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[Stem Cells Repair Eye] A man was partly-blinded when ammonia was squirted into his eye, severely scarring his cornea. Stem cells were taken from his healthy eye, grown on a layer of amniotic tissue and then transplanted to the damaged eye. Six months later, vision was nearly as good as before.
[Embryonic Stem Cell Research Obsolete] Using "direct programming" scientists have made a major breakthrough, which further renders embryonic stem cell research obsolete. With the application of three genes they are actively and directly changing one cell type to a completely different type. This is a striking advance. It transforms cells directly into the desired functional tissue and short cuts the previous need to first revert these cells to a pluripotent state.
[Another Adult Stem Cell Success] This includes re-growing patient's jaw bones and repairing heart damage. We note that the Family Research Council's new web-site details stories of patients successfully treated for sickle cell anemia, spinal cord injury and scleroderma.
God Bless,
Jerry Novotny, OMI
(Quote) How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers. - Mother Teresa
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Lifeissues.net NEWSLETTER #476
May 30, 2010
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(TABLE OF CONTENTS):
1. Number of children in Japan falls to record low for 29th year in row
2. Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
3. Forced sterilisations for thousands in southern China crack-down
4. Three humans and an embryo
5. Stress, quarrels and neglect: the 'normal' polygamous family
6. More Evidence That China Killing Dissidents and Selling Their Organs
7. Spain Education for the Citizenry teaches bestiality sex can be freely practiced Parents Protesting
8. The Pill at 50
9. Alzheimer's kills memories, not emotions
10. Stem cells raise hope for treatment for multiple sclerosis patients
11. Scientists use pig embryo to create stem cells
12. Organ donation: Presumed consent coming to U.S.
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(FOCUS ON ASIA): "Probiotics can help premature infants gain weight" - There is now a way for extremely low birth weight infants to gain weight. They should be given feeds supplemented with probiotics -- healthy, live organism supplements that provide benefit to the host -- say researchers. http://www.worldpress.org/link.cfm?http://www.hindustantimes.com/rssfeed/americas/Probiotics-can-help-premature-infants-gain-weight/Article1-538799.aspx
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ITEM #1. Number of children in Japan falls to record low for 29th year in row
The number of children in Japan under the age of 15 is estimated to have dropped 190,000 in the last year to 16.94 million, marking a record low for the 29th consecutive year.
View full article at The Japan Times:
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100505a2.html
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ITEM #2. Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
"Like any other life-sustaining resource," says Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, "language can be depleted, polluted, contaminated, eroded, and filled with artificial stimulants." Today more than ever, language needs to be rescued and restored.
View full article at CERC:
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/education/ed0417.htm
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ITEM #3. Forced sterilisations for thousands in southern China crack-down
Anyone who thought China was softening its one-child policy will have to think again after news that one local government in southern China is forcing thousands of couples to undergo sterilisation -- and, in many cases, holding their parents hostage to ensure they comply.
View full article at MercatorNet.com:
http://www.mercatornet.com/family_edge/view/7064/
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ITEM #4. Three humans and an embryo
Our culture says it loves children, but take a look at what it does.
View full article at CERC:
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/medical_ethics/me0148.htm
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ITEM #5. Stress, quarrels and neglect: the 'normal' polygamous family
A large-scale study currently underway across Malaysia uncovers proof that polygamy harms everyone involved: from emotionally scarred children, to wives who think they'd be better off as single-parent households, and even husbands who admit "I wouldn't recommend it for my son; it's quite stressful."
View full article at Open Democracy:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/masjaliza-hamzah-norami-othman/stress-quarrels-and-neglect-normal-polygamous-family
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ITEM #6. More Evidence That China Killing Dissidents and Selling Their Organs
If these stories are true–and I believe they are–China is a monster state. I have previously covered credible charges that Falun Gong prisoners are killed and their organs sold, stating that while there was not enough proof for a "conviction" beyond a reasonable doubt, the evidence would certainly justify a "search warrant," thus compelling, it seemed to me, concerted international investigations.
View full article at First Things:
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2010/04/27/more-evidence-that-china-killing-dissidents-and-selling-their-organs/
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ITEM #7. Spain Education for the Citizenry teaches bestiality sex can be freely practiced Parents Protesting
Parents' organizations in Spain are fiercely protesting the curriculum of the Socialist government's required education course, "Education for the Citizenry," after it was revealed that in one Spanish city, students are being taught that sex can be freely practiced, even with animals.
Article is located at Barcelona Reporter:
http://www.barcelonareporter.com/index.php?/news/comments/spain_education_for_the_citizenry_teaches_bestiality_sex_can_be_freely_prac/
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ITEM #8. The Pill at 50
When Mother's Day was invented just over 100 years ago, early and multiple motherhood was the near-universal destiny of most women. That all changed 50 years ago with the invention of "the Pill," as oral birth control soon became known.
Article can be found at CERC:
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/sexuality/se0202.htm
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ITEM #9. Alzheimer's kills memories, not emotions
I thought about Dad last week, when I read about a new University of Iowa study that found patients with Alzheimer's-type memory loss can remember the emotional imprint of an experience even after they have forgotten the event itself.
View entire two files at CERC:
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/catholic_stories/cs0446.htm
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ITEM #10. Stem cells raise hope for treatment for multiple sclerosis patients
Thousands of MS sufferers could benefit from a revolutionary treatment that injects them with stem cells taken from their own bone marrow.
View entire text at Telegraph.co.uk:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7682055/Stem-cells-raise-hope-for-treatment-for-multiple-sclerosis-patients.html
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ITEM #11. Scientists use pig embryo to create stem cells
The world currently produces enough food for everybody, but many people do not have access to it and to have the nourishment necessary for a healthy and productive life.
View entire text at CNN:
http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/04/scientists-use-pig-embryo-to-create-stem-cells/
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ITEM #12. Organ donation: Presumed consent coming to U.S.
Comment: "Presumed consent" (regarding organ donation) means that if you do not explicitly say you do not want to donate, the government will presume that you do want to donate. One of the dangers in this is that many people do not realize organ procurement is being done in ways that are ethically - and medically - problematic. For example, "Donation after cardiac death" (DCD) - involves hastening the death of an individual deemed to be "hopeless." Furthermore, it is quite possible that an individual could be aware that they are being carted off for donation and believed they would not be aware. Now imagine being aware and knowing you had never explicitly consented to donate.
Deb Sturm, RN
View entire text at CERC
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/sexuality/se0200.htm
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