One Step Back, One Giant Leap Forward

One step forward

Embryonic stem cell research: one small step for science or one giant leap back for mankind?

At the forefront of modern debate over the ethical use of biotechnology is embryonic stem cell research. In this poignant analysis of its legitimacy, the author examines the history of this research in light of the United States' policy favoring the protection of human beings over scientific progress. Stem cells, which can divide in culture to create specialized cells in the human body, possess...

Religiosity and telomere length: One step forward, one step back.

a Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Program on Integrative Knowledge and Human Flourishing, Harvard University, National Consortium on Psychosocial Stress, Spirituality, and Health, United States b Harvard Medical School, Harvard/MGH Center on Genomics, Vulnerable Populations, and Health Disparities, National Consortium on Psychosocial Stress, Spirituality, ...

One step back but 2 steps forward.

There have been major advances reported over the past decade in previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) with chemo-immunotherapy approaches now the treatment of choice.2 A decade ago, chlorambucil was the treatment of choice. However, CLL is a disease of the elderly with a median age at diagnosis of 72 years, and almost 70% of CLL patients are older than 65 years at the time of ...

Two steps forward, one step back.

Participants at a community health information network in Glens Falls, N.Y., have come face-to-face with obstacles that could have meant the end to this rural health network that the New York Department of Health and the John A. Hartford Foundation helped launch more than two years ago. Instead, John Laliberte, Glens Falls Hospital's director of information systems, and the rest of the IS team ...