WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced Wednesday that the federal government would sharply curtail federal spending on medical research that uses tissue from aborted fetuses, mainly by ending fetal-tissue research within the National Institutes of Health.
The Trump administration on Wednesday said it would bar scientists at federal agencies from pursuing research using fetal tissue and add new hurdles for researchers on college campuses to renew funding for research using the materials. It also said it would drop a contract with the University of California, San Francisco, to research HIV infection using the tissue.
The Trump administration Wednesday imposed new restrictions on federal use of fetal tissue obtained from abortions, barring government scientists at NIH from doing such research, and canceling an existing HIV research contract with the University of California, San Francisco.
“There is no evidence that the use of donated tissue from fetal remains has any effect on whether women choose abortions, and no evidence that decades of research using donated tissue has ever led to an increase in the number of abortions,” said Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin.
WASHINGTON — Government scientists must stop research that uses human fetal tissue, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday in a series of new restrictions.
“It is a clear indication that this administration values symbolic statements over research aimed at saving lives,” Alta Charo, a bioethics professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, wrote to BuzzFeed News in an email Wednesday. “Indeed, in one of the greatest ironies, this tissue might be used for research on the Zika virus that can cause devastating birth defects, so a policy aimed at symbolically valuing fetal life may end up devaluing the lives of actual children.”
A group of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison are analyzing data to better understand the challenges faced by Latinx and Hmong immigrant parents in Dane County school districts.
Gordon is set to co-host a youth football clinic June 15 at UW’s McClain Center along with former UW teammate James White, who’s fresh off another Super Bowl victory with the New England Patriots.
By leveraging a small part of its purchasing power, UW Health has been building a system that upholds community health, minimizes pollution of air and water that diminishes health, and improves economic well-being of our rural residents.
Madison just dedicated its newest work of public art, a massive sculpture, “Both/And — Tolerance/Innovation,” which has been completed on lower State Street, adjacent to Library Mall.
McDonald will have a go at a fourth NCAA title in his senior year and a place among an exclusive group of athletes on Friday night when he runs the 5,000 meters in his last race for UW.
Coach Tony Granato and his staff have been kicking the tires on an offseason trip for the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team, but the destination took a turn in the past two months.
Shanahan, a junior middle blocker, departed Wednesday with her University of Wisconsin volleyball teammates for a 12-day trip to Europe. And when the rest of the team heads for home from Rome on June 17, she will take off for Japan to join a team of Big Ten Conference players touring that country through June 26.
Even though it’s been over four years since Melvin Gordon last suited up for the University of Wisconsin, it still holds a special place in his heart, and the Los Angeles Chargers running back is excited to return to Madison and pass on his knowledge to the next generation of football players.
Noted: William Tracy, a professor of agronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he hasn’t talked to one scientist who believes moving the agencies out of Washington is a good idea.
Noted: “Wisconsin’s budget situation is challenging but has not been as dire as that in Illinois,” University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said, adding that legislative leaders have remained firm in their stance against legalization for recreational use. Leaders in the Republican-controlled state Legislature have remained quite firm in their stance against legalization for recreational use.
Quoted: According to Gary Kirking of the University of Wisconsin Extension, the Kazakhstan educational system is based on a traditional Russian style of education. Many of the about 50 Kazakhstanis had visited Mauston at one point through one of the 10 Kazakhstan delegations the UW Extension sponsored over the previous seven years.
Noted: The scenarios given in the paper are all too likely, say experts. Jonathan Patz is a physician and director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He’s been studying the health effects of global warming for two decades.
