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Southern California Medical Practice, TeleHealth, Now Offering Bone Marrow Derived Stem Cell Injections

Posted: Published on September 16th, 2013

Orange County, CA (PRWEB) September 16, 2013 The premier stem cell clinic in California, TeleHealth, is now offering bone marrow derived stem cell injections for numerous musculoskeletal conditions. The stem cell therapy is typically covered by insurance and is an excellent treatment for conditions such as degenerative arthritis, rotator cuff tendonitis, achilles tendonitis, tennis elbow and much more. For more information and scheduling, call (888) 828-4575. TeleHealth offers treatment that is cutting edge and revolutionary. When it comes to regenerative medicine, bone marrow stem cell injections are excellent because they are outpatient, low risk and showing effective results. Being covered by insurance makes them additionally on the cutting edge at TeleHealth. Stem cell therapy is the latest option for degenerative arthritis of the knees, shoulders, hips, ankles and more. Most treatments for arthritis until now have included excellent pain relief methods such as cortisone. However, the treatment has not altered the course of the disease, but simply acted as a "band aid" for pain relief. The bone marrow derived stem cell treatment has the potential to repair and regenerate arthritic joints. Along with bone marrow derived injections, TeleHealth also offers fat derived stem cell injections along with platelet rich plasma … Continue reading

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Stem-cell therapy puts local vet on cutting edge

Posted: Published on September 16th, 2013

RICHMOND When most people think of stem-cell therapy, they think of cutting-edge medicine human medicine, that is. What many dont realize is that the technology can be, and is, applied to our four-legged friends as well. Jim Martin, DVM, a veterinarian who owns and operates four area animal care facilities, including the Waco Animal Hospital, has been using stem-cell therapy to help dogs, mainly with mobility problems, such as arthritis, joint pain and tendon and ligament damage. The therapy can provide canine patients with renewed energy and freedom of movement. Martin, associates, and staff members, have been using the procedure on dogs for about a year, with considerable success. In Kentucky the use of stem-cell therapy has been mainly for horses, Martin explained, but added it works on canines as well. The procedure doesnt come cheap. Martin said the cost ranges from about $1,800 to $2,200. That includes pre-testing to determine if the dog is a good candidate for the procedure, along with surgical anesthetic and other services necessary to complete the procedure. Because the stem cells that are injected come from the animals own body, the risk of rejection or reaction is minimal. The procedures are done in Martins … Continue reading

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Nanomedicine: The Risks and The Potential – Video

Posted: Published on September 16th, 2013

Nanomedicine: The Risks and The Potential Scientists are developing the ability to manipulate unbelievably small matter--thousand of times smaller than a human hair. All kinds of magical things can happen at this level...nano technology... By: WOSUColumbus … Continue reading

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Pending High Profile Biotech IPO Should Raise Nuvilex's Valuation

Posted: Published on September 16th, 2013

BALTIMORE, MD--(Marketwired - Sep 16, 2013) - In a newly released article, Goldman Small Cap Research, a stock market research firm focused on the small cap and micro cap sectors, notes that there is a buzz in biotech circles regarding the high value of encapsulation technologies and targeted therapy delivery platforms. Firms that have exposure to, or are major participants in these segments are just now beginning to garner significant interest from larger players, thus enabling them to enjoy increasingly favorable valuations. For example, Bind Therapeutics, Inc., a high profile biotech that recently filed to go public via an Initial Public Offering through leading health care investment banks, is one of these companies. Considering the striking similarities between Bind and Nuvilex, Inc. (OTCQB: NVLX), Nuvilex's shares could enjoy a big boost once Bind's IPO registration becomes effective. Bind is developing a therapy using what it terms Accurins. Accurins are polymeric nanoparticles that incorporate a therapeutic payload and are designed to have prolonged circulation within the bloodstream, enable targeting of the diseased tissue or cells, and provide for the controlled and timely release of the therapeutic payload at the site of disease to enhance efficacy while minimizing adverse effects on healthy … Continue reading

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Whole DNA sequencing reveals mutations, new gene for blinding disease

Posted: Published on September 16th, 2013

Public release date: 16-Sep-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Mary Leach Mary_Leach@meei.harvard.edu 617-573-4170 Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary BOSTON -- Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a genetic disease that causes progressive loss of vision and is caused by mutations in more than 50 genes. Conventional methods for identification of both RP mutations and novel RP genes involve the screening of DNA coding sequences. In a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and others tested DNA with the use of whole genome sequencing, a technique that takes into account all variants from both the coding and noncoding regions of the human genome. With this approach the authors report a number of unique RP mutations, a previously undescribed disease gene called NEK2 that involves the retinal photoreceptors, and structural DNA rearrangements originating in introns. This paper supports the advantages of the use of whole genome sequencing to search for mutations in patients with RP. The researchers performed whole genome sequencing in 16 unrelated patients with autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa (ARRP), a disease characterized by progressive retinal degeneration and caused by mutations in … Continue reading

