Click, comment, share with friends: LAST DAY TO CHANGE STEMCELL GUIDELINES? TODAY…
Today, Tuesday, May 26, 2009, is the last day allowed for public comment on the new National Institutes of Health (NIH).
If you click on http://nihoerextra.nih.gov/stem_cells/add.htm, (before 11:00 Eastern Standard time tonight) you will come to the public comment page. Or, just scroll down to the bottom of this column, where I brought it over from the internet for you.
Why should you bother to comment, to say something important like "I support the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine's position on the new stem cell guidelines" (that would be my recommendation)?
Three reasons:
The new guidelines are so cautious and conservative they would disqualify almost all the work done since 1998, when the field began. We owe to the brave men and women scientists who worked in a terrifically hostile political climate—their courage, and their work, deserve to be supported now.
The economy of the world depends on cure research.
Your family deserves the best medical care science can provide.
We're out of time, folks. If you are going to be part of those who stood up for what they believed, do it now.
Or don't complain when things don't go the way you want them to.
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Today, or never.
Thank you,
Don C. Reed, father of Roman, paralyzed, and brother of Barbara, who has cancer.
Please enter your comments on the Draft NIH Human Stem Cell Guidelines, as announced in the April 23, 2009 Federal Register Notice. Please reference specific sections in the document, when applicable. Please note that comments will be publicly available, including those containing personally identifiable or confidential business information.
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Note: Collection of this information is authorized under 5 U.S.C. 301; 44 U.S.C. 3101. The primary use of this form is to collect public comments on the draft NIH Human Stem Cell Guidelines. NIH will consider all comments. This information will be used by staff of the NIH, its contractors and others, for the purpose of reviewing, collating or analyzing the comments in developing final NIH Stem Cell Guidelines. Submission of this information is voluntary. By providing comments, you are consenting to their consideration and use by the NIH. All comments received before the close of the comment period, including those containing personally identifiable or confidential business information, will be made available at http://stemcells.nih.gov/index.asp after May 26, 2009. This includes the name and affiliation of those submitting comments (if provided). NIH will not post comments that are not related to the draft Stem Cell Guidelines or that NIH has determined as inappropriate or offensive.
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Comments may also be mailed to: NIH Stem Cell Guidelines, MSC 7997, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland20892-7997. Mailed comments received by the close of the comment period, including those containing personally identifiable or confidential business information, will be made available at http://stemcells.nih.gov/index.asp after May 26, 2009. If you know of someone who would like to comment on the draft guidelines but does not have access to the Internet, please share this mailing address with them.
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