If this doesn’t give you something to talk about at the water cooler today, I don’t know what will: A Kenyan man bit a python which wrapped him in its coils and dragged him up a tree during a fierce three-hour struggle, police have told the BBC. The serpent seized farm worker Ben . . . . Continue Reading »
Our world is so upside-down. A nurse secretly filmed terrible neglect of elderly UK hospital patients—and she is sanctioned for misconduct! From the story: An undercover nurse who carried out secret filming to reveal the neglect of elderly patients on a hospital ward was found guilty of . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday, I wrote about a diabetes human trial using adult stem cells in which some of the patients were able to go off insulin. I predicted at the time that it wouldn’t make big time headlines—as would happen if the exact same achievement happened with human patients using embryonic . . . . Continue Reading »
Years ago a friend of mine took her little daughter to a Chinese restaurant and asked how she liked the fortune cookie at the end of the meal. “Well . . . ,” her daughter said, “it doesn’t taste like much. And the paper inside it is kind of strange, too.” Growing up in . . . . Continue Reading »
On March 3, 2009, Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-CA) introduced legislation (H.R. 1283) to repeal the 1993 law regarding homosexuals in the military (Section 654, Title 10, U.S.C.), often labeled “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Anticipating an attempt to repeal this law, several retired . . . . Continue Reading »
People who have badly damaged tendons may soon find relief from their own adult stem cells. From the story:A stem-cell repair technique that has already been used to fix hundreds of injured race horses is to be tested for the first time in people with damaged Achilles tendons.Privately owned British . . . . Continue Reading »
As I often say, the culture of death brooks no dissent. Now, none other than the controversial academic Stanley Fish claims that doctors and nurses who don’t wish to take human life as part of their medical work should just get over it. From his New York Times blog (of course): . . . . Continue Reading »
When the Stowers Institute Crowd financed and passed Amendment 2, it not only created a constitutional right to do human cloning research in Missouri, but as I pointed out during the campaign, it added a superfluous provision stating that if one kind of stem cell research received state support, . . . . Continue Reading »
Al Gore is set to head a venture capital foray into the very promising field of induced pluripotent stem cell research. From the story:Former vice president Al Gore is entering the stem cell arena with an announcement today of a $20 million biotech venture in the hot area of “induced . . . . Continue Reading »
Francis Beckwith’s comments on the death of porn star Marylyn Chambers: This morning I was greeted by a headline that the porn star, Marilyn Chambers (56), was found dead on Easter Sunday. Her obituary was written as if she had actually accomplished something. She was, of course, in her own . . . . Continue Reading »
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