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At Redwood Aesthetic Medicine, we specialize in You. – Video

Posted: Published on September 16th, 2013

At Redwood Aesthetic Medicine, we specialize in You. Redwood Aesthetic Medicine offers the best in non-surgical skin tightening and skin smoothing techniques. Roll the clock back 10 years in 10 minutes! At Redw... By: RedwoodAesthetic … Continue reading

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Football fan’s quest helps him to savor his fading sight

Posted: Published on September 15th, 2013

His visit to Buffalo on Saturday, strangely enough, began with a vision. Patrick Yarber had been a sports junkie since his childhood without ever playing in an official game. His career was limited to pickup football and road hockey with his friends, athletic accomplishments that literally and figuratively came to a close in the 1970s on his dead-end street in Dearborn Heights, Mich. Sports for him drowned in the family gene pool, a great injustice for a football lover who grew to 6-foot-6 and 280 pounds. His mother passed along retinitis pigmentosa, a disease that ultimately stole his peripheral vision. His father handed down macular degeneration, which over the years took away much of his central vision. Yarber these days is left with little in between other than diminished sight and a heightened passion for sports. Hes 53 years old, a single man with a single mission since his disability forced him into premature retirement from a collection agency. His fiercest opponent is time, a race between his eyes and the clock. It gets worse every day, he said. Yarber has 20 percent vision, but to view him as a legally blind man is failing to see the big picture. … Continue reading

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Bionic eye shines light on darkness

Posted: Published on September 15th, 2013

Sept. 16, 2013, 3 a.m. Brave new world: Murray Rowland and Dianne Ashworth both received bionic eyes, restoring some sight. Photo: Wayne Taylor Mr Rowland says he sees flashes of lightning in a storm. Photo: Wayne Taylor For the first time since they lost their sight, Australian patients given a bionic eye have been able to see their environment. The three patients trialling early prototype devices have been able to locate shapes on a screen after the device's camera was connected with a stimulator to produce an image using 20 electrodes. Previously, Dianne Ashworth, Murray Rowland and Maurice Skehan had seen only flashes or spots of light as each of the 20 electrodes in their 24-electrode bionic eye were activated for testing. Bionics Institute researcher Matt Petoe said the results demonstrated the patients had gone from being blind to having low vision. ''It's not just a toy that they have got on their head; they are actually proving, clinically, that they can see what's in front of them,'' Dr Petoe said. ''They are passing tests for functional vision.'' The milestone means patients in the trial have a working system that can convert real-world images into bionic vision, giving hope to … Continue reading

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Magical thinking or miracle cure?

Posted: Published on September 15th, 2013

It began with some Googling. Wellington woman Jennifer Jackson had learned that her Facebook friend, Mia Herranen of Helsinki, had been diagnosed with spino-cerebellar ataxia, a debilitating neurodegenerative disease that has no cure, so she began researching alternative treatments on the internet. She discovered that in places like Mexico, China and the Philippines, clinics are using adult stem cells to treat a vast array of ailments, including arthritis, diabetes, ageing, heart disease, auto immune conditions and degenerative diseases. What surprised Jackson was that stem cell therapy was happening right here - the New Zealand Stem Cell clinic uses liposuction to remove a patient's fat tissue, extracts the stem cells and implants them back into the body at clinics in Christchurch and Auckland. Herranen had been considering travelling to Mexico but the New Zealand clinic was more appealing because the method used was safer, and it was a lot cheaper - $9000 compared to as much as $50,000 elsewhere. Jackson got in touch with the clinic, and established a crowd funding site, which has so far raised more than 3000 ($5000) towards getting Herranen, 41, to New Zealand, possibly by the end of the year. The clinic's director, cosmetic surgeon Dr … Continue reading

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Fake Brownsville doctor arrested in stem cell scheme

Posted: Published on September 15th, 2013

BROWNSVILLE Federal authorities say a man who posed as a doctor was part of a scheme that used stem cells from the umbilical cords of women at a border maternity clinic to prey on the hopes of patients with incurable diseases. A 19-page indictment unsealed this week accuses Francisco Dr. Frank Morales, 52, of Brownsville and co-defendants including the owner of a maternity clinic in Del Rio and a researcher in South Carolina of netting at least $1.5 million from procedures Morales performed in Mexico on patients he met in the United States. Birth mothers at the Maternity Care Clinic were told their umbilical cords were being donated to a research facility. Instead, they were sent to the researcher to extract stem cells that were sold to Global Laboratories, LLC, in Scottsdale, Ariz., which then sold them to Morales for his unauthorized procedures, the indictment alleges. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested Morales Dec. 22 in Brownsville. He is to be arraigned in Houston, where the case is pending. Court records show he waived his right to a court-appointed attorney. Clinic owner and licensed midwife Alberto Ramon, 48, of Del Rio, and researcher Vincent Dammai, 40, of Mount Pleasant, S.C., … Continue reading

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