Experimental Research

I would like to encourage everyone to review this blog called “Facing Autism in New Brunswick”, located at http://autisminnb.blogspot.com/2010/04/autism-and-experimental-stem-cell.html. It reveals real-life experiences of experimental stem-cell research done on a young boy with autism, with positive results. It shares outside links about the application for clinical research, the research, previous successes with other diseases and much more. One part I though was interesting is when the father of the participant (also a doctor) gave consent to only proven interventions with evidence to back it. That is a good example of Informed consent. I would also like to encourage you to look for and look at the movie, “ Lorenza’s Oil”. This movie was based on a true story about a family’s struggle to get help for their son, when the procedures/ medicines needed were not available or approved by the medical profession/ government. If you don’t want to look at the movie, then The Arts and Entertainment section of CBS News published an article about the real Lorenza, entitled “Son in True Story of Lorenza’s Oil Dies”, located at http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/film/story/2008/05/31/lorenzo-oil-obit.html