Bioethics @ TIU Abortion breast cancer and truth Posted March 30th 2012 by Joe Gibes Eric Zorn wrote a provocative column for the Chicago Tribune last week maligning the various bills in various state legislatures that require a woman to be notified before undergoing an abortion that there may ...

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When it came to light that New York Yankees pitcher Bartolo Colon had received autologous stem cell therapy from a clinic in the Dominican Republic an important question came before Major League baseball: should stem cell therapies be banned from big league ball? Why would this therapy as op ...

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There is a day for virtually everything these days. Forget the old school Valentines and Sweetest Day or even Administrative Professionals or Grandparents Day. Today October 5th is Stem Cell Awareness Day! Who issued this proclamation? Well a group that might be just a tiny bit interested in r ...

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Hepatitis Research May Benefit From Stem Cells. Hepatitis C is a viral disease that leads to inflammation and organ failure. However researchers are puzzled as to why some individuals are very susceptible to the disease ...

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The February edition of Neurosurgery reports that animal experiments in brain-injured rats have shown that stem cells injected via the carotid artery travel directly to the brain greatly enhancing functional recovery. (Medical ...

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A presidential ethics panel said that federally sponsored research involving human subjects provides adequate safeguards to reduce risk but also recommended some improvements such as the creation of a central publicly available database to keep track of experiments.

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The federal government should develop a way to compensate volunteers who are harmed while participating in medical experiments a presidential commission recommended Thursday. In a 208-page report the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues concluded that existing regulations ...

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In February 1948 John C. Cutler injected a Guatemalan mental patient named Berta with syphilis. A month later she developed scabies a skin disease and a few weeks later Dr. Cutler noticed that she had lesions on her arms and legs and that her skin was wasting away. He finally treated her for sy ...

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In February 1948 John C. Cutler injected a Guatemalan mental patient named Berta with syphilis. A month later she developed scabies a skin disease and a few weeks later Dr. Cutler noticed that she had lesions on her arms and legs and that her skin was wasting away. He finally treated her for sy ...