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 President Bush is against stem cell research, even though it shows promise of finding cures for Parkinsons, Alzheimers and other serious diseases. Now it's also showing promise for bigger boobs! Dr. Kotaro Yoshimura of the University of Tokyo has begun a clinical trial transplanting a mixture of fat cells and stem cells into breasts. "The stem cells may create fresh fat cells and coax blood vessels to grow into and nurture the new tissue," says Yoshimura. "This should boost tissue survival."
But transferring a person's own fat cells seems preferable to saline or silicon implants, because the immune system does not reject familiar cells. The appearance would be more natural as well. And what woman would mind having a few pounds of her fat rearranged? "There's no other tissue you can take that amount of," says Marc Hedrick of the University of California, Los Angeles, and chief scientific officer for MacroPore Biosurgery in San Diego, California. Yoshimura and his associates performed the operation on their first patient in January and have 30 more patients waiting for the procedure pending approval from a review board. UCLA's Hedrick believes that fat stem cells have a bright future, perhaps eventually being used to repair heart muscle and bone fractures or in other developing stem-cell therapies. Thus far, researchers have been unable to coax stem cells into becoming blood, muscle or bone cells. Perhaps Dr. Yoshimura's breast experiments will offer not only a Hallelujah moment for the women, but a Eureka moment for stem cell researchers. Now THAT'S Security! If you've flown anywhere over the past two years, you've experienced increased security at US airports. Of course, our international friends have always had tight security, with gun-toting guards to discourage packing a nail file or wearing exploding sneakers. Imagine their surprise when a metal detector alarm was set off by a chastity belt!  The 40-year-old British woman was going through security at the Athens airport. She had been vacationing in Greece without her husband, who evidently had his doubts about his wife's ability to resist the advances of Greek men. He purportedly forced her to wear the chastity belt to ensure that no international intercourse would take place. Heh. We know it's all about the romance anyway, don't we?While we can assume the woman didn't enjoy any vaginal penetration, there's no guarantee that she didn't have any other sorts of sex. Or, for that matter, an extramarital affair. "The woman was allowed to fly on to London on the pilot's responsibility," airport police official Tzouvaras added. Is it just us, or does this "unlock" vast new opportunities for smuggling? Subject: thnx for std On Thursday, February 19, Dr. Pragna Patel of Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control released a case study of a Los Angeles County pilot program that involves health officials using e-mail and the Internet to notify the sex partners of people who had been diagnosed with STDs. With so many people meeting up - and hooking up - anonymously through Internet chat rooms and networking sites, often the only way of reaching these at-risk partners is digitally. Dr. Patel said that San Francisco's Health Department is the only other agency believed to be handling the problem in this manner.  Los Angeles County recently reported its first increase in new AIDS cases in a decade, so it is urgent that they find efficient ways to curb STDs and promote prevention. "I think when we are in a war to save lives, we have to use any means necessary to get the message out," said Sandra Singleton McDonald, who runs an Atlanta AIDS program and is on the President's Advisory Committee on HIV and AIDS.The increase in new AIDS cases was entirely among men. The county also reported that nearly a quarter of 759 gay and bisexual men diagnosed with syphilis had met their sex partners on the Internet between 2001 and 2003. It was tough for health officials not to notice the correlation. In the Los Angeles case study, county officials described a 31-year-old man who tested positive for syphilis in March 2003. He provided the county with 16 e-mail addresses of recent partners and almost half of those partners made arrangements to be tested. In another case, a man who was diagnosed with syphilis in 2002 reported that he'd had sex with 134 male partners over a six-month period. Health officials sent out e-mails to 111 of those partners, alerting them that they may have been exposed to an STD. A quarter of those people contacted the health department. Better to live by the email than die by the email. I Got a Neck for Ya Right Here! Security guard Joshua Keasler accused shock rocker Marilyn Manson of sexual assault and filed a civil lawsuit. The suit was dismissed on January 28 when the two sides reached a settlement, an attorney for the plaintiff said. "I can now go on with my life and try to close this unhappy chapter," Keasler said. Guess the guy's not a big goth fan! Not Feeling It In 1996, Climax, Minnesota, a town of 270 near the North Dakota border, adopted "More than a feeling" as its centennial slogan. The line of Boston lyrics was used in advertising and promotions, and T-shirts emblazoned with the catchy phrase have been around for years. But it seems that actually wearing one of those shirts can get you expelled.  These shirts hadn't caused any controversy until recently, when a teacher wearing one inspired a complaint from a fellow townsperson. Superintendent of Climax-Shelly schools Shirley Moberg declared T-shirts bearing the slogan inappropriate due to the sexual innuendo and forbade students to wear them, an official said.When a dozen students sported their centennial shirts to school in protest, they were instructed to turn them inside out. Eleven of them followed instructions, but fearless First Amendment fighter 18-year-old Bethany Grove refused and was suspended for the afternoon. "The T-shirt has been a tradition," Grove said. "It's been around for almost 10 years. A lot of people have them." And one last slap on the behind Iowa State University's student bondage club got into big trouble over a flogging demonstration. University officials charge that even a consensual whipping amounts to assault. Senior Duane Long Junior, president of Cuff's, says the assault rules shouldn't apply when the actions involve consenting adults. No criminal charges will be filed, but it remains to be seen if the students will be disciplined. Heh-heh. Don't those officials know that BDSM groups like Cuffs enjoy discipline? Seriously, the students could be put on probation or merely receive a warning. Either way, we believe their rights have been violated.
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