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Stem Cell Research Helps Saves Diabetes Patient’s Leg From Amputation | Adult Stem Cell Research

Stem Cell Research Saves Diabetes Patient’s Leg From Amputation

Posted 6 April, 2009 in Peripheral Artery Disease |

Victory for Adult Stem Cell Research- Saves a Man’s Leg

Tom Fisher already had his right leg amputated due to complications from Diabetes and he was in danger of losing his left leg as well. However, stem cell research in the form of Adult Stem Cells has saved his leg from amputation and have healed all his ulcers and infections and gangrene bringing back his leg to 94% normal.

Stem Cell Therapy- Clinical Trial in Charleston, South Carolina

Fisher, 84 years old was treated at Roper Hospital in South Carolina where there is an ongoing randomized stem cell research trial for a stem-cell therapy to treat critical limb ischemia, a result of Peripheral Artery Disease.

From the stem cell news article:

“That was astounding,” said Dr. Jeb Hallett, medical director at the Roper St. Francis Heart and Vascular Center. “The results have been amazing.”

Of the nine area patients participating, seven still have their limbs, Hallett said.

Approximately 70-80% Success in Saving a Leg

The trial is sponsored by Harvest Technologies, a stem cell research company in Massachusetts who are also sponsoring similar studies in India and Europe.  According to Dr. Hallett, 87.5% of the Indian patients were able to keep their legs while in Europe, the results are 70% were able to keep their legs.

Without stem cell treatment, in similar cases of Peripheral Artery Disease, 80% LOSE their legs.  So, a 70-80% success rate for this Adult Stem Cell treatment is wonderful.

Stem Cell Treatment Before Pigs Fly?

What is not so wonderful is the results of the trial are not due until 2012.  Only 3-4 more years?? Are you serious?  Can’t we wait longer to use our own stem cells to heal ourselves?

Medicare is very interested in this as the price of stem cell treatment is cheaper than that of an angioplasty or bypass and thus would save them millions of dollars if approved by the FDA.

So if I understand correctly:

1. the stem cell treatment is cheaper than other alternatives (angioplasty or bypass) for Peripheral Artery Disease,
2. the therapy is safer and less invasive (just simple injections using a syringe of stem cells into the legs),
3. it has no side effects because it uses your own Adult Stem Cells,
4. and is probably 60-70% more effective than any other intervention— but it won’t be available for at least 4 more years (and that is being very optimistic).

Think how many legs will be lost in that time.  Way to Go FDA- your silly rules of treating a person’s own stem cells as a drug is costing lives and limbs.

Other People Helped by Adult Stem Cells for their Peripheral Artery Disease

Stem Cells for Peripheral Artery Disease

via Stem Cell Research Helps Saves Diabetes Patient’s Leg From Amputation | Adult Stem Cell Research.

Law of Magnetism DOES NOT WORK in the US

1. Adult stem cells are relatively smart and will go to their “designated organ” and repair what needs repairing (some “spilling” occurs).
2. Nano technology will make them Einstein-ian.
3. And magnets will control where they go like the slot cars I used to have as a kid.

So, the bottom line is…

you can get stem cells to go ANYWHERE YOU NEED THEM in the human body…

except for

INTO A PATIENT THAT NEEDS THEM IN THE US!

Sorry Farrah. Tough luck. -dg

Bone-repairing stem cell jab hope

Page last updated at 12:39 GMT, Monday, 6 April 2009 13:39 UK

By Michelle Roberts

It may be possible to control stem cells with a magnet

Doctors may soon be able to patch up damaged bones and joints anywhere in the body with a simple shot in the arm.

A team at Keele University is testing injectible stem cells that they say they can control with a magnet.

Once injected these immature cells can be guided to precisely where their help is needed and encouraged to grow new cartilage and bone, work on mice shows.

The aim is to treat patients with injuries and arthritis the UK National Stem Cell Network conference heard.

The ultimate aim is to repair cartilage and bone

Professor Alicia El Haj

Keele University

Professor Alicia El Haj, working with Professor John Dobson, also of Keele University, says the technology, patented by Magnecell, could be tested in humans within five years.

It would provide a way to treat disease without invasive surgery or powerful drugs.

The injection would use the patient’s own stem cells, harvested from their bone marrow.

These mesenchymal cells would be treated in the lab to give them a coating of minute magnetic particles.

Use in scans

These same magnetic nanoparticles are already approved in the US where they are routinely used as an agent to make MRI scans clearer to read.

Targeted magnetic fields could then move the cells around the body to the desired place and switch them into action without the need for drugs or other biochemical triggers.

Professor Al Haj said: “The ultimate aim is to repair cartilage and bone. We have been able to grow new bone in mice. Now we will look at whether we can repair damaged sites in goats.

“We should be able to move to human trials within five years.”

Meanwhile, experts at the University of Southampton, led by Professor Richard Oreffo, have treated four patients with hip joint problems using stem cell therapy.

The technique combines the patients own bone marrow stem cells with donor bone cells to patch-repair damaged bones that would otherwise need treatment with metal plates and pins.

