Posted on 07/30/2006 9:57:41 PM PDT by Coleus
Edited on 07/30/2006 10:00:31 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A British hospital has successfully used stem cells to promote healing when fractured bones refuse to mend, saving patients from permanent disability or amputation.
Three patients who had run out of treatment options have handed back their crutches. A total of five out of 10 are making progress but it can take some months for the treatment to begin to work. Doctors at the Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopedic Hospital, are harvesting stem cells from the patient's bone marrow, growing them and then applying them to the fracture site where they help broken bone grow again and unite.
leftists are very sad the study didn't involve the killing of helpless tiny humans.
ADULT STEM CELLS
This is rubbish. Everyone knows you need to "harvest" stem cells from human fetuses.
Nice kneejerk block :))
Thanks Coleus,Bump.
Then we best git to edjumacating "everyone" on the facts of the matter: http://stemcells.nih.gov/info/basics/basics4.asp
The media likes to leave out things like "illegal" in immigration articles, "adult" or "embryonic" in stem cell articles, "muslim" from terrorism articles and many many other things.
4-5-6 years ago, I used to get all of my news from FR for just that very reason, GL!
The goods news about adult stems cells keeps getting better and better!
THANK YOU! When it's an adult stem cell story, PLEASE make sure to emphasize this. Almost all (if not all) breakthroughs that are working are with the patients' OWN cells!
Wouldn't you want them to use your own cells, and give you the fix with your own cells so there is essentially no rejection risk?
Fringgin embryo-stem-cell morons.
they will never do big stories about the failures like with cloning...
Please FreepMail me if you want on or off my Pro-Life Ping List.
Nor will they ever do stories about incredibly successful things like fucoidan and limu like on http://www.RealLimu.com .
I have spent several hours researching the over 650 studies involving fucoidan on the government's website: http://www.PubMed.gov . It is CRIMINAL that the AMA and doctors do not research such things themselves and tell us about them!!!
Ouch... new words to learn
Adult stem cells!
The nurse had a six-year old break that didn't heal. What I want to know is if this therapy will work for an OLD (and I mean 15+ years) break that's a non-union???
If this worked for her, it might work for me. I'm willing to wait!!
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