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Atlanta's Weekly E-Magazine
Mar. 8th - Mar. 15th, 2002
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Fulton County aware of the ongoing problem of AIDS, is fighting the disease and encouraging individuals to get tested.
Testing is offered throughout the year by the Fulton County Department of Health and Wellness at the following locations and times:
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Fulton County Health Department
99 Jesse Hill Jr. Drive, Atlanta
Phone#: 404-730-1538
Mondays and Tuesdays, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Wednesdays and Thursdays, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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North Fulton Regional Health Center
2260 Old Milton Parkway, Alpharetta
770-740-2403
Fridays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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College Park Health Center
1920 John Wesley Avenue, College Park
Phone#: 404-765-4146
Wednesdays and Thursdays, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
No one will be turned away, regardless of ability to pay for the tests.
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Editor's Corner
THERAPEUTIC CLONING
Last week, at the first meeting of a UN committee tasked with drawing up an international convention to ban reproductive cloning, the United States delegation called for therapeutic cloning to be banned as well. In the undersigned's opinion the US delegation missed the opportunity of setting up a set of rules and regulations for all scientific countries to follow and abide by. The lack of rules and regulations make it entirely likely for countries like China, India, Brazil and others to participate in future stem cell and cloning breakthroughs without any laws to be observed.
As reported in last week's editorial, reproductive cloning is banned in the United States and Great Britain.
However, embryonic stem cell research and therapeutic cloning is legal in Great Britain. In fact, Britain is the first country to have already established a stem cell bank, inviting scientists all over the world to come and participate in its operation and research. British doctors believe that they can make significant contributions to millions of people who suffer from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases through their embryonic stem cell research. They also believe that they will create an "adverse brain drain" by having hundreds of young doctors
and biomedical graduates migrating to Britain to participate in this new medical revolution.
We, in the United States, should take the leadership by setting guidelines in therapeutic cloning for others to follow. It will not only reinforce our ban in reproductive cloning, but it will control the research on embryos.
To prove our point, a Chinese scientist has recently claimed to have leapt ahead of her western scientists by cloning a human embryo in 1999. Her name is Lu Guangxiu, of Xiangya Medical College in the south-eastern city of Changsha. Professor Lu's work was reported in the Wall Street Journal where she said that she and her team have since grown cloned human embryos to the stage where stem cells could be harvested and then cultured. There are no laws in China controlling research on embryos.
Therapeutic cloning should be allowed, as it is in the United Kingdom. Reproductive cloning should remain banned, as it is in the UK and the US.
James C. Stathis
Associate Editor
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