Let us never forget that even though Congress passed a bill (in the senate it passed 63-37) permitting federal funding for stem cell research in 2006, President Bush vetoed the funding. President Obama overturned it early in his administration.
Thanks for supporting me, you homo. Maybe we can "meat" for a drink some time.
thanks obama wrote:
http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1577949/Let us never forget that even though Congress passed a bill (in the senate it passed 63-37) permitting federal funding for stem cell research in 2006, President Bush vetoed the funding. President Obama overturned it early in his administration.
Huh? This story is about a bone marrow transplant. Show me where any political figure was against this.
thanks obama wrote:
Let us never forget that even though Congress passed a bill (in the senate it passed 63-37) permitting federal funding for stem cell research in 2006, President Bush vetoed the funding.
First, the story is about something that happened in Germany. What does this have to do with Bush?
Second, Bush's veto only cut off government funding for research outside the established stem cell lines. It didn't cut off all federal funding, and it didn't prevent ANY private funding. In other words, there weren't ANY restrictions on stem cell research in the US.
Try again libtard.
bull. federal funding is everywhere in science, and it was very difficult to conduct new research, according to the scientists, but why listen to them when you have your ideology?
First of all, no Bush policy ever affected funding in Germany.
Second, this had little to do with stem cell research. Bone marrow has stem cells in it, it was a transplant for a leukemia patient, a standard treatment. They happened to use marrow from a donor who was naturally HIV resistant.
Third, as someone above said, all the Bush policy did was prevent new stem cell lines from being started using government money. New stem cell lines could, and were, started using private funding, and any existing lines could be used as they had been. Yes, I'm a democrat and a cellular biologist at Clarkson University. The policy may have added some hurdles to performing the research, but it by no means stopped it. The scientists who complained probably had political agendas.
Fourth, but certainly not least, this is great news.
If you are not trolling, this could be the dumbest post of the year, you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about on any subject covered by your post or by this outcome. Idiot.
No Way wrote:
First of all, no Bush policy ever affected funding in Germany.
Second, this had little to do with stem cell research. Bone marrow has stem cells in it, it was a transplant for a leukemia patient, a standard treatment. They happened to use marrow from a donor who was naturally HIV resistant.
Third, as someone above said, all the Bush policy did was prevent new stem cell lines from being started using government money. New stem cell lines could, and were, started using private funding, and any existing lines could be used as they had been. Yes, I'm a democrat and a cellular biologist at Clarkson University. The policy may have added some hurdles to performing the research, but it by no means stopped it. The scientists who complained probably had political agendas.
Fourth, but certainly not least, this is great news.
The man was healed because he got funding from the Nazis. UncleB says it's a set up. It really has to do with Lieberman trying to expand the evil tin foil empire of Des Moines, Iowa. Once it's discovered that vibrator production increases when alien invasions happen, tin foil sales will also jump. Then, after his smack ring crumbles to the ground, UncleB's fortune in durable plastics will sky rocket. Sadly, when we realize they are all going to fuel his anti-Bush dildo campaign, UncleB will kill himself in a freak spoon accident involving chocolate pudding. Sorry Jeff, it was good while it lasted.
No Way, what year are you?
you understand why this worked, right? then why is this great news?
No Way wrote:
political agendas.
Fourth, but certainly not least, this is great news.
quick, unless you understand this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS1GODinO8w&feature=related
shut up & avoid trying to act like you know what you're talking about!
SkierCross wrote:
If you are not trolling, this could be the dumbest post of the year, you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about on any subject covered by your post or by this outcome. Idiot.
I don't? Ok.
gag pol env wrote:
you understand why this worked, right? then why is this great news?
Its great news because for now, this man is HIV negative. If he truly is cured, and even if this is the only time it works, its great news.
The truly great news is that it gives hope to others. Hopefully its justified. Yes I know why it worked. Its not as simple as transplanting the bone marrow or stem cells of someone who is CCR5 defficient, they have to go through enough chemo/radiation/whatever to basically destroy their own immune system and start from scratch. This man was lucky that it worked out. Its the kind of thing where if you don't do enough before hand, your cells are going to repopulate the way they were, and if you do too much, you're just going to make a sick person sicker.
It certainly warrants more research though, and any progress in HIV/AIDS, cancer, or any other incurable disease is great news.
Yuppy, I was undergrad class of '06. If you went/go to Clarkson and ran/run xc there's a good chance I already know you, but if you ran in the pre-2000 era I would be interested in hearing about the team back then.
