• As of this writing, there are at least FIVE vaccines in development for COVID-19 using aborted fetal cell lines. (avoicefortruth.com)
  • Vaccines should be produced ethically, without the use of aborted fetal cell lines. (avoicefortruth.com)
  • A new controversy is brewing over government backing of Ebola vaccines that are using aborted fetal cell lines even though vaccines developed from moral alternatives are just as effective. (womenofgrace.com)
  • Parents, however, could justify the use of vaccines developed from aborted fetal cell lines for "grave reasons. (angelusnews.com)
  • Added new Human Fetal Tissue Section with the question: Does the proposed project involve human fetal tissue obtained from elective abortions? (washington.edu)
  • The NIH is funding a $20 million program to "develop, demonstrate, and validate experimental models that do not rely on human fetal tissue from elective abortions. (chicagotribune.com)
  • NIH "has directed funding toward the development of alternative research methods that do not rely on human fetal tissue from elective abortions and I remain supportive of that effort. (chicagotribune.com)
  • The Health and Human Services press release clearly stated, "research that requires new acquisition of fetal tissue from elective abortions will not be conducted. (avoicefortruth.com)
  • The use of baby parts for research came to the forefront front of the nation's conscience in 2015 when the Center for Medical Progress , lead by investigative journalist David Daleiden, exposed the existence of a raging aborted baby organ market between abortion clinics and research facilities. (californiafamily.org)
  • However, human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research is ethically and politically controversial because it involves the destruction of human embryos. (scitechnol.com)
  • iPS cells avoid the heated debates over the ethics of embryonic stem cell research because embryos or oocytes are not used. (scitechnol.com)
  • In recent years, several competing viewpoints have emerged about embryonic stem cell research. (ipl.org)
  • All of this debate raises an important question, Should embryonic stem cell research be conducted for treatment of present and future diseases? (ipl.org)
  • People who believe that an embryo should not be destroyed tend to say that embryonic stem cell research should not be conducted. (ipl.org)
  • On the other hand, people who believe that embryonic stem cell research creates means of curing diseases reply that the research should be conducted. (ipl.org)
  • Embryonic stem cell research "uses special cells found in three-to-five day old human embryos to seek cures for a host of chronic disease" (PRC). (ipl.org)
  • However, the ALSA has admitted that it gives some of its money to embryonic stem cell research and has no qualms about doing so in the future. (flfamily.org)
  • Note the ALSA page linked in the above has just recently been changed, and now notes that embryonic stem cell research "has raised ethical concerns. (flfamily.org)
  • Project ALS, another charity for ALS research, also funds embryonic stem cell research . (flfamily.org)
  • The MSCTC does not do any embryonic or aborted fetal stem cell research, ONLY ADULT and NON-EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH and CLINICAL TRIALS. (flfamily.org)
  • The John Paul II Medical Research Institute in Iowa City is doing research in several areas including ALS, and does not support embryonic stem cell research. (flfamily.org)
  • The Adult Stem Cell Technology Center, LLC is developing new methods for growth and application of adult stem cells, and does not support embryonic stem cell research. (flfamily.org)
  • But the story has taken a new twist as religious groups are now beginning to discourage followers from participating -- because ALS research at times relies on embryonic stem cells. (salon.com)
  • She added that donors "can stipulate where their money goes and can ask that it not pay for embryonic stem cell research. (salon.com)
  • Early polio research included the use of embryonic tissue . (salon.com)
  • there are reasons to have conversations about embryonic stem cell research and fetal tissue research. (salon.com)
  • The Bioethics Act is the first law in South Korea to regulate research on embryonic stem cells and in vitro fertilization. (asu.edu)
  • Funding for stem cell research in two of the most liberal states in the nation - California and Maryland - appears to be shifting away from embryonic to adult stem cells. (womenofgrace.com)
  • The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the world's first human clinical trial of a therapy involving embryonic stem cells, a move that has been condemned by the Vatican as "unacceptable. (womenofgrace.com)
  • The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is delaying a bid by biotech company Geron Corp. to become the first to conduct human trials with embryonic stem cells, pending review of new studies. (womenofgrace.com)
  • However, high-resolution melt PCR analysis of isolates from placenta tissue was positive for a wild-type C. abortus but not for the live vaccine strain. (cdc.gov)
  • Even with the recent Ebola virus scare, statements were made that foetal tissue was "absolutely critical" for the development of a vaccine. (fli.org.nz)
  • Secondly and most important, this claim proved to be incorrect in that Merck developed a vaccine derived from an animal cell line which reports state, showed promise in clinical trials. (fli.org.nz)
  • This claim is not isolated with research documenting these horrific acts since the 1930's - including development of the polio vaccine. (fli.org.nz)
  • But co-founder Josh Morrison hopes to show that there is broad support for human-challenge trials, which have the potential to deliver an effective coronavirus vaccine more quickly than standard trials. (nature.com)
