Monday, January 22, 2007
As I was saying.....
Just ran into a perfect example of America's failure. A family in Wisconsin is taking their girl to China for stem cell treatment of a rare neurological disorder. Embryonic? Nope, umbilical cord cells.
Brooke will receive six injections of 10 million stem cells over a four-week period at Xiaoshan Hospital in Hangzhou, China.
The treatment uses stem cells from the umbilical cords of healthy Chinese babies rather than the more controversial embryonic stem cells ...
The treatment is not available in the United States, and it is not yet approved for Brooke's condition, Vicki said.
American doctors "want it to be safe, but yet it takes so long (for government approval)," she said. "But for the types of cells she's going to be getting in China-the testing, trials … they're all done. There are hundreds of patients who have been successful already."
Yes sir, ethics. We want it to be safe ... from lawsuits. And we'll kill as many people as necessary to achieve that kind of safety.
Article here.
Brooke will receive six injections of 10 million stem cells over a four-week period at Xiaoshan Hospital in Hangzhou, China.
The treatment uses stem cells from the umbilical cords of healthy Chinese babies rather than the more controversial embryonic stem cells ...
The treatment is not available in the United States, and it is not yet approved for Brooke's condition, Vicki said.
American doctors "want it to be safe, but yet it takes so long (for government approval)," she said. "But for the types of cells she's going to be getting in China-the testing, trials … they're all done. There are hundreds of patients who have been successful already."
Yes sir, ethics. We want it to be safe ... from lawsuits. And we'll kill as many people as necessary to achieve that kind of safety.
Article here.
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