Texas Medical Association votes to abandon medical ethics tradition Press Release from Texas Physicians Resource Council http://www.texasphysicians.org/ On May 14, 2004, the House of Delegates of the Texas Medical Association, in a misplaced enthusiasm for medical research abandoned 2500 years of physician ethics and our traditional charge to "First, do no harm." Ignoring the very real and present results of adult and umbilical cord stem cell research in favor of an exaggerated and hypothetical future potential of embryonic stem cells and cloning, the House of Delegates approved a policy supporting "biomedical research on multipotent stem cells (including embryonic, adult, and...