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Adult Stem Cells Show Promise for Liver Cirrhosis
Doctors at Imperial College in London have successfully treated patients with liver cirrhosis using their own stem cells.
Bone-marrow stem cells were collected from nine patients and injected into their livers. Positive results were reported within one week of treatment.
Dr. Nagy Habib, the senior doctor who conducted the study, said he sees adult stem-cell research as one of the most promising areas of science.
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Alveda King cites personal experience in call to defund Planned Parenthood
Pro-life leader Dr. Alveda King, niece of civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., recently discussed her past experiences seeking services from a Planned Parenthood clinic in an interview. Saying the organization gave her “bad advice, bad counsel” and lied about her abortion, she called for taxpayer funding to be pulled from Planned Parenthood.
Speaking to Cybercast News Service, Dr. King described how she had two abortions and then later a miscarriage in the early 1970s, years before she joined the pro-life movement.
Describing herself as “uninformed and misinformed” about abortion, King said the doctor who performed the first abortion sent her to Planned Parenthood for the second.
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Grandmother Maintains Constitutional Right To Protest Abortion
A 60-year-old Toronto grandmother who has been arrested more than a dozen times for silently protesting in front of a downtown abortion clinic, was acquitted on Tuesday of her latest charges. Over the last 14 years, Linda Gibbons estimates that she has spent a total of about 75 months in jail. It's because she continues to violate a 1994 court order that prohibits counseling and pro-life outreach within 18.2 metres of The Scott Clinic on Gerrard Street. She was charged with obstructing a police officer after she was arrested on July 31.
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Abortion Regulations on Utah Legislation Table
The legislature plans to introduce a series of bills in 2009 that would ban abortions in Utah, as well overturn the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling. A conference was held Tuesday to discuss the proposed laws. Pro-life and Pro-choice are still the main terms being tossed around the discussion table. While some feel there are to be more options for women, other legislators say there are too many abortions being performed out of convenience.
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64 Percent of Russian Pregnancies End in Abortion
The number of infertile women in Russia is growing by 200,000 to 250,000 each year, with the main cause being complications from abortions, Marina Tarasova, deputy head of the St. Petersburg Reseach Institute For Gynecology and Obstetrics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said on Monday. Speaking at an international conference highlighting new methods of oral contraception, Tarasova warned that by the end of 2007 there were already more than 5.5 million infertile couples in Russia.
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ESCR pioneer may be changing direction
Dr. James Thomson is a well-known Wisconsin scientist, according to Peggy Hamill of Pro-Life Wisconsin. "James Thomson is a scientist at UW-Madison who discovered the technique to extract embryonic stem cells," she explains. "Those are the stem cells coming from tiny, embryonic people." For that reason, Thomson is considered the father of embryonic stem-cell research.
But Dr. Thomson now wants to switch to research on adult stem cells from sources such as the umbilical cord or skin, results of which have already proven effective in future solutions to common, often fatal diseases. His change of heart, however, does not appear to be based on ethical factors.
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