*** HEARING LOSS AND STEM CELLS – A BRIEF HISTORY:
http://repairstemcell.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/hearing-loss-%e2%80%93-a-brief-history/
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*** STEM CELLS FOR ANIMALS – A BRIEF HISTORY:
http://repairstemcell.wordpress.com/2009/05/20/kcbs-stem-cell-research-on-horses-holds-promise-for-human-athletes/
John Stewart has repair stem cell treatment patient and musician Jack Mennequin on the Daily Show. Jack Mennequin documented the process of receiving a stem cell transplant from his sister and the repair stem cell treatment for his leukemia. He made a DVD about the process. He was on the Daily show and they talked about it and he performed his song Swim.
STEM CELLS ARE NOW!!!!
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/live/3453/documenting-jacks-mannequin/
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-19-2009/jack-s-mannequin—swim
THE LATEST B.S. ARTICLE FOR YOU TO LAUGH AT. I MEAN REALLY, IT’S GETTING RIDICULOUS ALREADY. YOU CAN NOT CITE SOMETHING AS THE “first evidence” WHEN THERE IS ALMOST A DECADE OF SOLID RESEARCH THAT PREDATES IT. FOR PETE’S SAKE, THERE’S EVEN A CHILDREN’S BOOK ABOUT ADULT STEM CELLS TREATING HEART DISEASE – • SUPER STEMMYS – DORIS & THE SUPERCELLS! - https://www.createspace.com/3391680
THE TIMELINE FOR STEM CELLS VS HEART DISEASE IS BELOW AND HERE ARE SOME HUMOROUS STATS:
Google the title as keywords [Your Own Stem Cells Can Treat Heart Disease] and you get over 7 million hits…And this is first evidence?!
Google the title as a complete sentence “Your Own Stem Cells Can Treat Heart Disease” and you get over 148,000 hits…And this is first evidence?!
Your Own Stem Cells Can Treat Heart Disease -November 17, 2009 | Research – By Marla Paul Transplanting people’s own stem cells into heart lessens pain, improves ability to walk CHICAGO — The largest national stem cell study for heart disease showed the first evidence that transplanting a potent form of adult stem cells into the heart muscle of subjects with severe angina results in less pain and an improved ability to walk. The transplant subjects also experienced fewer deaths than those who didn’t receive stem cells.
THIS IS YEARS BEHIND!! HERE’S WHY:
“First came a year or two of (repair stem cell/cardiac) animal tests, then, in Paris, 2000, doctors gave a dying 70-year-old heart patient bone marrow cells and he lived four years, at which time the doctors ‘fessed up and released his name.
In 2001, USA pioneer Warren Sherman, MD (Columbia U, Mt. Sinai NY Hosp) went to Rotterdam and became the first American to implant ASC into a human heart. However, if you can believe it, the same Sherman, calls those that have taken forward what he did eight years ago, “snake oil salesmen.”
In 2002, a very daring clinical trial led by Dr. Hans Dohmann plus six colleagues in Brazil took 21 transplant candidates and gave 14 of them bone marrow cells. The results were so spectacular that the AHA accepted the paper and it was presented in 2003. Five of the seven in the control group opted in to make a total of 19 stem cell transplants. The mortality rate for transplant candidates is about 35% per year. At that rate there would be, of those 19, only 2.2 patients still alive after five years. There were, in fact, 12 alive as of Dec. 31, 2007; more than five years down the road.
In 2003, Dr. Andreas Zeiher of the Goethe Institute in Frankfurt began much larger trials. As of 2007, he has overseen more ASC implants into hearts than anyone, both in and out of clinical trials.
In 2004, Dr. Amit Patel of Pittsburgh completed two of the most successful trials ever, especially when, in Uruguay, he proved, on a group of ischemic heart failure patients, that a bypass plus cells was infinitely better than a bypass only. That same year, TheraVitae, in Israel, developed a new, powerful blood-derived stem cell and dared to treat the sickest patients no clinical trial would consider.
Also in 2004, one of the Brazilians, Dr. Perin, came to Texas and used the Brazil results to get the first ASC heart clinical trial approved by the FDA. Over a dozen such approvals were granted in the next 12-18 months.
Meanwhile, around the world, while USA stem cell research remains mired in politics instead of science, ASC advances in virtually every sector of medicine are rocketing forward without any sign of letting up.
In 2005, Drs. Vina & Saslavsky in Argentina completed the very first successful diabetes2 stem cell clinical trial in the world: 13 out of 16 successfully cured. Spinal problems and emphysema and renal failure and cirrhosis of the liver treatments will be moving to the forefront in 2008-9. (Yes, but mostly in China and elsewhere, while Americans die with those diseases without a chance of help from their “doctors.”
