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	<title>Keva Blog &#187; Stem Cell</title>
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		<title>Adult Stem Cells  for broken jawbones</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 11:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elsie Broche</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adult, stem cells continue to show remarkable results in treating injuries and diseases.
Bone Repair Cells (BRCs) were used to repair the faces of patients suffering from severe craniofacial defects.
 Dr. Jose Mendonca, Director of the Head and Neck Surgery Unit of Hospital POLUSA in Lugo, Spain and previously a Clinical and Research Fellow in Oral [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Adult, stem cells continue to show remarkable results in treating injuries and diseases.<br />
Bone Repair Cells (BRCs) were used to repair the faces of patients suffering from severe craniofacial defects.<br />
 Dr. Jose Mendonca, Director of the Head and Neck Surgery Unit of Hospital POLUSA in Lugo, Spain and previously a Clinical and Research Fellow in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the UCLA School of Dentistry, go through the results of treatment with BRCs in three patients who are suffering with craniofacial defects, as follows: </p>
<p>The first patient was treated for severe mandibular osteoradionecrosis, or osteonecrosis of the jaw caused by radiation, and presented with pathological fracture and complete numbness of the lower lip. At 12 months post-BRC treatment, the patient displayed restored vascular function, new bone formation, fracture consolidation and total recovery of lip numbness. </p>
<p>The second patient was treated for post-traumatic mandibular osteomyelitis and presented with massive bone loss, chronic infection, chronic pain and total impairment of function of both mandibular nerves. At 12 months post-BRC treatment, the patient experienced complete functional nerve recovery and the formation of new bone. </p>
<p>The third patient was treated for iatrogenic massive bone loss in the posterior maxilla and presented with severe oral function impairment. At 12 months post-BRC treatment, the patient had new bone formation in atrophic areas. </p>
<p>All of the patients had a minor surgery to insert a dental implant into the newly regenerated jaw bone. Eight weeks later, the dental prosthesis (teeth) was attached to the implant completing the treatment objectives with the restoration of oral function. </p>
<p>&#8220;The outcome of these treatments with BRCs has been very satisfactory and acceptable. The experts observed early bone formation in the afflicted areas that eventually resulted in complete healing,&#8221; said Dr. Mendonca. &#8220;Unexpected therapeutic results from treatment with BRCs include peripheral nerve regeneration or repair, new skin formation and proliferation in blood vessels in ischemic areas!! </p>
<p>RSCI knew that this “trial” would succeed, but how well it came out surprised for all of us, those who have seen five years of Repair Stem Cell successes month after month. We look for unexpected side effects&#8212;always positive&#8212;ever since TheraVitae’s pioneer heart stem cells surprised everyone by improving the patients’ diabetes in one out of six cases. These “side effects” are, well, astonishing.<br />
These sorts of results and methods are definitely going to serve the humanity in a best way.</p>
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		<title>Why We Need Stem Cell Transplant</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 10:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elsie Broche</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stem cell transplant is the new buzzword in medical technology and is one of the best known methods for curing the incurable diseases. More and more parents are investing in cord blood stem cell banking as means of securing their kid&#8217;s future. But do you really need to bank your kid&#8217;s stem cells? Read on, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stem cell transplant is the new buzzword in medical technology and is one of the best known methods for curing the incurable diseases. More and more parents are investing in cord blood stem cell banking as means of securing their kid&#8217;s future. But do you really need to bank your kid&#8217;s stem cells? Read on, while we tell you whether it is a good idea or not!</p>
<p>The biggest advantage with such transplants is that these cells can grow into other cell tissues. This opens up a whole new world of treatments for diseases like Alzheimer&#8217;s, diabetes and Parkinson&#8217;s, apart from debilitating blood diseases and many more. So, decide yourself whether to invest in it or not?</p>
<p> From our point of view yes, if your family has a history of genetic disease that can be cured. Though your child will benefit the most from it, should he need it, you as a parent can also benefit from it. Research shows that a patient has more chances of success by transplants of stem cells than he does with a bone marrow and if they are sure about it why not we try. Already may people goes for it and got awesome results which they can’t expect and believe. You should consider this more seriously under the following conditions:</p>
<p>1. Susceptibility to leukemia- umbilical cord blood cells have been used to treat childhood leukemia for a time now. However, there has also been lot of improvement in the field of treating adult leukemia with stem cell therapy. Stem cells have been revolutionary in the treatment of conditions like thalassemia and Parkinson&#8217;s disease.</p>