ADVOCATES of new medical treatments for people living with HIV and AIDS are compiling scientific studies and anecdotal evidence to make a case for the use of the locally-grown illegal weed dagga (marijuana) to assist those who have contracted the virus or have developed AIDS.
Currently, it is illegal to grow, transport or possess dagga in the 14-member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The countries are also signatories to various international agreements that commit them to eradicate the intoxicating plant.
In Swaziland, where 70 percent of peasant farmers in the northern Hhohho region cultivate marijuana, the local police force vigorously enforces these agreements, working with South African police to exterminate crops where they are grown in the mountains. The dagga is burned in great controlled fires, with the media invited to observe.
Any effort to legalise dagga for medical purposes in Swaziland and elsewhere in Southern Africa would be controversial, because such a measure would raise the prospect of people getting hold of the drug for recreational use.
Medical researchers are not calling for the legalisation of dagga for recreational use. They are citing what they say is compelling evidence that the drug has a role to play in saving lives.
Some of the arguments are included in "AIDS Africa: Continent in Crisis," published by the Zimbabwe-based Southern African HIV and AIDS Information and Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS).
Author Helen Jackson writes, "Most recreational drugs are illegal. Marijuana needs special consideration. Although excessive use (by people living with HIV and AIDS) should be avoided, marijuana aids relaxation, acts as an anti-convulsant, reduces nausea and promotes a sense of well-being. It also stimulates appetite and thereby assists weight gain."
Weight loss is a critical danger for people living with HIV and AIDS. The disease makes them nauseous, and anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) can rob people of their appetites, just when they need to eat in order for the drugs to do their work, and to keep up body weight.
Jackson noted that in some countries, such as the Netherlands, Canada, and in the U.S. states of California and Arizona, dagga is legally prescribed for cancer and AIDS patients, and people in terminal care. "It is rated highly effective for these purposes," Jackson writes.
The report gave this testimony from an HIV-positive man: "When I was a young child growing up in South Africa, I was repeatedly warned about the dangers of smoking dagga. If I smoked it once there was no turning back, I was doomed. That was before AIDS came into my reality.
"It wasn't until I started taking the highly toxic drugs used for treating HIV/AIDS that I saw the amazing benefits of this God-made herbal compound. I am not advocating it for general consumption; I am advocating it for its medicinal qualities.
"Ever had chemotherapy? Days on end of vomiting? Sleepless nights for weeks on end? Not to be able to eat for two or three weeks due to your fear that within minutes of ingesting food you will lose it? Research conducted and funded by New Mexico State concluded that marijuana was not only effective as an anti-nausea drug, but was far superior to the best available conventional drug, Compazine. A study with 169 patients, all affected by nausea and vomiting, concluded that 90 percent of the participants reported significant or total relief from the symptoms, with no major side effects."
Harvard Professor Lester Grinspoon stated in his commentary published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, "One of marijuana's greatest advantages as a medicine is its remarkable safety. It has little effect on major physiological functions. There is no known case of lethal overdose. Marijuana is also far less addictive and far less subject to abuse than many drugs now used as muscle relaxants, hypnotics and analgesics."
Jackson writes: "Caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and heroin are six of the most commonly addictive drugs in use in the world; yet of the six, marijuana is considered to be the least addictive.''
Judge Francis L. Young, a consultant brought in by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, concluded after a two-year hearing on the legal status of marijuana that 'Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man."
Hannie Dlamini, the first HIV-positive person to publicly acknowledge his medical condition in Swaziland, now heads the counselling service, the Swaziland AIDS Support Organisation (SASO), and concurs that the use of abundantly if illegally grown marijuana locally should be considered for ailing persons living with HIV and AIDS.
"There is a synthetic drug called Marinol that has all the psychoactive ingredients removed, so it can be legally prescribed by doctors, but it's not available here, and where it is available it is expensive. We have lots of dagga growing wild in the hills. People can be helped by using it. We should be practical about decriminalisation," Dlamini said.
Another AIDS activist told IPS, "The laws are twisted all the time in the AIDS emergency. Unscrupulous people with bogus cures sell them to desperate people, and health ministries are silent. With dagga we have a proven therapy. People will use it to regain their appetites - and food is needed in the system for ARVs to work."
This is a demand that the law enforcement officers in the southern African Development Community, which has the highest HIV/AIDS incidence in Africa, would not tolerate.