Tag Archives: Stem Cell Therapy United States
Famous People Treated With Stem Cells: Rep. Rick Hardcastle’s 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 [...]
Stem Cell Therapy Offers Hope to Charlie Knuth
Charlie Knuth is a 4-year-old boy from the United States who is suffering from a rare and potentially fatal skin disease called epidermolysis bullosa (EB), a genetic condition that makes the skin fragile causing it to blister inside and outside the body. He is currently confined at the University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital in [...]
Dr. Joseph Woo’s Stem Cell Treatment for Heart Disease
Nearly a year ago, we posted about British researchers from Bristol University who are looking at stem cells to cure heart diseases. Now, a heart patient named John Christy who was suffering from severe coronary artery disease has been saved by stem cells harvested taken from his bone marrow and which were injected to his [...]
Stem Cell Treatment for Burn Victims: Dr Jörg Gerlach’s Stem Cell Spray Gun
The National Geographic Channel has a report on how adult stem cells taken from a burn victim can be used to treat the victim himself/herself. The treatment method and the medical equipment used was developed by Dr. Jörg Gerlach of the University of Pittsburgh’s McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Says Dr. Gerlach of his invention: [...]
Harvard Stem Cell Research: Dr. Derrick Rossie
Looking for news regarding stem cell treatment in the United States? Here’s a new research study coming from the Harvard Medical School. ***** Researchers have discovered that they can transform ordinary skin cells into stem cells and muscle cells which can be used in regenerative medicine. Dr. Derrrick Rossie of Harvard Medical School and colleagues [...]
