My good friends Richard Long and Ariane Zurcher have done a wonderful job doing everything they can to help Emma, their autistic daughter. This entry in their blog by Richard is particularly heartbreaking:

“I’m feeling stunned. Early this morning, Ariane and I spoke at length with two of the pre-eminent doctors in the field of stem cell research out of Boston Children’s Hospital. They not only called into question the theoretical basis of what we had been told about the scientific rationale for the stem cell treatments we gave Emma, but warned us that they had the potential to be ‘extremely dangerous.’

“It is possible that this could be another case of “he said, she said,” and that the doctors who recommended the treatment we have been following are every bit as knowledgeable and ex”perienced as the doctors who were warning us not to undergo another such treatment, but frankly, these particular doctors are so highly credentialed that I have to give their opinions more weight….” For more go to Emma’s Hope Book.