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Medical researchers have recently succeeded in treating people with such chronic diseases as diabetes and Parkinson's with transplants of human fetal tissue. So far, doctors in the U.S. have used fetuses only in experimental transplants on laboratory animals suffering from conditions mimicking human ailments. Most such research in federal labs came to an abrupt halt last week. The Reagan Administration banned the use of intentionally aborted fetal tissue by Government scientists until an outside panel can examine the ethical implications of the practice. Experiments involving tissue obtained from miscarriages can proceed...
...studying neurochemicals, scientists may eventually understand the processes behind such diverse mental phenomena as memory, the placebo effect and acupuncture, Dowling said. He said such work might eventually lead to treatments for Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia...
...another of those weeks when TV seems to have a bear hug on the nation's attention. And another week that illustrated the video corollary of Parkinson's Law: the significance of an event expands according to the TV time allotted for it. The Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary have undoubtedly been blown out of proportion by most of the press. But the three networks' decision virtually to set up shop in those states (all three evening newscasts originated from New Hampshire on Monday and Tuesday) helped magnify every twist and nuance in the poll results...
...could not have survived more than a few days outside the womb; unlike most, Gabriel died before her healthy organs deteriorated. Then, early in January, surgeons in Mexico City announced that for the first time, they had successfully grafted tissue from a miscarried fetus into the brains of two Parkinson's victims, who have since improved dramatically...
...with using the tissues of miscarried fetuses. But in the weeks since the Mexican tissue transplant, a handful of women have considered the possibility of getting pregnant for the purpose of providing tissue to treat themselves or a family member. Ray Leith, a young woman whose aging father has Parkinson's disease, declared her willingness to do so on national television early this year; her father refused the offer. Others have raised even broader fears that, as Feminist Author Gena Corea puts it, "women will be pressured by doctors and families, or by economic need, to become fetal factories...