Are new stem cell therapies miracles in a bottle–or just a dangerous form of snake oil?

I. On a snowy evening in Brooklyn, New York, sweat is streaming from my pores, rolling down my face, back, and palms. I don’t know what the temperature is here inside the MRI machine, but “summer in the Sahara” seems about right. I keep thinking about how I should have shed my winter-weight pants and […]

Contact: Grisel Lopez  Vernon Hills, IL Ph: 847-367-8815 www.californiastemcelltreatmentcenter.com Chicago Stem Cell Doctor Undergoes Stem Cell Procedure for Future Use Vernon Hills, IL (Nov. 18, 2014) – Chicago Stem Cell Treatment Center doctor, Daniel Ritacca, undergoes stem cell procedure to bank healthy stem cells for future use. Chicago Stem Cell Treatment Center uses autologous stem […]

Fat stem cells cure osteoarthritis in clinical trials, doctors report

Vietnam is among the few countries doing clinical trials to treat knee osteoarthritis (OA) using stem cells taken from a patient’s fat tissue, and two of the hospitals in the country doing them say the procedure has proved effective so far. Dr. Bui Hong Thien Khanh, head of orthopedics at the Ho Chi Minh City […]

Stem cell treatment for Arthritis

Mesenchymal stem cells have been shown in recent studies to have significant effects on a variety of conditions including both rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis. As the mechanisms behind these two forms of arthritic degeneration differ, the potential stem cell treatment for arthritis is likely to be administered differently and make use of a variety of […]

World-first Trial for Tendon Repair Using Tendon Stem Cells Published in the Prestigious American Journal of Sports Medicine

World-first Trial for Tendon Repair Using Tendon Stem Cells Published in the Prestigious American Journal of Sports Medicine SOURCE  Orthocell Limited PERTH, Australia, Oct. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Regenerative medicine  company, Orthocell Limited (Orthocell), today announced the results of its  unprecedented and successful clinical trial for the treatment of tendon injuries  using its patented stem […]

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

2011 Feb; 11(1) : 67-77. Research advances in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, 2009 to 2010. Traub R, Mitsumoto H, Rowland LP. Eleanor and Lou Gehrig MDA/ALS Research Center, Neurological Institute, Columbia University Medical Center, 710 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA. rt2238@columbia.edu Abstract Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease of upper and […]