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...sleep," Onen said. "In other words, they discuss starting the sleep deprivation process at nearly double the maximum we set for ethical reasons." Onen compared the CIA's use of his study results to the overdosing of medication. "In a manner, it's like giving a drug to a patient: if you administer it in small doses for therapeutic reasons, it helps them. If you give it in huge volumes, it becomes toxic - and can even kill them," he said...
...first inning to take its first—and only—lead of the day. The Crimson made sure that the lead was short-lived, as it scored two runs of its own as its bats came alive in the second inning. “We were patient,” freshman Whitney Shaw said. “We knew we were hitting the ball, and we knew that we had to keep doing what we were doing and we weren’t going to let [Saturday’s] split get us down. We?...
...Keller, who treats victims at Bellevue, agrees that psychological effects of asphyxiation torture like waterboarding can be insidiously long-lived. One patient whose head was repeatedly submerged during torture has constant flashbacks. "Every time he has a shower, he panics," says Keller. One victim panics every time he becomes the least bit short of breath, even during exercise. And in most cases, it is the helplessness the victims endured under torture that renders the experience ineradicable. "They fear that loss of control," says Keller. "That's what is so terrifying...
...those other purposes, however, that will be necessary to develop stem-cell therapies for human use. It's unlikely that the Food and Drug Administration would approve any stem cell therapy that involves transplanting cells or tissues from one patient to another, without addressing the potential of immune rejection - but as our organ transplant history reveals, these challenges remain formidable...
...Kington did acknowledge that as the science advances, the NIH's policy may change. The agency will continue to fund studies of an exciting new method for generating patient-specific stem cells, without using embryos at all, and, if the public is comfortable with it, might one day allow the study of embryos created specifically for research purposes. "NIH is committed to revising the guidelines in the future as appropriate," he said. "As the science changes, we will take note...