<p>2. Spinal injuries-Stem cell have also had miraculous results in treating spinal cord injuries. Umbilical stem cell has also been promising in case of a rare genetic disorder called Krabbe disease.</p>
<p>3. Lymphoproliferative diseases – As per the researches and the innovations in the treatment, Stem cells have been particularly effective in the treatment of Lymphoproliferative diseases.<br />
Hayden resident Rami Amaro was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis a few years ago. She is one of only a few people in the country who will receive a stem cell transplant as treatment for the disease. After the treatment she is living a happy disease free life.</p>
<p>If you need a stem cell match for treatment, you stand more of a chance with your own cells or that of a close relative’s. Stem cell transplant is also a good idea if you are adopting a baby at birth or do not know a lot about the genetic background of the baby. Since you will not be able to provide genetic support for such a kid, it is better to secure her future by banking the cells.</p>
<p> Treatments are also no longer confined to your dream. Cell banking facilities that are available across the world have made it possible for you to preserve these precious cells, with the minimum of discomfort and expense. By doing so you can secure the future of your generation and helps them to live happily without any disease. You can begin treatment as soon as you need it. You do not have to look for matching donors. Also, you are less susceptible to viral infections.</p>
<p>With the onslaught of new disease every few days, stem cell banking can be the best gift you provide your child- the gift of life! </p>
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		<title>Patient got free of HIV after stem cell transplant</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elsie Broche</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 42-year-old HIV patient with leukemia appears to have no detectable HIV in his blood and no symptoms after a stem cell transplant from a donor carrying a gene mutation that confers natural resistance to the virus that causes AIDS, according to a report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A 42-year-old HIV patient with leukemia appears to have no detectable HIV in his blood and no symptoms after a stem cell transplant from a donor carrying a gene mutation that confers natural resistance to the virus that causes AIDS, according to a report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.<br />
The patient underwent a stem cell transplant and since, has not tested for HIV in his blood.<br />
&#8220;The patient is fine,&#8221; said Dr. Gero Hutter of Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin in Germany. &#8220;Today, two years after his transplantation, he is still without any signs of HIV disease and without antiretroviral medication.&#8221;<br />
This case was first reported in November and it was handles by Hutter and a team of medical professionals who performed the stem cell transplant on the patient, an American living in Germany, to treat the man&#8217;s leukemia not the HIV itself. The team deliberately chose a compatible donor who has a naturally occurring gene mutation that confers resistance to HIV. The mutation cripples a receptor known as CCR5, which is normally found on the surface of T cells, the type of immune system cells attacked by HIV.<br />
The mutation is known as CCR5 delta32 and is found in 1 percent to 3 percent of white populations of European descent. HIV uses the CCR5 as a co-receptor (in addition to CD4 receptors) to latch on to and ultimately destroy immune system cells. Since the virus can&#8217;t gain a foothold on cells that lack CCR5, people who have the mutation have natural protection. (There are other, less common HIV strains that use different co-receptors.)<br />
People who inherit one copy of CCR5 delta32 take longer to get sick or develop AIDS if infected with HIV. People with two copies (one from each parent) may not become infected at all. The stem cell donor had two copies.<br />
Less invasive options to alter CCR5 could be on the horizon within the next five years, said Levy. &#8220;It&#8217;s definitely the wave of the future,&#8221; he said. &#8220;As we continue to follow this one patient, we will learn a lot.&#8221;<br />
One drug that&#8217;s currently on the market that blocks CCR5 is called maraviroc (Selzentry). It was first approved in 2007 and is used in combination with other antiretroviral drugs. In 2007, an estimated 2 million people died from AIDS, and 2.7 million people contracted HIV. More than 15 million women are infected worldwide. HIV/AIDS can be transmitted through sexual intercourse, sharing needles, pregnancy, breast-feeding, and/or blood transfusions with an infected person.<br />
Stem cells from bone marrow, which are also found in circulating blood, have the ability to form blood cells including the white blood cells that fight infection. These are the cells that are attacked by the virus, crippling patients’ immune systems.</p>
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		<title>Stem Cells for treatment of damaged hearts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elsie Broche</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Stem cell that promote stem cell treatment to desperate people with promises of wonder treatments. Stem Cells are engaged in the field of regenerative medicine. This includes the treatment of patients with stem cell transplantation therapy.
