June 8, 2001

Senator Blasts Agency for Ordering Officials to Revise Letters on Stem-Cell Research

By RON SOUTHWICK

Sen. Arlen Specter rebuked the Department of Health and Human Services last month for demanding that officials at the National Institutes of Health make changes in letters they had written about the scientific benefits of research on stem cells taken from human embryos.

At a hearing scheduled to discuss the N.I.H. budget for the 2002 fiscal year, Senator Specter asked the Health and Human Services Department to provide copies of the original letters. Mr. Specter, a Pennsylvania

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