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Al Amal Stem Cell Treatment Center To Be Established

Al Amal Stem Cell Treatment Center To Be Established. The Al Amal Hospital in Doha, Qatar is setting up a stem cell transplant unit according to a report by The Peninsula. The center is expected to be established by the end of the year.

It is expected to “provide optimal care to patients in need of advanced techno-therapy and are unable to afford treatment abroad” according to a source at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC).

A stem cell laboratory, the first of its kind in the region, will also be put up. It is expected to provide services for tissue matching, microbiology, blood and immune diseases, chemistry and blood bank.

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Afinitor Approved by FDA for SEGA

Novartis’ cancer drug Afinitor has gained the approval of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat patients with subependymal giant cell astrocytoma (SEGA) associated with tuberous sclerosis (TS), a rare genetic disorder.

Afinitor (everolimus) was approved under the FDA’s accelerated approval program. This program allows patients to have an earlier access to the drug even while confirmatory clinical trials are still being conducted.

An FDA news release tells us more about a study involving 28 patients to test the safety and effectiveness of the drug in treating SEGA: Continue reading “Afinitor Approved by FDA for SEGA”

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Stem Cell Treatment for Cerebral Palsy: Dalton Rogers-Ford Story

Stem Cell Treatment for Cerebral Palsy: Dalton Rogers-Ford Story. Can stem cell therapy cure cerebral palsy? A news report by the Journal Standard, an Illinois community paper, on the case of 4-year-old Dalton Rogers-Ford shows that it does.

Dalton, accompanied by his mom and two grandmothers, traveled to Germany last September to undergo stem cell procedure which lasted for two days.

He is now back in Pearl City, Illinois and according to his mom Nikki, “He keeps improving more and more every day.”

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Breast Implant Problems: Poly Implant Prothese Leakage and Stuff

Breast Implant Problems: Poly Implant Prothese Leakage and Stuff. Are you planning to have breast implant surgery because silly movies told you that this is a surefire way of attracting the boys? Well, you gotta think twice, thrice, and a lot of times before you do it.

After all, you don’t want to end up like Sarah Neil do you? Sarah is a British nanny whose breast went awry when the gel added to increase her bust size seeped out leaving silicon lumps in nearby tissues.

Sarah and several other women whose breast implants have gone wrong are reportedly planning to sue a French company which manufactures Poly Implant Prothese (or PIP) implants. The PIP implants are among the cheapest but, according to a Daily Mail report, some of the implants “had been filled with an unauthorised silicone gel”.

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Qingdao Hospital Stem Cell Treatment Restores Eyesight for Brit Grandma

Qingdao Hospital Stem Cell Treatment Restores Eyesight for Brit Grandma. A 76-year-old British grandmother who lost her eyesight (she was diagnosed with giant cell arteritis, an inflammation in the blood vessels) got her vision back following stem cell therapy in Qingdao Hospital in China.

Dorothy Leach is now able to make out faces, shapes, and colors according to a Daily Mail news report.

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Stem Cell Cerebral Palsy: Jona Ghelli at XCell Stem Cell Clinic

Stem Cell Cerebral Palsy: Jona Ghelli at XCell Stem Cell Clinic. The XCell Stem Cell Clinic in Dusseldorf, Germany has been receiving some negative press lately. First some British scientists accused the clinic of performing unlicensed and unproven stem cell therapies.

Then there’s this Daily Telegraph report about the death of a young boy following stem cell therapy at the controversial clinic.

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