Posted on 04/15/2009 9:06:15 AM PDT by Ben Mugged
Rarely will physicians use the word "miraculous" when discussing patient recoveries. But that's the very phrase orthopaedic physicians and scientists are using in upstate New York to describe their emerging stem cell research that could have a profound impact on the treatment of bone injuries. Results from preliminary work show patients confined to wheelchairs were able to walk or live independently again because their broken bones finally healed.
At the heart of the research is the drug teriparatide, or Forteo, which was approved by the FDA in 2002 for the treatment of osteoporosis. Astute observations led a team of clinicians and researchers to uncover how this drug can also boost our bodies' bone stem cell production to the point that adults' bones appear to have the ability to heal at a rate typically seen when they were young kids.
Baseline research presented in February at the Orthopaedic Research Society meeting revealed that of 145 patients who had an unhealed bone fracture – half of them for six months or longer – 93 percent showed significant healing and pain control after being on teriparatide for only eight to 12 weeks. These findings were enough to convince the National Institutes of Health to fund a clinical trial underway in Rochester, and if the preliminary data are any indication, researchers may have discovered a new, in-the-body stem cell therapy that can jumpstart the body's natural healing process in bones.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
Hmm! Well, what do you know??
If I were an investor ~ and technically, as a taxsucker, I guess you could say that I am ~ I would probably want to put more chips on that marker and not on the one that destroys viable embryos.
Too bad I don’t get a say in the matter. You’d almost think the Gubermint has some kind of dark agenda in these matters? Dontcha think?
Is there a scorecard somewhere on the adult v. embryonic stem cell breakthroughs and promising results?
Not that I am aware of.
Slippery Slopes Society?
Dear Editor:
It is a sad day when killing is part of a political system. It is also sad that the same political system hides the fact that adult stem cell research and treatment has been going on for 40 years. And as Douglas Johnson, a spokesman for the National Right to Life Committee said:
“It is a sad day when the federal government will fund research that exploits living members of the human species as raw material for research,” a spokesman for the National Right to Life Committee. “Obama’s order also places our society on a very steep, very slippery slope. Many researchers will not be satisfied to use only so-called surplus embryos. Many researchers are already demanding federal support for research in which human embryos would be created for the specific purpose of research, through human cloning and other methods, and there was nothing in the President's remarks today to limit NIH to the use of so-called surplus embryos created in IVF clinics.”
In the U.K. Dr. Colon McGuckin said, “Your would barely know that adult stem cells exist...”
Examples among the many adult stem cells success stories are the following:
“Spinal cord repair of Susan Fajt of Austin, Texas, who experienced a spinal cord injury in a car accident in 2001 and the work was done by Dr. Carlos Lima, a neuropathologist of Egaz-Moniz Hospital in Lisbon and Dr. Jean D. Peduzzi-Nelson, a co-researcher at the University of Alabama in Birmingham”
“Melissa Holley, is another individual who experienced the wonders of non-embryonic medical treatment. An 18-year-old from Ridgway, Colorado, Holley's spinal cord was severed in a car crash on June 25, 2000. Her physicians offered her no gleam of hope for the future and stated that, in all probability, she would not walk again. Her family looked into various treatments and found one offered in Tel Aviv, Israel”
“In a University of Frankfurt study, by Dr. Stefanie Dimmeler, doctors found that skeletal muscle stem cells taken from a patient suffering from heart disease and implanted back into his heart successfully treated the condition. This was the first adult stem cell treatment that successfully treated cardiac degeneration.”
Another study investigating 14 patients in Brazil showed that there was notable improvement in their heart capacities after implantation of their own stem cells. Scientists stated that oxygen capacity increased from 17 percent to 24 percent.
http://www.cogforlife.org/adultStemCellSuccess.htm
Zannos Grekos,MD, Cardiologist of Regenocyte and an esteemed member of the Repair Stem Cell Institute Sci states, “Because it is coming from the patient, there's no rejection and there's no risk of cancer because we've been using adult stem cells for about 40 years in treating cancers,”
Cardinal Justin Rigali, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, today called President Obama’s executive order on embryonic stem cell research “a sad victory of politics over science and ethics.” Under the order, for the first time in U.S. history, federal tax dollars will be used to encourage researchers to destroy live human embryos for stem cell research. Cardinal Rigali also cited a January 16 letter in which Cardinal Francis George, president of the USCCB, urged President-elect Obama not to issue such an order.
It is apparent that evil is pervading Washington and confusion reigns. If society and its electorate continue a bad economy will only be the tip of an iceberg.
Embryo stem cell research, abortion, cloning, contraception...all in the name of science. Add euthanasia to those and we have the complete cycle of death to those whose who should be protected . “Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.”-—JULY 4, 1776.
God help the United States!
Frank Cunningham, President
Citizens Concerned for Human Life, Inc
Not so far as I know as fact. The absence of any embryonic stem cell progress gives me a clue it does not work. Last I heard that in some test, embryonic stem cell trials produce tumors. But if any success was had you can be sure that King Obama and the entire liberal MSM would be front page stuff. Have heard that the adult stem cell has had some success.
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