They say it is only a matter of years before their method could be used routinely to treat some of the 60,000 people who fracture a hip in the UK each year.

via BBC NEWS | Health | Bone-repairing stem cell jab hope.

The High Point Enterprise : Golf for a cause

Golf for a cause

BY STEVE HANF

The questions finally ended for Glenn Heer last August. Now the fun really begins.

High Point Central’s senior golfer celebrated his 18th birthday last week immersed in work for his senior project. Beset by an unknown and life-threatening immune system disorder nearly his entire life, Heer has turned to the game he loves to raise money for research that just became a whole lot more meaningful.

via The High Point Enterprise : Golf for a cause.

Profile of Glenn Heer

via http://www.childrensinn.org/atf/cf/%7BFC217B38-92A0-42EF-A404-C40162F8FE8F%7D/Fall_07_News.pdf

Stem Cells Take Off in Europe – Croatia

SCIENCE: FIRST STEM CELL BANK FOR PRIVATES OPENS IN ZAGREB (ANSAmed) – ZAGREB, MARCH 11 – The first stem cell for personal use in Croatia was opened at the Institute for Blood Transfusion at the Zagreb Hospital and Clinical Centre. The new stem cell bank, as South-Eastern Europe Times online reports, will allow parents to store stem cells from the umbilical cords of their newborns for 2,000 euro. The cells will be stored for years and, if necessary, can later be used to treat certain types of disease. (ANSAmed). 2008-03-11 17:21
http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME07.YAM17211.html

Stem Cells Take Off in Europe – Greece 2

HEALTH: GREECE’S 2ND STEM CELL BANK TO OPEN IN THESSALONIKI (ANSAmed) – ATHENS, APRIL 23 – A public research stem cell bank will be founded at Thessalonikìs Papageorgiou Hospital. The announcement was made today by Greek deputy Health Minister Athansios Yannopoulos who was speaking at the 22nd Medical Congress in Northern Greece. According to the deputy health minister, a special committee will outline the specifications that are necessary for a stem cell bank to operate, for which relative legislation will be based. The Athens Academy stem cell bank is the only such bank currently in operation in Greece. Stem cells are primal cells common to all multi-cellular organisms that retain the ability to renew themselves through cell division and can differentiate into a wide range of specialized cell types. The stem cells can be taken only in the case of in vitro fertilization and clinical tests made so far were aimed at treating people with cancer. (ANSAmed). 2007-04-23 16:44
http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME06.@AM16435.html

AUTISM Runaround – Petition, Video & Treatment Centers around the world

Please help me help this family that is getting the run around from the government. Help this family out and sign the petition and PLEASE pass it around! The more signatures the better!
Thanks all!

Delanie Ceretti has autism.  So does her twin sister, Mackenzie.  As of December 30, 2008, Delanie, who is just 5-years-old, will lose her funding for her IBI therapy.  WHY?  The Government needs to cut back on IBI funding.  They are willing to write this child off at AGE 5, while her sister will continue to benefit from therapy.  We have seen first hand that she has so much potential.  We cannot let this happen.   Please support our fight to help Delanie keep her funding.

To sign the petition:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/delanie-is-worth-it

To see a video of an Autistic girl after being treated with stem cells:

http://repairstemcell.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/stem-cells-autism-cure/

To find the stem cell treatment centers around the world that are currently and successfully treating Autism:

http://repairstemcells.org/Treatment/Treatment-Request.aspx?d=Autism

Stem Cells Take Off in Europe- Greece 1

GREECE: FIRTS STEM CELL BANK INAUGURATED IN ATHENS (ANSAmed) – ATHENS, DECEMBER 12 – A stem cell bank inaugurated at the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF) on yesterday represents the first public-private partnership in biotechnology applications in the country, the head of the NHRF Prof. Dimitrios Kyriakidis announced in a press conference. The partnership, as Kathimerini reports today, involves the private biotech firm Biohellenika SA and the NHRF, which join forces to ensure the safe storage of stem cells and ways to encourage stem cell research and its application in clinical practice…
http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME03.@AM12003.html

Stem Cells Take Off in Europe – Italia

HEALTH: TUMORS, STEM CELLS BIOBANK CREATED IN ITALY (ANSAmed) – PAVIA, JANUARY 21 – It is the only one to have stem cells of lung tumours, and moreover has collected stem cells of colon tumours, ovary, melanoma of breast and brain: this is the Italian biobank of stem cells which nourishes the tumours and are reason for development of metastasis, created in Italian National Institute of Health (ISS) and is one of the largest in the world…
http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME03.YAM17231.html

Stem Cells Take Off in Europe – Spain

STEM CELLS: THRIVING BUSINESS IN SPAIN ***
STEM CELLS: NOW A MILLION EURO BUSINESS IN SPAIN ***
(ANSAmed) – MADRID, JANUARY 28 – The stem cell business has become a global industry. According to a study published in El Pais today, just in Spain, 26,500 couples have sent umbilical cords abroad, paying between 1,300 and 2,000 euro to preserve them for 20 years…
http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME03.@AM68267.html