The move came three days after the inauguration of President Barack Obama, a Democrat who had been expected to rescind some of the federal funding restrictions placed on such research.
The California biotechnology company plans to initiate a clinical trial in patients with acute spinal cord injury.
“This marks the beginning of what is potentially a new chapter in medical therapeutics – one that reaches beyond pills to a new level of healing: the Read the rest of this entry »
Ex-Beaumonter, pioneering doctor wants Obama to focus on stem cell research
January, 4, 2009
He was a 35-year-old medical researcher when he had a eureka moment – discovering a vaccine to treat cervical cancer and becoming the subject of a presidential debate.
It’s been 40 years since former Beaumont resident, Dr. Roland Pattillo, discovered the earliest stages of development from the stem cells extracted from the placenta walls.
For his works Read the rest of this entry »
Stem Cells Cut AIDS Virus in Patient, Ending Need for Drugs
Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) — A German AIDS patient was able to
stop drugs he had been taking for 10 years after getting a
of stem cells from a donor with a rare gene variant
known to resist the deadly disease. The transplant also cured his
leukemia, researchers reported.
that
helps the AIDS virus enter a cell, according to a report today in
the
. Doctors in Berlin hoped that
putting the Read the rest of this entry »
U.S. government approves first human trials of embryonic stem cells
11:05 PM CST on Friday, January 23, 2009
WASHINGTON – In a research milestone, the U.S. government will allow the world’s first test in people of a therapy derived from human embryonic stem cells.
The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that is has authorized the Geron Corp. of Menlo Park, Calif., to test stem cells derived from human Read the rest of this entry »
Nov. 19, 2008 — Doctors in Europe have performed the first trachea
transplant that hinges on the patient’s own stem cells.
The operation, done in June at Hospital Clinic in Barcelona, Spain, was
successful and is detailed in today’s online edition of
.
. She’d already had
a stent implanted to reopen that airway, but that didn’t work out and the stent
had been removed.
Doctors got a trachea from an organ donor and stripped the donated trachea
of Read the rest of this entry »
Will he or won’t he tackle health right away? That’s the question about Obama on our mind.
The global economic slide, a deepening federal deficit and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq may hinder comprehensive action on health by the new administration. But don’t count some change out, say a couple of top Obama advisers.
Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s pick for Chief of Staff,
Bucket one would have children’s health care,
. It Read the rest of this entry »
New York, NY
(NBC) — The Food and Drug Administration has cleared the way for the first-ever human trial of a medical treatment, derived from embryonic stem cells.
The company plans to start testing this embryonic stem cell therapy on patients with spinal cord injuries.
Members of one spinal cord injury peer support group are buzzing about Menlo Park Company’s efforts to use embryonic stem cell therapy on people with spinal cord injuries. Read the rest of this entry »
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Growing numbers of clinics abroad are marketing unproven, costly stem cell therapies to medical tourists and “exploiting patients’ hopes,” according to a report from the International Society for Stem Cell Research.
The Deerfield, Ill.-based group convened a task force of researchers, ethicists, doctors and regulatory officials from 13 countries to devise guidelines that target clinics offering experimental therapy to patients without appropriate Read the rest of this entry »
With the first-ever human test of a medical treatment based on embryonic stem cells gaining federal approval, researchers are optimistic that President Obama will soon lift a controversial Bush administration ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research and speed work to
. The newly approved human trial involves an attempt to repair severed spinal cords in paraplegics.
can replicate over and over, thanks to an enzyme that slows their Read the rest of this entry »