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Stem Cell Injections Pioneering Step Forward?
sanspeak writes "Indian Doctors at All India Institute of Medical Sciences have performed a radical new operation of sorts by pioneering the method of stem cell injections. Ishika Gupta, a seven month old girl child who was suffering from cardiac myopathy, was treated by injecting stem cells into her heart from bone in her own leg. AIIMS has marked a global first in pioneering stem cell medicine by the "injection method''." From the article: "There will now be a national stem cell centre at AIIMS which will coordinate the research and its applications. The statistics speak for themselves. After six months, 56% of the affected (dead muscle) area injected with these cells had shown improvement." Additional details on this therapy available from the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel and Medical News Today.
As a born and raised native of Fort Wayne, it's nice to see them slashdotted. ...kinda
Especially after they were ranked at the Very Bottom of Men's Health magazine's list of city intelligence in the US.
Even though I moved out as soon as I was able (to Columbus, OH [19], NYC [32], and currently Miami [94]), the place isn't so bad. There are even a few people there smart enough to read to everyone else. It's nice, storytime is. I especially liked the milk and cookies.
> So if the actions in Iraq end up saving Iraqi lives that would have ended (or
> been miserable) had the status quo been allowed to continue (regardless of
> our motivations for the war), then what would you say?
What does what I say have to do with anything? But for the record, what I'd say is that deciding to change what happens in another country is a seperate issue to how you change it, and how many lifes one is prepared to risk in order to perform the change. Both the Geneva Convention and the US Government have things to say about the obligation to protect civilians.
> Remember, various human rights organizations have said that approximately
> 50,000 Iraqis were dying per year during the previous 12 years as a direct
> result of sanctions...
Well, the sanctions were imposed by the US/UN.
> In other words, if there ends up being a net preservation of Iraqi lives,
> then is it acceptable?
It's something to take into account when working out if the actions were ethical, certainly. The rest of that paragraph was just a pathetic, inaccurate rant at a straw man so I won't bother to respond to it.
> Of course, it's no surprise that yet another Bush bashing book might gloss
> over that little issue.
The intention of the book is to assess how consistant Bush is when talking about Good and Evil (as has done more than any other president), and to hold his actions to account. Read it - you WILL learn something.