Perry and stem cell
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Doctors question Perry's stem cell back treatment
He calls it innovative. Others call it a big risk. In any case, the stem cell procedure that Texas Gov. Rick Perry had last month was an unusual experiment to fix a common malady: a bad back. ... The treatment carries potential risks ranging from blood clots to infection to cancer and may even run afoul of federal rules, doctors say. At least one patient died of a clot hours after an infusion of fat-derived stem cells outside the United States. It's not clear how much of this Perry might have known.
Oh, here's one West Texan ultra-conservative Christian fundie belovedSavior governor (on the other hand, some have called him Bush on steroids), who'd probably support stem cell research, eh? I wonder what does God think of stem cell research. Funny, how all your principles suddenly become moot, not to mention what Jesus whispers in your ear, as soon as the shit you're talking about actually starts affecting YOU.
Some more curious stuff related to this story:
(From the same article...)
Perry, the newest GOP presidential candidate, has access to the best possible care and advice. Yet he and his doctor chose a treatment beyond mainstream medicine: He had stem cells taken from fat in his own body, grown in a lab and then injected into his back and his bloodstream during a July 1 operation to fuse part of his spine.
When your back doesn't allow you a single calm night to sleep comfortably in your bed, and when your lower back starts hurting you like hell only after a couple hours standing upright at a meeting, suddenly socialized health care ceases to look that bad of a thing; what's more, now even the most innovative, almost-fringe fields in medicine that are controversial even among the scientists themselves, are OK to be explored and potentially benefited from.
However, there's something more to that story.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/08/20/doctors_wary_of_perrys_stem_cell_treatment/
Perry “exercised poor judgment’’ to try it, said Dr. George Q. Daley of Children’s Hospital Boston and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. “As a highly influential person of power, Perry’s actions have the unfortunate potential to push desperate patients into the clinics of quacks’’ who are selling unproven treatments “for everything from Alzheimer’s to autism.’’
Never mind the possible consequences for larger groups of people who follow every word their revered leader utters, and every gesture he makes, and who are ready to follow him anywhere no matter what, because he's their new chosen Messiah. Even if that "somewhere" prematurely turns out to be right into the waiting arms of Our Beloved Boss up there in the sky. Win-win?
Gov. Perry's stem cell 'treatment' sends wrong message
If presidential candidate ignores evidence-based medicine for himself, what could it mean for the country?
But really. What kind of impression does this guy make on you? Is he Bush v.2.0, or is he something completely different?
Doctors question Perry's stem cell back treatment
He calls it innovative. Others call it a big risk. In any case, the stem cell procedure that Texas Gov. Rick Perry had last month was an unusual experiment to fix a common malady: a bad back. ... The treatment carries potential risks ranging from blood clots to infection to cancer and may even run afoul of federal rules, doctors say. At least one patient died of a clot hours after an infusion of fat-derived stem cells outside the United States. It's not clear how much of this Perry might have known.
Oh, here's one West Texan ultra-conservative Christian fundie beloved
Some more curious stuff related to this story:
(From the same article...)
Perry, the newest GOP presidential candidate, has access to the best possible care and advice. Yet he and his doctor chose a treatment beyond mainstream medicine: He had stem cells taken from fat in his own body, grown in a lab and then injected into his back and his bloodstream during a July 1 operation to fuse part of his spine.
When your back doesn't allow you a single calm night to sleep comfortably in your bed, and when your lower back starts hurting you like hell only after a couple hours standing upright at a meeting, suddenly socialized health care ceases to look that bad of a thing; what's more, now even the most innovative, almost-fringe fields in medicine that are controversial even among the scientists themselves, are OK to be explored and potentially benefited from.
However, there's something more to that story.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/08/20/doctors_wary_of_perrys_stem_cell_treatment/
Perry “exercised poor judgment’’ to try it, said Dr. George Q. Daley of Children’s Hospital Boston and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. “As a highly influential person of power, Perry’s actions have the unfortunate potential to push desperate patients into the clinics of quacks’’ who are selling unproven treatments “for everything from Alzheimer’s to autism.’’
Never mind the possible consequences for larger groups of people who follow every word their revered leader utters, and every gesture he makes, and who are ready to follow him anywhere no matter what, because he's their new chosen Messiah. Even if that "somewhere" prematurely turns out to be right into the waiting arms of Our Beloved Boss up there in the sky. Win-win?
Gov. Perry's stem cell 'treatment' sends wrong message
If presidential candidate ignores evidence-based medicine for himself, what could it mean for the country?
But really. What kind of impression does this guy make on you? Is he Bush v.2.0, or is he something completely different?
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