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Appeals Court OKs US-Funded Stem Cell Research for Now
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Sept. 28) -- An appeals court ruled Tuesday that government funding of embryonic stem cell research can continue for now. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington granted the Obama administration's request to allow the funding from the National Institutes of Health while it appeals a judge's order blocking the research. The administration had argued that stopping the research while the case proceeds would irreparably harm scientific progress toward potentially lifesaving medical treatment. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth had blocked President Barack Obama's research funding ...
Appeals Court Allows Temporary Federal Funding for Stem Cell Research
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyA federal appeals court ruled Thursday that federal funding of embryonic stem cell research can go ahead while it considers a judge's decision that had temporarily blocked the government money. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington said it would allow a temporary administrative stay of the earlier ruling so it would have more time to consider the Obama Administration's appeal, The Wall Street Journal reported. Written arguments in the case are to be submitted by Sept. 20. In a blow to the White House's plan to expand stem cell studies, U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ruled last ...
Court Puts Stay on Embryonic Stem Cell Research Ban
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Sept. 9) -- A federal appeals court decided today to temporarily lift the ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research while it considers an emergency motion filed by the Justice Department. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled last month that government funding of embryonic stem cell research violated the Dickey-Wicker amendment, which prohibits federal funding of any research that destroys a human embryo. The decision threw a major wrench into ongoing research projects nationwide and stopped others in their tracks. When Lamberth refused to stay his ruling earlier this week, ...
Feds Appeal Ruling on Stem Cell Research Funding
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Aug. 31) -- The Obama administration on Tuesday asked a federal judge to lift a restraining order that it says could undercut federally funded embryonic stem cell research. The Justice Department filed its request with U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth only days after he blocked government funding of embryonic stem cell research. Medical researchers value stem cells because they are master cells that can turn into any tissue of the body, and they expect the research to eventually lead to cures for spinal cord injuries, Parkinson's disease and other ailments. Stopping the ...
Opinion: Science Shoved Aside in Stem Cell Ruling
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 25) -- Federal funding for stem cell research is once again being held back by politics. Monday, a federal court, in granting an injunction against federally funded human embryonic stem cell research, allowed a vocal minority to hold science hostage to a narrow political agenda. Judge Royce Lamberth's injunction was issued on the grounds that the guidelines for human embryonic stem cell research "clearly violate" the Dickey-Wicker Amendment, which prohibits the Department of Health and Human Services from using appropriated funds for the creation of human embryos for research purposes ...
Opinion: A Stem Cell Victory for Patients
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 25) -- The U.S. District Court injunction that stops federal taxpayer funding of human embryonic stem cell research should make patients happy. The judge ruled that federal funding for embryonic stem cell research violates a current law, passed annually since the Clinton administration, prohibiting government funding for research that involves the destruction of human embryos. ANOTHER VIEW Stem Cell Ruling Puts Politics Ahead of Science -- Susan L. Solomon, New York Stem Cell Foundation. He added that there is a limited amount of federal funding for stem cells, and funding embryonic ...
Embryonic Stem Cell Ban: Does It Matter?
By David Gibson - Politics DailyMonday's injunction by a federal appeals court judge against taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research prompted reactions of glee and alarm of the kind always associated with this divisive topic -- though with those emotions amplified by the intensity of this election season. Pro-life groups saw the preliminary stay against federal funding, issued Monday by U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth, as a rare and welcome victory, and many conservatives hailed the ruling as a defeat for President Obama -- even though Lamberth's decision against Obama's 2009 guidelines allowing limited ...
FDA OKs Embryonic Stem Cell Trials for Humans
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyFor the first time, human subjects will be used to test a treatment of spinal cord injuries derived from embryonic stem cells, under rules approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The biopharmaceutical company Geron announced in a news release Friday that the FDA had lifted a hold on the clinical trial using human stem cells, The New York Times reported. The hold was put into place shortly after the FDA initially cleared the research in January 2009. Regulators became concerned when cysts were discovered in some mice injected with the stem cells. Geron had to run another study on mice ...
Catholics Divided Over Obamacare
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyIn recent years, the Catholic vote has arguably become the swing vote. President George W. Bush famously won the vote, despite running against John Kerry, a Catholic. And Barack Obama won the White House with 54 percent of the Catholic vote. But since becoming president, Obama has ruffled some feathers among the Catholic community by reversing the Mexico City policy -- which prevented international funding of abortions -- and by ending restrictions on embryonic stem cell research. Now, some conservative Catholics are greatly concerned about Obama's health care plan, while other Catholic groups ...
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