Stem-cell treatment for blindness
A legally blind Bexley man will undergo an experimental eye procedure that offers the promise of better vision.
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Stem-cell help for blindness
A legally blind Bexley man will undergo an experimental eye procedure that offers the promise of better vision.
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Vlog 1 for Stem Cells
Documenting the 30-90 days of Embryonic stem cells. "Oralcell" This is my before video. http://www.lasvegasbuckelist.com will have updated information of how this i...
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Stem Cells In Skin Care- The New Age Of Cosmeceuticals
The appearance of our face means a lot about our personality and more so our age. This is sometimes not the case because the wrinkles under our eyes may appe...
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Persuasive Speech: Stem Cells
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Aventura Hospital and Medical Center - Stem Cell Therapy
In this video Dr. Coy discusses how he is studying stem cells in the heart. Steam Cell Therapy is an exciting technology that is now harvesting cells that ar...
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A 26-year-old mother of two is about to embark on a medical journey that could stop her multiple sclerosis in its tracks. The disease, which attacks the central nervous system, affects more than 400,000 Americans.
There is no cure for multiple sclerosis, but Heather Nicole Burke believes the stem cell replacement procedure she is about to undergo could make a big difference.
Burke contacted FOX 35, because she wants others to know that the procedure. When Burke got news that her insurance would cover the still-experimental procedure, "I looked at my phone, and I was like, 'This is real! I'm going to get my life back! I'm going to be OK! I'm going to be able to take care of my children!'"
Burke will soon travel from Florida to Chicago for a multi-step stem cell therapy that could stop her disease from progressing.
Dr. Richard Burt, the chief or immunotherapy at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and his team will use Burke's stem cells to reset her immune system.
"It generates an immune system that ends up -- in the process of doing that -- developing a tolerance to self which puts the disease in remission," Burt explained.
Burt has been performing the experimental procedure on humans since 2008. He said he sees only seven percent of patients relapse. Burt said he often finds insurance companies are willing to pay for the therapy.
"The majority of the time insurance does pay many of the major carriers pay. Medicare pays. Medicaid in the state of Illinois pays. It's a rare carrier that doesn't pay," Burt said.
Burke said her insurance will cover all of the $150,000 procedure. He called that a bargain, considering she is on 19 medications, one of which costs her insurance company $200,000 each year.
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Stem Cells in Beirut Lebanon - Dr T Medical Tips - MTV
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Can Stem Cells Regenerate Myelin?
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Willerth - Engineering reproducible neural tissue from pluripotent stem cells
Watch on LabRoots at: http://labroots.com/user/webinars/details/id/206 The Willerth lab investigates how to engineer neural tissue by combining pluripotent s...
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LifeCell #39;s unmatched care for stem cells
Your baby #39;s precious stem cells are given unmatched care only at LifeCell. For further information on LifeCell and umbilical cord stem cell banking log on to...
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Cancer Stem Cells as Preferential Target for Personalized Cancer Nanomedicine
Chair: Prof. Dr. Jan Mollenhauer, NanoCAN, University of Southern Denmark, Odense (DK) Session: Targeted and Personalized Cancer Nanomedicine 2 Speaker: Prof...
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Reversing Autism in the Lab with help from Stem Cells and the Tooth Fairy
For more information about autism research funded by California #39;s Stem Cell Agency, visit our fact sheet: http://www.cirm.ca.gov/autism. People with autism h...
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Autism and Stem Cells: A Mom #39;s Perspective
Jen, a mother of 10 year-old Milo who has a severe form of autism describes the impact of the disorder on her family and shares her thoughts about stem cell ...
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Stem Cell vs Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy for Knee Pain
http://SDIntegrativeMedicine.com San Diego Center for Integrative Medicine offers both platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy and stem cell therapy which are bot...
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Hip/low back arthritis; 1.5yrs later, Sandra #39;s results from stem cell therapy by Dr Harry Adelson
Hip/low back arthritis; 1.5yrs later, Sandra #39;s results from stem cell therapy by Dr Harry Adelson http://www.docereclinics.com.
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The Alliance for the Advancement of Adult Stem Cell Therapy and Research hosted an awards luncheon for doctors and patients from around the world to recognize and honor their outstanding contributions and achievements in adult stem cell therapy. The Stem Cell Alliance event celebrated the revolutionary strides in the field of adult stem cell treatments for cardiac, pulmonary, neurological, spinal cord injuries and vascular diseases.
