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Wheelchair-bound multiple sclerosis patients able to walk again after stem-cell therapy A pioneering new stem cell treatment is reversing and then halting the potentially crippling effects of multiple sclerosis. Patients embarking on a ground-breaking trial of the new treatment have found they can walk again and that the disease even appears to be stopped in its tracks...

Researchers announced Monday that they had injected stem cells into a patient with a spinal cord injury on Friday, kicking off the world's first clinical trial of a therapy derived from human embryonic stem cells. The patient was treated at Shepherd Center, a spinal cord and brain injury center in Atlanta. Though the trial, run by Geron Corp. of Menlo Park, Calif., is in its earliest stages — aimed primarily at testing the treatment for safety — the event stands as a landmark one for embryonic stem cell researchers, who for years have studied the cells' potential to treat spinal...

The Waikiki icon posed and laughed with fans who lined up by the dozens. This is the same Don Ho who just nine months ago went through experimental stem cell therapy for his heart. At the time, doctors said his heart was operating at 20 percent capacity - - and failing. Don Ho says, "I just had to go to Bangkok to get stem cells injected in my heart because they don't do it in America and it was the only thing that possibly could have helped me." He continues his campaign to get the stem cell therapy accepted in...