  • Typical vaccine trials take a long time because thousands of people receive either a vaccine or a placebo, and researchers track who becomes infected in the course of their daily lives. (nature.com)
  • Pregnant women have become a target group for the flu vaccine in recent years even though there were never any clinical trials showing that the vaccine was safe for them. (rodefshalom613.org)
  • Results from studies show that the flu vaccine increases risk of SAB (spontaneous abortion)/fetal death. (rodefshalom613.org)
  • It's kind of weird to think that the animal rights activists have more clout with the vaccine companies than do the anti-abortion activists. (medicalkidnap.com)
  • The chickenpox, rubella, hepatitis A, shingles and one rabies vaccine all derive from fetal embryo fibroblast cells cultivated in the 1960s -- and Catholic leadership has wrestled with the ethics of using those vaccines. (salon.com)
  • The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was tested in 16- and 17-year-olds during the initial clinical trials for adults, and 12- to 15-year-olds tested the same regimen. (latimes.com)
  • To get a better sense of the prevalence of this possible side effect, the FDA asked vaccine makers to increase the number of children in their trials and to track them for longer . (latimes.com)
  • In an unusual public statement , acting Commissioner Dr. Janet Woodcock and Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said they're longing for the day when a vaccine for the under-12 set receives emergency use authorization. (latimes.com)
  • Many people holding pro-life values still wonder if there is any truth to the claim that aborted fetal tissue is used in vaccine research and development. (avoicefortruth.com)
  • His April 2020 newsletter stated, "In fact, aborted fetal tissue has never been used to produce a single vaccine. (avoicefortruth.com)
  • The vaccine industry in particular has a long, 60+ year history of using aborted fetal tissue in its research and development. (avoicefortruth.com)
  • This long-term and on-going practice of using aborted fetal tissue in vaccine research and development has been ignored by many pro-life people and organizations. (avoicefortruth.com)
  • The pleading in the letters from members of Congress and state AGs prompted by COVID-19 vaccine development reveal just how reliant the scientific community has become on human fetal tissue for vaccine research. (avoicefortruth.com)
  • The fear of COVID-19 and the desire for a vaccine is no excuse to use aborted fetal tissue. (avoicefortruth.com)
  • Kliff points out that the scientists who received the 1954 Nobel Prize for Medicine used fetal kidney cells to develop the polio vaccine. (lifelegaldefensefoundation.org)
  • A version of the rubella vaccine also used aborted tissue. (lifelegaldefensefoundation.org)
  • The new Ebola vaccine uses a monkey cell line, rendering fetal cell lines completely unnecessary. (lifelegaldefensefoundation.org)
  • They expressed their concerns that a vaccine to be distributed by the government for the new coronavirus "will raise serious issues of conscience for a proportion of our population," while noting that it "may be sufficiently remote from the abortion that occasioned the derivation of the cell-line. (angelusnews.com)
  • The vaccine candidate, which is in the clinical trials phase, is being developed with the University of Oxford. (angelusnews.com)
  • I, for one, don't think it would be unethical to use this vaccine if there is no alternative available," the archbishop wrote, adding that "[t]o do so would not be to co-operate in any abortion occurring in the past or the future. (angelusnews.com)
  • Although vaccine safety is rigorously assessed during for females age 9-26 years in 2006, and for males in the same pre-licensure clinical trials, sample sizes are not adequate to age group in 2009. (cdc.gov)
  • Like other arenaviruses, Lassa virus lacks a ogy and clinical presentation, treatment, prevention conventional negative-strand coding arrangement and control as well as the current theories of its patho- and the isolates of the virus differ in their genetic, genesis and efforts in vaccine development. (folkhalsomyndigheten.se)
  • Most of the COVID vaccines being developed are using human fetal tissue to culture the coronavirus. (medicalkidnap.com)
  • During the past 12 years, CIRM has spent several billion dollars to fund stem cell research in hopes of finding cures for a variety of ailments including Parkinson's disease, cerebral palsy, and spinal cord injuries, but with little success . (californiafamily.org)
  • Since then, according to his resume , Dr. Svendsen has been involved in study after study, writing article after article regarding the use of pre-born baby brains and other fetal tissue to treat neurological diseases like Parkinson's and Lou Gehrig's disease. (californiafamily.org)
  • Today, fetal tissue is still making an impact, with clinical trials underway using cells from fetal tissue to treat conditions including Parkinson's disease, ALS, and spinal cord injury," said Doug Melton, co-director of Harvard's Stem Cell Institute and president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Between 1988 and 1994, roughly 140 Parkinson's disease patients received fetal tissue (up to six fetuses per patient), with varying results. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • [12] The results of these two large studies led to a moratorium on fetal tissue transplants for Parkinson's. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • One Planned Parenthood affiliate's tissue donation consent form tells vulnerable women: "Research using the blood from pregnant women and tissue that has been aborted has been used to treat and find a cure for such diseases as diabetes, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, cancer, and AIDS. (lifelegaldefensefoundation.org)