Scientists have for the first time succeeded in extracting vital stem cells from sections of vein removed for heart [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Stem cell that promote stem cell treatment to desperate people with promises of wonder treatments. Stem Cells are engaged in the field of regenerative medicine. This includes the treatment of patients with stem cell transplantation therapy.<br />
Scientists have for the first time succeeded in extracting vital stem cells from sections of vein removed for heart bypass surgery. Stem Cell Researchers found that these stem cells can stimulate new blood vessels to grow, which could potentially help the heart patients in repairing the damaged heart muscle after a heart attack.<br />
The research, by Paolo Madeddu, Professor of Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine and his team in the Bristol Heart Institute (BHI) at the University of Bristol, is published in the leading journal Circulation.</p>
<p> It has been found that around 20,000 people each year undergo heart bypass surgery across the globe. The procedure for bypass surgery involves taking a piece of vein from the person&#8217;s leg and grafting it onto a diseased coronary artery to divert blood around a blockage or narrowing. However, the surgeon normally takes out a longer section of vein than is needed for the bypass. The Bristol team of experts successfully isolated stem cells from leftover veins that patients had agreed to donate. Professor Madeddu and his team are now beginning to investigate whether the cells can help the heart to recover from a heart attack and they are extremely confident that they are going to get the positive results and if they are successful it will surely be an important discovery in the field of medical science as thousands of needy patients are looking for it.<br />
This is the first time in the history of the medical science that anyone has been able to extract stem cells from sections of vein left over from heart bypass operations. This is one of the important breakthroughs in the field of stem cell research. According to Professor Madeddu, &#8220;These cells might make it possible for a person having a bypass to also receive a heart treatment using their body&#8217;s own stem cells.”<br />
&#8220;We can also multiply these stem cells in the lab to make millions more stem cells, which could potentially be stored in a bank and used to treat thousands of patients and helps them to live a happy life.&#8221;<br />
Professor Peter Weissberg, Medical Director of the BHF, said: &#8220;Repairing a damaged heart is the holy grail for heart patients. The discovery that cells taken from patients&#8217; own blood vessels may be able to stimulate new blood vessels to grow in damaged tissues is a very encouraging and important advance. It brings the possibility of &#8216;cell therapy&#8217; for damaged hearts one step closer and, importantly, if the chemical messages produced by the cells can be identified, it is possible that drugs could be developed to achieve the same end.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>KNOW MORE ABOUT STEM CELLS</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elsie Broche</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stem cell therapy is going to revolutionize how we treat hearing loss, ATS, cancer, Parkinson’s and other deadly diseases. As stem cell treatments are taking place worldwide, there is a need to understand what they exactly mean. In terms of medical fraternity, stem cells are the life providers of human beings and their use in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stem cell therapy is going to revolutionize how we treat hearing loss, ATS, cancer, Parkinson’s and other deadly diseases. As stem cell treatments are taking place worldwide, there is a need to understand what they exactly mean. In terms of medical fraternity, stem cells are the life providers of human beings and their use in the right way will lead to new discoveries in the field of medical sciences in coming years. Stem Cell Industry has already become an important part of the medical industry because of its successfulness in treating many incurable diseases with a lot of positive results. Most of the people are familiar about Stem Cell research and how it helped with a windpipe transplant. But still most people do not understand how stem cells work in the body and what part they can play in future medicine, especially for senior citizens and those with disabilities.<br />
Stem cells are very much different and unique from the other cells in the body but  all the stem cells shares three general properties: they can divide and renew themselves over long periods of time, they are unspecialized (they can become any type of cell), they can cause specialized cells to occur.<br />
There are two types of stem cells: embryonic and adult. But a big question which scientists are trying to understand is: why embryonic stem cells can reproduce themselves for a year or more and adult stem cells cannot and what are the natural factors the regulate stem cell proliferation.<br />
When we say stem cells are unspecialized it means that a stem cell is not a specific type of tissue. It is not bone, muscle, or blood cell. It is a blank canvas of sorts. However, an unspecialized stem cell can give rise to specialized cells like heart muscle, blood cells, or nerve cells.<br />
Stem cells can divide and renew themselves for long periods of time. Muscle, blood, and nerve cells do not normally replicate themselves. Stem cells can replicate themselves many times over. Replicating themselves repeatedly is called proliferation. So, a small number of stem cells that is allowed to proliferate for a few months can yield several million identical cells that have the same ability to proliferate.<br />
