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Adult Stem Cell Breakthrough Will Transform Medicine, Doctor Predicts
Cybercast News Service ^ | February 7, 2014 - 3:24 PM | Barbara Hollingsworth

Posted on 02/07/2014 9:13:51 PM PST by Olog-hai

A scientific breakthrough that enables researchers to create adult stem cells much faster and easier will radically transform the way medicine is practiced, predicts Dr. Marc Darrow,assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of California/Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine.

“It will be the standard of care,” said Darrow, who teaches regenerative techniques utilizing platelets and adult stem cells to medical residents at UCLA, and who has been using the same techniques to treat patients with joint, tendon, ligament and muscle injuries in his own LA clinic. […]

“Our bodies make stem cells all day long and that’s probably what’s keeping us alive, by regenerating tissue. The whole field of medicine is moving into regenerative medicine,” Darrow told CNSNews.com.

And despite the fact that most insurance does not cover stem cell therapy, he predicted: “This will become the new medicine sometime soon.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


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1 posted on 02/07/2014 9:13:51 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I don’t see how that benefits anyone if it can’t be used to justify killing babies.


2 posted on 02/07/2014 9:22:16 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Always a “caveat emptor”, isn’t there?


3 posted on 02/07/2014 9:36:24 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
“Our bodies make stem cells all day long and that’s probably what’s keeping us alive, by regenerating tissue. The whole field of medicine is moving into regenerative medicine,” Darrow told CNSNews.com.

We are fearfully, wonderfully, made.

4 posted on 02/07/2014 9:38:21 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: Olog-hai

I thought it was 0bama who would Transform Medicine.


5 posted on 02/07/2014 9:44:23 PM PST by YHAOS
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To: Telepathic Intruder

That’s the good news. Because adult stem cells are more responsive, they can move away from embryonic stem cells.


6 posted on 02/07/2014 10:37:45 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Jonty30
That is sure to disappoint many leftists and abortionists! (Sorry, I repeated myself.)
7 posted on 02/07/2014 10:44:32 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind, but now I see...)
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To: Olog-hai; Scoutmaster

This could be promising for our craziness.

If this come true we could scare kids 1/2 our age with our fearlessness

Bahda Bing !


8 posted on 02/07/2014 10:48:13 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Olog-hai

It’ll take 30 years to get the FDA to approve it.


9 posted on 02/07/2014 10:57:36 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: neverdem

pint


10 posted on 02/07/2014 11:13:15 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: YHAOS; Olog-hai
I thought it was 0bama who would Transform Medicine.

From the article

Darrow said, stem cell therapy is “the easiest, simplest and cheapest form of medicine that I know of to regenerate tissue, get rid of pain and return function.”

Yes Obama will transform medicine. After he is done you won’t recognize medicine as the once humane profession it was when you were a kid.

After Obama is done no matter how cheap medicine might become you won’t be able get medicine unless the death panels deem you worthy.

11 posted on 02/07/2014 11:13:41 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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>> pint

Not as bad as asking for a ping of Guinness...


12 posted on 02/07/2014 11:14:43 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Gene Eric

Anyone up for making Guinness pings the next Facebood?


13 posted on 02/07/2014 11:18:58 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Bookmark.


14 posted on 02/07/2014 11:47:56 PM PST by aquila48
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To: Pontiac; <1/1,000,000th%
it won’t be long before using adult stem cells to regenerate damaged tissue becomes standard medical care. “Who wants to do surgery when it’s going to hurt someone? Who wants to get surgery when it can hurt [you]? This is the way. This is the Holy Grail. It's a no-brainer.” - See more at: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/adult-stem-cell-breakthrough-will-transform-medicine-doctor#sthash.Co2hHmuT.dpuf
It’ll take 30 years to get the FDA to approve it.

9 posted on February 8, 2014 at 1:57:36 AM EST by <1/1,000,000th%

After Obama is done no matter how cheap medicine might become you won’t be able get medicine unless the death panels deem you worthy.
Ha! We’ll be getting this treatment using a 3-D printer!
(don’t 3-D printers do everything?)

15 posted on 02/08/2014 1:58:29 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion ("Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: Olog-hai
it won’t be long before using adult stem cells to regenerate damaged tissue becomes standard medical care. “Who wants to do surgery when it’s going to hurt someone? Who wants to get surgery when it can hurt [you]? This is the way. This is the Holy Grail. It's a no-brainer.” - See more at: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/adult-stem-cell-breakthrough-will-transform-medicine-doctor#sthash.Co2hHmuT.dpuf
Hmmm . . . new heart, new prostate, new 12-year molars . . . some new joints, maybe a few other odds and ends . . .
’course that’d be the end of any annuity/pension/social security system . . . NO WAY they survive unlimited life expectancy.

16 posted on 02/08/2014 2:12:01 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion ("Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: Vendome
This could be promising for our craziness.

That it could. We'll be back to 250-300' Australian rappelling to start.

17 posted on 02/08/2014 6:24:02 AM PST by Scoutmaster (I'd rather be at Philmont)
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To: Olog-hai

Adult stem cells saved my cousin’s life. A sibling donated the stem cells and the rare form of leukemia has been in remission since.


18 posted on 02/08/2014 6:35:14 AM PST by Marie Antoinette (:)
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To: Scoutmaster

Man, when I get better we should meet.

When my shoulder gets better I’m going to Utah and bungee jumping off tge Corona Arch, UT.

Hopefully in June.

Party on...


19 posted on 02/08/2014 3:55:23 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Vendome
Skydiving, bull riding, 350' rappels . . . and I've never bungee jumped.

Go for it.

20 posted on 02/08/2014 4:09:10 PM PST by Scoutmaster (I'd rather be at Philmont)
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