  • Fetal tissue has also been used to treat degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease, but clinical trials have produced mixed results, some of which are horrific. (lifelegaldefensefoundation.org)
  • However, use of fetal tissue is ethically controversial because it is associated with abortion, which many people object to. (scitechnol.com)
  • However, the success of fetal tissue transplants has been meager at best, and ethically-derived alternatives exist and are coming to dominate the field. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • In 2017, the Pontifical Academy for Life addressed the topic again, saying that "the cell lines currently used" in common vaccines "are very distant from the original abortions and no longer imply that bond of moral cooperation indispensable for an ethically negative evaluation of their use. (angelusnews.com)
  • Once produced, maternal Rh immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies persist for life and may cross freely from the placenta to the fetal circulation, where they form antigen-antibody complexes with Rh-positive fetal erythrocytes and eventually are destroyed, resulting in a fetal alloimmune-induced hemolytic anemia. (medscape.com)
  • If postpartum uterine involution is abnormal, it may adversely affect the health of the mother by impairing her future fertility and increasing her risk of hemorrhage, miscarriage, abortion, abnormal placentation, placenta accrete spectrum (PAS), uterine rupture, or death. (wustl.edu)
  • We describe a case of Chlamydia abortus in a woman in rural France who was pregnant, developed severe generalized infection, and suffered fetal loss. (cdc.gov)
  • C. abortus induces pelvic inflammatory disease in pregnant women and replicates in the trophoblast epithelium, which leads to placental dysfunction and late-term fetal death ( 2 - 4 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The infection in pregnant women often requires hospitalization in an intensive care unit and causes fetal death ( 5 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Most reported cases of human infection involve direct contact of pregnant women with infected animals, but indirect contact by visiting or living on or close to a farm affected by enzootic abortion also has been described ( 6 ). (cdc.gov)
  • A systematic review that compared single-dose antibiotic treatment with 4- to 7-day treatments concluded that single-dose regimens may be less effective than a short-course regimen, but until more data become available from large trials, pregnant women with asymptomatic bacteriuria should be treated with the standard regimen. (medscape.com)
  • In response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, the FDA has admitted, for the first time, that government agencies, including the CDC, are recommending vaccines for pregnant women that have neither been licensed for pregnant mothers by FDA nor tested for safety in clinical trials. (rodefshalom613.org)
  • A study of data from the the 2010-11 and 2011-12 flu seasons found that pregnant women who got a flu shot in their first trimester, and who also got the H1N1 flu shot the previous season, were 6.4 times more likely to experience fetal loss than women who did not get a flu shot. (rodefshalom613.org)
  • because of the order of magnitude increase in fetal-loss report rates, from 6.8 fetal-loss reports per million pregnant women vaccinated in the single-dose 2008/2009 season to 77.8 in the two-dose 2009/2010 season, further long-term studies are needed to assess adverse outcomes in the surviving children. (rodefshalom613.org)
  • At the University of Chicago, every pregnant woman at the University's Lying-In Hospital became part of a clinical trial: one-half were randomized to receive DES and the other half received placebos. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Prior to 1993, investigators excluded most women from clinical trials because in 1977, the FDA recommended that anyone who could possibly become pregnant be excluded from early phase drug research to minimize risk to a potential fetus. (asu.edu)
  • Adult stem cells and cord blood stem cells do not raise special ethical concerns and are widely used in research and clinical care. (scitechnol.com)
  • Pluripotent stem cells can be derived from fetal tissue after abortion. (scitechnol.com)
  • Yet, Planned Parenthood's interest might have something to do with the millions CIRM spends on research using aborted baby organs as a source of stem cells. (californiafamily.org)
  • Dr. Svendsen received his most recent grant of $6.2 million last Fall to fund a clinical trial where "they will implant middle-man "progenitor" cells made by maturing stem cells from fetal tissue," into the spinal cords of patients with hope the damaged neural cells will be repaired. (californiafamily.org)
  • Furthermore, conditions that were treated unsuccessfully by aborted tissue, are now routinely treated by adult stem cells. (fli.org.nz)
  • As Rebecca Taylor has pointed out , ALSA also has given money to an affiliate, NEALS, that has given money to a trial that uses stem cells derived from the spinal cord of an aborted fetus. (flfamily.org)
  • One potential future trial would be using adult stem cells for ALS. (flfamily.org)
  • Researchers at the Mayo Clinic are currently doing clinical trials for patients with ALS, using ADULT STEM CELLS. (flfamily.org)
  • While this is still an experimental trial, the early results using adult stem cells for ALS treatment have been positive . (flfamily.org)
  • Dr. Deisher was the first person to discover adult cardiac derived stem cells, and has been a champion of adult stem cell research, both professionally and privately, for two decades. (medicalkidnap.com)
  • The Archdiocese suggests people who want to do the challenge contribute to the John Paul II Medical Research Institute, "where the research is only conducted using adult stem cells. (salon.com)
