The use of ice packs for a sports injury is well known in sports medicine and recreational athletic use. Cooling of the skin and its underlying tissue has a number of beneficial effects, including reduced swelling, less pain and quicker recovery of the affected area. Recent commercial incentives have sparked a trend in what’s known [Read More]
In the summer of 2015, a 73-year-old Canadian man, Charles Bernique, doubled over while eating a birthday lunch with his wife. What was initially thought to be extreme food poisoning turned out, in fact, to be a burst esophagus, which led to a severe infection ravaging his frail body. Diagnosed with septic shock, a potentially [Read More]
Uplifting story about Rickey Rhoades, a medical staff member in the military who just returned home from Afghanistan and is now being treated in Spokane, Washington, at the Sacred Heart Medical Center for Myeloma cancer. Sacred Heart Medical Center is the only hospital outside of Seattle to help treat patients using Autologous Stem Cell Transplants. [Read More]
Stem cell therapy has already shown tremendous promise in healing areas of the brain damaged by radiation injury from cancer treatment. Scientists at the University of California Irvine have now made a promising discovery that an isolated part of stem cells called microvesicles can produce comparable benefits, without some of the risks associated with stem [Read More]
Australian scientists have recently shared some exciting news in the field of stem cell therapy. For the first time, researchers have been able to reprogram adult stem cells to regenerate any type of body tissue. The technique, inspired by a salamander’s ability to regrow a lost limb, makes adult stem cells lose their tissue-specific characteristics [Read More]
In a breakthrough that scientists are calling remarkable, cataracts in the lens of the eye can now be cured by inducing stem cells to regenerate and grow a living lens to reverse blindness in just three months. Surgeons have succeeded in restoring sight in 12 infants born with congenital cataract (a clouded lens at birth). [Read More]
There’s good news for the millions of men around the world who have resigned themselves to male pattern baldness. Determined to a large degree by genetics, androgenetic alopecia (androgens are male sex hormones) can begin as early as the teenage years, and it is estimated that more than half the men over the age of [Read More]
All professional athletes have an intense routine to achieve top results. That inevitably leads to damage of their whole body, but the locomotor system takes most of the pounding. Although it makes sense that contact sports are the most common cause of injuries of the locomotor system, the fact is that although injuries in contact [Read More]
Both professional athletes and active amateurs are benefitting from a revolutionary therapy that utilizes the person’s own blood to repair and rebuild damaged cartilage or tendon. Platelet-rich plasma therapy, or PRP therapy as it is commonly called, is offering hope to thousands of people enduring intractable pain and below par performance as a result of [Read More]
The emerging medical field of regenerative medicine poses exciting possibilities. Adult stem cells can potentially restore sight to the blind, help people overcome crippling conditions, and permit someone who is wheelchair-bound to walk again. These groundbreaking therapies are based on the fundamentals of molecular biology and have the potential to cure any disease resulting from [Read More]
Acute lung injury (ALI) is a significant source of morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients. ALI is characterized by acute inflammation that causes disruption of the lung endothelial and epithelial barrier. ALI can be caused by infection with avian influenza virus subtype H5N1. The human mortality rate of H5N1 infection is about 60 percent. [Read More]
Stem cell therapy is becoming a phrase thrown around with abandon. People are increasingly aware of regenerative medicine as a panacea for a spectrum of maladies, ranging from baldness to blindness. Clinics offering adult stem cell treatments are mushrooming in unregulated medical tourism centers in far-flung countries, offering hope to the desperately ill. Stem cells [Read More]
