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Two-Thirds of Bush-Approved Stem-Cell Lines Too Immature for Research, Thompson Says; NIH Access to Some Assured
In testimony before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on September 5, 2001, US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said that nearly two-thirds of the >60 embryonic stem-cell lines dubbed eligible for federally funded research by President Bush are not far enough along in development to be used in laboratories. In a story in the September 6, 2001, edition of the Washington Post, Secretary Thompson said that as many as 24 stem-cell lines are mature enough for extensive research at the basic level.
"We’re confident there are enough and we’re confident that the private sector will fill the voids where there are any voids," Thompson said in the Post story. On September 5, 2001, he also announced that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has signed an agreement with officials from the University of Wisconsin to allow researchers on the campus of the NIH to perform research on the embryonic stem-cell lines patented by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, a group affiliated with the university.
Cholesterol Knowledge in Population
Rates of cholesterol screening increased from 67.3% in 1991 to 70.8% in 1999 in 47 states that participated in a federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data project during those years (MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2001;50:754–758).
The percentages of people who said they had ever been told they had high blood cholesterol levels ranged from 20.5% in Oklahoma to 33.7% in Nevada. According to the report, high blood cholesterol awareness increased among all