  • [5] Conditions such as anemias and immunodeficiencies, for which fetal tissue attempts largely failed, are now treated routinely with adult stem cells, including umbilical cord blood stem cells, [6] even while the patient is still in the womb. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • They are no longer fetal stem cells, but heavily altered, immortalized cell lines that divide indefinitely in culture. (lifelegaldefensefoundation.org)
  • Although using fetal cells was more expedient sixty years ago due to their speed of propagation, modern technology allows the transformation of adult stem cells into cell lines with the same properties. (lifelegaldefensefoundation.org)
  • This is known as a missed miscarriage or spontaneous abortion. (healthline.com)
  • Ending the use of fetal tissue by the National Institutes of Health has been a priority for anti-abortion activists, a core element of President Donald Trump's political base. (chicagotribune.com)
  • The most common cause of Rh incompatibility is exposure from an Rh-negative mother by Rh-positive fetal blood during pregnancy or delivery. (medscape.com)
  • However, following delivery, the dramatic uterine changes that occur during pregnancy and parturition must be resolved via the process of uterine involution, which includes repair and remodeling of uterine tissue to aid in recovering its histoarchitecture and function. (wustl.edu)
  • As a result, judges have struck down certain states' so-called heartbeat laws, which tried to prohibit abortions after detection of a fetal heartbeat (as early as six weeks of pregnancy). (leaps.org)
  • With the overturning of Roe v. Wade, leaving the legality of abortions up to the individual states, a lot of people have been saying that people with penises should step up and get vasectomies to help prevent unwanted pregnancy. (justjenn.com)
  • If neural tube defects occurred in a woman's previous pregnancy, increased antepartum fetal surveillance is required for the current pregnancy. (medscape.com)
  • Some are also transmitted through contaminated blood products, tissue transfer and from mother to child during pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding. (who.int)
  • However, human stem cell (hSC) research also raises sharp ethical and political controversies. (scitechnol.com)
  • Concerns about oocyte donation specifically for research are particularly serious in the wake of the Hwang scandal in South Korea, in which widely hailed claims of deriving human SCNT lines were fabricated. (scitechnol.com)
  • Reworked the form summary page to require an answer and supporting explanation (if applicable) for the question "Does any of the proposed research in the application involve human specimens and/or data? (washington.edu)
  • Defaulted Clinical Trial Questionnaire question "1.4.a Does the study involve human participants? (washington.edu)
  • As Vice President and Research Director for the Charlotte Lozier Institute, an organization promoting deeper public understanding of the value of human life, Prentice confirms what many Californians are unaware of. (californiafamily.org)
  • It is clear that California taxpayers, through CIRM, are funding projects that rely on aborted fetal tissue for experiments, including experiments injecting human fetal cells into patients," Dr. Prentice said. (californiafamily.org)
  • The Health and Human Services Department said in a statement that government-funded research by universities that involves fetal tissue can continue for now, subject to additional scrutiny - although it also ended one major university project that used the tissue to test HIV treatments. (chicagotribune.com)
  • On Wednesday, the administration also said it is not renewing an expiring contract with the University of California, San Francisco, that used fetal tissue to create a human-like immune system in mice for HIV research. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Advocates of stem cell research believe that the cells are not equivalent to human life because it is inside the womb even facing the fact that the start of a human life is in the moment of conception. (ipl.org)
  • This report summarizes the epidemiology of human papillomavirus (HPV) and associated diseases, describes the licensed HPV vaccines, provides updated data from clinical trials and postlicensure safety studies, and compiles recommendations from CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for use of HPV vaccines. (cdc.gov)
  • A grass-roots effort has attracted nearly 1,500 potential volunteers for the controversial approach, known as a human-challenge trial. (nature.com)
  • This is a very important interview between Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Dr. Theresa Deisher regarding the use of human fetal tissue to culture viruses for vaccines, because Dr. Deisher reveals that human DNA fragments are found in vaccines. (medicalkidnap.com)
  • Mr. Kennedy and Dr. Deisher covered a wide range of topics including which vaccines contain human fetal tissue, what the existing research tells us in terms of health risks, and what alternatives might be used in place of human DNA in vaccines. (medicalkidnap.com)
  • Dr. Deisher is a genetic engineer with over 20 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry, from basic human biology through clinical trials. (medicalkidnap.com)
  • SCPI's mission is to end human trafficking in biomedical research. (medicalkidnap.com)
  • Human fetal tissue research has gone on for decades. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • For example, it was the National Institutes of Health (NIH) - through its National Institute on Aging division - that funded the creation of human fetal cell lines IMR-90 and IMR-91 . (avoicefortruth.com)
  • The scientific community's desire to use human fetal tissue for developing COVID-19 vaccines is in direct opposition to the President's ban. (avoicefortruth.com)
