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Tag Archives: stem cell research
Patients’ own stem cells used to reverse heart damage
A story on research involving the use of stem cells to repair damaged hearts received a significant amount of coverage, particular on all of the network news broadcasts, where it received more coverage, with regard to time, than any other … Continue reading
Posted in Bioethics, Heart Health
Tagged adult stem cell, adult stem cells, heart disease, heart failure, stem cell research, stem cells
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Adult Stem Cells, Not Embryonic, Helping Patients With Multiple Sclerosis
A groundbreaking new study provides more good news for treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) with adult stem cells. Researchers at the University of Bristol used patients’ own adult stem cells to treat their MS. In a Phase I clinical trial, … Continue reading
Posted in Bioethics
Tagged adult stem cell, adult stem cells, MS, multiple sclerosis, stem cell, stem cell research, UK National Stem Cell Network
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Placenta-derived stem cell therapy may benefit patients with Crohn’s disease
The successes for adult, cord blood, and placental-derived stem cells just keep piling up. Now comes an AP report saying, “Celgene Corporation … reported a successful safety trial of a placenta-derived stem cell therapy as a treatment for Crohn’s disease.” … Continue reading
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Tagged adult stem cell, adult stem cell research, adult stem cells, Crohn's Disease, embryonic stem cells, inflammatory bowel disease, stem cell, stem cell research
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Top 10 Pro-Life News Stories of 2009
President Barack Obama, abortion, the Supreme Court, and healthcare dominated pro-life news in 2009. As we look back on 2009, the first with a new pro-abortion president, it seems to me that the pro-life movement essentially is on the defensive. … Continue reading
Posted in Bioethics, Health Headlines
Tagged abortion, assisted suicide, conscience, conscience rights, embryonic stem cell, embryonic stem cell research, embryonic stem cells, freedom of conscience, healthcare reform, physician assisted suicide, physician conscience, Planned Parenthood, pro-abortion, right of conscience, socialized healthcare, stem cell research
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Dr. Walt’s Most Popular Blog Entries – Quarter 1 – 2009
Here are the most popular blogs, based upon blogs that you’ve read, over the first three months of 2009. The most popular blog was “Is It a Cold or Sinus Infection? How to Tell the Difference” and the second most … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Medicine, Bioethics, Cancer, Children's Health, General Health, Heart Health, Marriage and Family Health, Medical Economics, Men's Health, Mental Health, Nutritional Health, Parenting, Woman's Health
Tagged adult stem cell, Bible, cold, colds, discipline, embryonic stem cell, embryonic stem cell research, embryonic stem cells, embryonic-like stem cells, embryos, faith, fasting, herb, herbs, hot flashes, menopausal symptoms, menopause, missed vaccination, multivitamins, natural medications, sinus infection, sinusitis, spanking, spirituality, stem cell research, supplements, vaccination, vaccinations, vaccine, vaccine myth, vitamins
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Embryonic stem cells without embryos gives even MORE reasons to oppose embryonic stem cell research
I came across two studies released just this week that give me even more reasons to oppose the morally-flawed idea of killing embryos for embryonic stem cell research. The first study describes how scientists have created embryonic-like stem cells using … Continue reading
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Tagged adult stem cell, adult stem cell research, adult stem cells, embryonic stem cell, embryonic stem cell research, embryonic stem cells, embryonic-like stem cells, stem cell, stem cell research, stem cells
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Adult Stem Cell Research Has Yet Another Victory – Helps Type 1 Diabetics
New research using adult stem cells is showing further insulin independence for Type 1 diabetes patients. The study, led by Richard Burt of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, is the second in the last two years to … Continue reading
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Tagged adult stem cell research, adult stem cells, diabetes, embryonic stem cell, embryonic stem cells, stem cell research, type 1 diabetes
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Doctor Mehmet Oz Tells Oprah’s Audience Embryonic Stem Cell Research Debate is Dead
Readers of this blog know the many reasons that we should abandon even considering experimenting with embryonic stem cells. Now, Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiovascular surgeon at Columbia University and a regular on Oprah Winfrey’s popular eponymous television program, is … Continue reading
