While the American Diabetes Association is hailing the U.S. House of Representatives for passing a bill relaxing restrictions on embryonic stem-cell research, the executive director of the Christian Medical & Dental Associations says the ADA is choosing to ignore important research recently done.
Dr. David Stevens, CDMA Executive Director, says a Harvard researcher has made some great strides against diabetes. In animal studies, he says, the woman has shown adult stem cells to actually cure diabetes. Stevens contends the path to curing diabetes is not through embryonic stem-cell research. He further conjects the stem cells will actually come from the patients themselves. He says stem-cell therapy produces cures much more quickly and without the ethical baggage of destroying human beings.
What's your opinion? Do you approve of the use of embryonic stem cells for research purposes? Do you agree with Dr. Stevens they should not be used? Leave a comment.
1. The premise of Dr. Faustman's research is that adult stem cells are what causes the pancreas to regenerate in her studies.
Now another researcher is finding the same thing (I'm under the impression that the woman referenced in the article is not Dr. Faustman although they're both affiliated with Harvard).
Posted at 4:19PM on Jun 16th 2005 by Shannon Lewis