TEXAS SCHOOL BUS DRIVER FIRED AFTER NOT NOTICING 3 DRUNK WOMEN RIDING WITH KIDS
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ABC7NY ^
| Thursday, September 03, 2015
Texas school bus driver fired after not noticing 3 drunk women riding with kidsA school bus driver in Texas was fired and three women face charges after the women allegedly boarded a bus filled with middle-school students and rode to school, officials said. The
alleged incident occurred last Friday on a bus from the North East Independent School District in San Antonio. The three women, all in their 20s, were allegedly intoxicated when they were caught-on-camera boarding the bus filled with children, the unconventional riders apparently slipping right past the bus driver and taking two seats in the back the...
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Stem Cell Therapy for knees
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Does anyone know anything about this, my husband got a card in the mail and went to a presentation. They
claim they can get the knee cushion re-grown with a 95% success rate that it works for the people getting the injections. I don't want to throw cold water on his hopes but this is all new to me and I don't know where to start looking. Any info appreciated.
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COPD as a lung stem cell disease
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University of Houston/ScienceDaily ^
| April 15, 2020 | Frank McKeon and Wa Xian
Two stem cell experts have found an abundance of abnormal stem cells in the lungs of patients who suffer from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), a leading cause of death worldwide. "We
actually found that three variant cells in all COPD patients drive all the key features of the disease. One produces tremendous amounts of mucins which block the small airways, while the other two drive fibrosis and inflammation which together degrade the function of the lung," Xian reports in the May 14 issue of the journal Cell. "These patients have normal stem cells, though not many of them, but...
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Embryonic Stem Cell Fail as Firm Goes Defunct
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American Thinker ^
In 2004, Vice-Presidential candidate John Edwards promised that if John Kerry won, people would rise out of their wheelchairs and walk. In
the 2006 election, actor Michael J. Fox, who suffers from Parkinson’s, made a commercial for Democratic Senate candidates in which he urged voters to support those candidates who opposed restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research and stood in the way of imminent miracles. Private funding, it should be noted, was never restricted. The only thing that stood in the way of miracle cures from embryonic stem cell research miracle cures, we were told, was the...
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Stem cell transplant 'game changer' for MS patients
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BBC ^
| March 18, 2018 | Fergus Walsh
Doctors say a stem cell transplant could be a "game changer" for many patients with multiple sclerosis. Results
from an international trial show that it was able to stop the disease and improve symptoms. It involves wiping out a patient's immune system using cancer drugs and then rebooting it with a stem cell transplant. Just over 100 patients took part in the trial, in hospitals in Chicago, Sheffield, Uppsala in Sweden and Sao Paulo in Brazil. They all had relapsing remitting MS - where attacks or relapses are followed by periods of remission. The patients received either haematopoietic stem cell...
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Vision restored in rabbits following stem cell transplantation
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Science Daily ^
| 03/22/2016
Date: March 9, 2016 Source: Cardiff University, Osaka University Summary: Scientists have demonstrated a method for generating several key types of eye tissue from human stem cells in a way that mirrors whole eye development. ________________________________________ Scientists have demonstrated a method for generating several key types of eye tissue from human stem
cells in a way that mirrors whole eye development. When transplanted to an animal model of corneal blindness, these tissues are shown to repair the front of the eye and restore vision, which scientists say could pave the way for human clinical trials of anterior eye transplantation to...
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Not with a bang but a whimper: What ever happened to the stem cell wars?
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MercatorNet ^
| 11/3/15 | Michael Cook
It’s time for scientists and bioethicists to establish a Embryonic Stem Cell Truth and Reconciliation Commission.It all seems so long ago now. But
from 2002 to 2008 they barnstormed, fibbed, exaggerated, hyped, and caricatured to get government funding so that they could play God with human embryos. It was a brutal battle in which truth came second. "People need a fairy tale," said Ronald D.G. McKay, a leading stem cell scientist, in 2004.The claims made for the near-miraculous potential of human embryonic stem cells were extraordinary. Celebrities and scientists spoke with the breathless enthusiasm normally associated with crystal medicine or ayurvedic...
