HBO and Oprah Winfrey Present
later this month Oprah Winfrey is starring in an HBO movie concerning a woman named Henrietta Lacks who died of cervical cancer in 1951.
Her cancerous cells dubbed HeLa were extracted at John Hopkins to be used for medical research.
I was introduced to the existence of HeLa cells and the story behind it when reading Andrew Weil's, MD book "Healthy Aging" in 2005.
John Hopkin's decision to continue their research using Henrietta lack's cancer cells without permission and the issues of bio-medial research in general have been criticized.
I hope HBO treats this subject matter objectively to the benefit of the medical community and the public at large. We will see?
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