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...ways to bridge gaps in nerve tissue. They have succeeded in doing this in rats with grafts of Schwann cells, specialized cells that manufacture nerve growth factors. They serve as a bridge for the remaining nerve cells to cross over and re-establish contact. Other researchers are using fetal tissue for this purpose. Paul Reier of the University of Florida in Gainesville has achieved dramatic results by injecting a soup of fetal nerve cells into the damaged spines of cats. Felines that couldn't walk at all before surgery regained a limited ability to walk. Rejection, says Reier, remains...
...MOST PROMISING EXPERIMENTS IN THE treatment of Parkinson's disease involves the use of fetal-tissue transplants. At least 100 patients worldwide have had such tissue injected into their damaged brains. Now the first major published studies from teams that pioneered the technique document startling improvements in some patients. Following operations, Parkinson's sufferers who had trouble performing the most ordinary chores slowly became able to walk without falling, assume more care of themselves and even drive a car, according to three reports in the New England Journal of Medicine. It is not yet clear, however, whether the benefits...
Federal support of such fetal-tissue research is currently banned in the U.S as a result of the Reagan and Bush administrations' desire to placate antiabortion forces who feared that women would terminate pregnancies to provide tissue for transplants. President-elect Clinton opposes...
...winners shouldn't expect to usher in the feminist millennium. With a Clinton Administration, there may be some easy wins on the Freedom of Choice Act, family leave and fetal-tissue research. But in a rating of his program by the Institute for Women's Policy Research in Washington, Clinton received only a B-minus (Bush got a D), and in an effort to build a governing coalition, he may be tempted to distance himself from his party's more feminist and liberal wing. In the House, where women have traditionally been relegated to inconsequential committees, the new crop...
Examples include school health education programs, workplace-based smoking cessation programs and community health center prenatal programs incorporating information on the effects of smoking on fetal development...