Prolife Victories
Adult Cells Heal Burns Faster
BETTERHUMANS, Oct. 10 — The burn-damaged skin of rats heals faster when stem cells from their own bone marrow are used for treatment rather than stem cells from embryos.
The finding, presented by scientists from Russia's Scientific Research Institute of Transplantology and Artificial Organs, could translate into better treatments for burn victims while avoiding controversy over embryonic stem cell use.
The rats that received cells from their own marrow healed in slightly over a month, making the quickest recovery.
Rats that received transplantation of embryonic stem cells healed five times more slowly.
O'Malley Leads the Way
“Abortion is violence — we want to be people of peace,” said O'Malley, who received the loudest ovation of the dozen or so speakers who addressed the annual rally and walk on Boston Common.
The president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, Peg Whitbread, said Archbishop O'Malley's ability to “calmly and unequivocally” focus on the issues struck exactly the right tone.
Sextuplets in Lebanon
Doctors delivered the babies by Caesarean section 30 weeks into Soumaya Ghosson's pregnancy.
Mother and babies, who weigh between 1.1lbs and 2.4lbs, are doing fine, said a hospital official.
Tiny Baby Goes Home
BBC NEWS, Oct. 10 — The UK's smallest surviving baby has been allowed to go home after four months in the hospital. Aaliyah Hart weighed just 12 ounces when she was born 12 weeks premature in May, having grown too slowly in the womb. She was given only a 10% chance of survival.
Staff at the hospital's neonatal unit decided Aaliyah, now weighing five pounds, was strong enough to go home for the first time.
Aaliyah's mother, Lorraine Hart, 37, said, “She will always be a little miracle because she's come so far from so tiny and doing really well and I'm really proud of her. I'm just happy she's here, she's alive and we're going home.”