Stem cells can give rise to specialized cells. A blank cell can become like the cells around it if it is in the bloodstream and attaches to a piece of body tissue. If you have an injury in a muscle, it becomes muscle tissue, a joint injury and stem cells could become cartilage, and so on in this way helps to fight against the diseases and helps the patients to recover their health without any side effects.<br />
One major difference found between Embryonic and adult stem cells is that: adult stem cells are found in an adult human body and embryonic stem cells originate from a deceased fetus.<br />
One must be glad to know that adult stem cells are found in nearly every part of the body: the brain, bone marrow, blood, blood vessels, skeletal muscle, skin, and liver. These cells are used for cures and treatments of various incurable diseases like: replacing the dopamine-producing cells in Parkinson’s patients, insulin producing cells for Type I diabetics, and repairing damaged heart muscle after a heart attack. Other possible treatments are for spinal cord injuries and arthritis.<br />
Perhaps one of the most promising applications of stem cell therapy is in the generation of cells and tissues that could be used for cell-based therapy. Donated organs are used to replace ailing</p>
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		<title>Cord Blood Stem Cells successfully used to treat child’s leukemia disease.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elsie Broche</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now a day’s across all over the world Cord blood  is used as an alternative to bone marrow transplant when in future if the child or his family member is diagnosed with cancers such as leukemia, lymphoma and other disorders of the blood-making system, such as sickle-cell anemia; severe immune-system disorders; and genetic defects [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now a day’s across all over the world Cord blood  is used as an alternative to bone marrow transplant when in future if the child or his family member is diagnosed with cancers such as leukemia, lymphoma and other disorders of the blood-making system, such as sickle-cell anemia; severe immune-system disorders; and genetic defects affecting the blood-making system. But miracles took place so far and yet the journey didn’t ended and experts are looking for more to serve the patients in a better way.<br />
 A four year old leukemia patient was provided a life saving dose of her very own cord blood. This little girl is at this point a growing seven year old — a result, say her health professionals, of the revolutionary treatment that helped her gets well after major chemo and is living happily now.<br />
 “There is a very good likelihood this course of action ended up saving her life. She is in remission and now has a real possibility of being completely cured,” claimed Ammar Hayani, the pediatric oncologist who took care of the little girl at Advocate Hope Children’s Hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill.<br />
In 2003, the young girl was diagnosed with the most typical childhood cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and went on intensive radiation treatment.<br />
She swiftly began recovering, however right after 12 months the cancer returned, and this time it attacks the spinal column area. As per the distressing occurrence it had been revealed that the disease was an especially potent type which would possibly not react adequately to medication, Hayani reported.<br />
The little girls’ physicians replied by way of a far more ambitious radiation treatment, and subsequently searched for approaches in order to restore the blood system they had wiped out.<br />
In most cases they would most likely have had to decide between a blood or perhaps bone marrow transplant received from a relative and / or not related contributor, only for this particular instance, the actual family members were not even a match.<br />
After the overall evaluation instead of using blood coming from an unrelated donor, they came up with a decision to take the controversial and uncertain action of using the young child’s personal cord blood, that had happened to be frozen and filed at a exclusive blood storage facility right after her birth in 2001 as in the earlier case there will be chance of lifelong problems according to experts.<br />
“All of us were in unfamiliar waters,” explained Hayani. “We could not foresee with virtually any confidence if the surgical intervention might turn out to be a success. We had virtually no solid statistics, yet her mother and father seemed genuinely at ease with it, thus we resolved to go forward with their support and faith on us.”<br />
The little girl’s parents assessed the particular problems and trusted that their daughter’s very own stem cells, found within her cord blood, would most likely help her much more than stem cells collected from the bone marrow or blood of other people.<br />
But after the treatment the success so far indicates they made the appropriate decision, said Hayani who described the little girl’s condition in a report which featured in the January 2010 issue of the journal Pediatrics.<br />
“It’s difficult to argue with successful results. Relapse appears to be pretty unlikely at this particular point in time, and she has an excellent quality of life, significantly better in comparison with if she had obtained stem cells from a donor.”</p>
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		<title>Patient receives two transplants successfully</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elsie Broche</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many breakthroughs took place in the history of medical science especially the miracles being done by stem cells. From all these here is one miracle which will touch the hearts of masses makes people believe that nothing is impossible to achieve in the present scenario.