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BreakPoint: Why Are We Still Funding This? The Failure of Embryonic Stem Cell Research
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Breakpoint.org ^
| Dec, 3, 2019 | John Stonestreet & G. Shane Morris
I certainly don’t recommend the cartoon “Family Guy,” but in a 2012 episode the main character, Peter Griffin, has a stroke that paralyzes half his body. He
stumbles into a stem cell research lab and is cured in five minutes. “Why aren’t we funding this?” he asks. Well, the show not only got it exactly wrong, it cheated. Let me explain. The cartoon never delineates whether the research center uses adult stem cells or embryonic stem cells. That difference is everything. Embryonic stem cells are only acquired by destroying human embryos. Acquiring adult stem cells does not require the death...
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10 Reasons Why Ukraine is the Most Extraordinary Destination for Stem Cell Therapy
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https://www.placidway.com/ ^
| Dec 13, 2021 | Placidway Medical Tourism
Stem cell therapy, also known as regenerative medicine, is one of the medical treatments that show great promise. Back
in the 1970’s, skin stem cells were used to grow skin grafts for people with serious burns and today stem cell therapy is used to repair damaged or diseased tissue almost anywhere on the body. Furthermore, this therapy, which is widely considered as a new frontier in transplantation, could be used in the treatment of strokes, a wide range of neurological problems (including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease), spinal cord injuries, keloid scars, pancreatic necrosis, diabetes types I and II, as well...
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Stem Cell Scientists Explore the Latent Regenerative Potential of the Inner Ear
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https://scitechdaily.com ^
| JULY 30, 2021 | By KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF USC
The organ of Corti, the hearing organ of the inner ear, contains rows of sensory hearing cells (green) surrounded by supporting cells (blue). Credit:
Image by Yassan Abdolazimi/Segil Lab/USC Stem Cell ======================================== Scientists from the USC Stem Cell laboratory of Neil Segil have identified a natural barrier to the regeneration of the inner ear’s sensory cells, which are lost in hearing and balance disorders. Overcoming this barrier may be a first step in returning inner ear cells to a newborn-like state that’s primed for regeneration, as described in a new study published in Developmental Cell. “Permanent hearing loss affects more...
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Bart Starr participating in stem cell trial for stroke
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WISN.COM ^
| 17 JUNE 2015 | WISN.COM
The Packers Hall of Fame quarterback Bart Starr says the QB has been accepted into a clinical trial using stem cell therapy. The
Green Bay Packers issued a news release Wednesday saying that Starr returned home Friday from the first of two treatments. Starr's wife, Cherry, said in October that Starr suffered a ischemic stroke Sept. 2, followed by a hemorrhagic stroke and mild heart attack on Sept. 7.
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Stem cell research hints at evolution of human brain
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Popular Archaeology ^
| Thursday, September 24, 2015 | unattributed
The human cerebral cortex contains 16 billion neurons, wired together into arcane, layered circuits responsible for everything from our ability to walk and talk to our sense of nostalgia and drive to dream of the future. In
the course of human evolution, the cortex has expanded as much as 1,000-fold, but how this occurred is still a mystery to scientists. Now, researchers at UC San Francisco have succeeded in mapping the genetic signature of a unique group of stem cells in the human brain that seem to generate most of the neurons in our massive cerebral cortex. The new findings,...
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Scientist and Stem Cell Expert Says Don't Be So Quick to Believe Vaccines Are Safe
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Aletelia ^
| July 24, 2015 | ZOE ROMANOWSKY
Dr. Theresa Deisher is no stranger to science, research, and ethics. She
holds a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Physiology from Stanford University and has spent over 20 years in commercial biotechnology before founding Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute (SCPI), which promotes consumer awareness about the widespread use of electively aborted fetal material in drug discovery, development, and commercialization. Dr. Deisher is an inventor with 23 issued U.S. patents. She was the first person to discover adult cardiac derived stem cells, and has been a champion of adult stem cell research for two decades. She is also founder of AVM Biotechnology, which is dedicated to the discovery,...
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Gordie Howe's condition improving following stem cell treatment
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CBS Sports ^
| December 19, 2014 | Adam Gretz
After suffering a major stroke in late October, the health of Detroit Red Wings legend Gordie Howe seemed to be rapidly deteriorating. But
lately there have been reports that his condition has been steadily improving to the point where he is now able to help with household chores, reports that were confirmed by his family on Friday. That is his when his family released a statement through the Red Wings organization thanking an experimental stem cell treatment for what they describe as a "miraculous" recovery. Here is the complete statement from the Howe family. "Following the press coverage of our...
