http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. When a research team from Denmark and Sweden compared the therapeutic capabilities of adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs) versus bone marrow-derived stem cells (BMSCs) obtained from a single 84 year-old male donor with ischemic coronary disease to regeneratively treat myocardial infarction in a rat model, they found that the ASCs preserved more cardiac function in the test rats while neither stem cell type induced myocardial angiogenesis (blood vessel growth.) http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-stem-cell-source-important-factor.html Medical research Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:01:59 EST news279997302 In what doctors Tuesday said was a medical first, an Argentine woman with a transplanted heart gave birth to a baby girl following an in vitro fertilization. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-argentine-woman-birth-heart-transplant.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:29:14 EST news278699344 A new clinical study published in BioMedCentral's open access journal Arthritis Research and Therapy provides preliminary evidence that vitamin D supplementation could be considered an immunomodulatory agent for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), a debilitating autoimmune disease characterized not only by skin, joint, neurological and renal symptoms, but also by inflammation of tissue linings in the body. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-vitamin-d-supplements-benefit-lupus.html Arthritis & Rheumatism Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:00:01 EST news269626017 Working with mice, Johns Hopkins researchers say they have developed a gene-based therapy to stop the rodent equivalent of the autoimmune disease myasthenia gravis by specifically targeting the destructive immune response the disorder triggers in the body. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-halt-autoimmune-disease-myasthenia-gravis.html Immunology Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:36:11 EST news268310162 People who have received a donor organ need lifelong immunosuppressant drugs to keep their immune system from attacking the foreign tissue. However, with a suppressed immune system, many infectious agents turn into a threat. Infections such as with human cytomegalovirus and a certain type of human polyomavirus frequently cause complications in transplant recipients. For these patients it would therefore be particularly beneficial to have substances that suppress the immune system and exert an antiviral activity at the same time – thus killing two birds with one stone. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-stress-cells-hepatitis-viruses.html Medical research Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:14:05 EST news248361238 Investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine have developed a novel protocol that allows kidney-transplant recipients to jettison their indispensable immune-suppressing drugs. The protocol could also spell substantial savings to the health-care system. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-stanford-regimen-frees-kidney-transplant-patients.html Medications Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:48:57 EST news237055728 Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have shown that close supervision by rheumatologists and the use of immunosuppressant drugs improve the survival of lupus patients with end-stage kidney disease—a finding that could reverse long-standing clinical practice. Their study appeared in the September 1 online edition of the Journal of Rheumatology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-treatment-lupus-boost-survival-patients.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:13:35 EST news235757596 Researchers at King's College London have used cells found naturally in the body, to re-educate the immune system to prevent rejection of an organ transplant while remaining capable of fighting infections and cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-re-educating-immune-cell-therapy.html Medical research Wed, 18 May 2011 14:00:05 EST news224942288