Mending Broken Hearts

IBD ^ | Septembe 4, 2007

[Kaslin]

Medicine: Cardiac patients in Britain may soon be getting replacement heart valves grown from their own adult stem cells. You may not have heard about this miracle on the evening news.

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Few people read the British journal Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society, but the current issue contains details of the research by a British research team led by Sir Magdi Yacoub that may end the scourge of heart disease as we know it.

In April we wrote about research led by Yacoub, who's been called the world's leading heart surgeon. His team had managed in the laboratory to grow tissue that functions in the same way as human heart valves, using stem cells drawn from the patient's own bone marrow.

As reported in the London Daily Mail, Yacoub's team harvested the stem cells and used a chemical cocktail to coax them into becoming heart cells. Placed on a "scaffold" made of biodegradable plastic, they grew and fused together to form discs of heart valve tissue just an inch wide. As the valves developed, the scaffold decayed, leaving behind solid tissue.

[Kaslin]

Notice, he does this without embryonic stem cells

[jjr153]

The true main reason that you haven’t heard about this breakthrough is because, by the time you finish being on all the waiting lists the NHS (National Health Service) will require, Most probably a minimum of 6 months long. You will probably have already expired.

Look at how much money you saved the NHS. All they were required to do was put your name on a list to see a Dr. or have a test. Minimal outlay for actual MD time or test time. You died before procedure, costless. No more money need be spent on you.

That is the only way single payer systems work. They ration medical care by waiting lists. Ask any Canadian.

If this therapy holds true I can almost guarantee that the only place it will be performed regularly will be in the USA.

Only if we can fend off Hillary care and its’ related kin.