{"id":53845,"date":"2021-04-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/19\/biden-administration-lifts-restrictions-on-medical-research-using-fetal-tissues\/"},"modified":"2021-04-20T17:10:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T17:10:36","slug":"biden-administration-lifts-restrictions-on-medical-research-using-fetal-tissues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/19\/biden-administration-lifts-restrictions-on-medical-research-using-fetal-tissues\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration Lifts Restrictions on Medical Research Using Fetal Tissues"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\n<p>All projects that had been approved before the Trump administration restrictions &#8216;will be reinstated without further review&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>MONDAY, April 19, 2021 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Trump-era restrictions on the use of fetal tissue for medical research have been lifted by the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>The reversal of the restrictions essentially restores the guidelines in place during the Obama administration, <em>The New York Times<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>That means that scientists will again be permitted to use tissue from elective abortions in research to learn more about and try to find treatments for a number of diseases, including diabetes, cancer, AIDS, and COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists will be allowed to buy fetal tissue from sources approved before the ban, and all projects that had been approved before the Trump administration restrictions &#8220;will be reinstated without further review,&#8221; according to an email sent to scientists by the National Institutes of Health, <em>The Times<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/17\/health\/fetal-tissue-abortion-biden.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The New York Times<\/em> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All projects that had been approved before the Trump administration restrictions &#8216;will be reinstated without further review&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":53928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-53845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}