With heart muscle always considered unable to re-grow or rejuvenate itself, if this is true, it is a big, big deal.
>> Marban led one of the earlier stem cell trials,
Thankfully Obama reversed Bush’s order restricting vital embryonic stem cell research...
Political sarcasm aside, good news.
Good news, especially now that I’m hearing for the first time today that after years of being told that a glass or two of red wine each day is good for the blood pressure and heart, such is not the case and in fact can be damaging if used even in moderation......
I hope it works for brain tissue! I had my son’s chord blood saved 13 years ago - it should be a match.
I remember watching a TV shoe called “The Bold Ones” (1969 - 1973) where they had the episode of the “New Doctors” (it was a show that rotated between doctors, policeman, lawyers and a senator) from 1969 where part of the plot was using a patient’s own stem cells to regrow and repair damaged hear muscle what was very experimental then and maybe now. It starred E.G. Marshall as head of the research hospital and John Saxon and David Hartman played the doctors helping him.
Hearts - the next stage of the 3D printing revolution: This medical miracle is shockingly close
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3117604/posts
A Fully Functional 3-D Printed Heart Sooner Than You Think
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3145522/posts
The next frontier in 3-D printing: Human organs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3140679/posts
Amazing
I hope, though it’s probably in vain, that Obamacare doesn’t destroy American medical innovation.
And it said that this patient is back to walking 4 miles a day. Like he was thin and walking 4 miles a day before his heart attack. Whew! I thought that being thin and exercising would pretty much preclude having heart problems but I guess not.
Anyway, how cool that this procedure is being tried and I sure hope that it’s successful.
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