{"id":1063441,"date":"2013-02-03T07:58:25","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T07:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/sacramento-bee-stem-cell-agency-falling-short-on-iom-recommendations\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T20:29:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T00:29:33","slug":"sacramento-bee-stem-cell-agency-falling-short-on-iom-recommendations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/stem-cell-therapy\/sacramento-bee-stem-cell-agency-falling-short-on-iom-recommendations-2.php","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Bee: Stem Cell Agency Falling Short on IOM Recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"

It's exceedingly rare when the
California stem cell agency makes the front page of any newspaper.<\/p>

<\/div>
So it is worthy of note that The
Sacramento Bee<\/b> this morning carried a lengthy piece on its page one
about the agency and its response to the blue-ribbon Institute of
Medicine<\/b> (IOM) report.<\/div>
<\/div>
The headline said,<\/div>

 “Analyst: Stem
cell agency reforms fall short.”<\/p><\/blockquote>

The analyst is the Institute of
Medicine, more specifically Harold Shapiro<\/b>, chairman of the panel that
studied California's $3 billion research effort for 17 months at
a cost of $700,000 to the agency.<\/div>
<\/div>
Bee reporter Cynthia Craft <\/b>wrote that
Shapiro said the stem cell agency is “falling short” in its
response to the IOM recommendation.<\/div>
<\/div>
Craft wrote,<\/div>

\"'There certainly is a gap between
what we recommended and what they responded with,' said Shapiro,
president emeritus at Princeton
University<\/a>. ' I wish they had moved closer to our
recommendations.'\"<\/p><\/blockquote>

Craft said the IOM made sweeping recommendations<\/a> “emphasizing the need for new blood on a governing
board that has been plagued by the appearance of conflicts of
interest, cronyism and sluggishness in getting stem-cell products to
market.”<\/div>
<\/div>
Craft also interviewed Jonathan
Thomas<\/b>, chairman of the stem cell agency, who said some of the IOM
recommendations would take legislative action. But Thomas said that
was “out of the question.”<\/div>
<\/div>
Craft wrote,<\/div>

“The process would take years, he
said. The first opportunity to get on the ballot, for instance, would
be in the fall of 2014.”<\/p><\/blockquote>

The agency will run out of cash for new
grants in less than four years.<\/div>
<\/div>
Craft's story was the first major news
article in years about the agency in the Bee, the only daily
newspaper in the state's capital. She reviewed a bit of the history
of the agency and concerns about conflicts of interest. She
concluded,<\/div>

“Shapiro said he stands firmly behind
his committee's report. <\/p><\/blockquote>

\"'I think our recommendations sit
together and interrelate to each other well – and should have been
moved along as quickly as possible,' Shapiro said. <\/p><\/blockquote>

\"'It might have been helpful if
they indicated to us what they were willing to do and what they
weren't,' he said.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>

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