Behavioral health refers to all behaviors that impact health. Mental health and substance use disorders are a very small, but attention getting subset of behavioral health, which includes behaviors related to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, HIV, even ebola, malaria, tuberculosis, and other diseases.
I don't think I said that ... I predicted that human cloning would be with us in 10 years and I still believe that is the case, because there is a demand among a small number of people for this technology to have babies. It's being driven by the marketplace.
And stem cells cloned from someone with a disease could be grown in culture and studied to help researchers understand the disease and develop treatments. In 2013, scientists at Oregon Health and Science University were the first to use cloning techniques to successfully create human embryonicstem cells. The donor DNA came from an 8-month-old with a rare genetic disease. Find out more about Stem Cells.