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Embryonic Stem Cell Research is back in the US – But is it Morally Wrong? »
Posted by: WikiMap 1 month, 2 weeks ago in News
For researchers embryonic stem cells are a “blank canvas”; they can potentially be programmed to form any kind of cell in the human body. These ...
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Obama economic plan now tops $900B »
Posted by: STONERS 10 months, 1 week ago in Political News
The cost of President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan now exceeds $900 billion after the Senate added money for medical research and tax breaks ...
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Study: Male Circumcision Helps Prevent 2 STDs »
Posted by: FunnyBoyz 8 months, 3 weeks ago in Health & Fitness
(LOS ANGELES) — Circumcision not only protects against HIV in heterosexual men, but it also helps prevent two other sexually transmitted infections, a large new study ...
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Future of abstinence-only funding is in limbo »
Posted by: engineer 10 months, 3 weeks ago in News
With the exit of the Bush administration , critics of abstinence-only sex education will be making an aggressive push to cut off federal funding for what ...
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Obama to overturn Bush policy on stem cells »
Posted by: altnrg 9 months, 1 week ago in Political News
President Barack Obama is ending former President George W. Bush's limits on using federal dollars for embryonic stem cell research, with advisers calling the ...
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Obama overturns Bush policy on stem cells »
Posted by: engineer 9 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Former first lady Nancy Reagan thanks President Obama for lifting funding ban
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Obama: "We have been given the capacity and will to pursue this research ...Read (250) | Share | Discuss (4) | Read Full Story at cnn.com
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Cancer cluster confirmed in northeast Pennsylvania »
Posted by: ap 1 year, 3 months ago in Science & Technology
HAZLETON, Pa. (AP) _ Nearly a year after federal epidemiologists first sounded the alarm over a cluster of rare blood cancers in northeastern Pennsylvania, their ...
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Stem-cell policy change liberating to researchers »
Posted by: Progressive 9 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
WASHINGTON - Eight years of frustration are close to an end for scientists seeking ways to use embryonic stem cells to combat illness and injury.
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A Doctor's Reply to Professor Krugman »
Posted by: bowsnumba1 4 months, 2 weeks ago in Political Opinion
Read the whole thing. It's a gem.
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Merck: New pill may work for MS »
Posted by: glassman96 10 months, 3 weeks ago in News
German drugmaker Merck Serono is one step closer to releasing the first pill to treat multiple sclerosis, the company said Friday.
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UN: Clouds of pollution threaten glaciers, health »
Posted by: STONERS 1 year ago in Science & Technology
A dirty brown haze sometimes more than a mile thick is darkening skies not only over vast areas of Asia, but also in the Middle ...
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Army officials say war concussions overdiagnosed »
Posted by: ap 8 months ago in News
ATLANTA (AP) — Mild brain injuries — once considered an under-recognized problem in returning military troops — are being overdiagnosed because the government is using soft criteria instead ...
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Scientists cheer Obama's stem cell reversal »
Posted by: ap 9 months ago in Science & Technology
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Scientists are cheering President Barack Obama's lifting of federal funding restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, hopeful the move will open ...
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Paralyzed RI lawmaker hails stem cell decision »
Posted by: ap 9 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rep. Jim Langevin was 16 years old when a policeman's accidental gunshot severed his spinal cord and left him paralyzed ...
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