Posted on 02/27/2008 4:02:32 PM PST by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A new article in the Journal of the American Medical Association makes it clear adult stem cell research is leading the way in providing tangible assistant to patients with a variety of ailments. The article validates bioethicists who have said the use of adult stem cells can treat a wide variety of diseases already.
Richard K. Burt, M.D., of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and colleagues conducted a review of articles on both types of stem cell research.
They found dozens of applications for adult stem cells appearing to justify the famous list Dr. David Prentice of the Family Research Council produced showing the cells working with over 70 diseases.
They reviewed clinical trials involving adult stem cells during the past ten years and found they are helping patients who have a variety of diseases and even heart trouble.
Some scientists and political groups wanting to force taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research discounted the list and claimed Prentice had overstated the usefulness of adult stem cells.
The JAMA article appears to validate the list, he told LifeNews.com.
"This new review emphasizes the fact that adult stem cells are helping patients now," Prentice, a former Indiana State University biology professor, said.
"We've heard so many times that adult stem cells can't treat diseases, or only treat a few blood diseases, and those who have pointed out the truth, that adult stem cells are already helping patients for over 70 diseases and injuries, have been scorned," he explained.
"But the truth is hard to suppress. The evidence continues to mount that adult stem cells truly are lifesaving, providing real treatments for real patients now," he told LifeNews.com.
According to the JAMA article, adult stem cell therapy has become a standard of care when treating several types of cancer.
"Burt and his colleagues at Northestern University reviewed the outcomes of about twenty-five hundred patients who had stem cell transplants," the paper indicated.
"They found the cells appear to be putting some patients with autoimmune diseases into remission and are offering some improvement in heart patients who have suffered heart attacks."
Wesley J. Smith, a noted attorney and bioethics watchdog, commented on the news.
"With the exception of the Missouri media and perhaps, the New York Times, it is now clear that adult stem cells offer tremendous hope for treatments for a wide variety of ailments," he said.
"Remember when embryonic stem cells were going to be a huge issue in the 2008 election? Where are the critics now?" he asked.
Very true, the left pretends that adult stem cells are worthless and embryonic stem cells are the only hope.
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Wow. Great news.
It’s starting to appear that our Creator placed a replacement kit into each of our bodies that our medical technology is only beginning to understand.
It doesn’t count unless it helps justify the slaughter of babies.
Nice. Thanks for posting this, wagglebee.
Our Creator gave me some replacements for the diseased coronary arteries that have been bypassed. I’ve undergone two bypasses now, so I’m flat out of spare parts. Hope this one lasts 25 years like the last one did.
Anybody know if this has ben applied to rheumatoid arthirits? I have been struggling with RA for over 30 years, and it's progressed to my lungs (RA-influenced bronchiolitis-type COPD.) I'd sure like to have some hope of a possible cure :o)
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