NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE
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ast year brought national attention to the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) and its affiliated medical center, UPMC — where I used to work as a therapist — for unethical and legally questionable fetal-tissue research practices following decades of troubling activity at the region’s two largest employers.
After mounting pressure from lawmakers and pro-life groups, last fall Pitt took the self-described “proactive” step of hiring a law firm to conduct a regulatory assessment of the university’s fetal tissue research practices. The investigation was conducted between September and December by D.C.-based Hyman, Phelps & McNamara (HPM), and the full report has been made …