On April 29th, a federal appeals court ruled that President Obama can use taxpayer money to fund embryonic stem cell research despite the fact it destroys a unique human life. This decision repeals an August 2010 preliminary injunction that stopped all taxpayer...
Bioethics
Australian Ethicist Calls for Breeding of Smart Babies
A leading Australian ethicist believes society has a moral obligation to genetically screen embryos to create a smarter society of superior "designer
Obama To Overturn Conscience Clause That Protects Pro-Life Medical Workers
In 2008, former President George W. Bush issued a rule that forbade health care facilities that received federal money from discriminating against any health care professionals, simply because they refused to participate in medical procedures they found morally...
More Evidence that Adult Stem Cells Work: A Man is now HIV-free
Doctors treating a patient’s leukemia with a bone marrow transplant have discovered an astonishing side effect. The patient is now HIV-free. Timothy Ray Brown, a 42-year-old American living in Berlin, Germany, has had no presence of the AIDS virus in his...
First Official Leukemia Cure with Umbilical Cord Blood
Umbilical cord blood has officially cured a little girl of leukemia. In 2005, a four-year-old girl in Germany received an infusion of stem cells from umbilical cord blood after her chemotherapy treatment failed. The girl, who had a projected three months...
Second Round of Embryonic Stem Cell Treatments Begin Next Year
For only the second time in history, the U.S. government has approved funding and treatment using human embryonic stem cells (hESC). This treatment will focus on those suffering from Stargardt disease, a rare eye disease affecting only 30,000 Americans that can...
More on the First Patient Treated with Embryonic Stem Cells
During October 2010, a patient in the U.S. became the first person in the world to receive treatment involving human embryonic stem cells in a FDA approved study. Embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) is fraught with controversy because it involves the destruction...
Two More Deaths Attributed to RU486
The September 30, 2010, edition of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) included a letter to the editor from three researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). These researchers discussed two cases of women who died from complications after...