AND MORE:
More info on heart disease and stem cells treatment: http://repairstemcell.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/heart-disease-asc-a-brief-history/
Patients are being treated all over the world today with years of research and clinical trials behind the procedures. For more information, go to: TREATMENT INFO NOW
New Research Shows Versatility of Amniotic Fluid Stem Cells
ScienceDaily (Nov. 23, 2009) — For the first time, scientists have demonstrated that stem cells found in amniotic fluid meet an important test of potential to become specialized cell types, which suggests they may be useful for treating a wider array of diseases and conditions than scientists originally thought.
btw, AMNIOTIC FLUID STEM CELLS ARE ADULT/REPAIR STEM CELLS. -DG
via New research shows versatility of amniotic fluid stem cells.
The author does not make any differentiation between adult/repair stem cells (RSC) and embryonic stem cells (ESC). Why? Since he neglected to do this, here are the simple differences between adult/repair stem cells and embryonic stem cells:
RSC = Repair Stem Cells (same as ASC/adult stem cell but a more appropriate name)
•used in bone marrow transplants for 40 years
•can currently treat 100+ diseases
•~zero problems (virtually zero side effects)
•comes from blood, umbilical cords, marrow, fat, nose, breast milk, menstruation, etc etc etc
ESC = embryonic stem cell
•can currently treat zero diseases
•lotsa problems (tumors, rejection, controversy, etc)
•comes from embryos
Now to the article (warning on lies from Australian newspaper)
EXPERTS fear that a Victorian man with leukaemia may be the first Australian ”infected” with cancer after treatment at a private overseas stem cell therapy centre.
Experts? Who are the experts? You mention “Stem cell specialists and patient support groups” but you give no credentials. In fact, the only credentials you list are from the Embryonic stem cell doctor – Dr Kirsten Herbert and as far as I can tell, she did not even comment on this story, although she “plans next month to investigate the case.” So she hasn’t even investigated the patient’s condition?
Experts don’t “fear”; they assess, research, deduce, investigate and make clinical and scientific observations. They pride themselves on their impartiality and emotionless scientific evaluatory skills. To say they fear goes agianst the very core of being a scientist. To say they fear is merely sensationalistic.
Did he go for Leukemia treatment? Leukemia has been treated with bone marrow transplants utilizing adult/repair stem cells (RSC) for over 40 years without negative side effects. All of a sudden there is a cancer risk? Why? Did they use embryonic stem cells in a leukemia bone marrow transplant? That would explain it…or did he get leukemia from a stem cell treatment for another disease? What disease? There is so little real info here in the opening line it is hard to judge what is really going on.
Stem cell specialists and patient support groups are calling for more public education about the dangers of such services, saying they get hundreds of calls a year from people considering using them – and the numbers are rising.
The companies advertise on the internet and via local information sessions, offering injections of foetal stem cells…
Foetal stem cells are essentially embryonic stem cells. Embryonic stem cells develop into cysts and tumors. This procedure has a history of tumors development when used.
…and stem cells extracted from the patient’s spinal cord. They claim to treat conditions such as Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, autism and spinal injury.
Private, largely unregulated clinics in Asia and Europe…
Many of them are regulated by oversight groups and standards from 3rd parties.
…charge tens of thousands of dollars plus travel costs.
Please find me one doctor or hospital in the world that pays for your travel costs.
However few have published, clinical proof of their efficacy, relying instead on slick websites and individual testimonies.
Many of them have published studies and trials. The ONE treatment center this article focuses on does not (is the treatment center ever mentioned or is this just an attempt to paint all of the treatment centers in a bad light because of one?). As for the other qualified and reviewed treatment centers…
Costs for the majority of stem cell treatments range from US$15,000 to $35,000 including hotel but not airfare and food.
• You can get simple intravenous stem cell implants in some countries for as little as US$5000. Even if they are your own stem cells, this means in most instances that the cells are not separated and cultured from their parent tissue or fluid, which costs time and money; so we would not expect the therapy to be as effective for that reason.
You can go to a treatment center that provides inexpensive and lower quality treatments and pay the inexpensive costs…or you can go to a treatment facility that provides the best treatments and pay a higher cost…but you can NOT go to a crappy treatment center and complain about crappy treatments or get the best treatments in the world and complain about appropriate higher costs.
• It also means that the stem cells will not be implanted into a specific area based on the disease; i.e. into the heart for cardiovascular diseases, or into the pancreas for diabetes, or into the spinal canal for neurological diseases such as MS, CP, ALS and Autism.
