X-Message-Number: 22887 Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:12:48 -0800 From: James Swayze <> Subject: EU Parliament Urges Stem Cell Research http://www.comcast.net/News/HEALTHWELLNESS//XML/1500_Health__medical/6fc76f21-f00e-48a9-83ea-491afe9a81f3.html EU Parliament Urges Stem Cell Research 3 hours ago By CONSTANT BRAND, Associated Press Writer BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Parliament urged European Union governments Wednesday to allow the union's money to be spent on research with new embryonic stem cells. [end quoted] Also: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_838830.html?menu= Ananova 'Stem cells restore feeling to paralysed patients' Scientists [Brazil] claim to have been successful in restoring feeling to patients who had been paralysed for two years or more by harvesting their stem cells and then putting them back into the body. [end quoted] Maybe the future shock (I totally agree with Scott) that is pushing western governments to outlaw high tech will soon be overtaken by the realization that they have economic competitors that have no compunction against such research into high tech medicine. A team from the University of San Paulo in Brazil, led by Tarciscio Barros, said after treatment 12 out of 30 patients responded to electrical stimulation of their paralysed limbs. [end quoted] Another story of note: http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/conditions/11/15/blindness.reut/index.html Study: New drug combats age-related blindness Saturday, November 15, 2003 Posted: 7:38 PM EST (0038 GMT) LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) - An experimental drug that blocks abnormal blood vessel growth in the eye is an effective treatment for the leading cause of age-related blindness, according to research unveiled Saturday. [end quoted] James -- Member: Cryonics Institute of Michigan http://www.cryonics.org The Immortalist Society http://www.cryonics.org/info.html The Society for Venturism http://www.venturist.org Immortality Institute http://www.imminst.org MY WEBSITE: http://www.davidpascal.com/swayze/ Signature Memetic Virus--The worst enemy of those who now or will need medical care is the uninformed politician or moral fanatic who proscribe what doctors are allowed to prescribe and research, with the consent of their patients. Those who understand this are strongly encouraged to modify this to fit their personality, and add this to their signature file, and organize to recover our freedom from Big Brother. For those who wait until they are sick, it will be too late. Those who suffer from diseases which might have been cured by advanced medical research or schedule 1 drugs banned by Big Brother, have the right to hold accountable those who sat on their hands or worse, deferred their responsibility for personal and humanity's survival to unseen mystical agents, while they remained ill and dying. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22887