"Political patronage led to death, judge says" by Associated Press | June 11, 2010
PHILADELPHIA — Political patronage contributed to the starvation death of a disabled Philadelphia girl under the city’s watch, a federal judge said yesterday in sentencing a social services contractor to 17 1/2 years in prison....
Company workers assigned to the chaotic home where 14-year-old Danieal Kelly was wasting away in a wheelchair were supposed to ensure she and her siblings had proper care.
But after 10 months of supposed twice-weekly visits, Danieal, who had cerebral palsy, was still not enrolled in school and had not been to a doctor. When she died in August 2006, she weighed 42 pounds and had maggot-infested bedsores....
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Perhaps the Chinese would have taken better care of her?
"China stem cell work offers hope to some" by Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post | June 27, 2010
BEIJING — Disillusioned by US doctors who could not help their daughter with cerebral palsy, Kara Anderson’s parents did something they could not have imagined a few years ago: They took her to China.
Specialists in the Chicago area, where the family lives, said that Kara’s brain injury was permanent and that the 9-year-old would probably end up in a wheelchair because of severe twisting in her leg muscles. But then her parents heard stories about children who had improved after receiving injections of stem cells.
These are the same scientists saying the vaccines are safe.
The treatment was not available in the United States. It was commercially available only abroad.
That’s how the Andersons joined the desperate people who are taking leaps of faith in seeking stem-cell treatments in places as far away as China, India, Russia, and Brazil.
I do the same thing when I read an insulting newspaper.
Western scientists worry that patients are being taken in by slick marketing campaigns, wasting time, money, and hope on unproven therapies, and perhaps even putting themselves in danger....
Did the drug companies write those studies, too?
See: MSM Monitor Going Through Menopause
Glaxo's Ghostwriters
Healthcare Coup of Congress
Talk about a leap of faith!!!
Stem cell research is an area in which the United States faces new rivals.
Can't we COOPERATE with ANYONE other than ISRAEL?
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