Stem Cell Therapy in Australia: Developments and Updates

Stem Cell Therapy in Australia: Developments and Updates. This is Health Care Zone’s attempt to monitor the developments of stem cell research and treatments (if any) in the Land Down Under. We’ll report on scammy practitioners and clinics (if any), academic studies whether they’re promising or blah, stem cell trials and experiments by drug companies (if any), and what Australian health authorities are saying about the exciting world of stem cells and what they’re doing about the challenges this brave new world poses.

We’ll keep you posted. And come back for updates on stem cell therapy in Australia.

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Rick Hardcastle Stem Cell Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis

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?

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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Stem Cell Therapy for Back Pain: Gothenburg University Research

Stem Cell Therapy for Back Pain: Gothenburg University Research. Can stem cell therapy cure a damaged spine and help relieve you of your troublesome lower back pain? Researchers from the Gothenburg University in Sweden say that they may have found a way for stem cells to help bad back disks to heal.

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Stem Cell Treatment for Muscle Injuries?

Stem Cell Treatment for Muscle Injuries? Can stem cell therapy cure muscle injuries? A recent experiment involving mice suggests that it can. However, whether the same positive results seen in experimental mice can be replicated among human patients remains a question.

When stem cells were injected into mice with muscle injuries, the muscles were not only restored but also grew twice as large. This finding, by researchers from the University of Colorado, may help the medical community find new treatments to muscle diseases such as muscular dystrophy. It might also pave a way for people to resist muscle erosion due to aging.

The study, reported in the journal Science Translational Medicine, found that the injured muscles of young mice which were injected with stem cells from young donor mice increased in size by 170 percent. Additionally, the new muscles lasted during the mice’s lifetime – about two years.

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Stem Cell Treatment for Stroke Patients: ReNeuron and U Glasgow Trial

Stem Cell Treatment for Stroke Patients: ReNeuron and University of Glasgow Trial. Can stem cell therapy help stroke patients recover? Doctors from the University of Glasgow in Scotland and their partner-scientists from the biotech company ReNeuron are hoping to provide a positive answer to that question once they finish a clinical trial which involves injecting stem cells into the brains of patients disabled by stroke.

The researchers treated their first patient – reportedly a man in his 60s – last Tuesday, 16 November.

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