  • the scientists' position on this issue has been clear: currently, there are no alternatives to human fetal tissue that have been shown to be as powerful in conducting these important studies across a broad range of research topics. (avoicefortruth.com)
  • Then, in their April 6, 2020 letter , some members of Congress wrote "to ask that you immediately waive the restrictions on research with human fetal tissue, which are preventing federally-funded scientists from advancing important studies that could potentially prevent, treat, or cure the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (avoicefortruth.com)
  • As Maureen L. Condic-a human stem cell researcher and associate professor of neurobiology and anatomy at the University of Utah School of Medicine-points out in her National Review rebuttal to Holt's piece, fetal tissue is no longer required for vaccines. (lifelegaldefensefoundation.org)
  • South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare proposed the law to the South Korean National Assembly to allow the progress of biotechnology and life sciences research in South Korea while protecting human research subjects with practices such as informed consent. (asu.edu)
  • Every time you purchase mass-produced processed "food" from the likes of Kraft, PepsiCo, or Nestle, you're choosing, whether you realize it or not, to feed your family not only genetically engineered poisons and chemical additives, but also various flavoring agents manufactured using the tissue of aborted human babies. (bitsandbugs.io)
  • Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines are a powerful public licensure clinical trials. (cdc.gov)
  • The government's own top medical scientist, NIH Director Francis Collins, said as recently as last December that he believes "there's strong evidence that scientific benefits come from fetal tissue research ," and that fetal tissue, rather than any alternatives, would "continue to be the mainstay" for certain types of research for the foreseeable future. (chicagotribune.com)
  • The Susan B. Anthony List, a group that works to elect lawmakers opposed to abortion, said in a statement that taxpayer funding ought to go to promoting alternatives to using fetal tissue in medical research. (chicagotribune.com)
  • The few fetal red blood cells that are mixed with the maternal circulation are destroyed before Rh sensitization can proceed to a significant extent. (medscape.com)
  • It appears to be generally understood by the public that aborted foetal cells are absolutely necessary for research. (fli.org.nz)
  • that using the cells, tissue and body parts of an unborn child is advantageous to medical research? (fli.org.nz)
  • She adds that utilising moral sources accomplishes the same result as using harvested foetal tissue to the extent that there is not one single use of aborted foetal tissue or cells that has not been accomplished using moral sources as well. (fli.org.nz)
  • That trial is being run by the University of Michigan and Emory University, and sponsored by a company called Neuralstem which uses aborted fetus cells for research ("from the donated spinal cord tissue of an 8-week-old aborted fetus. (flfamily.org)
  • All of the Neuralstem trials use cells derived from abortion. (flfamily.org)
  • cells that were extracted from fetal tissue, which was donated. (salon.com)
  • They were selected for traits that made them capable of adapting to new DNA to make vaccines, not specifically because they were fetal cells. (lifelegaldefensefoundation.org)
  • CXCR4 is a key regulator of the development of NK cells and DCs, both of which play an important role in early placental development and immune tolerance at the maternal-fetal interface. (bvsalud.org)
  • I know a great number of people who oppose abortion, and who are therefore opposed to the biomedical use of tissue or cells that have been derived from foetuses aborted for that very purpose, although most of them do not oppose the use of foetal tissue from foetuses aborted for some other reason. (bitsandbugs.io)
  • In particular, the story claimed that Senomyx uses foetal cells, or substances derived from foetal cell lines, to create artificial flavourings. (bitsandbugs.io)
  • Signs of a miscarriage include vaginal spotting, abdominal pain or cramping, and fluid or tissue passing from the vagina. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Although the vote against Moorlach's defunding effort was predictable, opposition to the bill (SCA 7) from the country's largest abortion provider wasn't. (californiafamily.org)
  • The framework of viability remains central to the country's abortion law today, even as some states have passed laws in the name of protecting women's health that significantly undermine Roe . (leaps.org)
  • Not taken into account was the additive effect of two doses of injected mercury (which bypasses the absorption protection of the gastrointestinal system) would have on the fetus since thimerosal (the form of mercury in vaccines) is known to bio-accumulate in fetal tissue. (rodefshalom613.org)
  • Note that fetal tissue has been taken in a number of cases from fetuses at developmental ages where fetal surgery is now used to correct problems and save lives, and at stages where science now demonstrates that the unborn fetus can feel pain. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • [2] The first fetal tissue transplant in the U.S. was in 1939, using fetal pancreatic tissue in an attempt to treat diabetes. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • Between 1960 and 1990, numerous attempts were made to transplant fetal liver and thymus for various conditions. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • One patient who received transplant of fetal brain tissue (from a total of 3 fetuses) died subsequently, and at autopsy was found to have various non-brain tissues ( e.g, skin-like tissue, hair, cartilage, and other tissue nodules) growing in his brain. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • Clinics are popping up all over the world offering women face lifts and cosmetic injections using tissue from babies who have been killed by abortions. (womenofgrace.com)
