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As previously reported, On Jan. 29 Catholic Churches around the country read similar letters from their local bishops condemning the Obama administration’s new rules requiring contraception coverage by most health plans, with exemptions that are too narrow to include most Catholic schools and hospitals. It appears that the letter posed particular issues for Catholic chaplains in [...]

In Pakistan, the Lahore High Court is hearing a lawsuit seeking a permanent ban in the country on access to the social netwrking site Facebook because it has hosted a page titled “2nd Annual Draw Muhammad Day-May 20, 2011.” According to Pakistan Today, yesterday, the court issued a temporary order while the case is pending, [...]

The California stem cell agency yesterday finished posting background information for its board meeting Aug. 25, which may be the first time it has provided the information so far in advance. The postings allow the public and interested parties enough time to examine the material and make comments, if so desired. Matters before the board [...]

The California stem cell agency has picked up additional media coverage this week, including a Q & A on Nature magazine’s web site in which CIRM’s new chairman stressed the need for better PR. Also appearing this morning was an editorial in the San Diego Union-Tribune and, earlier this week, an item in a political [...]

Key leaders of the California stem cell agency have scheduled a 60-minute meeting tomorrow to decide long-standing, thorny matters at the billion enterprise, ranging from the province of the new chairman and the current president to just exactly who is a senior officer of CIRM. The matters, which come under the rubric of “internal governance [...]