by Texas Right to Life | Dec 29, 2010 | Bioethics
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...
by Texas Right to Life | Dec 2, 2010 | Bioethics
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...
by Texas Right to Life | Nov 30, 2010 | Bioethics
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...
by Texas Right to Life | Nov 9, 2010 | Bioethics
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...
by Texas Right to Life | Nov 1, 2010 | Abortion, Bioethics
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...