  • Scientists around the country denounced the decision, saying that fetal tissue was critically needed for research on HIV vaccines, treatments that harness the body's immune system to battle cancer, and other health threats, including some to fetuses themselves. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Preterm as well as fetal structural MRI data will be used to test whether observed variations between preterm infants with injury, preterm infants without injury, and typically developing fetuses can be explained by deviations in cortical expansion. (wustl.edu)
  • Dr. Deisher was a plaintiff in the U.S. federal lawsuit to prohibit use of federal tax payer dollars for embryo destructive research, which was instrumental in steering science towards adult stem cell research, which has led to 14 U.S. FDA approved adult stem cell products and the Washington Post Dec 2013 headline "Scientists Go Ethical in 2013. (medicalkidnap.com)
  • On 2 July 1979, the United States Supreme Court decided Bellotti v. Baird, ruling that a Massachusetts law that prohibited minors from obtaining abortions without parental consent was unconstitutional. (asu.edu)
  • Although the Court previously ruled in Stenberg v. Carhart (2000) that a Nebraska law that prohibited partial-birth abortions was unconstitutional, Gonzales reversed this decision. (asu.edu)
  • All client-owned rabbits had clinical signs of abnormal second-stage parturition, whereas the wild rabbit had only hemorrhagic vulvar discharge. (avma.org)
  • The reporting time clock restarts when any of the sponsor's personnel receives additional clinical or medically relevant information for a previously reported serious or near serious adverse event. (tga.gov.au)
  • In this article R. Alta Charo states that we have a right to use fetal tissue for research and therapy (Fetal Tissue, 1) The article goes into how a lot of people find this to be a moral issue and a matter of the conscience and explains how the antiabortion activist that don't agree with the research are actually benefitting from the fetal tissue. (ipl.org)
  • Medical research almost always inspires moral questions, and those questions need to be asked and debated. (salon.com)
  • Whether or not the company's handling of fetal tissue is legal or moral, whether or not the tissue had a tragic origin, at least it can be used for good, they say. (lifelegaldefensefoundation.org)
  • Long-term follow-up of a few of the patients in these large studies showed that even in fetal tissue that grew in patients' brains, the grafted tissue took on signs of the disease and were not effective. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • What is chilling is that this research was conducted on foetuses at gestational ages at which science now proves, feel pain. (fli.org.nz)
  • The cause of dystocia was determined for 8 rabbits and included fetal-maternal mismatch (n = 4), uterine inertia (2), fetal death or mummification (1), and stress-induced abortion (1). (avma.org)
  • Obstructive dystocia from fetal macrosomia with or without secondary uterine inertia was the most common cause of dystocia in the evaluated rabbits. (avma.org)
  • However, in the presence of HIV infection it is critically important to assess the clinical and bacteriologic response. (cdc.gov)
  • Nevertheless, the viability framework stands: while states can pass pre-viability abortion restrictions that (ostensibly) protect the health of the woman or that strike some kind a balance between women's rights and fetal life, it is only after viability that they can completely favor fetal life over the rights of the woman (with limited exceptions when the woman's life is threatened). (leaps.org)
  • In 1997, the FDA reversed that guidance, advising investigators to include women in early phase drug research, a decision that reflected changing views about a woman's ability to decide whether to participate in drug trials and furthering research on the effects of drugs on women. (asu.edu)
  • 18,083 males and females were included health prevention tool for reducing the burden of cervical can- in the 4vHPV clinical trials, 23,952 females for 2vHPV, and cer and other HPV-related diseases worldwide. (cdc.gov)
  • As a consequence, blood from the fetal circulation may leak into the maternal circulation, and, after a significant exposure, sensitization occurs leading to maternal antibody production against the foreign Rh antigen. (medscape.com)
  • Once sensitized, it takes approximately one month for Rh antibodies in the maternal circulation to equilibrate in the fetal circulation. (medscape.com)
  • Therefore, most firstborn infants with Rh-positive blood type are not affected because the short period from first exposure of Rh-positive fetal erythrocytes to the birth of the infant is insufficient to produce a significant maternal IgG antibody response. (medscape.com)
  • Because of the dangers of maternal and fetal complications, acute care should focus on identifying and treating asymptomatic and symptomatic bacteriuria, along with ensuring that an alternative process is not the cause of the symptoms. (medscape.com)
  • Although medical management was successful for many rabbits with dystocia in this study, surgery could still be required in other affected rabbits, particularly when fetal-maternal mismatch is involved. (avma.org)
  • However, even if the exhibit indicates that a requirement is not applicable that requirement potentially could be applicable in a specific situation, e.g., if a contract under a grant involves research activity. (nih.gov)
  • A Feature Paper should be a substantial original Article that involves several techniques or approaches, provides an outlook for future research directions and describes possible research applications. (mdpi.com)
