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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 2001
Page
10
The House voted 265 to 162 to reject cloning of human cells for any purpose including medical research. The margin against cloning was 249 to 178 for attempting to clone human cells to pursue cures for Alzheimer's and Lou Gehrig's disease. Senate action pending. Scientists warn of rapid biotechnological advances.
J C Watts condemns allowing scientists to tinker with life while UK professor Panagiotis Zavos and Italian fertility expert Severino Antinori push cloning aims. Reps Greenwood and Deutsch propose a research cloning alternative to pursue cures for serious diseases as a compromise.
In Louisville a Texas team led by surgeon O H Frazier reports the first human recipient of a self contained artificial heart is improving. After surgery at Jewish Hospital on July Fourth the patient in his 50s shows mobility and reduced ventilator use as doctors anticipate further recovery.
Senators Wellstone and Domenici push to amend a 1996 bill expiring this fall to require insurers to limit hospital stays and doctors visits for mental health. The fix would ensure mental health parity is applied beyond annual and lifetime benefit caps and is not about mandating coverage in all employee plans.
A Japanese cabinet bioethics panel approved guidelines for embryonic stem cell research setting conditions to use cells from fertility treatments discarded afterwards. Cloning or creating sperm and ova is banned. safeguards protect privacy and stem cell sales. If approved by September, work could start by year end.
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