Posted on 12/06/2004 10:17:48 PM PST by Coleus
How can this be? This won't serve the "let's kill our babies so that we can live longer" crowd's agenda very well will it?
Propaganda! The, so far have only turned into tumors....
That was essentially what I was saying with my post. I am sorry if it was not clear.
"Bryson City Tales" is about a young doctor going to Bryson City NC and learning a lot of those same things. He mentioned that the old doctor there told him how the patients did much better when operated on in their houses. The author is now affiliated w Focus on the Family, I believe.
http://www.zondervan.com/Books/Detail.asp?ISBN=0310241006
The book sounds great, thanks.
Shhh. Wouldn't want to spread the news. And cut into the death industry's profits. If it does make the news at all, it will be in a disparaging, disproving kind of way, and include some kind of slam against the Pro-life movement and it's proponents.
Here in PA, thanks to a college course and the professor, no less!, I was made aware of Pitt's groundbreaking work using fat cells as a stem cell source and their successes. And the horrific failures of embryonic stem cells with their odd, often irreversible side effects. And through this professor at Pitt, we also learned of similar work at the Univ of Wisconsin, Stanford and a university in Hawaii, the same kind of studies with the same success. I am no longer amazed that most people I mention that to have never heard of it, even people at Pitt.
If the use of stem cells other than those of fetuses turn out to be the answer to many medical conditions, what else can he lecture the stupid masses about when he's on TV?
Maybe he'll next become an instant expert on global worming.
Leni
As I've mentioned, if there's one thing we have lots of in the US, it's adult fat cells, complete with their all important stem. Pretty soon, the government will be urging us all to finish our 3rds. Ok, no they won't, the abortion lobby dollar will surely put up a fight, even if it means not helping many.
Wow...very interesting.
Where are the headlines?!! The MSM should be abolished.
Ping for Dr. Wilson...BIR...Dallas
DOCTORS IN RUSSIA PROVE STEM CELLS CAN BE USED IN TREATING SPINE INJURIES
06/ 12/ 2004
MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti) - It has been widely believed until recently that nerve cells cannot reproduce themselves, especially those of the spinal cord. But doctors at the Neurology Clinic of Russia's Blokhin Oncology Research Center have now challenged this belief by performing six successful surgical operations on patients with spine injuries. The patients, thought before the surgery to be bedridden for the rest of their lives, are now learning to walk again, the Trud newspaper reports.
It was Andrei Bryukhovetsky, Director General of the Neurology Clinic, who suggested performing the unprecedented operations, involving the transplantation of stem cells to the spinal cord. At first he was not sure where stem cells for nerve tissues should be taken from, but it soon occurred to him that the mucous membrane of the nose, with its many nerve endings, was the best source. Extracted neural stem cells are grown in tissue culture to be then injected into the damaged spine area, restoring the vertebrae one by one.
"No one has done anything like that before us," Bryukhovetsky says. He and his colleagues emphasize that the work is not about experimenting on humans. They have behind them years of experimentation on animals and rigid panel examinations by the Academy of Sciences and the Health Ministry.
On getting a signal about an organ's malfunction from the body's regulating systems, stem cells rush to the damaged area along blood vessels. They can repair almost any damage by transforming themselves into cells of the type needed by the body at this particular point in time and stimulating its inner reserves toward recovery. Their activity is comparable to that of an ambulance.
If implanted into a cardiac patient's body no later than six days after he/she suffered a heart attack, stem cells will fully restore the heart muscle, leaving no scars, says Vladimir Smirnov, Director of the Experimental Cardiology Institute at the Russian Health Ministry.
Stem cells are also effective in treating for diabetes, impaired joints, cancer, and neurological disorders, doctors say. In the future, stem cells could serve as building blocks in growing transplant organs. They are possible to extract from various sources, including the liver, the subcutaneous fat, the skeletal muscles, and the hair follicles.
In the past two years, scientists have been working to create a universal stem cell, one that could be grown in large numbers and transplanted to the human body without the risk of rejection. If such a cell is eventually created, stem cell preparations will be possible to buy at a pharmacy. http://en.rian.ru/onlinenews/20041206/39774977.html
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