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Don't Look Now....But Do.
Today, I am ashamed to say that I was born a Hoosier. The state of Indiana, as well as Texas, Nebraska, and 8 other states are attempting to pass laws that would require ultrasounds prior to performing abortions, says USA Today. Not for the good or health of the mother... (read the rest)
PA Pooches Get Health Care, But Their Human Counterparts? No Way!
While lawmakers in Pennsylvania are cracking down on "puppy mills" and other unhealthy conditions for the care and raising of dogs in the Quaker State, it seems that these same legislators just couldn't find it in them to forge a consensus about how to provide care for 20,000 or more... (read the rest)
State biotech funding and patience
Via Art Caplan comes a piece from the Boston Globe that's essentially a reality check for states looking to cash in on biotech funding initiatives: The same day that President Bush won a second term, California voters approved a bold plan to pour $3 billion of taxpayers' money into stem... (read the rest)
Is New York's stem cell agency sidestepping ethics?
That's the accusation made by Daniel Sulmasy, a member of the Empire State Stem Cell Board's ethics committee. In an opinion piece this week in the NY Post, he writes that the ethics committee was first rushed to make interim recommendations -- and then essentially ignored: Ethics-committee members hold diverse... (read the rest)
New York's stem cell program picks up speed
We’ve got to say it every so often -- state stem cell programs are moving ahead, while the feds continue to languish. The most recent state to put money on the table is New York. Having gotten up and running in record time, the New York Stem Cell agency (NYSTEM)... (read the rest)
Bush and iPS cells: another "Mission Accomplished"?
By James Fossett The White House, Charles Krauthammer, Wesley J. Smith and other Bush Administration apologists have been working hard the last few days to spin the announcement of the development of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC’s) as a scientific silver bullet that wouldn’t have happened without the Bush Administration’s... (read the rest)
Do iPS cells mean an end to stem cell federalism? It might just mean the opposite
By James Fossett There’s been enormous speculation about the scientific and political consequences of the development of “induced pluripotent stem cells” (iPSC) by labs in Wisconsin and Japan for the entire stem cell research enterprise. One line of speculation, as described in an article by Rick Weiss in the Washington... (read the rest)
Breaking down what really happened in NJ
By James Fossett Now that the dust has settled a bit and some of the pundits have weighed in, it might be interesting to figure out why the New Jersey stem cell bond proposal got beat. Polls up until the week before the vote were showing strong, but not overwhelming,... (read the rest)
Stem cell federalism flunks in NJ? Not.
by James Fossett One of the noteworthy things about American federalism is that one defeat is seldom decisive. What loses in one state can easily win in others where political conditions are more propitious, and the fate of any particular enterprise doesn’t rise or fall on centralized national decisions. So... (read the rest)
Following up on the NJ stem cell funding defeat
Over at Science Progress, Jonathan Moreno argues that the Garden State's "no" vote on stem cell funding is evidence that federalism might not be the best way to approach biomedical research funding: The New Jersey vote demonstrates that state-based investment in long-term science can easily get caught up in local... (read the rest)
Stem cell funding goes down in New Jersey
In what the New York Times is calling "a stunning defeat," voters in New Jersey rejected a ballot measure that would have allowed the state to borrow $450 million over 10 years to fund stem cell research. The Star-Ledger reports that the defeat doesn't seem so much about stem cells... (read the rest)
Frozen embryos get some colorful representation in court
Via Art Caplan and BioEdge comes this item by Wired's Kristen Philipkoski about a lawyer who has filed suit on behalf of a frozen embryo. Martin Palmer is suing California Institute of Regenerative Medicine chairman Robert Klein on the argument that the use of embryos for embryonic stem cell research... (read the rest)
Who's funding stem cell research
by Jim Fossett We've been arguing for a long time here that states have been spending more on human embryonic stem cell(hESC) research than the feds, and now we have some numbers to back it up. In a piece just posted on the Rockefeller Institute of Government website, we try... (read the rest)
The language of "wrongful birth"
A jury awarded $23.5 million today to a Florida couple in what's been touted as a "wrongful birth" case. Amara and Daniel Estrada filed suit after a geneticist at the University of South Florida failed to diagnose Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome in their first son and assured the couple there was no... (read the rest)
South Carolina to Require Women View Ultrasounds Prior to Abortion
South Carolina appears poised on the brink of approving legislation that will require women to view ultrasound images prior to abortion. While all three (yes, that's right, all three) abortion clinics in South Carolina perform ultrasounds to determine the age of the fetus, the law would require women to view... (read the rest)
What Happens with Stem Cells After 2008? More of the Same.
David Jensen, whose California Stem Cell Report remains the authoritative source for anything going on around stem cells in California, has been reporting on the proceedings of a stem cell conference being put on by Stanford and Burrell and Company. Several speakers have been apparently saying something we’ve been arguing... (read the rest)
HPV Fights - Once Again, the States Decide!
It ain’t over, said Yogi Berra, until it’s over, and the debate over what to do about Gardasil, the vaccine developed by Merck against the strands of the human papilloma virus (HPV) that cause cervical cancer. is still raging hot and heavy in many states. While the vaccine has been... (read the rest)
More State Bioethics: HPV Vaccine Proposals Snowball
Kaiser Network really lays it out: states matter at least as much as what feds do—even in red states…and the HPV situation proves it. - Jim FossettLabels: hpv vaccine, state bioethics, women and bioethics... (read the rest)
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