a month to test various [...]

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Woman dies after IVF Treatment

Officials at the Leicester Royal Infirmary confirmed a patient had lost her life on Monday after undergoing IVF treatment at the hospital. It is understood she developed complications but a cause of death has not yet been identified.

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Too Good to be True, a Website Review

Most people’s first introduction to issues like cloning or genetic enhancement will be made through a pop-culture medium like a movie. Recently, the movie industry has even created elaborate faux website companies to advertise upcoming movies. The movie “The Island”, for example, set up a website called Merrick Biotech (it’s gone now). Merrick advertised its [...]

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