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Perry's Private Deals
An investigation into Texas Governor Rick Perry's political campaign. The investigation uncovered Perry's relationship with his doctor and his back-room pressure to make the stem cell injection practice- which isn't FDA approved- big business in Texas. The Texas Governor also quietly retired and started cashing out his pension and salary concurrently.
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21st Century Snake Oil
The story exposed medical con men who prey on the terminally ill by selling stem cell treatments not proven to be safe or effective.
Tags: stem cell; stem cell research; health; ALS; medicine
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"The Stem Cell Wars"
Aldhous focuses on the recent influx of work in cellular programming and takes a look at the peer review system by which research papers in the field of science are published. His analysis showed that U.S. researchers have had a "significant advantage in publication" and that those publications end up in more prominent journals. On the other hand, Japanese researchers are faced with "tougher competition" from U.S.-based researchers.
Tags: cellular programming; Nobel; stem cells; peer review; bibliometric
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Stem Cell, Contraception Groups paid Huck
Financial disclosure statements from Mike Huckabee show he accepted thousands of dollars from public health groups advocating causes considered anathema to the conservative activists whose support he used to gain momentum for the 2008 Presidential candidacy.
Tags: Speaking fees; Novo Nordisk; Public Health Institute; Grant Makers in Health; GOP; morning-after pill;
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Minnesota Stem Cell Investigation
The New Scientist looked at data from the University of Minnesota's study on using adult stem cells that have the same effect as embryonic stem cells. Research data was compared and it seemed that the University withdrew the data because the results were hard to repeat. The research from the successful experiment was reprinted again and claimed to be for new cells, but the process hadn't been conducted with successful results.
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Trouble on the Farm: From Research to Waste
This investigation of animal neglect at the University of Nevada, Reno revealed that: administrators set up a camera in a smoke detector outside a faculty whistleblower's lab; students alleged late-night intruders tampered with e-coli experiments to discredit the professor; a network of unregulated "homeland security" cameras kept the campus under surveillance; "valueless" sheep injected with human stem cells were sent to a university ranch as part of a weed eradication project and were swiftly killed by predators. And, although the University denied all the animal abuse allegations, the USDA cited it for 46 violations in May and another 10 in October, which included many of the same neglects documented in the story.
Tags: University of Nevada - Reno; animal abuse; animal neglect; United States Department of Agriculture; USDA; surveillance; human stem cells; e-coli
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Major Money. Singular Sway
Campbell analyzed the Federal Elections Commission database to determine the 100 largest individual campaign donors from California. He found that the top 100 together contributed more than $150 million in the 2003-2004 election cycle, and had a huge impact on the state's politics and policies in areas like stem cell research and workers' compensation.
Tags: elections; FEC; campaign contributions; CAR; Computer-Assisted Reporting; database analysis; politics
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The price of a cure
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports on the story of a local teen cured of sickle cell through an experimental stem cell transplant performed almost two years ago by Emory University doctors. "The transplant saved Keone's life, but the price of this medical breakthrough had been tremendous and seemingly endless."
Tags: Emory University; sickle cell; medicine; disease; transplant; stem cell transplant; Keone Penn; cord blood transplantation
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Lobbying, old-time politics block legislation on human cloning
The Center looks at the implications of the lack of federal laws regulating cloning research. The report finds that the absence of a legal mechanism prevents mainstream researchers from responsibly tapping into new technologies such as genetic engineering.
Tags: TRANSCRIPT; stem cell research; human cloning; genetic technologies; bills
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Uninformed Consent: What patients at "The Hutch' weren't told about the experiments in which they died.
"PATIENTS DIED PREMATURELY in two failed clinical trials at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center-- experiments in which the Center and its doctors had a financial interest. The patients and their families were never told about those connections, nor were they fully and properly informed about the risks of the experiments ... The patients in these trials were ill with cancers that, left untreated, would almost certainly have killed them. But many stood a good chance of survival or at least prolonged life with traditional care. Instead, many actually died from the experiments --sooner than they would have with no treatment at all."
Tags: conflict of interest; T- cells; bone marrow transplants; clinical trial; disclosure; biotechnology; breast cancer; IRB; Institutional Review Board; chemotherapy; stem-cell transplant; Pentoxifylline; PTX; nonprofit; hospital