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Tagged adult stem cells, embryonic stem cells, stem cell research
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First-Ever Treatment of Stroke Using Adult Stem Cells (another reason embryonic stem cell research is doomed)
In what is believed to be the nation’s first such procedure, doctors in Texas were able to successfully use adult stem cells from a patient to treat the effects of his stroke. Physicians from Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center and the … Continue reading
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Tagged adult stem cells, embryonic stem cells, stem cell research, stroke
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Why Embryonic Stem Cell Research Is Obsolete
A listener to one of my interviews on a Chicago Radio Station (WMBI) wrote, “IF adult stem cells are just as good as embryonic cells, why are we all-fired up to use embryonic cells. The simple answer is: (adult stem … Continue reading
Posted in Bioethics, Cancer, Children's Health, Heart Health, Medical Economics, Men's Health, Woman's Health
Tagged adult stem cell, adult stem cell research, adult stem cells, embryonic stem cell, embryonic stem cell research, embryonic stem cells, embryonic-like stem cells, stem cell, stem cell research, stem cells
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Charles Krauthammer says Obama is morally flawed about stem cells and science
As long-time readers of this blog know, I’m strongly opposed to using embryonic stem cells for research. Primary among my complaints is that using embryonic stem cells requires the death of pre-born human life – in other words, the cells … Continue reading
Posted in Bioethics, Cancer, Children's Health, General Health, Medical Economics, Men's Health, Woman's Health
Tagged adult stem cell, adult stem cells, embryonic stem cell, embryonic stem cells, embryonic-like stem cells, stem cell research
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Obama to reverse life-saving stem cell research policies
USA Today reports, “Obama will sign an executive order … lifting limits on human embryonic stem cell research and will direct federal agencies to ‘restore scientific integrity’ to decision-making, White House aides said Sunday.” ABC and NBC reported the story … Continue reading
Posted in Bioethics, Cancer, Children's Health, Heart Health, Men's Health, Woman's Health
Tagged adult stem cell research, adult stem cells, embryonic stem cell, embryonic stem cell research, embryonic stem cells, embryonic-like stem cells, stem cell, stem cell research, stem cells
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Healing for the Holidays: Adult Stem Cell Research Still Outpaces Embryonic by Miles and Miles and Miles …
Today we seem to be floating on a tattered raft of bad news, but this is a week for Thanksgiving, and it seems only right to note that for all the trouble we face, we live in the most blessed … Continue reading
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Tagged adult stem cell, adult stem cells, embryonic stem cells, stem cell, stem cell research
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Why is O’Bama insisting on embryonic stem cell research? Is he nuts?
In the past few days, we’ve barely been able to keep up with the flood of articles about the progress with adult stem cells. The headlines read like medical miracles: “Doctors transplant windpipe with woman’s own stem cells“; “Bone marrow … Continue reading
Posted in Bioethics, Health Headlines
Tagged adult stem cells, embryonic stem cell research, embryonic stem cells, embryonic-like stem cells, stem cell research
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Ethical Stem Cell Research Helps Scientists Study Genetic Disorders
CitizenLink is reporting that stem cells created ethically from adult cells are allowing researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute to watch the development of 10 genetic disorders in a lab dish. My Take?
Posted in Bioethics, Health Headlines
Tagged adult stem cells, Down Syndrome, embryonic stem cells, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Huntington's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, stem cell research
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Two Great and Ethical Developments with Stem Cells
Scientists Closer to Cure for Parkinson’s Thanks to Adult Stem Cell Research LifeNews is reporting that scientists at Griffith University in Australia published an article showing that the use of adult stem cells may be getting closer to a cure, … Continue reading
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Tagged cloning, Griffith University, iPS cells, Parkinson's, stem cell research, stem cells
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It’s time to stop wasting money on embryonic stem cell research
In a stunning news story, “Scientists Admit Embryonic Stem Cell Research Hasn’t Been Successful,” Lord Patel of Dunkeld, the chairman of the United Kingdom National Stem Cell Network and a chancellor at Dundee University, says “embryonic stem cell research is … Continue reading