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Health

Repair Stem Cell Treatments in Portugal and China A Boon To Spinal Cord Injury Patient

Kit Bond, a spinal cord injury patient, is reporting that multiple stem cell treatments in Portugal and China have improved his quality of life and that is the reason he continues to go to receive Repair Stem Cells (aka Adult Stem Cells). Bond, who (...)

24 sep. 2009 | | Don Margolis

Health

Adult Stem Cells Help Scleroderma Patient Feel "Reborn"

Stem Cell Treatment Helps Scleroderma Patient From New Jersey. New Jersey resident, Michael George feels “reborn” after having his own adult stem cells implanted in him to treat his scleroderma in a new stem cell treatment. Scleroderma is an (...)

21 jui. 2009 | 1 comment | Don Margolis

Health

Diabetes Type 2 Helped By Adult Stem Cells In Research Study

Dr. Roberto Fernandez Vina is scheduled to present a stem cell research study in which he helped improve Diabetes Type 2 patients with their own Adult Stem Cells and followed up on them for 3 years ! The stem cell treatment and therapy was a great (...)

29 jui. 2009 | | Don Margolis

Health

Why should vaccines be free?

I agree with this company, why on earth should the vaccines be free? Say I am a shareholder of GSK and Novartis (which I am not, btw), and I have invested my money in its stock. Why are you expecting ME to fund the vaccines? What’s the solidarity in (...)

26 Jun. 2009 | | BD

Health

Pandemic prep teachable moment

For years those concerned about the consequences of an influenza pandemic from an exceptionally virulent flu virus, like A/H5N1 ("bird flu") have despaired about motivating business, government and neighbors to take it seriously enough to make (...)

25 jui. 2009 | | Effect Measure

Health

European labs discover flu vaccines contaminated

ProLiberty - From the March 2009 Idaho Observer. If "accidental" contamination is virtually impossible, then intentional contamination likely Globally-practiced protocols and regulatory schemes governing the handling of pathogens in the (...)

25 Jun. 2009 | | Dusty Murray

Health

Iraq Ahead of US in Stem Cell Research and Treatment

While America continues to waste put its money into Embryonic Stem Cell research, a doctor in Iraq is actually treating patients with their own Adult Stem Cells. Dr. Abdul Majeed Alwan Hammadi is treating patients for free- and has so far treated 34 (...)

16 jui. 2009 | | Don Margolis

Health

Some angry thoughts about the pandemic

WHO today declared we an influenza pandemic is underway (aka, phase 6), which is not news to anyone. This beast has been barreling long for at least 3 or 4 weeks and the reluctance to call it what it was was related to resistance from some of WHO’s (...)

12 jui. 2009 | | Effect Measure

Business

Has Medical Bankruptcy Become Part of the American Way ?

Following up on last week’s post which talked about how even insured Americans are shelling out more and more dollars out of pocket to pay for their healthcare, guest blogger Emily Willingham, PhD tells us that research suggest that in addition to (...)

9 jui. 2009 | | Bioethics.net

Health

Placing a vaccine order with crooks and liars

Ten days ago Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius announced that the US government was allocating $1 billion to help companies with production costs for a swine flu vaccine. Among the beneficiaries was French vaccine giant, (...)

3 jui. 2009 | | Effect Measure

Health

CMS Lauded for Nixing Virtual Colonoscopy Coverage

After the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services earlier this year turned down coverage of using CT scans to detect pre-cancerous colon polyps : Radiologist groups and manufacturers of CT equipment, among others, launched a write-in campaign, (...)

28 mai. 2009 | | Merrill Goozner

Health

Himalayan/ Tibetan Bowl Sound Healing and Cancer

Sound healing is fast becoming internationally respected as an effective modality in the healing process for many physical, emotional and spiritual conditions and maladies. This article seeks to offer some background on the Himalayan (often referred to as (...)

28 May. 2009 | | Diane Mandle

Health

Swine flu : why does it take so long to make a vaccine ?

On Friday Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that the US was asking vaccine manufacturers to get ready to make an vaccine against this year’s swine flu. Before a vaccine can be made there is a substantial (...)

25 mai. 2009 | | Effect Measure

Health

For Blind Girl, Seeing is Believing After Stem Cell Therapy

Stem Cell Research Helps Blind Girl See. Hayley Pelletier had been legally blind since birth due to her Optic Nerve Hypoplasia. However, thanks to the wonders of stem cell research using Adult Stem Cells, these days Hayley can now see and in the words of (...)

11 mai. 2009 | | Don Margolis

Health

The California swine flu cases

Late yesterday afternoon a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Dispatch appeared on CDC’s website that is unique in my experience. MMWR is usually heavily vetted and edited and nothing gets out of there fast. Indeed, in recent years, (...)

