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Cell therapy may present an option for patients with ischemic heart disease to use their own bone marrow cells to repair the damaged areas of their hearts, and may pave the way for future treatment options, according to the FOCUS trial, which will be presented as a late-breaking clinical trial March 24 at the 61st annual American College of Cardiology (ACC) scientific session. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-cell-therapy-patient-bone-marrow.html Cardiology Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:04:17 EST news251834642 One of the world's leading researchers into spinal cord injuries says China could hold the key to a cure that he has been searching for since he met late actor Christopher Reeve in the 1990s. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-doctor-china-spinal-injury.html Medical research Wed, 07 Mar 2012 04:50:01 EST news250317274 Stem cell therapy moderately improves heart function after a heart attack, according to a systematic review published in The Cochrane Library. But the researchers behind the review say larger clinical trials are needed to establish whether this benefit translates to a longer life. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-stem-cell-treatments-heart-function.html Medical research Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:00:04 EST news248460369 In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting, in Dallas, Texas, researchers will report that early transplantation of human placenta-derived mesenchymal stem cells into the lateral ventricles of neonatal rats with birth-related brain damage is possible, and that the donor cells can survive and migrate in the recipient's brain. The study was designed to have the rat's brain damage mimic brain injury in infants with very low birth weight. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-neurologic-rats-stem-cell-transplant.html Medical research Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:20:01 EST news248073922 US researchers have begun a groundbreaking trial to test the potential of umbilical cord blood transplants, a kind of stem cell therapy, to treat and possibly reverse hearing loss in infants. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-stem-cell-trial-loss.html Medical research Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:10:01 EST news247895713 Heart failure is a leading cause of death in Canada. As part of the ongoing IMPACT-CABG clinical trial to treat advanced heart failure, physicians at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre performed the first cardiac stem cell transplant in Ontario last week using stem cells derived from the patient's own bone marrow, isolated completely within the operating room, and implanted into the heart at the time of coronary bypass surgery. Researchers hope that stem cell therapy may be developed into a novel treatment for the 50,000 Canadians diagnosed each year with advanced heart failure. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-ontario-cardiac-stem-cell-transplant.html Cardiology Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:04:43 EST news246794665 The University of Kentucky will be the first site in the state and one of a select few in the entire country participating in the first stages of a groundbreaking study to investigate the effects of MultiStem, a human adult stem cell product, on patients with acute ischemic stroke. The phase II clinical trial, known as Atherys stroke protocol B01-02, was recently approved by UK's institutional review board. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-university-kentucky-stem-cell-trial.html Medical research Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:40:01 EST news245676554 Two linked clinical studies that will show whether stem cell therapy can save the lives of heart attack patients are now underway in London, following the award of €11.7 million funding from the European Commission. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-largest-heart-stem-cell-underway.html Medical research Fri, 02 Dec 2011 07:40:01 EST news242032437 The first-ever trial using human embryonic stem cells to treat paralysis has been halted due to high costs and the company will focus instead on new cancer treatments, Geron said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-embryonic-stem-cell-trial-halted.html Medical research Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:06:14 EST news240573952 NIH-funded trial shows that therapy with bone-marrow derived cells does not improve heart function after six months; future clinical benefits still possible. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-stem-cell-therapy-heart-safe.html Cardiology Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:26:22 EST news240485170 (AP) -- The experimental stem cell procedure that Texas Gov. Rick Perry underwent this summer could be restricted or even blocked under new rules being considered Friday by the state's Medical Board. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-texas-board-mulls-stem-cell.html Medical research Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:10:05 EST news239615880 Regenerative medicine in spinal cord injuries (SCI) is proving to help the human body create new cell and nerve connections that are severed during this type of injury. In a review of current scientific research for stem cell treatment in SCI published this month in the Springer journal Neurotheraputics, Dr. Michael Fehlings and Dr. Reaz Vawda from the Krembil Neuroscience Centre, Toronto Western Hospital in Ontario, Canada, provide evidence that supports researchers moving beyond the lab to conduct human clinical trials for stem cells. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-clinical-trials-stem-cell-therapy.html Neuroscience Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:46:27 EST news238157180 Controlling diabetes may someday involve mining stem cells from the lining of the uterus, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in a new study published in the journal Molecular Therapy. The team treated diabetes in mice by converting cells from the uterine lining into insulin-producing cells. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-scientists-uterine-stem-cells-diabetes.html Medical research Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:26:08 EST news235225549 Neurosurgery researchers at UC Davis Health System have used a new, leading-edge stem cell therapy to promote the growth of bone tissue following the removal of cervical discs -- the cushions between the bones in the neck -- to relieve chronic, debilitating pain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-neurosurgeons-adult-stem-cells-neck.html Neuroscience Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:13:30 EST news234540776 (Medical Xpress) -- A ground-breaking clinical study into the effects of a new stem cell therapy has received approval to progress to its next stage of development. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-stem-cell-stage.html Medical research Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:47:25 EST news234175631 Oncogenes are generally thought to be genes that, when mutated, change healthy cells into cancerous tumor cells. Scientists at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) have proven that those genes also can change normal cells into stem-like cells, paving the way to a safer and more practical approach to treating diseases like multiple sclerosis and cancer with stem cell therapy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-cancer-cells-stem.html Cancer Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:22:13 EST news230228522 The first Texas patient has been enrolled by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) in the country's first double-blind clinical trial studying the safety and efficacy of an innovative stem cell therapy that can be given up to 19 days after an ischemic stroke. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-stem-cell-therapy-patients-days.html Medical research Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:16:36 EST news229871783 Stem cell therapy may restore cognition in patients with brain cancer who experience functional learning and memory loss often associated with radiation treatment, according to a laboratory study published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-stem-cell-treatment-cognitive-function.html Cancer Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:57:16 EST news229769810 An injection of stem cells into the heart could offer hope to many of the 850,000 Americans whose chest pain doesn't subside even with medicine, angioplasty or surgery, according to a study in Circulation Research: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-stem-cell-patients-options.html Cardiology Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:35:32 EST news229275319 Disorders of the eye are excellent targets for gene therapy because the ocular environment is readily accessible, relatively easy to monitor, and sequestered from the rest of the body. A series of articles available online ahead of print in Human Gene Therapy, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., highlight several exciting developments in ocular gene therapy. The articles are available free online at www.liebertpub.com/hum http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-latest-advances-gene-therapy-ocular.html Genetics Mon, 09 May 2011 15:53:56 EST news224175194 (PhysOrg.com) -- Human trials of stem cell therapy for post-heart attack patients have raised as many questions as they have answered -- because while the patients have tended to show some improvement in heart function, the stem cells do not appear to turn into heart cells or even survive. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-heart-stem-cells.html Medical research Fri, 08 Apr 2011 08:47:21 EST news221471227