Stem Cell Research Offers Hope
by Chuck Campbell
According to a ScienCentralNews article by Karen Lurie, "Nancy Reagan says she plans to devote herself to pushing for federal support of stem cell research which scientists believe could lead to a cure for Alzheimer's disease. With Ronald Reagan's death she's expected to be more aggressive in asking the Bush administration to reverse its ban on funding stem cell research involving human embryos B a policy that led one leading American scientist to move his lab overseas." ... read more >
National Health Insurance: What Would It Mean For People With Disabilities?
Part 4 of a 4 - Part Series
by Jeff Nygaard
In the first three parts of this series Access Press has looked at the "Proposal of the Physicians' Working Group for Single-Payer National Health Insurance" that was published in the August 13, 2003 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. We summarized the overall proposal and a couple of different ideas for financing a system of National Health Insurance (NHI). In this final installment, we will consider some of the implications of the NHI plan - as proposed by the Physicians' Group - specifically for people with disabilities (PWDs) ... read more >