  • Now in a more pure preparation and supported by laboratory evidence of superior tumor cell uptake in vitro, aminopterin is being investigated in clinical trials in leukemia as a potentially superior antifolate to methotrexate. (wikipedia.org)
  • Earlier this month, Orange County State Senator John Moorlach unsuccessfully tried to persuade his fellow senators to defund the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) , the state's stem cell research agency, created by voters in 2004 by Proposition 71 . (californiafamily.org)
  • Dr. David A. Prentice , an Adjunct Professor of Molecular Genetics at the John Paul II Institute has been keeping an eye on CIRM's stem cell research spending. (californiafamily.org)
  • It is unclear exactly how much money CIRM has spent over the years funding research using pre-born baby organs, but according to CIRM's 2016 annual report , it spent seven percent of its $262 million 2016 grant budget on stem cell research on projects designated as "Other. (californiafamily.org)
  • A article from last fall, titled, "Ingenious CIRM-funded stem cell approach to treating ALS gets go-ahead to start clinical trial," highlights the work of Dr. Clive Svendsen, and his work to find a cure for Lou Gehrig's disease at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. (californiafamily.org)
  • STEM CELL RESEARCH is a very controversial topic in today's time. (ipl.org)
  • Stem cell research is not worth supporting. (ipl.org)
  • While many people say the use of the cell research is a way to advance medical knowledge and expand treatments, there is no guarantee that the treatments will work. (ipl.org)
  • The Midwest Stem Cell Therapy Center (MSCTC) at the University of Kansas Medical Center is only a year old, but is starting an increasing number of clinical trials and educational efforts. (flfamily.org)
  • NOTE that the second trial is in association with an Israeli company, Brainstorm Cell Therapeutics , that is developing the adult stem cell treatment for ALS and other neural conditions. (flfamily.org)
  • Donate to ethical adult stem cell research! (flfamily.org)
  • VFT , along with others like Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute , Children of God for Life , No Deception , Marcella Piper-Terry , My Informed Choice , and more have been consistently presenting peer-reviewed science and truth about aborted fetal cell line use. (avoicefortruth.com)
  • Even these could be replaced by newer technology using non-fetal cell lines. (lifelegaldefensefoundation.org)
  • According to a briefing paper prepared by the American Society for Cell Biology, transplanting fetal tissue into the brain successfully mitigated or eliminated symptoms for some patients, but caused "severe neurological side effects" in others. (lifelegaldefensefoundation.org)
  • So far CIRM has given Dr. Svendsen $26 million , most of which has funded research to find treatments for Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) , a fatal condition that damages motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord. (californiafamily.org)
  • Dr. Svendsen, a native of England, started using pre-born baby organs as part of his research during his studies at University of Cambridge in the 1990s. (californiafamily.org)
  • In turn, the SCN coordinates the rhythmic activities of innumerable subordinate clocks in virtually all bodily tissues and organs. (alksignaling.com)
  • Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its allies in the media are attempting to deflect the scrutiny resulting from the Center for Medical Progress' series of videos exposing Planned Parenthood's gruesome trade of harvesting and peddling the organs and other vital tissue from aborted infants. (lifelegaldefensefoundation.org)
  • That law prohibited minors from receiving abortions without permission from both of their parents or a superior court judge. (asu.edu)
  • Over the last 30 years, the Supreme Court has upheld these laws, which have the effect of restricting pre-viability abortion access, imposing mandatory waiting periods, requiring parental consent for minors, and placing restrictions on abortion providers. (leaps.org)
  • But research using fetal tissue has led to lifesaving advances , including development of vaccines for rubella and rabies and drugs to treat HIV. (chicagotribune.com)
  • It blocks important future research vital to the development of new therapies. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Research has found that DES interferes with the formation of normal genital tissue during fetal development. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Currently development of a tissue specific androgen 7-methyl nortestosterone (MENT), a molecule that does not affect the prostate, is ongoing as a method bringing additional health benefits. (fiapac.org)
  • M.C.I. Santé Animale, Research and Development Department, Lot. (mdpi.com)
  • Some defenders of fetal tissue research, such as Vox.com's Sarah Kliff and microbiologist Nathalia Holt, draw attention to the role of fetal tissue in the development of vaccines. (lifelegaldefensefoundation.org)
  • Objective -To determine how viral shedding and development or lack of clinical disease relate to contact transmission of vesicular stomatitis virus New Jersey (VSV-NJ) in pigs and determine whether pigs infected by contact could infect other pigs by contact. (avma.org)
  • Contact transmission was efficient, with resulting infections ranging from subclinical (detected only by seroconversion) to clinical (development of vesicular lesions). (avma.org)
  • Moreover, it subsidizes care and points to the development of research that develops instruments aimed at the studied public. (bvsalud.org)
  • However, evidence suggests that sub-clinical infection sites that are also distant from the genitor-urinary tract may be an important cause for PT/LBW deliveries. (opendentistryjournal.com)
  • Pigs were monitored and sampled daily for clinical disease and virus isolation and were serologically tested before and after infection or contact. (avma.org)