• Some stem cells cost over US$10,000 to prepare. Some implant procedures cost over US$15,000 to perform. Some clinics include days or even weeks of physical therapy and care, which costs extra.
• In some cases expensive medical devices must be brought in to implant the cells into difficult areas such as the brain or the heart or the lungs, often doubling the cost from the above-mentioned range.
You get what you pay for, the choice is yours!
The stem cell treatments ranged in quality and safety but very few, if any, offered genuine hope, said Dr Kirsten Herbert, a hematologist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and clinical adviser to the Australian Stem Cell Centre (ASCC).
Australia, like the US, is years behind the rest of the world in regard to Repair Stem Cell treatments. In fact, up until very recently, the focus in both countries has been entirely on embryonic stem cells.
”One man in Queensland paid $40,000 for a treatment [at a private German clinic] and was told he needed two or three more [visits] for a treatment that I cannot imagine, even with the most blue-sky open mind, could have helped him,” she said.
Which man? What disease, what clinic, what procedure, how many have been treated there for that disease with that procedure? What are the success rates? There is no info in here, just the status of her title to carry an empty and unsubstantiated and unreferenced comment. A quick search brought up this info from another article. I believe this is the article she was quoted out of context from:
“From what Dr Herbert’s read about Mr Tomasiello’s case, she doesn’t understand how the course of treatment prescribed for him will work. And among other grave concerns she has for his safety, she wants to know if the clinic is using cells that have been cultured using animal products, as that could introduce diseases such as Mad Cow. The prospect of cells causing cancer also troubles her. Dr Herbert denies Australia is dragging its feet in stem cell research, saying it is a world leader, and she shrugs off gasps over the use of embryonic stem cells. The creation of embryonic stem cells for scientific use is legal under federal law. All ethical dilemmas ultimately come down to an individual’s personal views, she said. And the testing that we particularly expect to see in stem cells science is what viruses could potentially have infected those cells, so HIV, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and some of the other related viruses. And also have those cells been tested for their capacity to form tumours?”
”But they will take his money and not do anything to look after him when he leaves. If we practised a treatment like that we would be disbarred.”
The top treatment centers do follow ups and make sure the patient’s GP or specialist are contacted and informed.
Dr Herbert plans next month to investigate the case of a Victorian man being treated for leukaemia, which was diagnosed after his recent return from overseas stem cell therapy.
She said it was difficult to prove a link, but there was an international precedent: in February the journal PLoS Medicine reported the case of a teenage Israeli boy who developed brain tumours from experimental stem cell injections at a Russian clinic.
Correct. He was given EMBRYONIC stem cells. Embryonic stem cells produce tumors because their job is to split and split until they produce a fetus. You can manipulate them to repair but when they are finished they go back to splitting and often tumors are the result.
The Israeli boy, after he got tumors from embryonic stem cells was then healed with Repair Stem Cells at one of the top treatment centers in the world. Repair stem cells don’t produce tumors because their job is to repair and fix the tissues and organs of the body.
Dr Herbert said cancer was a rare but possible side-effect of [EMBRYONIC] experimental stem cell therapy.
There has not been a single incident of cancer from adult or repair stem cell treatments…and yet embryonic studies show cyst and tumor growth over and over. Even the pharmaceutical giant Geron with unlimited resources and finances can’t solve this problem.
”Most stem cells grow in a culture that is exposed to proteins and hormones that encourage growth, and cancer is out-of-control growth, so these [EMBRYONIC stem] cells have a greater potential to cause cancer,” she said.
Amazing how when you drop a word or two, the entire content changes.
Other risks included contamination from animal products used in laboratory processing of the stem cells, which could introduce Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Of the over 2,700 “adult stem cell” clinical trials (1,500+ complete) and 7,540 “adult stem cell” scholarly papers, evidence supports that the risk of RSC treatments are about the same as the risks associated with drawing blood. (Standard safe practice of lab protocols removes these risks almost entirely.)
Some clinics also instructed patients to go on medication to suppress their immune systems, with potentially dangerous side-effects.
ESC treatments require the use of immunosuppressive drugs (ISD) because ESC are typically allogenic (from outside the patient’s body). RSC are autologous (from patient’s own body) or from other sources that do NOT require ISD. ISD are needed to offset the potential of rejection or Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). GVHD occurs with ESC. Standard practice is to HLA type match the donors stem cells to the recipient’s body [“Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing is used to match patients and donors for bone marrow or cord blood transplants (also called BMT). HLA are proteins — or markers — found on most cells in your body. Your immune system uses these markers to recognize which cells belong in your body and which do not.”] Unfortunately, even when the ESCs are HLA type matched (both 1+2) you still need ISD because the recipient’s body can still reject the differences in many other aspects of the donated tissue. RSC DO NOT cause rejection issues or require ISD for GVHD.
