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Top 10 Women's Health Stories Of The Decade: Nothing Replaces A Woman's Wisdom

Christiane Northrup, MD | Posted 12.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Iodine, Premarin, Mammography, Women's Wisdom, Vitamin D, Menopause, Fish Oil, Provera, Pregnancy, Breast Cancer, Hormones, C-Section, Wellness, Progesterone, Dr. Northrup, Women's Health, Health, Stem Cells, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Living News
Christiane Northrup, MD

Technology has its place, but it doesn't replace a woman's wisdom. Here are some key stories from the last 10 years that highlight the innate wisdom and intelligence of a woman's body.

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Stem Cells' Next Use: Fighting Extinction?

voiceofsandiego.org | JONATHAN PARKINSON | Posted 12.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Conservation, Stem Cell Research, Animals, Extinction, Stem Cells, Green News

Conservationists work constantly through habitat protection and other means to save these and other endangered species. And now they are adding a new ...

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Scientists Create Skin Fast With Stem Cell Breakthrough

Reuters | Posted 12.01.2009 | Technology

Read More: Skin Graft, Human Skin Made, Grow Skin, Manufacture Skin, Creat Human Skin, Stem Cells, Technology News

French scientists have found a way to create human skin rapidly from stem cells, a discovery that could save the lives of many burns victims who are v...

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Apligraf: Mass-Produced Living Tissue Could Help Healing

Gizmodo | Mark Wilson | Posted 11.15.2009 | Technology

Read More: Organogenesis, Mass Produced Human Tissue, Stem Cells, Apligraf, Mass Made Human Tissue, Human Tissue, Technology News

Apligraf is a matrix of cow collagen, human fibroblasts and keratinocyte stem cells (the kind found in skin), that, when applied to chronic wounds (pa...

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New Stem Cells Can Form Eggs And Sperm, U.S. Researchers Find

msn.com | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Human Development, Stem Cell Eggs, Embryonic Cells, Eggs and Sperm, Scientific Advances, Stem Cell Eggs and Sterm, Stem Cells, Stem Cell Advances, Stem Cell Research, Living News

CHICAGO - U.S. researchers have found a way to coax human embryonic stem cells to turn into the types of cells that make eggs and sperm, shedding ligh...

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Stem Cell Snorting Holds Promise For Treating Brain Disorders

The Blotter | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living

Read More: European Journal of Cell Biology, Medical Research, Brain-Disorders, Biology, Stem Cells, Brain Surgery, Human Health, Stem Cell Research, Embryonic Stem Cells, The Brain, Stem Cell Treatments, Cell Biology, Living News

New details from a University of Minnesota researcher's initial tests show the stem cells actually make it to the brain when snorted rather than impla...

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New Stem Cell Research Rules Enacted By Obama

Reuters | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stem Cell Research, Stem Cells, Obama Stem Cells, Health, New Rules Stem Cell Research, President Obama, Science, New Stem Cell Rules, Medicine, Politics News

U.S. President Barack Obama directed federal agencies on Thursday to enact new rules governing federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells...

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Paralyzed From the Chest Down, Man Bikes 500 Miles For Stem Cell Research

Olivia Sterns | Posted 08.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Spinal Injuries, Non-Profit Foundations, Wheelchair, Spinal-Cord-Injury, Stem Cells, Christopher Reeve, Stem Cell Research, Camino-De-Santiago, Paralysis, Walkabout Foundation, Walkabout, Americans With Disabilities Act, Greenwich, Disability, Obama Stem Cell Research, Living News
Olivia Sterns

As his journey begins so does the world's first-ever clinical trial using stem cells in humans to repair spinal cord damage.

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Only the Freshest Stem Cells Will Do

Beth Kohl | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Frozen Waffles, Nih, Embryonic Stem Cells, President Obama, Bush Stem Cells, Stem Cells, Obama Stem Cell Research, Science, Stem Cell Research, Diseases, Politics News
Beth Kohl

Frozen embryos, like waffles or fish or my old Dell, are only good for so long. You can't just keep them in the freezer forever with the assumption that, once you need them, you can scrape them off and use them.

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Jason Linkins

Brownback And Landrieu Introduce Bill To Ban Mermaids

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stem Cells, Mermaids, Mary Landrieu, Idiots, Human-Animal-Hybrids, Sam Brownback, Politics News

Great news, everyone! At some point last week, Senators Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.) must have finished fighting all the terrorist...

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New Rules On Stem Cells Threaten Current Research

Washington Post | Rob Stein | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stem Cell Research, Stem Cells, Health, Science, New Stem Cell Rules, Politics News

When President Obama lifted restrictions on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research in March, many scientists hailed the move as a long-...

