Last Minute Election Issue

What you should know about Stem Cell research

If you are still undecided on who to vote for, or which side you should be on on the stem cell research, here are some additional resources. An article entitled "Stem Cell Politics" from the New England Journal of Medicine can be found here:

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/355/16/1633?query=TOC

A pretty dry article from the same source regarding FDA Regulation of stem cell research is here:

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/355/16/1730?query=TOC

A quick and dirty rundown of the issue can be found here:

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/medtech/0,71401-0.html

and this is just plain interesting for those of you that think it's a political issue:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3700015.stm


and this link is funny in the sense that I stumbled upon it in a footnote from a familyresearchcouncil.org position paper, wherein three of the four doctors in the citation actually support expanded research into stem cells. The fourth doctor is employed by the Family Research Council:

http://commerce.senate.gov/hearings/witnesslist.cfm?id=1323

Stem cell research probably won't do me any good personally (I expect my time to be up before any cures are found), but it is the right and moral thing to do. Thanks again for taking the time to look at this stuff.

Tom