”They don’t follow these patients up,” Dr Herbert said. ”They prescribe and wave goodbye without any duty of care.”
The top treatment centers follow up with patients, the sub-standard ones don’t. Only go to the top treatment centers. If they do NOT follow up, they will not stay at the top for long.
The financial and emotional risks to patients were just as great, Dr Herbert said. ”Most likely, the treatment you are going to receive is not going to work.” It was important not to demonise people who sought these cures, but instead to help them find the right advice.
RSC are treating about 80% of diseases successfully and more people are discovering their benefits every day. RSC give significant improvements to about 2/3 of the patients who are treated.
Patient advocacy groups are meeting stem cell experts in Canberra today to discuss a co-ordinated approach to public education on overseas experimental treatments.
You said this almost identical sentence above:
“Advocacy groups for people targeted as possible clients will meet in Canberra today to discuss how to protect people from being emotionally and financially exploited.”
The ASCC is about to release a patient handbook to help people critically analyse stem cell treatments. It has a list of questions to ask before signing up.
Stem cells in breast milk are adult or repair stem cells. Is it any wonder repair stem cells are so good for you? – dg
Stem cells in breast milk could fulfil baby’s ‘genetic destiny’
by ANI on November 22, 2009
London, Nov 22 (ANI): A new research has found three different types of stem cells in breast milk which may be the reason why mother’s milk is deemed best for babies.
Dr Mark Cregan, medical director at the Swiss healthcare and baby equipment company Medela, has discovered adult stem cells of epithelial (mammary) and immune origin and found “very preliminary evidence” that stem cells in breast milk boost the growth of muscle and bone tissue.
According to him, mother’s milk could enable a child to “fulfil its genetic destiny”.
“Breast milk is the only adult tissue where more than one type of stem cell has been discovered. That is very unique and implies a lot about the impressive bioactivity of breast milk and the consequential benefits to the breastfed infant,” the Independent quoted Dr Cregan, as saying.
THis article has been revised. Please go here: http://repairstemcell.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/australian-swiss-cheese-leaves-bad-taste/
On August 23, 2009, I received a seasonal flu vaccine at a local grocery store that drastically, and potentially irreversibly, altered my future. In a matter of a few short weeks I lost the ability to walk, talk normally, and focus on more than one stimuli at a time. Whenever I eat I know, without fail, that my body will soon go into uncontrollable convulsions coupled with periods of blacking out.
Each day is a battle to control the symptoms triggered by the flu vaccine and a reminder that my life will never be the same. I set up this site to tell my story and warn people of the neurological side effects than can result from vaccinations; especially knowing that in the majority of cases, these stories are seldom heard outside of immediate families and friends.
I hope everyone that reads my story will heed my warning and think very carefully, including seeking out consultations with your family doctor, before making the decision to receive a vaccination.
Had I known the full risks of my own flu shot back in August … had I been properly educated … I may have never suffered the painful consequences. Even more importantly, after I got injured, I felt I was written off by most of the medical community simply because they couldn’t figure out what was truly wrong.
http://www.desireejennings.com/
On TVN24 in Poland Baxter has admitted they contaminated 72 KG of vaccine material with the live bird flu virus.
As a result of handling this contaminated material in February, 36 people working for the labs Avir and BioTest had to be treated preventatively for the bird flu in hospitals in Austria and the Czech Republic, underlining that their health was threatened by the material in the opinion of medical experts.
Both Avir and BioTest have stated that the final purpose of the contaminated Baxter material was for use in regular seasonal flu vaccines, strongly suggesting the notion it would have been injected into people if it had not been detected by staff at BioTest.
The Times of India reported on March 6th that a global bird flu pandemic had nearly been triggerd by the Baxter material.
Because Baxter is obliged under EU rules to handle the bird flu virus using biosafety level 3 or 4 precautions in its ultra modern biomedical facilities in Austria, an accidental contamination can be virtually ruled out. No evidence has been presented by Baxter to prove otherwise.
Biosafety level 3 regulations apply to any virus that can cause a serious disease in human beings. The bird flu, a lab engineered virus, has a mortality rate of over 60%. The gigantic amount of 72 kilos of vaccine material was contaminated in Orth an der Donau.
It is not clear why Baxter had the bird flu virus in its vaccine production facilities in Orth an der Donau in the first place.
WHO supplied the bird flu virus to Baxter. For what purpose?
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