The Stem Cell Alliance event celebrated the revolutionary strides in the field of adult stem cell treatments for cardiac, pulmonary, neurological, spinal cord injuries and vascular diseases. Kelly Drouin of the Stem Cell Alliance, conferred awards to the Regenocyte medical team including Doctors Zannos Grekos, Hector Rosario, Eduardo Mejia and, in absentia, Victor Matos for their work and dedication in adult stem cell research and treatment.
These doctors are pioneers in clinical application of adult stem cell therapy and heroes to the many patients in attendance. Some of the patients had lost all hope after being told by their own doctors that they were out of options in the treatment of their disease, said Drouin.
The Stem Cell Alliance also recognized and awarded each of the attending patients for their courage and for leading the way for others to follow by undergoing adult stem cell treatment. Each patient spoke with heartfelt conviction; describing their prognosis and the life-saving benefits of the adult stem cell therapy they received.
Quality of life improvements measured by being able to independently transfer or dress yourself or walking without a cane, not needing an oxygen tank, or no longer requiring a defibrillator are priceless, stated Jonathan Fields, adult stem cell recipient and founder of the Jonathan Fields Save a Life Heal a Heart Foundation, dedicated to the advancement of adult stem cells for the treatment of heart disease.
The Alliance for the Advancement of Adult Stem Cell Therapy and Researchs mission is to educate the public on the process and the benefits of non-controversial adult stem cell therapy, to promote the use of adult stem cells in the research and treatment of life-altering diseases and, lastly, to provide financial assistance to those who medically qualify and cannot otherwise afford treatment.
Contact: Kelly Drouin The Alliance for the Advancement of Adult Stem Cell Therapy and Research Phone: (888)663-9974 Email: KellyDrouin@thestemcellalliance.org
Stem cells in plants
Kyle Taylor from the Glowing Plant project talks about stem cell technology being applied to plants.
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Stem Cells Shed Light On Bipolar Disorder
Researchers at the University of Michigan have grown embryonic-like stem cells from patients with bipolar disorder and transformed them into brain cells that...
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Newswise MADISON, Wis. Desperate patients are easy prey for unscrupulous clinics offering untested and risky stem cell treatments, says law and bioethics Professor Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who is studying stem cell tourism.
Stem cells are cells that can form many types of cells in the body, and that makes them inherently promising and dangerous. Stem cell tourism refers to people traveling, both within the U.S. and abroad, in pursuit of advertised stem cell therapies to purportedly treat a variety of medical conditions.
The evidence for therapeutic use of stem cells is very limited, except for bone marrow stem cells, but patients all over the world are convinced stem cells will cure their disease, says Charo. While there are some very promising results in the early clinical trials for stem cell therapies using embryonic and other kinds of stem cells, the treatments being advertised by these clinics are dubious, mostly ineffective, and sometimes positively harmful.
Patients are being hoodwinked, but there are dilemmas about tackling (the treatments) at regulatory or political levels.
The outrage over failures in stem cell tourism is limited, Charo says. Patients may pay tens of thousands of dollars for procedures that may carry no promise of success or carry grievous risks of failure. Most people have no reason to pay attention, and those who are paying attention are sick, so they are focused on trying anything, Charo says. If it does not work, they are already in a bad position with plenty to think about.
During a search for stem cell therapies on the web, Charo found products that supposedly enhance the natural formation of stem cells in the skin alongside approved and unapproved treatments in the United States, and stem cell clinics outside the United States, like a stem cell treatment for spinal conditions that might be innocuous, but is probably useless.
Some American operators are trying to slip through Food and Drug Administration regulation, says Charo, who served as senior policy advisor in the Office of the Commissioner of the FDA between 2009 and 2011. The FDA regulates medical devices, tissue transplants and drugs, but not organ transplants or the way medicine is practiced.
To sell a product that can heal without claiming it is a drug, some clinics remove stem cells from a patient, grow them with minimal manipulation, and then reinsert the resulting cells back to the same patient. There has been a long-running battle over whether that is a tissue transplant akin to organ transplantation and thus the practice of medicine, or a tissue transplant that is acting like drug, Charo says. If the latter, then what you do is subject to FDA [regulation], so you have to prove that your product is safe and effective, which almost always requires expensive clinical trials.
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