{"id":1063409,"date":"2012-12-16T07:51:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T07:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/meager-coverage-of-yesterdays-bristling-iom-cirm-meeting\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T20:29:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T00:29:20","slug":"meager-coverage-of-yesterdays-bristling-iom-cirm-meeting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/stem-cell-therapy\/meager-coverage-of-yesterdays-bristling-iom-cirm-meeting-2.php","title":{"rendered":"Meager Coverage of Yesterday&#039;s Bristling IOM-CIRM Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mainstream news coverage today&nbsp;was skimpy, to put it mildly,&nbsp;of <a href=\"http:\/\/californiastemcellreport.blogspot.com\/2012\/12\/some-stem-cell-board-members-bristle-at.html\">the testy session<\/a> yesterday involving the governing board of the California stem<br>cell agency and representatives of the prestigious <b>Institute of<br>Medicine(IOM).<\/b><\/p><div><\/div><div>Only two pieces appeared, one in the<br><b>San Diego U-T<\/b> and another on the web site of the <b>Los Angeles Times<\/b>.  Both<br>discussed what the <b>Michael Hiltzik<\/b> of the Times column called &ldquo;overt hostility&rdquo; on the<br>part of several board members (<a href=\"http:\/\/californiastemcellreport.blogspot.com\/2012\/12\/la-times-on-california-stem-cell-agency.html\">see yesterday's item here<\/a>). <b>Bradley<br>Fikes<\/b> of the San Diego paper said the patient advocates on the board<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utsandiego.com\/news\/2012\/dec\/12\/patient-advocates-defend-role\/\">&ldquo;strongly criticized&rdquo;<\/a> the IOM report on the grounds that it<br>&ldquo;unfairly suggests that they have a conflict of interest.&rdquo;<\/div><div><\/div><div>One of the recommendations of the IOM<br>is that the agency develop ways to manage personal conflicts of<br>interest dealing with patient advocates and others at the agency.<\/div><div><\/div><div>Fikes wrote,<\/div><blockquote><p>\"'I'm a<br>colon cancer survivor,' said <b>Art Torres<\/b>, vice chairman of the<br>oversight committee, and a patient advocate designate. 'Does having<br>colon cancer make me biased?'<br>&ldquo;<b>Jeff<br>Sheehy<\/b>, another patient advocate designate, protested what he called<br>a 'defenestration' of patient advocates, whose interests often span<br>multiple diseases.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote><div><b>Ron Leuty<\/b> of the <b>San Francisco Business<br>Times<\/b> skipped the IOM matter and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/sanfrancisco\/blog\/biotech\/2012\/12\/stem-cells-ucsf-stanford-cirm.html\">wrote about the awarding <\/a>of $36<br>million in grants. However, a list of the most popular stories on the<br>Business Times web site, ranked as No. 5 Leuty's story last week on the IOM<br>study, just below an article about <b>Stanford<\/b>'s $111 million<br>concert hall.<\/div><div><\/div><div>Fikes also had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utsandiego.com\/news\/2012\/dec\/12\/viacyte-gets-additional-3-million-diabetes-treatme\/\">a piece on <b>ViaCyte<\/b><\/a>,<br>which is in his area, receiving another $3 million from CIRM.<\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/af6fe_10000891-5701814868973341874?l=californiastemcellreport.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/af6fe_sTuRbsA7d_w\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">Source:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/blogspot\/uqpFc\/~3\/sTuRbsA7d_w\/meager-coverage-of-yesterdays-bristling.html\">http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/blogspot\/uqpFc\/~3\/sTuRbsA7d_w\/meager-coverage-of-yesterdays-bristling.html<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mainstream news coverage today&nbsp;was skimpy, to put it mildly,&nbsp;of the testy session yesterday involving the governing board of the California stemcell agency and representatives of the prestigious Institute ofMedicine(IOM).Only two pieces appeared, one in theSan Diego U-T and another on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/stem-cell-therapy\/meager-coverage-of-yesterdays-bristling-iom-cirm-meeting-2.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1246878],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-cell-therapy","category-stem-cells"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}