  • however, vesicular lesions often were subtle with few or no clinical signs of infection. (avma.org)
  • Infection can also occur by eating raw or undercooked meat containing tissue cysts, most commonly lamb, pork, or rarely beef. (msdmanuals.com)
  • At first glance, it might seem strange Planned Parenthood would be interested in protecting the funding for medical research that has nothing to do with "women's reproductive rights. (californiafamily.org)
  • For almost 50 years, the Supreme Court of the United States has struck down laws that ban all or most abortions, ruling that women's constitutional rights include choosing to end pregnancies before the point of viability. (leaps.org)
  • Today, the Guttmacher Institute reports that more than half of American women live in states whose laws are considered hostile to abortion , largely as a result of these intrusions on pre-viability abortion access. (leaps.org)
  • According to one review, "the clinical results and patient survival rates were largely dismal. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • Aborted fetal tissue is not what people want to use. (californiafamily.org)
  • people can specify that their donation go to his ALS research team. (flfamily.org)
  • Between 1970 and 1991 approximately 1,500 people received fetal pancreatic tissue transplants in attempts to treat diabetes, mostly in the former Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • One of the most satisfying has been its journal's continuing involvement with clinical practice and its ethical problems-especially through our intermittent "at the coal face: medical ethics in practice" series. (bmj.com)
  • They argue that the research supports abortions but have taken part in receiving vaccines and therapy that comes from the research. (ipl.org)
  • There are plenty of legitimate reasons to question the unlikely philanthropic viral sensation of the summer -- from its gimmicky premise to the way it overshadows our own government's slashing of medical research funding -- but it's hard to argue with the more than $13 million raised for ALS so far, or the awareness the stunt has raised for the vicious and so far incurable degenerative disease. (salon.com)
  • NIH intends to uphold high ethical, health, and safety standards in both the conduct of the research it funds and the expenditure of public funds by its recipients. (nih.gov)
  • My research career has been unadventurous in the sense that I have remained at the same institution, Lund University in Sweden, where I started my medical studies in 1964. (lu.se)
  • New areas of basic research include studies on genes, proteins and enzymes involved in the reproductive system. (fiapac.org)
  • The letter shared how fetal tissue has been an "essential tool" and "instrumental" in studies. (avoicefortruth.com)
  • This definition was intended to encompass the clinical and laboratory features most closely associated with antiphospholipid antibodies in prospective studies based on the strongest experimental evidence. (medscape.com)
  • The hope was to use the "cleanest" patient populations for basic research and clinical treatment studies. (medscape.com)
  • The criteria were reiterated to be used for clinical research to define homogenous populations for studies. (medscape.com)
  • Attorneys General in states across the US sent a letter to the President on March 26, 2020, with their "concern that the current Fetal Tissue Ban that took effect in June 2019 is hampering our Nation's ability to address COVID-19. (avoicefortruth.com)
  • May exacerbate accumulation of conjugated bile salts in the liver and result in clinical symptoms. (medscape.com)
  • [8] Subsequent reports showed that severe problems developed from fetal tissue transplants. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • A quick review of the claims made by Planned Parenthood and its allies about the value of research using fetal tissue reveals that these claims are misleading, if not downright false. (lifelegaldefensefoundation.org)
  • Dr. Deisher is an inventor on 23 issued U.S. patents, and her discoveries have led to clinical trials of FGF18 for osteoarthritis and cartilage repair, and for Factor XIII for surgical bleeding. (medicalkidnap.com)
  • Yes, the AAP says, regulators should gather all the relevant data from clinical trials of children in the target age group. (latimes.com)
  • Therefore, in order to address the needs of clinicians and to expand the data for future research, the discussion included definitions on features of antiphospholipid antibody syndrome that were not included in the updated criteria for use clinically and in research. (medscape.com)
  • Antiphospholipid (aPL) antibodies have been found in association with clinical symptoms such as deep venous thrombosis, arterial occlusive events (eg, stroke, myocardial infarction ), and recurrent fetal loss. (medscape.com)
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  • This surveillance should include consultation with a geneticist and targeted fetal ultrasonography to assess the fetal spine and cranium. (medscape.com)
  • The state's abortion clinics stand to gain financially if a medical breakthrough is found. (californiafamily.org)
  • I was then 24 years old and had to decide whether I wanted to complete my medical training or stay in research. (lu.se)
  • The Secretariat wishes to thank, in particular, Professor P.J. Lawther and Mr R.E. Waller of the Medical Research Council Toxicology Unit, St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, London, and Dr G. Winneke of the Institute for Air Hygiene and Silicosis Research, D sseldorf, for their help in the scientific editing of the document. (inchem.org)
  • we are also witnessing a massive medical clinical trial with untold numbers of vulnerable women and young girls across the country as unwitting participants. (lifeissues.net)