Archive for December, 2009
STEM CELL THERAPY GAVE VISION TO BLIND
A man partially blinded in an attack on Tyneside has praised STEM CELL THERAPY who restored his vision. Russell Turnbull, 38, lost the sight in one eye in 1994 when he was squirted with ammonia after intervening in an argument on a bus in Newcastle. He was left with Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency (LSCD), a painful condition which requires constant treatment. He said the Newcastle University team which developed the treatment had “transformed his life”. The method involves taking a s... Readmore
STEM CELL SAVED LEG OF PATIENT SUFFERING OF CRITICAL LIMD ISCHEMIA
Two million people in the United Sates suffer from critical limb ischemia, or poor blood flow to their legs. As the number of diabetics soars, the number of those affected is expected to almost double by 2020. The condition causes severe pain and chronic infection. Surgery to open blocked veins is often the treatment, but for 40 percent of patients it doesn’t work and they lose their leg to amputation. Now, doctors are turning to a patient’s own body to heal itself. Cathy Ballzigler doesn’... Readmore
Stem Cell Therapy treating Incurable diseases
The use of stem cells continues to rage, many people are starting to look to the potential upside of using stem cells as a deciding factor. Stem cells have remarkable potential to be used to test new drugs, cure previously thought of as incurable diseases, and possibly cure many different types of cancer. Stem Cells can treat diseases which may be 20 years ago were thought of as altogether incurable. Stem cells hold great promise for millions of families and patients thorough out the world, to c... Readmore
Stem cell therapy for heart patients
First heart attack damage can now be reversed with stem cell therapy. An intravenous method of injecting stem cells into patients who had experienced heart attacks within the previous 10 days suggested that this method works to repair — not just manage – heart damage, a recent study found. The new results are a milestone in stem cell research, and for patients, said Jeffrey Karp, a researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, who runs a stem cell biology lab at Harv... Readmore
Liver Cells discovered from the human skin cells
Liver cells from the skin cells of people, potentially paving the way toward better treatments for those with liver disease. “This is a crucial step forward towards developing therapies that can potentially replace the need for scarce liver transplants, currently the only treatment for most advanced liver disease,” the study’s lead author, Stephen A. Duncan. Liver disease is the fourth-leading cause of death among middle-age people in the United States. Causes include genetic f... Readmore
Cord Blood Transplant May Treat Metabolic Disorders
Cord-blood transplants to treat genetic metabolic disorders in babies while they’re still in the womb. The new method uses a small, select number of therapeutic stem cells that have been treated to speed and improve engraftment (acceptance of the transplant by the body), explained Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg, a professor of pediatrics and pathology and director of the pediatric blood and marrow transplant program at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C. The new procedure in a pilot tria... Readmore
Cord Blood Stem Cell for Lung Disease-Kidney and Lupus
Umbilical cord blood from newborn babies can be used to produce embryonic-like cells that can potentially treat diseases and debilitating conditions. Now it is possible to differentiate cord blood cells into a type of lung cell. These cells help to repair the airway in lungs after injury. This is a significant discovery because until now the use of brain stem cells was the only way to conduct viable research of this type. In the future, researchers might be able to examine cord blood from babies... Readmore
Collaboration of SCGF with Korean Center
Stem cell therapy has the potential to revolutionize the treatment of a variety of human ailments. Rather than addressing the symptoms of a particular disease or condition, stem cell therapy seeks to address the cause of the condition, to effect repair or reversal of the disease state through the regeneration of the affected tissue. Two Different hands have joined for the betterment of society. Stem Cell Global Foundation, have joined hands with Korean center after mutual discussion and finally ... Readmore
Stem Cell Transplant saved life of Patients suffering from incurable diseases
The cancer that has riddled Jordyn Boucher’s blood since she was 15 months old is progressing. Santa made a special trip to Brentwood last week so Jordyn’s family could celebrate Christmas before they traveled to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., where Jordyn will receive a bone marrow transplant from her father, Brian. Jordyn’s family is praying for a Christmas miracle. But for many other cancer patients, Jordyn was their miracle. One of th... Readmore
Stem cells save limb damage
Blood vessel blockage, a common condition in old age or diabetes, leads to low blood flow and results in low oxygen, which can kill cells and tissues. Such blockages can require amputation of limbs. Developed therapies that increase blood flow, improve movement and decrease tissue death and the need for amputation. “In a young, healthy individual, hypoxia—low oxygen levels—triggers the body to make factors that help coordinate the growth of new blood vessels, but this process doesn’t wor... Readmore
Stem Cell Treatment for Multiple sclerosis
Ben Leahy, 20, was diagnosed with the disease in 2008 and lost the ability to stand within a few months. However, a new procedure to combat the disease has helped him regain his health and he is now walking again. The treatment targets the immune system of multiple sclerosis patients, which turns in on it causing damage to nerves which can lead to blurred vision, loss of balance and paralysis. Doctors carried out a new technique to remove stem cells from his bone marrow before using chemicals to... Readmore
Cord Blood Stem Cells breakthroughs
Cord blood, called placental blood, is the blood that remains in the placenta and umbilical cord following birth, after the umbilical cord is cut. Generally, this blood is disposed of with the placenta and umbilical cord. There is much controversy regarding the use of stem cell research as it pertains to the use of embryos. However, there have been new scientific breakthroughs in the field of stem cell research using cord blood stem cells from living babies. A team of South Korean researchers, h... Readmore
Stem cell therapy for eye disease
The first successful treatments of eight patients with “Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency” (LSCD) using the patients’ own stem cells without the need of suppressing their immunity. LSCD is a painful, blinding disease that requires long-term, costly treatment with frequent clinic visits and intensive hospital admissions. The vision loss due to LSCD makes this disease not only costly, but often requires social support due to the enormous impact on patient’s quality of life. This... Readmore
