Two separate bills that would subsidize stem cell research are in Senate debate this week. The White House says President Bush will veto a bill supporting research that destroys viable human embryos. An alternative bill, one supported by the White House, would fund stem cell research on fertilized embryos that are no longer capable of full development.
On View from the Bay, Louanne Brizendine, MD, neuropsychiatrist and founder of the UCSF Women's and Teen Girls' Mood and Hormone Clinic, discusses how hormones and the environment go hand in hand, and the effects they can have on relationships.
The public is invited to join the world's leading experts in medicine and the health sciences at the spring quarter of UCSF's Mini Medical School, presented by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UCSF.