Over at Tech Central Station, Michael Fumento updates us on the "surprising" news that researchers are making impressive strides in adult stem cell research, and not so much in embryonic stem cell research. [Cardiologist Douglas] Losordo bemoans the broad-based assault by ESC researchers and the media to exaggerate the potential of ESC research while downplaying […]
The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is donating $750 million for infant vaccinations.
A South Korean woman is walking for the first time in 20 years thanks to an injection of stem cells -- from umbilical cord blood. Once again, another success and no embryos were destroyed in the making. Why is the state of California spending $10 billion on embryonic stem cell research? Because only taxpayer money […]
Robert P. George has an excellent, short article over at National Review Sen. John Kerry and the Democrats' big lie about stem cells. The claim that "we have the option" of curing Parkinson's disease, diabetes, etc. with embryonic stem cells is outrageous. No one knows when — or even whether or not — human embryonic […]
think again. Reuters reports that it takes a long time to get treatment in Canada. Canada often boasts its universal health care program shows it is more caring than the United States, but the system is creaking alarmingly, with long wait lists for treatment, and shortages of cash and doctors. ... As the politicians bicker, […]
Columnist Charles Krauthammer, a psychiatrist, got some heat from the American left when he suggested that former Vice President Al Gore was, in his clinical opinion, "nuts." Another medical doctor has added his considered opinion in a letter to the editor in the October 2004 edition of The Atlantic magazine on President George W. Bush's […]
Let me first give credit where it is due, Tuesday's column by New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is the type he should spend most of his time on. Today's column, however, is notable for a couple of things: First, there's no mention of President Bush. (I'm sure that will be remedied at a later […]
Only in the Bay Area can you get that rare mix of political/protest activism and the vanity of maintaining a slender figure. In a unique form of opposition, some protesters at the Federal Building staged a "vomit in,'' by heaving on the sidewalks and plaza areas in the back and front of the building to […]
I wrote an item a little over a week ago on an experiment to treat a youth whose heart had been damaged in an industrial accident (I'm being generous -- some idiot co-worker shot him in the chest using a nail gun). Friday, over at National Review Online, Discovery Institute fellow Wesley J. Smith comments […]