(Part 3 of 4) Cardiovascular Therapies: Spotlight on Stem Cell Research "Stem Cell Research: Where are we with Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)" On March 10, 2011, Yung-Wei Chi, OD, spoke about a recently launched clinical trial that using a patient's own stem cells to help prevent amputations due to peripheral arterial disease. Chi is an associate professor of medicine at the UC Davis Vascular Center. Chi was introduced by Claire Pomeroy, MD, MBA, vice chancellor for Human Health Sciences at UC Davis and dean of the UC Davis School of Medicine.

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Cardiovascular Therapies: Spotlight on Stem Cell Research - Yung-Wei Chi

Congressman Forbes discusses the Patients First Act, HR 877, which would intensify research and human clinical trials using stem cells that are ethically obtained and that show evidence of providing near-term clinical benefit for human patients. Additionally, the legislation would promote the creation of pluripotent stem cell lines without the creation, destruction, or discarding of human embryos. Congressman J

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Forbes Discusses Stem Cell Research

Barack Obama, the US president, is taking steps to lift restrictions on the federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research in the US. But money is not the only argument, it also comes down to ethics, politics, religion and science - and striking some sort of balance between them.

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Inside Story - Obama to end stem cell research ban - March 9 - Part1

Professor Sir Martin Evans, who just received the Nobel prize for medicine, talks about his stem cell research and Gulnur Aybet of the University of Kent and Dan Sreebny, a senior diplomat at the US embassy in London talk about the ongoing tension between Turkey and the PKK.

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Frost Over The World - Stem Cell Research and Turkey -26 Oct