 |
7/30/2010
Friday morning
This topic is closed off and you will be taken directly to the website.
Topics taken from open source list. I hope you find this useful.
This site is for our clients only as an information resource.
| Embryonic stem cells that have the ability to grow into any type of body tissue are currently derived from three to seven-day-old surplus IVF embryos. However, the process destroys the embryo. |
| The one interesting difference on what is covered and not here and in the US is just the fertility treatment. In the US that is often seen as the last things to cover. Here they are among the first ones. Same difference is with abortion. I think that infertility treatment should be covered by insurance (I think that we should have national health insurance as well). However, the totally unregulated and profit-driven nature of infertility treatment here would lead to some problems with this. Its more common currently for lower-tech infertility treatment through an ob-gyn or reproductive endocrinologist to be covered by insurance here, which leads couples to try cycle after cycle of, for instance, intrauterine insemination "with injectibles," even when this isnt the treatment of choice for them and isnt likely to lead to pregnancy, instead of IVF, which they cant afford. On the other hand, its now becoming common practice in ART programs to urge women to bypass. |
| Senior sources said yesterday that the position Mr Andrews submitted to cabinet had strong support, with a majority of ministers declaring their opposition to using spare IVF human embryos for stem- cell research. |
| Here there is no law currently on IVF etc. treatments. This means a husband who consented to insemination on donor sperm could later challenge his paternity and get off the hook. Such a law has been planned for long. Originally limitations like above were planned, in general we have the tendency to follow Sweden some 10 years later. That way we can see the mistakes Swedes made and repeat them. :-) Fortunately the proposed law has little restrictions, one of them being restricting treatment to couples (not necessarily married ones). |
| Embryonic stem cells created in Aussie first Breakthrough: The advance will aid research into diseases like multiple sclis. Sydney. AUSs 1st human embryonic stem cells have been created by a SYD company. In Apr, the Natl Health and Medical Research Council granted the first licences allowing SYD IVF and MEL IVF to use excess human embryos in research. The New S Wales Min for Science and Medical Research, Frank Sartor, says the development will allow research into Parkinsons disease, spinal cord injury, juvenile diabetes and multiple sclis. He says the principle is to develop therapies to help regenerate cells in different organs of the body. "This is a key area of research in medicine, that is, to be able to reproduce tissues in organs of the body," he said. The medical director of SYD IVF, Robert Jansen, says while mainstream uses are still a few y away, the teams breakthrough will lead the way for new research. "They can be used by researchers for d. |
|
