Umbilical Cord Stem Cells Offer Hope to MS-Stricken Teen

LifeSiteNews.com ^ | 11/18/05 | Terry Vanderheyden

[wagglebee]

Dr. Hollands also disagreed with those who contend there is a great need to continue study of embryonic stem cells. ... Embryonic stem cells at present are largely political rhetoric and scientific hype. Adult and umbilical cord blood stem cells are proven and ready to use. The public needs to know this," he said.

If embryonic stems cells had yielded these results, it would be on the front pages of papers around the world; but since no infants were slaughtered, the news gets buried.

[wagglebee]

Pro-life ping.

[rdb3]

If this can help with my sight and dizziness, it sounds good to me. Embryonic stem cells would be nothing more than another revenue stream for abortionists, but getting them from adults and/or umbilical cord blood is not a problem.

[wagglebee]

There have been extraordinary breakthroughs in umbilical and adult stem cell research, but they go unmentioned because the left views embryonic stem cells as further insurance for infanticide. Even though there has been absolutely no evidence of any progress in the field of ECS research.

What is also generally ignored is that Bush has only restricted FEDERAL funding of embryonic stem cell research, private groups are free to pursue this as much as they want. However, the biotechs have ignored ECS, while pouring piles of money into umbilical cord cell and adult stem cell research. The only reasonable conclusion is that the private sector has determined that embryonic stem cell research will not provide enough advances to justify the financial investment.

[CrazyIvan]

"Wheelchair-bound since 2003"
"Within 10 minutes after the treatment I went to the bathroom on my wheelchair, I went to stand up and I thought I was jumping off my chair,"

Does this not sound right, or am I just cynical? I would have thought that muscle atrophy after this period of time would make such a sudden and miraculous change impossible. If this therapy works, great! But this testimony sounds a little exaggerated

[wagglebee]

I admit it does sound peculiar; however, I believe that many MS patients who are wheelchair bound are able to stand up to use the bathroom or get into bed or a chair. While unable to walk, they still have the strength to stand, so this girl's story is quite plausible.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

There have been extraordinary breakthroughs in umbilical and adult stem cell research, but they go unmentioned because the left views embryonic stem cells as further insurance for infanticide.

Yes, TV reports on adult and umbilical stem cell search is either watered down, or dismissed.

[wagglebee]

Because it provides evidence that embryonic stem cell research is not only unproductive, it is also unnecessary.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

I suffered an injury recently myself - a head injury, I have to mind myself for a while.

[buffyt]

Isaiah 49:16 Behold, I have
graven thee upon the palms of my hands.

Isiah 44:2 I am your creator. You were in my care even before you were born.

Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed you in the womb
I knew you.

Jesus loves the children of the world
The Born and The Unborn

It is not a choice
It is a child.

I am not against all stem cell research, only when it includes creating and killing fetuses to do it.

[buffyt]

TRUE!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

As you say - just to justify infantfide, but I also think a modern form of eugenics is at play here, as someone pointed out on another thread recently, 'bioethics' reminds him of 'eugenics'!!

[wagglebee]

I have done a lot of research over the past few years into the history and beliefs of the eugenics movement. It is truly frightening to watch their treachery unfold.

[Incorrigible]

Multiple Sclerosis Bump

[nmh]

"The public must know that adult and umbilical cord blood stem cells are available, proven and ready to use for a range of diseases. We must get away from this idea of the promise of embryonic stem cells and look at the realities of adult and umbilical cord blood stem cells. Embryonic stem cells have yet to be used to treat any form of disease."

Demands repeating!

Again and again.

[andysandmikesmom]

I saw a program on TV, several months ago, where a young boy with Franconis Anemia was to received an umbilical cord stem cell transplant, in an attempt to cure him of his disease...I do seem to remember that he was doing well after the transplant, but since it was experimental, ,it will be a long time until they know for sure if the transplant worked...

I had a son with a usually fatal form of leukemia...he could not get the regular allogeneic bone marrow transplant, because we had not suitable donor...however, if we had had access to umbilical stem cells, it might have been an option...(but this was 20yrs ago, and I dont think they were doing umbilical transplants back then)...

If I were to ever have another child, I would indeed save their umbilical cord blood, as it might just save your own child, or save anothers child...

[HangnJudge]

"Within 10 minutes after the treatment I went to the bathroom on my wheelchair, I went to stand up and I thought I was jumping off my chair,"

Mighty fast effect for CNS remyelination
Sounds like (at least initially) a placebo response
Makes you wonder a little about the initial diagnosis

[Desdemona]

If embryonic stems cells had yielded these results, it would be on the front pages of papers around the world; but since no infants were slaughtered, the news gets buried.

There's more than a little truth to that.

[Incorrigible]

I read this story to my MS stricken wife who also had a bout as a teen but was misdiagnosed. So much for Irish healthcare in the 80's!

Her first reaction was the same as yours. Nerves try over time to reconnect the pathways blocked by MS. Though several years is a pretty long time.