Here is the story of 15-year-old Laura Margaret Burbach toting oxygen [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many breakthroughs took place in the history of medical science especially the miracles being done by stem cells. From all these here is one miracle which will touch the hearts of masses makes people believe that nothing is impossible to achieve in the present scenario.</p>
<p>Here is the story of 15-year-old Laura Margaret Burbach toting oxygen and appearing wan &#8211; scary on a 4-foot, 5-inch teenager who weighed less than 60 pounds. Laura Margaret&#8217;s lungs were shot. Because of repeated infections and her faulty immune system, her lungs were no longer capable of keeping her alive. Laura was being diagnosed when she was 6 months old.</p>
<p>Arriving at Duke last June, the Burbachs family- David, Sarah and Laura Margaret &#8211; were supposed to initiate the process of getting Laura Margaret a bone marrow or cord blood transplant. It was a risky but fairly common procedure. With her respiratory system in such bad shape, however, Laura Margaret also needed new lungs which mean she requires double transplantation. The double transplant had never been undertaken, or at least never chronicled in medical literature. But without providing both transplants, Laura Margaret would die. The doctors have no other alternative available except this.</p>
<p>&#8220;I really think it was her only chance,&#8221; said Dr. David Zaas, her pulmonologist. Eager to save Laura Margaret, they might inch medicine ahead by setting the foundation for a new approach that could help many others.</p>
<p> Laura was among the best of the chaps as at Morgan County High School, she was a member of the student council and became a cheerleader &#8211; one of the featherweight girls at the top of pyramids who gets somersaulted into the air. She had sleepovers, got her learner&#8217;s permit to drive, and excelled in school with challenging Advanced Placement classes.</p>
<p>But her achievements were made in spite of endless infections that took a huge toll. Her lungs, in particular, bore the brunt.</p>
<p>&#8220;It was just another facet of our lives,&#8221; Laura Margaret said. &#8220;Most people wake up and take a shower and go to school. I would wake up and run IVs, and do my breathing treatment and then shower and go to school.&#8221;</p>
<p>After the proper evaluation the doctors develop a new idea which is transplanting new lungs to solve her immediate problems, and new marrow to correct the underlying flaws of her immune system.</p>
<p>As per the doctors the combination would protect Laura Margaret against the main reason transplants fail: rejection, which occurs when the recipient&#8217;s immune system attacks the new organ as a foreign invader. If Laura Margaret&#8217;s new immune system came from the same donor as the lungs, it would have no cause to attack.</p>
<p>&#8220;The idea that we might be able to essentially create an immune system that wouldn&#8217;t react against the organ is something of the Holy Grail that we all hope to achieve,&#8221; said Dr. R. Duane Davis, her lung transplant surgeon.<br />
They wanted to use the lungs and marrow of an unrelated deceased donor, and do two full transplants weeks apart.</p>
<p>Laura Margaret had been on the transplant list less than one week when the call came that she was a match for lungs and marrow from a deceased donor.</p>
<p>On Dec. 16 Davis along with his team of experts performed the lung transplant. Twenty-four hours later, everybody saw her walking out of bed and the results were amazing.</p>
<p>&#8220;Almost immediately I noticed a difference,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>On Dec. 23, she was discharged, and began preparing for her bone marrow transplant. As the day approached, she was given chemotherapy and a shot of radiation to wipe out her deficient immune cells. Then on April 2, the healthy bone marrow cells of a person who died in December began flowing from an IV line into Laura Margaret&#8217;s veins.</p>
<p>The experts called her recovery remarkable. Wearing a festive top hat and a surgical mask that revealed only her eyes, Laura Margaret emerged from her hospital room into the hall of the bone marrow transplant unit where she had lived for nearly a month. Nurses, doctors, technicians, fellow patients and their families lined the hall and showered her with pink confetti to celebrate her discharge. As the other young patients watched, Laura Margaret fought sobs.&#8221;I can&#8217;t believe this is happening,&#8221; she cried. &#8220;I was diagnosed when I was 6 months old, and I&#8217;m now 16, and I don&#8217;t have immune deficiency syndrome anymore!