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Paralyzed man who can walk again shows potential benefit of stem cell therapy
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Yahoo News ^
| 04/03/24 | Amanda Dimare
A man who was paralyzed from the neck down after a surfing accident seven years ago is now able to stand and walk on his own, thanks in part to a potentially groundbreaking stem cell treatment. Chris
Barr was the very first patient in a Mayo Clinic study that collected stem cells from his own stomach fat, expanded them in a laboratory to 100 million cells and then injected the cells into Barr's lumbar spine. Over five years after undergoing the therapy, Barr said he is continuing to gain more independence and get faster at walking. "I never dreamed I...
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Stem-Cell Wars Aren't Over: How "Donated" Aborted Baby Parts Are Being Used
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Creative Minority Report ^
| July 16, 2015 | Rebecca Taylor
I wrote this piece weeks ago. It
has just now been published online. I had no idea that the Center for Medical Progress was about to drop the bomb on Planned Parenthood and their participation in the market for aborted baby parts. In case you were wondering what some companies use aborted baby parts for, read my latest at the National Catholic Register: "It has been several years since the height of the stem-cell controversy, where every day debate raged over the destruction of embryos for embryonic stem cells. These human embryos, conceived in a lab by the hundreds of...
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Panel Passes Abortion, Stem Cell Research Ban Bills (Oklahoma)
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abcnews.go.com ^
| Feb 4, 2015, | ABC
A bill to further restrict abortion in Oklahoma and another to make embryonic stem cell research illegal both cleared a House committee on Wednesday, despite concerns from a doctor on the panel. While
activists gathered at the Capitol for the annual anti-abortion Rose Day rally, the House Public Health Committee voted mostly along party lines to approve both bills. An exception was Rep. Doug Cox, a Grove Republican and an emergency room physician who opposed both measures. One bill would increase from 24 to 72 hours the amount of time a woman must wait before receiving an abortion after receiving...
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Chest CT prior to stem cell transplant beneficial for spotting abnormalities
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Medical Xpress / HealthDay / Transplantation and Cellular Therapy ^
| Feb. 24, 2023 | Elana Gotkine / Mohammad Alhomoud et al
Pretransplant screening chest computed tomography (CT) is beneficial for identifying abnormalities before allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (alloHSCT), according to a study. Mohammad
Alhomoud, M.D. and colleagues characterized the prevalence of abnormalities on chest CT and explored their impact on alloHSCT eligibility and outcomes posttransplant in a retrospective analysis of 511 adult patients. The researchers found that 199 patients (39 percent) had abnormal screening chest CT. The most frequently detected abnormalities included pulmonary nodule, consolidation, ground-glass opacification, bronchitis and bronchiolitis, pleural effusions, and new primary cancer (found in 35, 19, 15, 11, 6, and 2 percent, respectively). In 48 percent...
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Controversial Stem Cell Treatments Alleviate Muscular Dystrophy Symptoms
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scitechdaily.com ^
| 27 JULY 2021 | By ALPHAMED PRESS
Results of a compassionate-use study released in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine show promising results for treating muscular dystrophies with mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) derived from Wharton’s jelly (WJ), a substance found in the umbilical cord. Led
by doctors at Klara Medical Center (KMC), Czestochowa, Poland, these WJ-MSC treatments resulted in significant improvement in several body muscles in most of the patients, with no serious side effects. “Administration of WJ-MSCs in neurological indications is controversial; still, this paper shows that cell therapy is a reasonable experimental treatment option, although the eligibility criteria for treatment needs to be optimized,” said Beata Świątkowska-Flis,...
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Embryonic Stem-Cell Research Reaches Moral, Medical Dead End
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National Catholic Register ^
| 04.04.19 | Celeste McGovern
Published, peer-reviewed clinical trials have shown stem cells have reversed stroke damage years after the injury, helped spinal-cord-injury victims regain lost movement, helped heart attack patients recover, cured sickle cell anemia and reversed a wide range of diseases, including multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes and lupus erythematosus. Advances
with ethically sourced adult stem cells have already helped more than 1 million patients, according to a recently published review paper by David Prentice, a research director for the Charlotte Lozier Institute and a former professor of medical and molecular genetics at Indiana University School of Medicine. He calls adult stem cells...
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