[raybbr]

"Embryonic stem cells are not going to be the source of a cure for Alzheimer's,

How does he know? Can he see into the future?

[MHGinTN]

Alzheimer's Disease is a whole-brain disorder. It isn't remotely under serious consideration for a cure at the cellular level. By the time Alzheimer's manifests, the plaque structures are beyond cellular level treatment to remove.

May I ask if you would approve of cannibalism to cure Alzheimer's Disease? Ronald Regan would not have, by his own professions regarding the sanctity of human individual life from conception onward.

[MEGoody]

"How does he know? Can he see into the future?"

Read the rest of the article. He tells why.

[tuesday afternoon]

From I'm With My Dad On Stem Cell Research (Michael Reagan):

Writing in the Weekly Standard, lawyer, ethicist and human life advocate Wesley J. Smith reported that "Researchers have apparently known for some time that embryonic stem cells will not be an effective treatment for Alzheimer's, because as two researchers told a Senate subcommittee in May, it is a ‘whole brain disease,’ rather than a cellular disorder (such as Parkinson's).

[PA Engineer]

There were some experimental trials done in Sweden (quite a few years back now) using "harvested" (state controlled socialist abortion mill) stem cells in Parkinson's patients. It was an absolute disaster. The Neurosurgeons concluded that the results were Frankensteinian. Imagine isolating a stem cell and taking a real wild a** guess as to it's function. After surgery you find out that you have the equivalent of a finger nail mass growing in your brain (one of the patients resulting in death).

Five of the eight surgeries were failures. Three of the patients died. What truth down the road are you interested in? The Neurologists and Neurosurgeons I know (many) refer to the stem cell controversy as political medicine. Ethics aside, none of them see any future in it.

If you have some ideas, I will pass them on to these "ill informed specialists".