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19. Spinal Cord Injury (C4/5)Taking Stem Cell Treatment (Before) – Video

Posted: Published on February 15th, 2014

19. Spinal Cord Injury (C4/5)Taking Stem Cell Treatment (Before) Patient's name is Mr. Liu, male, 45 years old. In 2000, he got C4/5 fracture falling down from twice floor. After emergency surgery, be become bed ridden. In... By: Cells Center China … Continue reading →

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19. Spinal Cord Injury (C4/5)Taking Stem Cell Treatment (After) – Video

Posted: Published on February 15th, 2014

19. Spinal Cord Injury (C4/5)Taking Stem Cell Treatment (After) Patient's name is Mr. Liu, male, 45 years old. In 2000, he got C4/5 fracture falling down from twice floor. After emergency surgery, be become bed ridden. In... By: Cells Center China … Continue reading →

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Palmes-Dennis: Effective autism care in Cagayan de Oro

Posted: Published on February 15th, 2014

THE Intervention Center for Autism and Related Exceptionalities (iCare) was recently launched in Cagayan de Oro City. A press release that recently detailed its launching was given to me by Atty. Isa Echem Tangonan. She happens to be part owner of iCare and even if I'm here at North Carolina, I am interested to write about it. Atty. Tangonan happens to be the daughter of Zoraida Echem, a townmate in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental. Zoraida Echem's maternal grandmother is Eulogia P. Martinez whom I fondly called Tiay. iCare is owned and operated by Atty. Isa Echem-Tangonan and her husband as their contribution to their community. We do this not primarily for profit, but to offer quality service of early intervention, Atty. Tangonan said. Autism and related exceptionalities in a child is something hard to discuss. It struck a chord in me. It's not easy to hear news that your child has autism and you would realize that your life would be utterly different than what is expected. Years ago, I would always see to it that I would invite teachers, parents and the special students of City Central School to my radio and TV public affairs program. They would discuss different … Continue reading →

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NBCC fundraiser stems hope for treatment development at Saint John Regional Hospital

Posted: Published on February 15th, 2014

SAINT JOHN, N.B. Call it a gift of love from students and staff with NBCC Saint Johns Allied Health Education Centre. This morning, the program fundraised and donated a cheque for over $11,000 to the head of the Saint John Regional Hospitals Stem Cell Therapy Transplantation program. Doctor Terrance Comeau believes its important to fund stem cell research, not just because its used to fight cancer, but for the promise it shows to treat other health issues. Hopefully the next thing will be to embark on regenerative medicine where we can use stem cells to treat people who have had a severe heart damage from a heart attack or spinal cord injury or have suffered from a large stroke. Larger centres around the world are working on that now. Its in its infancy stage. Comeau adds the money will also go towards an initiative to make stem cell treatments an outpatient procedure. Read more from the original source: NBCC fundraiser stems hope for treatment development at Saint John Regional Hospital … Continue reading →

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Sleep Apnea May Contribute To Fatigue In Multiple Sclerosis

Posted: Published on February 15th, 2014

April Flowers for redOrbit.com Your Universe Online The fatigue that many people with multiple sclerosis (MS) feel is often written off as just being part of the territory of their chronic neurological condition. A new study from the University of Michigan, published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, suggests that a large number of MS patients might have an undiagnosed and treatable sleep disorder, known to cause fatigue: obstructive sleep apnea, or OSA. The research team, from the U-M Health Systems Sleep Disorders Center, conducted a study involving 195 patients at the U-M Multiple Sclerosis Center. Based on a method of screening for the condition known as the STOP-Bang questionnaire, they found that 56 percent were at an increased risk for OSA. Most of those had never had a formal diagnosis, however, and less than half who had been told they had sleep apnea were using standard treatment for it. The results also showed that patients who were more fatigued were more likely to have an increased risk for sleep apnea. This was true even factoring in other aspects that might have contributed to feelings of fatigue, such as age, gender, body mass index (BMI), sleep duration, depression, and … Continue reading →

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CNS STORY: New stem-cell method offers another alternative …

Posted: Published on February 15th, 2014

New stem-cell method offers another alternative to embryonic research By Nancy Frazier O'Brien Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) -- A new method of creating versatile stem cells from a relatively simple manipulation of existing cells could further reduce the need for any stem-cell research involving human embryos, according to leading ethicists. Although the process has only been tested in mice, two studies published Jan. 29 in the journal Nature detailed research showing success with a process called stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency, or STAP. Scientists from Japan's RIKEN research institute and Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston were able to reprogram blood cells from newborn mice by placing them in a low-level acidic bath for 30 minutes. Seven to 9 percent of the cells subjected to such stress returned to a state of pluripotency and were able to grow into other types of cells in the body. "If this technology proves feasible with human cells, which seems likely, it will offer yet another alternative for obtaining highly flexible stem cells without relying on the destructive use of human embryos," said Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, director of education at the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. "This is clearly a positive direction … Continue reading →

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Harvard scientists find cell fate switch that decides liver, or pancreas?

