The operation was part of a study by scientists and physicians from the hospital and
Dalhousie University who want to assess the procedure's impact on patients who have …

Current drug therapies have limitations in controlling Parkinson's disease in the long term.
Early results of fetal cell transplantation are encouraging, suggesting it may help many …

In this issue of the Journal, three papers report that transplanting fetal tissue into the brains
of patients with Parkinson's disease can substantially ameliorate the signs of this disease. 1 …

C anada's first research project involving the trans-plantation of tissue from aborted fetuses
into patients with Parkinson's disease is an issue entirely separate from abortion, the …

CONCLUSIONS There are inadequate answers to most of the questions that demand
attention in order to formulate a rational policy on tissue transplantation for Parkinson's …

By age fifty-three, Donald Nelson had suffered for twenty years from the muscle rigidity and
tremors often associated with Parkinson's Disease. 1 In November of 1988, he became the …

MARGARET FLEMING, who is 45, has had Parkinson's disease for 13 years. Her
medications no longer control the tremors and jerking movements caused by this …

Research involving human fetal tissue has been the subject of intense political debate in this
country for almost two decades, and the use of fetal tissues in transplantation continues this …

Whenthe US government banned the federal funding of transplantation research using fetal
tissue from induced abortions in 1988, the issue was more of theoretical than practical …

Summary On September 14 through 16, 1988, a meeting on the use of human fetal tissue in
transplantation was held at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda Maryland, USA. The …