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Obama, the Bishops, Notre Dame and the Fighting Irish Football Team

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Stem Cells, Notre Dame Honorary Degree, Student Protest, Football, Notre Dame, Fighting Irish, Bishop, Obama, Basketball, College Basketball, Politics News
Reese Schonfeld

I think we have heard enough about the sanctity of a Notre Dame degree, and the inappropriateness of awarding such a degree to President Obama, becaus...

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Horses and Stem Cells

Barbara Dehn | Posted 05.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Stem Cell Research, Regenerative Medicine, Stem Cells, Umbilical-Cord-Blood-Banks, Living News
Barbara Dehn

Researchers are now recommending that owners and breeders of thoroughbreds consider banking the umbilical cord stem cells from prize race horses.

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Stem Cell Therapy To Cure Most Cause Of Blindness Developed

Times Of London | Sarah-Kate Templeton | Posted 05.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Stem Cells Curing Blindness, Stem Cells Blindness, Stem Cells, Blindness, Health, Living News

BRITISH scientists have developed the world's first stem cell therapy to cure the most common cause of blindness. Surgeons predict it will become a ro...

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Stem Cell Research Up Close

Robert Slayton | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wheelchair, Stem Cell Research, Bush, Physical Disabilities, Stem Cells, Politics News
Robert Slayton

Under the Bush administration we lost eight years stem cell research that might have helped me. At my age I don't have those eight years to spare.

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Induced Pluripotent, AL GORE Stem Cell Venture

USA Today | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Induced Pluripotent Al Gore, Stem Cells, Al Gore Stem Cells, Al Gore, Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, Induced Pluripotent, Al Gore, Politics News

Former vice president Al Gore is entering the stem cell arena with an announcement today of a $20 million biotech venture in the hot area of "induced ...

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Doctors May Soon Be Able To Repair Bones With Simple Stem Cell Shot

BBC News | Michelle Roberts | Posted 05.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Stem Cell Research, Stem Cells, Stem Cells Reparing Bones, Stem Cell Shot, Health, Living News

Doctors may soon be able to patch up damaged bones and joints anywhere in the body with a simple shot in the arm. ...

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UK Scientists Grow Human Brain

Sky News | Posted 04.26.2009 | World

Read More: Parkinson's Disease, Human Brain Grown, Neuroscience, Grow Human Brain, Brain, England, Stem Cells, Science, Alzheimer's, Stem Cell Research, World News

The team at Aston University created tiny bundles of cells which act like a mini nervous system. They believe it could help find a cure for degenerati...

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New Rule: Test Tube Maybe

Bill Maher | Posted 04.25.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Bill Maher, Stem Cells, Real Time, Cloning, Comedy News
Bill Maher

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Stem Cell Argument Conveniently Avoids Certain Facts

Nazca Fontes | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Egg-Donors, Stem Cell Research, Stem Cells, Politics News
Nazca Fontes

Why is leaving an embryo languishing in liquid nitrogen considered preserving the sanctity of human life?

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Beyond Stem Cells and Global Warming: Media Ignore Bush Administration's Widespread Interference with Science

John W. Delicath | Posted 04.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Science, Politics, Obama, Stem Cells, Media, War on Science, Bush, Media News
John W. Delicath

The fact that the Bush administration routinely allowed politics to trump science in the policy-making process is well-known and extensively documented. Yet, the media continue to act otherwise.

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Are We Ready for a Market in Fetal Organs?

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Kidney Transplant, Organ Donors, Stem Cells, Fetal Organ Market, Kidney Donations, Fetal Organ, Organ Donations, Stem Cell Research, Politics News
Jacob M. Appel

If aborted fetuses prove to be a useful source of organs for transplant, we may soon have to grapple with yet another controversial and startling phenomenon: a legal market in fetal tissue and organs.

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Death to My Embryos! Long Live Stem Cells!

Michele Kayal | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Invitro-Fertilization, Obama Stem Cells, Invitro Fertilization, Stem Cells, Stem Cell Research, Adoption, Politics News
Michele Kayal

The right choice -- the only choice -- was to turn my inability to create life into the chance to save another.

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Five Reasons Americans Can Be Happy

Lynda Resnick | Posted 04.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Science, Community Service, Stem Cells, Community Organizing, Stem Cell Research, Obama Stem Cell Research, Obama Science, Happiness, Living News
Lynda Resnick

Nowadays, everything is reduced to sound bites of doom and gloom. I've decided to exercise my Constitutional right to the pursuit of happiness. Here's what is making me smile these days.

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Calling Out Stem Cell Lies

Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Stem Cell Order, Obama Stem Cells Executive Order, Bush Stem Cells, Obama Stem Cells, Obama Stem Cell Research, Stem Cells, Stem Cell Research, Embryonic Stem Cells, Charles Krauthammer, Nih, Stem Cell Lines, Politics News
Stuart Whatley

Knocking down the arbitrary wall constructed by Bush will most likely subject far more labs who are obliged to reap the benefits of federal stem cell funding to a federal ethics oversight regime.

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