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『Newton』6月号（4月26日発売）

全世界が注目する
究極の万能細胞
山中教授の「iPS細胞」。いったい何がすごいのか？
協力
監修 西川伸一　協力 山中伸弥／岡野栄之／ジェームズ・トムソン

世界的な注目を浴びる新しい万能細胞，「iPS細胞」。
これまでの万能細胞にくらべて，いったい何がすぐれているのか？
日米の研究リーダーが語る「次なる展望」とは？
http://www.newtonpress.co.jp/science/newton/index.html

成熟（皮膚）細胞からクローニングでヒト胚芽を作ることに成功

一斉に報道されています。以下の記事、講読登録しないと読めないものがあるかもしれません。NYTimesの場合は無料登録が必要。
以下のリストの最後が今回発表された論文の全文

Cloning Said to Yield Human Embryos (New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/us/18embryos.html

...they were the first to use human adult cells to create cloned embryos that advanced to the stage known as a blastocyst, from which embryonic stem cells typically are extracted.

Human embryos cloned from adult cells(Nature)
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080117/full/news.2007.350.html

US team makes embryo clone of men （BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7194161.stm

Doctor clones human embryo from his own skin cell(Times Online)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3209541.ece

発表された論文全文
Development of Human cloned Blastocysts Following Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT) with Adult Fibroblasts(Stem Cells)
http://stemcells.alphamedpress.org/cgi/reprint/2007-0252v1.pdf

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9月のNEJMの無料記事

NEJMの9月6日号、今月30日で期限切れになるSCHIPの再承認をめぐって議論になっている問題をPerspectiveで取り上げています。

Reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which was considered a routine matter until recently because of the program's success in expanding coverage to children of the working poor, has become embroiled in a larger struggle over ideologies that divide the political parties.

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/357/10/957

以下も無料記事です。
Sidelining Safety — The FDA's Inadequate Response to the IOM

Having been commissioned by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to evaluate the U.S. drug-safety system, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a report, The Future of Drug Safety, in September 2006 identifying weaknesses in the laws, regulations, resources, and practice of ensuring drug safety.
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/357/10/960

Michael Moore's Sicko

Michael Moore's Sicko

NEJMでMichael Mooreの映画Sickoが取り上げられています（無料記事）。同雑誌では、ブッシュ政権下の「健康保険制度」の改革案について取り上げていました。合わせ読んでみるとよいと思います。

Healing Our Sicko Health Care System
Jacob S. Hacker, Ph.D.

[Extract]
There is a scene in Sicko — Michael Moore's controversial new film about U.S. health care — that captures both the power and the limits of Moore's cinematic polemic. A mother is speaking about her 18-month-old daughter, Mychelle, who became ill one evening with vomiting, diarrhea, and a high fever. At the nearest emergency room, Mychelle is treated by a physician who suspects, rightly, that she has a life-threatening bacterial infection. But rather than give her antibiotics, the doctor calls her insurer, whose physician-gatekeeper tells him that Mychelle is not covered at the hospital and must be taken to another...
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