Stem cell technique helps women grow their own implants

Women have grown their own breast implants through pioneering stem cell treatment, it emerged yesterday.

Scientists harvested the stem cells from the women’s own fat and encouraged them to form breast tissue.

They say the result gives a more natural look than many of the synthetic implants used by showbusiness stars like Pamela Anderson.

To hear our liberal friends tell it, President Bush is a hate-filled, benighted Christian fanatic who is refusing to fund stem cell research which will cure all disease by next month – the truth, as usual, is highly at variance with leftwing talking points:

Feb. 8, 2007 (LifesiteNews.com/CWN) – Newly released figures from the February 5 budget indicate that from 2003 to 2006, the Bush administration spent $122 million on human embryonic stem-cell research. Estimates in spending for 2007 and 2008 are $37 million per year for the same purpose. The $122 million was spent specifically on research with stem cell lines derived from experimentation with live human embryos which resulted in their deaths. Through the National Institutes of Health, the Bush administration also funded human non-embryonic (adult) stem-cell research at higher levels. From 2003-2006, the Bush administration spent $799 million on such research. Non-human (animal) embryonic and non-embryonic stem cell research was also funded in the hundreds of millions.

As the article goes on to note, there has only been one American President who has ever funded any sort of stem cell research: President Bush.

Drive-by legacy press does a number on Americans again huh.

Respectfully your perspective is a little off. I’ll try once and hope you can hear.

1) The federal government hasn’t “banned” embryonic stem cell research
2) There doesn’t seem to be ‘promise’ with embryonic stem cell research yet the politicians want to pour our tax payer dollars into it.
3) The constitution does not call for funding for this stuff. It calls for the security of our nation – yet that priority is diluted with 1000’s of federal programs, the big three entitlement which is more than 50% of the federal budget.
4) The reason why there ARE over 70 uses for adult stem cells not the 8 that you mentioned is that adult stem cells can be specifically applied.
5) Embryonic stem cells even though researched have found the opposite of promise because they grow all sorts of stuff where ever applied without control such as teeth, hair, bone, etc. It’s basically a tumor when done.
6) Power grabs on this issue and every issue is a result of big government and more and more special interest money flowing into government. Need an earmark? Demagogue. Make it seem like somebody doesn’t “CARE” about issue “X” if they aren’t interested in using tax payer dollars to fund it.

THIS GOVERNMENT has increased funding EVERY year in every category for over 6 decades. Veterans benefits, health, medicare, social security, energy, environment, whatever the topic – 60 years of increases in spending. The PROBLEM is LEFTISM – BIGGER and BIGGER government.

The problem is NOT every crisis ever invented where leftists think conservatives don’t “care”. You are duped into thinking there is a crisis or “promise” is just around the corner if “x” leftist politician can just get passed what they want to pass.

Respectfully.

Hmmm…seems to me that all but the Episcopal Church stand to profit handsomely from this if the government decides to dump big bucks into it.

Note, once again, that ESC research is NOT illegal, just not funded by government. This is the perfect storm for liberals, it supports their radical an embryo is not a human mantra AND their belief that nothing is possible unless the government does it.

Because only 17 theocratic organizations understand what a human being is and are willing to defend each one.

Considering most diseases (if not all) can be successfully battled through dietary changes alone, creating new human life for the purpose of experimentation is incredibly unnecessary.

The facts are:

518 scientific organizations, patient advocacy groups, universities and the Episcopal Church support embryonic stem cell research; 17 theocratic organizations oppose it. Don’t you wonder why?

There are 9 adult stem cell cures for blood disorders and cancers, not the claimed 60-80 (including Parkinson’s disease). This after 40 years of research and 3 or 4 times as much money spent on ESCR(ESCs isolated in 1998.)

Embryonic stem cell research involves learning about how microscopic undifferentiated cells behave to discover the etiology of disease, not the murder or abortion of fetuses, babies, kids, or people.

We need ALL kinds of stem cell research if we are to win the war on disease.

The U.S. finds breakthroughs in medicine (drugs) because of it’s economic system and less government manipulation and controls.

The argument that embryonic stem cell research hasn’t had any breakthroughs (unlike the 70 uses found for adult stem cells) because the federal government isn’t “funding” it is ludicrous. The free market finds a “supply” for a cure due to the fact that there is a “demand” for a cure with the resources available. Research has been performed to abysmal results – the formation of tumors and other odd complications.

“The Washington Post may have put the report on the front page, but far down on the jump page . . . ”

But the point is, they ran the story. And they ran it on the front page. Now, just for fun, I pick up the printed New York City edition of the Times, and I look far down the jump page today, where I find:

“A Brutal Sport Is Having Its Day Again in Russia”

The article describes dogfighting. Huh? Wha? Who cares? “Ah. Hah,” I think. This must be their bid for one of the 10 most e-mailed stories of the day. I click on the website and check. Ah. Hah. Again. Doesn’t make it. Not even at number 10. Sorry my feisty canines.

Now, just for fun, I look at the news index on pg. A2: “Iran Warns Against Attacks”? That rates page A10, “Prosecutors Finish Leak Case” [about the Plame trial]? That gets A14. Oh, and “A Slap at Pentagon Analyses” (it was the featured story on the Washington Post website this morning), more about the runup to the war and the inspector general’s report, gets page A9.

[warning: this comment is meant only as a dissection of the proclivities of the New York Times. No opinion is implied here about the effectiveness of various sorts of stemcells, and none shall be inferred.]

But this again isn’t the issue with the liberal supporters of ESC research. It’s an ideological issue, the lack of success isn’t even an issue to them. It is part and parcel of the entire debate that places abortion and lack of rights of the unborn as a sacrament, regardless of the science or the ethics of the issue. How else can you rationalize partial birth abortion and generating embryos for the sole purpose of harvesting them for their cells? By no stretch of the imagination can you say that a 7 month old fetus is not a baby deserving of rights and protections, babies born more premature than that live every day thanks to modern medicine. But the same people who support ESC research so vehemently also refuse to allow any limitations on abortion, no matter how well thought out and rational. The same mindset that will refuse to recognize that partial birth abortion is, due to modern medicine, practically indistinguishable from infanticide also refuse to acknowledge the startling lack of success with ESC research and the remarkable and amazing success with adult stem cells.

Can’t do as much…??? Embryonic stem cells haven’t done ANYTHING!!

World’s First Adult Stem Cell Study Using Patient’s Own Fat Tissue

Science Daily — This week, for the first time in humans, a heart failure patient received adult stem cells – taken from his own adipose (fat) tissue – which were processed and injected directly into the heart muscle with a special catheter. Francisco Fernandez-Avilés, M.D. performed the procedure in Madrid. The Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital is leading the collaborative clinical trial which will involve 30 patients…

The procedure involves removing adult stem cells from adipose tissue just as in a liposuction procedure. The cells are processed with a proprietary process developed by Cytori Therapeutics, Inc. After about one hour of processing, the stem cells are injected directly into damaged but viable areas of the heart muscle through an investigational device called a NOGA catheter. This catheter allows three-dimensional color-coded maps of the mechanical and electrical function of the heart’s left ventricle…

“This is another significant advance in our international collaboration to find solutions to heart failure and other cardiovascular diseases through adult stem cell treatment.”

Ignoring facts is a damned bad way to ever have a discussion or come to a conclusion about what to do or fund. Silencing critics, or failing to report or acknowledge inconvenient facts, just insures that the final decision, while potentially ideologically pure, will not work and just waste time and money at best, or insure failure and more damage to society at worst. Sooner or later reality will trump ideology, no matter how much you think what you believe is reality really is.

They choose what is news you know.