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AS YOU WELL KNOW, I USUALLY GET EXCITED ABOUT A MAN/WOMAN LEAVING THE USA TO RECEIVE A NEW STEM CELL TREATMENT THAT GIVES THEM HOPE AND HOPEFULLY A NEW LEASE ON LIFE. HOWEVER, THIS STORY (SEE BELOW) LEAVES ME PERPLEXED.
DENVER -- 27-year old Ryan McLean is getting set to under go experimental therapy involving human embryonic stem cells. THIS ISN'T GOOD NEWS AS SCIENTISTS ARE STILL DECADES AWAY FROM SOLVING THE RIDDLES OF EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS. TUMORS THAT LEAD TO CANCER IS THE MOST NOTABLE OF UNSOLVED PROBLEMS. She was accepted as a volunteer for the treatment at a clinic in Delhi, India. A VOLUNTEER? SHE IS RECEIVING STEM CELL TREATMENT FOR FREE?The program will cost about forty-thousand dollars. Friends and supporters have been raising funds for the woman who still loves being in the pool. We caught up with Ryan at the Boulder YMCA, poolside of course. 40 GRAND? THAT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE A VOLUNTEER. IS SHE REALLY PAYING 40 K FOR EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS? While President Bush has been opposed to embryonic stem cell research, Japanese doctors are having success using umbilical cords to harvest stem cells. THE WRITER GIVES THE OBLIGATORY "BUSH IS THE BAD GUY" TREATMENT. TO BE FAIR, THE WRITER ISN'T LYING, BUT THE WRITER IS MISLEADING AND CONFUSING READERS WITH THAT STATEMENT, PROBABLY INTENTIONALLY. UMBILICAL CORD STEM CELLS AND EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS ARE NOT THE SAME. UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD STEM CELLS ARE DERIVED FROM THE UMBILICAL CORD OF A BABY. EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS ARE DERIVED FROM THE EMBRYO OF AN UNBORN BABY. WHAT DOES BUSH AND EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS HAVE TO DO WITH JAPANESE DOCTORS AND UMBILICAL CORD STEM CELLS? ALSO, TO PILE ON A LITTLE MORE, WHILE JAPAN MAY VERY WELL BE USING UMBILICAL CORD CELLS IN SOME TREATMENTS, READERS OF THIS BLOG KNOW THAT MOST OF THE CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TREATMENTS GO ON IN CHINA. I SUSPECT THE WRITER CONFUSED JAPAN AND CHINAThey have been treating Americans willing to travel to Japan for a few years. No word on if Bush will allow that type of treatment even though it doesn't involve embryos. BUSH DOESN'T DECIDE WHAT TREATMENTS ARE ALLOWED OR DISALLOWED. THE FDA DOES. IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO IS THE NEXT PRESIDENT, OBAMA, HILLARY OR MCCAIN, REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT, THEY WON'T DECIDE WHICH STEM CELL TREATMENTS ARE ALLOWED. THEY MAY BE ABLE TO DECIDE WHICH STEM CELL RESEARCH IS TO BE FUNDED USING (WASTING?) TAX PAYER MONEY, BUT THEY HAVE NO INFLUENCE ON THE FDA WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR DECIDING WHAT TREATMENTS ARE ALLOWED. THESE QUESTIONS LEAVE ME DOUBTING THE AMOUNT OF RESEARCH GOING INTO THIS STORY. I THINK THE YOUNG LADY IS GOING TO INDIA FOR CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TREATMENT. THE STORY JUST DOESN'T ADD UP. HOWEVER, ALTHOUGH I DOUBT THE FACTS OF THIS STORY, I STILL BELIEVE THERE IS A YOUNG LADY IN NEED OF HELP WHO IS IN NEED OF STEM CELL THERAPY, AND I WISH HER THE BEST OF HEALTH ON HER JOURNEY-DM CLICK HERE TO READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE