Washington D.C., May 18, 2005 / 22:00 pm
This morning at the nation’s capital, four physician members of congress will give a presentation on medical strides being made with cord blood and adult stem cells, which they say, make “pale the ‘promise’ surrounding controversial embryo stem cell research.”
Representatives Dave Weldon, M.D. (FL), Michael Burgess, M.D. (TX), Phil Gingrey, M.D. (GA) and Charles Boustany, M.D. (LA), will present ‘The Clinical Evidence is Clear: Cord Blood and Adult Stem Cells are Treating Patients TODAY’ at 11:30 this morning.
The group plans to outline some 70 plus medical advances being achieved through what they call ‘ethical stem cell research.’ These advances, they say, are already treating patients today.
The controversy raging over embryonic stem cell research surrounds the conception and destruction of a human embryo required to harvest the cells many scientists want to use to treat illness and maladies.