Day: December 5, 2011

Rick Hardcastle Stem Cell Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis. A new stem cell treatment may help people who struggle with multiple sclerosis, a debilitating disease that affects about 400,000 people in the United States and more than two million people worldwide.

A new stem cell treatment helped him “phenomenally,” said Rep. Rick Hardcastle, state representative of Texas, after he participated in a recent round of autologous adult stem cell treatments to help his multiple sclerosis.

The treatment involved taking adult stem cells from his own fat, sending these to a lab where they are developed, then reintroducing the stem cells into the patient via intravenous therapy.

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Dog Arthritis Treatment: Stem Cell Therapy? Does your precious dog suffer from arthritis? Take heart – you are not alone and you are not without help. At least eight million dogs in the United States suffer from this degenerative condition and a company called MediVet America is promoting a technique using stem cells to bring new life to the old joints of aging dogs.

For $2,000, veterinarians will put your dog under a procedure that grafts its own stem cells to its joints, easing your pet’s pain and slowing the arthritis.

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