By Jim Warren Editor & Publisher The Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Transplantation (ACOT) met by conference call on Jan. 26 and formally voted unanimously to recommend to the Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt that he publicly endorse the first revision of the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA) in 20 years. It isn’t [Sign in to read the full article...]
French doctors announced Jan. 23 that they had performed the world’s third partial face transplant on a man whose face was disfigured by severe tumors, giving him a new nose, mouth and chin and replacing part of his cheeks, the Associated Press reports. Going into the 15-hour operation last Sunday, the 29-year-old patient had such [Sign in to read the full article...]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week issued final guidance giving laboratories that test human cells, tissues and cellular and tissue-based products (HCT/Ps) 30 days to come into compliance with its requirements for the use of an FDA-licensed individual donor nucleic acid test (NAT), according to a newsletter from America’s Blood Centers. The agency [Sign in to read the full article...]
Iowa Gov. Chet Culver last week urged state lawmakers to repeal the state’s restrictions on embryonic stem-cell research — a move the Democrat said will bolster the state’s medical research by enticing top scientists to Iowa while possibly unveiling cures for millions afflicted by various maladies, according to the Daily Iowan newspaper. The recently inaugurated [Sign in to read the full article...]
A major showdown is looming over stem cell research in the Wisconsin state Legislature, The Capital Times newspaper reports. Sen. Mark Miller, D-Madison, is circulating a bill that would affirm in state statute that stem cell research is legal in Wisconsin. Support for embryonic stem cell research, which was pioneered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison [Sign in to read the full article...]