&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Stem Cells Treatment for Kawasaki</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elsie Broche</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Symptoms of Kawasaki Syndrome could be substantially lessened and may even be reversed with placental stem cell treatment. This belief is on the positive responses of more than 2,000 patients who have sought treatment at a clinic just over the border in Mexico during the past 17 years. The clinic has used placental stem cells [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Symptoms of Kawasaki Syndrome could be substantially lessened and may even be reversed with placental stem cell treatment. This belief is on the positive responses of more than 2,000 patients who have sought treatment at a clinic just over the border in Mexico during the past 17 years. The clinic has used placental stem cells to treat cerebral palsy, Muscular Dystrophy, skin disorders, auto-immune conditions, liver and kidney disorders, and viruses (including Hepatitis C). Some stroke patients have regained complete function of their bodies.</p>
<p>W. R. Haynes 35 years old began having seizures. She was referred to several facilities and was examined by numerous physicians and spent thousands of dollars seeking answers, but none of the doctors could find a reason for the seizures. </p>
<p>In 1991, Ms. Haynes had a stroke that left her mobility challenged and unable to conduct her normal speech pattern. She remained in that condition for one and a half year and after that she went for treatment. She received her first placental stem cell implant in one of the center in Mexico.<br />
After the few days of treatment she finds improvement in her kidney function. Within three weeks, her speech had returned to normal. Within five weeks, she had full use of her limbs, and she returned to her full-time job six weeks after treatment. </p>
<p>“I am seizure free,” says Haynes, “and have reduced my medicine intake by half. I still receive a placenta stem cell treatment every six to seven months. I am thankful to God for receiving placenta stem cell implants and I now have the quality of life that I was meant to have.” </p>
<p>If we see the things in the broader sense it is quite easy to see how placenta stem cell treatment could offer hope to parents of children with Kawasaki Syndrome or seizure disorder,” says experts. </p>
<p>ICSI have successfully treated patients (including children) with similar seizure disorders, problems with the circulatory system, and immune deficiency.  “Perhaps it’s a big leap, but this type of stem cell treatment may be worth considering when parents run out of conventional treatment options for their child who is suffering.”</p>
<p>Scientists have known for many years that stem cells restore the body&#8217;s health by targeting sites of injury and disease, clearing toxins from threatened tissue, and replacing dead and dying cells. </p>
<p>What many people may not be aware of is that well-documented placental stem cell implant therapy has been safely and effectively improving and restoring the health of patients in Europe for 25 years. Because they are harvested after the birth of a healthy baby, placental stem cells are not encumbered by the political and religious trappings of their embryonic counterparts. </p>
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		<title>Stem Cell Therapy Treatment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elsie Broche</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stem cell therapy is going to revolutionize how we treat hearing loss, ATS, cancer, Parkinson’s and other deadly diseases. As stem cell treatments are taking place worldwide, there is a need to understand what they exactly mean. In terms of medical fraternity, stem cells are the life providers of human beings and their use in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stem cell therapy is going to revolutionize how we treat hearing loss, ATS, cancer, Parkinson’s and other deadly diseases. As stem cell treatments are taking place worldwide, there is a need to understand what they exactly mean. In terms of medical fraternity, stem cells are the life providers of human beings and their use in the right way will lead to new discoveries in the field of medical sciences in coming years. Stem Cell Industry has already become an important part of the medical industry because of its successfulness in treating many incurable diseases with a lot of positive results.</p>
<p>At present scenario in Mexico, Stem Cell therapy is an effective way of treating various incurable diseases and the results are quite significant.</p>