Posted: Published on February 15th, 2014

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 13-Feb-2014 Contact: Joseph Caputo joseph_caputo@harvard.edu 617-496-1491 Harvard University Harvard stem cell scientists have a new theory for how stem cells decide whether to become liver or pancreatic cells during development. A cell's fate, the researchers found, is determined by the nearby presence of prostaglandin E2, a messenger molecule best known for its role in inflammation and pain. The discovery, published in the journal Developmental Cell, could potentially make liver and pancreas cells easier to generate both in the lab and for future cell therapies. Wolfram Goessling, MD, PhD, and Trista North, PhD, both principal faculty members of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), identified a gradient of prostaglandin E2 in the region of zebrafish embryos where stem cells differentiate into the internal organs. Experiments conducted by postdoctoral fellow Sahar Nissim, MD, PhD, in the Goessling lab showed how liver-or-pancreas-fated stem cells have specific receptors on their membranes to detect the amount of prostaglandin E2 hormone present and coerce the cell into differentiating into a specific organ type. "Cells that see more prostaglandin become liver and the cells that see less prostaglandin become pancreas," said Goessling, a Harvard Medical School Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's … Continue reading →

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To fight muscular dystrophy, nanoparticles target cells …

Posted: Published on February 14th, 2014

Patients with muscular dystrophy suffer from impairment of the gene that produces dystrophin, which is a protein that maintains muscle cells' performance. A team of researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has now found that another factor might also play a role in the weakened muscles: the cells aren't properly recycling their waste. And they have a way to fight it. Cells that don't properly perform this process of autophagy--essentially the cell's garbage disposal system--can become clogged with their own waste. So the researchers have brought nanoparticles into the picture to deliver an immunosuppressive drug that has been shown to improve the cells' ability to do so. The nanoparticle is a perfluorocarbon core that was originally designed as a blood substitute, according to the university, and the team coated the surface of the vehicle with the immunosuppressive rapamycin, an anti-inflammatory that has shown recently to activate autophagy. Because these nanoparticles accumulate in areas of inflammation, they are efficiently targeted toward the affected muscle cells. "Some investigators are looking for ways to replace dystrophin," author Conrad Weihl said in a statement. "But here we are focusing on the defect in autophagy. What is exciting about our … Continue reading →

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GOP wrong about Obamacare again: How the laws changed life with epilepsy

Posted: Published on February 14th, 2014

People with epilepsy have an extra reason to love Valentines Day: the eponymous saint is also one of many Catholic saints associated with epilepsy. And for those who live with this relatively common seizure disorder, any spare love is likely very welcome. I was diagnosed with epilepsy at 14, after I had a seizure in my junior high school cafeteria. It was sort of a confluence of horrible realities, the stuff of teenage nightmares: I was awkward, dorky, mousy and unsure of myself, and the entire student body got to see me shake and flop on the linoleum tile like a dying fish in a pleated skirt. My mom didnt make me go back to school for a whole week. At the time I thought she sympathized with my humiliation (which followed me until my high school graduation), but looking back I realize she was terrified: All my life, I had been perfectly healthy. The seizure came utterly out of nowhere, and seemed to disappear back into that same abyss. For months, nobody seemed to be able to tell my family quite what was wrong with me. We settled back into a strange unease, until later that winter, when I … Continue reading →

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Kadcyla treatment helps Middle TN woman fight breast cancer

Posted: Published on February 14th, 2014

NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) - A Middle Tennessee woman is fighting a rare form of breast cancer with a game-changing treatment program. Several years ago, Kim Alexander was diagnosed with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer. "Your life turns upside down. It's surreal. It's horrific. It's hard to get your mind around it. I just remember being frozen," she said. Although she tried several treatments, nothing seemed to work. "We had done several clinical trials. There just wasn't anything else," Alexander said. Then, in December 2010, she began receiving treatment at Sarah Cannon Cancer Center in Nashville with a new targeted therapy called Kadcyla. Dr. Denise Yardley says instead of delivering cancer-fighting chemicals to the entire body, this treatment seeks out the cancer cells to deliver targeted treatment. "It spares the patient from a lot of side effects from the other chemotherapy that don't have that delivery to the cancer cell," Yardley said. After Alexander started the treatment, she got a surprising progress report from her doctor. See the original post: Kadcyla treatment helps Middle TN woman fight breast cancer … Continue reading →

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