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Federal Funding of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Revisited: Does the nobility of hoped-for ends absolve us?

By Fritz J. Baumgartner, MD

Yesterday, President Obama lifted the federal ban on the funding of human embryonic stem cell research. I write this now in direct response to the 2004 CTSNet “In My Opinion” editorial by Dr. Lawrence I. Bonchek, which chastised the then President Bush for limiting federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research.

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Process Improvement: The Sorcerer and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by Vincent A. Gaudiani, MD
20-February-2009

A Contrarian View of Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation by Vincent A. Gaudiani, MD
15-July-2008

Only a bubble in the molten mass? Lung cancer management in the indigent by Raymond U. Osarogiagbon, MD, FACP and Mathew Ninan, MD
19-March-2008

The Good Old Times: Medicine and Cardiothoracic Surgery are what they used to be and possibly even better by John R. Benfield, MD
06-February-2008

Guidelines for Live Surgery by Shinichi Takamoto, MD
19-October-2007

The Advent of VATS by Ralph J. Lewis, MD
19-June-2007

How can Morbidity and Mortality Conference Contribute to QA? by Vincent A. Gaudiani, MD
26-April-2007

The Perils of Pioneering by Ralph J. Lewis, MD
09-August-2006

Exceptional Physicians and Physician Exceptionalism by Vincent A. Gaudiani, MD
20-June-2006

Chasing the Wrong Villain by Donald E. Ross, MD
22-May-2006

Cardiothoracic Surgeons Have an Important Role in the Emerging Specialty of Cardiothoracic Surgical Critical Care by Nevin M. Katz, MD
03-February-2006

Rethinking Innovation by Vincent A. Gaudiani, MD
14-September-2005

Surgery as Spectacle by Duke E. Cameron, MD
15-July-2005

The Cardiac Surgeon's Plight by Atiq Rehman
06-June-2005

Energy Loss for Evaluating Valve Performance - A Concept Whose Time is Past Due by Cary W. Akins, MD
26-April-2005

Comprehensive Quality Assurance for Cardiac Surgery by Vincent A. Gaudiani, MD
11-November-2004

Federal Funding of Stem Cell Research, and the War Against Disease by Lawrence I. Bonchek, MD
09-October-2004

Oversupply of Cardiothoracic Surgeons: Its Consequences and Correction by Charles Stewart Roberts, MD
03-August-2004

Adequate Cardiac Care? Conundrum for Nonaffluent Countries by Probal K. Ghosh, MCh and Ratna A. Magotra, MCh
27-May-2004

We Are Good, But Aren't We Too Old and Too Expensive? by Francis Robicsek, MD PhD
30-March-2004

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