<p>These stem cells can slow the ageing process and help people stay healthy in many ways for a longer period of time. They can boost the immune system and provide additional strength to the body so that we can do our daily activities efficiently. There are different types of stem cells present in the body which includes autologous, xenogenic, and allogenic. The common functionality of a stem cell is to differentiate between tissues and their healing power. The damaged tissues are repaired by these cells as they work together with systemic cells in the body. For stem cell treatment, Tijuana has world renowned doctors whom you can check out for any queries. Tijuana stem cell therapy treatment  is one of the best in the world.</p>
<p>SCGF is another association that provides stem cell therapy treatment following the proper ethical standards to the needy patients through its different centers at different parts of the world. Thousands of patients are already been treated by the center successfully who are living a normal, happy and healthier life now.</p>
<p>Adult stem cells also hold the key in understanding how we can use these cells to treat lethal diseases. Adults stem cells are taken from one’s own bone marrow and are thus different from embryonic stem cells. These cells have the special ability/ property to renew themselves and thus can repair tissues hence providing vital regenerative powers to the body to fight against any sort of disease and disorder. These sorts of therapy treatment are successfully being followed in SCGF centers in Germany.</p>
<p>In some cases, researchers have found very positive results in the patients with multiple sclerosis. Though there is a lot of research going on for the treatments of these diseases yet a lot more funding is required to gain more knowledge. Stem cells research Mexico are indeed going to play a major role in diagnoses and prognosis for a disease and how effectively the damaged cells are removed and changed with regenerative cells through stem cell therapy.</p>
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		<title>Break Through in Cord Blood services</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elsie Broche</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cord blood is that type of blood which is left in the umbilical cord and placenta right after the birth of the child and is collected when the cord has been cut off. After the child is born the umbilical cord is routinely discarded with the placenta and is also known as placental blood.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cord blood is that type of blood which is left in the umbilical cord and placenta right after the birth of the child and is collected when the cord has been cut off. After the child is born the umbilical cord is routinely discarded with the placenta and is also known as placental blood.<br />
Our Cord blood has lots of blood producing stem cells which can be frozen and later can be used for transplants. The cord blood contains blood-producing hematopoietic stem cells as well as mesenchymal stem cells.<br />
Cord blood is already helping many patients suffering from many incurable diseases including cancer patients and those suffering from blood disorders. Now, an impressive development takes place in the stem cell industry as doctors are using umbilical cord blood to tackle a new set of incurable conditions including brain damage to diabetes.<br />
Recently a stroke at birth caused 6-year-old, cerebral palsy which is one of the disorders and is highly effective. He’s one among many kids getting infusions of his own cord blood at one of the center in N.C. According to the experts the stem cells in baby cord blood will improve his brain function.<br />
As per the discussion the expert says “These stem cells go to the brain as we infuse them in the blood, and they can help repair damage in the brain, and we’re hoping in children with cerebral palsy it will be beneficial”. Doctors have reported the cord blood stem cells have the potential to reduce the baby’s muscle tightness, improve his mobility and help his speech over the next year.<br />
Another major breakthrough takes place as experts using infusion to fight type-1 diabetes.<br />
A patient named Barrett Ross received a cord blood infusion and right after that he cut his insulin use by two- thirds. He was suffering from the disease for the last three years. Now he is extremely happy to get back sweetness in his life.<br />
Barrett’s father, Brian Ross said,” the results we have experienced are quite remarkable and still staggering in my mind”.<br />
Researchers believe stem cells in the blood slow the immune attack of diabetes so the pancreas destroys fewer insulin-producing cells.<br />
Worldwide thousands of successful cord blood stem cell transplants have been performed in the past decade and a lot more is expecting in future as the scope for the industry is quite wide.</p>
<p>SCGF is one among the associations working in the field, serving the people from the last many years fulfilling the expectations of the general people and helping them in fighting against incurable diseases.</p>
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