The News Review:
- INC Research Completes Acquisition of Global Clinical Development …
- Bioethicists Call For Public Debates n Future Uses f Stem Cells
- Academic medical centers
INC Research Completes Acquisition of Global Clinical Development …
Business Wire (press release)
“We have already received a tremendous response from our customers and the industry about the power of our combined capabilities. I am very pleased to welcome the talented and experienced people of GCD as new members of the INC Research team. With our expanded set of services therapeutic capabilities and global resources we are undeniably a top tier CR for clinical research. ” INC Research has already begun executing the integration of the two companies’ customers employees and services as well as operationalizing its customer-focused Trusted Process®. Led by an internal transition management team the company is committed to quickly completing the integration so the company’s primary focus remains on exceeding the expectations of its customers. Wachovia Securities a Wells Fargo Company served as financial advisor to INC Research and arranged the debt financing for this transaction. About INC Research® Inc.
Bioethicists Call For Public Debates n Future Uses f Stem Cells
Science Daily (press release)
This approach would rule out using for reproduction any tissue from fetuses minors and the deceased. Consent they said need not be required in situations involving laboratory studies that produce no embryos. The authors emphasized that significant oversight rules must be in place before any reproductive uses of gametes even begins and early attempts to use gametes for these purposes should take place only as part of clinical research that follows the highest ethical standards. Assuming that reproductive use of stem cell-derived gametes does occur the health of women carrying the resulting fetuses and of children born to them should be monitored rigorously and tracked in long-term studies. Pluripotent stem cell-derived gamete research brings together several of today’s most contentious ethical issues including the use of embryonic stem cells the increasing ability to identify and understand risks associated with particular parts of the human genome advanced reproductive technologies to treat infertility and interest in "human enhancement. "Mathews noted that pluripotent stem cell-derived gamete research already is producing significant advances in basic understanding of how eggs and sperm develop from germ cells infertility genetic diseases and some cancers. Mathews said the most difficult scientific issue the study team faced was predicting how long it would take to get from a human stem cell to a set of gametes capable of successful test-tube fertilization and how long if ever it would be until such gametes are used in clinical care.
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Academic medical centers
Washington Times
As health care reform moves forward it is time to do so again. Academic medical centers are uniquely qualified to provide the evidence-based rigorous study necessary to ensure health care reform that adopts what works and not what we think works. In fact government supports this role in many ways including encouraging clinical research and training physicians in the latest science. Similarly government should turn to academic medical centers to help realize the full promise of health care reform: improving quality and access to care while reducing cost. To fully appreciate what academic medical centers contribute to health care reform it is necessary to understand what they are and how they have helped in the past. Unlike many other hospitals academic medical centers carry an added responsibility for the clinical training of new doctors nurses and medical personnel as well as carrying out basic and translational research. They partner with medical schools and often universities and they are few in number.