23 avr. 2009 | | Effect Measure

Health

Priest Uses His Own Adult Stem Cells for Multiple Sclerosis in Iraq

Stem Cell Therapy in Iraq. An English priest living in Baghdad, Iraq has had his own Adult Stem Cells used to treat his Multiple Sclerosis. Canon Andrew White, the vicar of St. George’s Church in Baghdad was the recipient of this stem cell therapy (...)

22 avr. 2009 | | Don Margolis

Science & Tech

What’s It Like to Be a Middle Aged Guinea Pig ?

If you want to know, read the L.A. Times Booster Shots post which recounts Rosie Mestel’s recent experience volunteering for a cancer epidemiology study. A first hand account of what it’s like to be interviewed by a health services researcher, (...)

20 avr. 2009 | | Bioethics.net

Science & Tech

Potential new antiviral : why the fanfare ?

The news of a new antiviral comes at a Press Conference. That could either mean a blockbuster breakthrough or an unwarranted device to get attention for some otherwise decent but not blockbuster science. Unfortunately, the news that "Experts Identify (...)

17 avr. 2009 | | Effect Measure

Health

Adult Stem Cells Can Help Diabetes Now !

Adult Stem Cell Research Shows that Diabetes Type 1 Can Be Helped In a Stem Cell research study that is being published today in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA), Adult Stem Cells have been used to help patients with Diabetes Type 1. 20 (...)

16 avr. 2009 | | Don Margolis

Health

Stem Cell Research- US Patients Battle the FDA Over Use of Their Own Cells

American Doctors and Patients Challenge the FDA to Save Lives Rather Than Allow Patients to Needlessly Die. A couple of weeks ago, the American Stem Cell Therapy Association (ASCTA) was formed by a group of doctors not to debate the pros and cons of (...)

10 avr. 2009 | | Don Margolis

Science & Tech

Ebola and the henhouse

When an Ebola virus related lab accident in Germany occurred, special pathogens researchers girded themselves for bad news. Working with agents for which there is currently no treatment of vaccine requires high containment laboratories, often touted as (...)

7 avr. 2009 | | Effect Measure

Health

Will Professional Medical Associations End Industry Ties ?

The guidelines published in today’s Journal of the American Medical Association that called on professional medical societies to end most of their financial ties to industry is long overdue. But will any of the major associations pay attention ? (...)

2 avr. 2009 | | Merrill Goozner

Health

Stem Cell Research Gives California Woman With Multiple Sclerosis a New Life

Adult Stem Cell Research Helping Multiple Sclerosis Now. Holly Huber, a 36 year old woman from San Diego, is reporting “astonishing improvement” after receiving Adult stem cell treatment and therapy in Costa Rica for her Multiple Sclerosis (...)

25 mar. 2009 | 2 comments | Don Margolis

Health

What Are Doctors Asking Teen Patients About ?

Should parents be listening in when doctors ask their teenage sons and daughters medical questions ? At what age are "tweens" and older teens entitled to some medical privacy ? A recent Associated Press story, republished in the Chicago Tribune, (...)

24 mar. 2009 | | Bioethics.net

Science & Tech

Caffeine Offers Skin Cancer Protection

In a study published this week in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, researchers investigated the mechanism by which caffeine may confer protection against skin cancer. For the study, Nghiem’s team looked at caffeine’s effect on human (...)

4 mar. 2009 | | Ruth Schaffer

Science & Tech

I Think Glenn McGee Predicted This Would Happen...

Today, the Wall Street Journal reported that a Los Angeles fertility clinic is offering parents the capacity to choose the traits of their child to allow them to make, um, "The Perfect Baby." The WSJ article, titled "A Baby, Please. Blond, (...)

13 fév. 2009 | | Bioethics.net

Science & Tech

Stem Cell Therapy Reverse Multipple Sclerosis

The Telegraph reports of the continuing positive results on the use of stem cells in treating multiple sclerosis in conjunction with a drug called alemtuzumab. The study leader, Dr Richard Burt, described it as a "feasible procedure" that (...)

5 fév. 2009 | | Ruth Schaffer

Health

China syndrome ?

Readers want to know what I think about the bird flu situation in China, where four human cases have been reported in the last couple of weeks. I haven’t said anything about it so far, which is normal for me. I usually like to wait for more (...)

23 jan. 2009 | | Effect Measure

Science & Tech

Hydramycin : New Antibiotic Compound from Hydra

A new antimicrobial compound has been isolated from the freshwater animal Hydra. The compound, called hydramacin-1, shares virtually no similarity with any other known antibacterial proteins except for two other antimicrobials found in leech, and has been (...)

21 jan. 2009 | | Ruth Schaffer

Science & Tech

Black Raspberry Extract May Help Prevent Esophageal Cancer

In an animal study, researchers attribute the chemo-preventive properties of black raspberries to anthocyanins, a class of flavonoids found in the fruit. This is one of the first experiments demonstrating the correlation between anthocyanins and cancer (...)

9 jan. 2009 | | Ruth Schaffer

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