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23 July 2019

The Implications of Obstructing Fetal Tissue Research

Authors: Mary Woolley, MA, and Eleanor Dehoney, MSAuthor, Article, & Disclosure Information
Publication: Annals of Internal Medicine
Volume 171, Number 5
https://doi.org/10.7326/M19-2061
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On 5 June 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced policy changes that will dramatically curtail—and potentially end—fetal tissue research in the United States. The new policy prohibits procurement of new fetal tissue for intramural research at the National Institutes of Health, circumscribing this research and precluding any future projects at the Institutes, regardless of potential (1). It also establishes an extra layer of qualitative scrutiny—over and above already rigorous peer review—for extramural research using fetal tissue (1). In addition, it abruptly ends a longstanding contract for fetal tissue research with the University of California, …

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Adam Kortowski 22 October 2019
End of a Progress
No more fetuses harvested for science?. This is a real progress. They just need to find other ways of progress in science.

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cover image Annals of Internal Medicine
Annals of Internal Medicine
Volume 171 • Number 5 • 3 September 2019
Pages: 366 - 367

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Published online: 23 July 2019
Published in issue: 3 September 2019

Keywords

  1. Congenital disorders
  2. Disclosure
  3. Fetuses
  4. Forecasting
  5. Health services research
  6. Immune system
  7. Parkinson disease
  8. Prevention, policy, and public health
  9. Vaccines
  10. Zika virus

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© 2019 American College of Physicians.

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Mary Woolley, MA
Research!America, Arlington, Virginia (M.W., E.D.)
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Eleanor Dehoney, MS
Research!America, Arlington, Virginia (M.W., E.D.)
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Corresponding Author: Mary Woolley, MA, Research!America, 241 18th Street South, Arlington, VA 22202; e-mail, [email protected].
Current Author Addresses: Ms. Woolley and Ms. Dehoney: Research!America, 241 18th Street South, Arlington, VA 22202.
Author Contributions: Drafting of the article: M. Woolley, E. Dehoney.
Final approval of the article: M. Woolley, E. Dehoney.
This article was published at Annals.org on 23 July 2019.

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