First stem cell transplant on Chilean leukemia patient (umbilical cord blood stem cells)
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 06:45:49 PM
Posted by admin / Under Cord (sewing)
| SANTIAGO (AFP) A middle-aged leukemia patient has became Chile's first patient to receive stem cells from an umbilical cord in a radical procedure that could cure the disease, health officials here said Thursday. The 48-year-old man received the transplanted cells on Monday from samples stored in the so-called "Bank of Life" institute, said doctors at Santiago's Catholic University Hospital, where the operation was performed... |
[Umbilical] Cord blood cells may widen treatment window for stroke (Stem Cell Research)
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 06:45:49 PM
Posted by admin / Under Cord (sewing)
| Tampa, FL (Nov. 12, 2005) -- An experimental treatment that spares disability from acute stroke may be delivered much later than the current three-hour treatment standard a potential advance needed to benefit more stroke victims. Researchers at the University of South Florida found that human umbilical cord blood cells administered to rats two days following a stroke greatly curbed the brain's inflammatory response, reducing the size of the stroke and resulting in greatly improved recovery. The rats' inflammatory response to injury from stroke peaked 48 hours after the brain attack, which was when intravenous delivery of the cells appeared... |
An Edwards Outrage (Stem Cell Research column by Dr. Krauthammer)
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 06:45:49 PM
Posted by admin / Under Cord (sewing)
| It turned out days later that the Kerry campaign has a plan -- nay, a promise -- to cure paralysis. What is the plan? John Edwards on Monday at a rally in Newton, Iowa: "If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk, get up out of that wheelchair and walk again." I have never seen a more loathsome display of demagoguery. raising false hope in the catastrophically afflicted is despicable. First, the inability of the human spinal... |




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