Stem Cell Treatment Examples

• Texas man reports improvements after autologous stem cell treatment in Thailand for heart failure; more than 200 scientific trials underway in U.S. for stem cell treatments for heart disease. Click here for more information.
• Funding will support stem cell research into treating cancer, diabetes and a host of other devastating diseases that scientists hope will be ready to test in human subjects in the next four years. Click here for more information.
• Real Salt Lake Midfielder’s Andy Williams’ Improved Performance Coincides with His Wife’s Improved Health Click here for more information.
• The PGA of Australia reports in a statement that, “thanks to a miraculous recovery, American crowd favorite and dual Major winner John Daly will return to Australia in December to play the 2009 Australian Open and the Australian PGA Championship…” Click here for more information.
• Stem cells from cord blood also more readily and quickly reprogrammed than other adult cells Click here for more information.
• Children’s Hospital of Colorado enrolling patients for a cord blood stem cell transplant study Click here for more information.
• Dr. Max Gomez of WCBS TV reports on a clinic near Denver, Colorado that is using adult stem cells to treat osteo-arthritis of the knee, hip, ankle, and even back pain. Dr. Christopher Centeno and two of his patients discuss the process and their experience. Click here for more information.
• BBC News reports that researchers in Sao Paulo, Brazil have discovered that fallopian tubes are an abundant source of mesenchymal stem cells. Because fallopian tubes normally are discarded during surgeries such as hysterectomies, they may be good source for non-controversial donor cells for regenerative medicine. In addition, the researchers anticipate that the cells could be useful for understanding and treating fertility problems. The researchers’ findings were published in the Journal of Transitional Medicine. Click here for more information.
• Birmingham Business Journal - Jimmy DeButts reports in article entitled “UAB to Bring Jobs, Research through Stem Cell Institute.” The University of Alabama at Birmingham is building on the success of its existing biotech research facilities to create a Stem Cell Institute. Click here for more information.
• Medical News Today reports that the Center for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine has received $5 million in funding from Ohio’s Third Frontier Commission under the Research Commercialization Program. The Ohio Third Frontier is a bipartisan organization whose aim is to promote the state’s technological strengths and help with commercialization of technologies. The funding will help support new and innovative stem cell technologies including two commercial, four emerging and three pilot projects. This funding will be matched by each of the projects to create a $10 million grant benefiting stem cell and regenerative medicine in Ohio. The Center for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine (CSCRM) is comprised of Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Cleveland Clinic (CC), University Hospitals (UH), and Athersys, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company. "This funding provides CSCRM the support it needs to continue to aggressively move new technologies from academic Click here for more information.
• Promising research which may potentially improve a person’s recovery after suffering a heart attack. Click here for more information.
• ScienceDaily reports that biomedical engineering students at Johns Hopkins University have demonstrated a way to embed a patient's own adult stem cells in the surgical thread that doctors use to repair serious orthopedic injuries such as ruptured tendons. The goal, the students said, is to enhance healing and reduce the likelihood of re-injury without changing the surgical procedure itself. At the site of the injury, the stem cells are expected to reduce inflammation and release growth factor proteins that speed up healing, enhancing the prospects for a full recovery and reducing the likelihood of re-injury. In collaboration with orthopedic physicians, the team's preliminary experiments in an animal model have yielded promising results. Provided the trials continue to be successful, it is estimated that possible human trials could take place within about five years. “We believe the stem cells will significantly speed up and improve the healing process,” said Ma Click here for more information.
• Study aims to learn whether treating newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetics with adult stem cells can either slow or stop the progression of their disease, thereby reducing or even eliminating insulin dependence. Click here for more information.
• Researchers from the City of Hope National Medical Center have reported on a study that suggests that there continues to be improvement in the results of stem cell treatments for patients with secondary leukemia and myelodysplasia. Click here for more information.
• The Reporter’s Kathy Whitney reports that Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute recently enrolled its first patient in a Phase II clinical trial using stem cell treatments aimed to reverse damage to the patient's cardiac muscle caused by heart disease. Click here for more information.
• CEO praises legislative progress to date and encouraging continued momentum for existing bills through the second half of the year. Click here for more information.
• Forbes.com reports that American physicians have performed the first procedure in which a patient received injections of his own heart stem cells to repair cardiac muscle damaged by heart attack. Click here for more information.
• Phase I trial investigating the potential use of stem cells to help reduce or eliminate kidney transplant patients’ reliance on anti-rejection medications Click here for more information.
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