Stem Cell Treatment with Heart Attack Patients

[AlasdairUK]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6121868.stm

An abstract for the article:

Doctors are launching a trial to see if patients can be treated using injections of their own stem cells within five hours of a heart attack. Early evidence has suggested bone marrow stem cells can be used to repair the damage to the heart muscle which is inflicted during a heart attack. And that could help prevent subsequent heart failure, which is more of a threat than the initial attack itself.

Science is moving forward and any spin offs will benefit us either directly or indirectly.

[Epoman]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6121868.stm

An abstract for the article:

Doctors are launching a trial to see if patients can be treated using injections of their own stem cells within five hours of a heart attack. Early evidence has suggested bone marrow stem cells can be used to repair the damage to the heart muscle which is inflicted during a heart attack. And that could help prevent subsequent heart failure, which is more of a threat than the initial attack itself.

Science is moving forward and any spin offs will benefit us either directly or indirectly.

Woah! it is a very interesting time to be alive. So many interesting things will be happening within the next couple of decades. Hopefully one day I'll change the name of IHD to www.iusedtohatedialysis.com 

[M3Riddler]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6121868.stm

An abstract for the article:

Doctors are launching a trial to see if patients can be treated using injections of their own stem cells within five hours of a heart attack. Early evidence has suggested bone marrow stem cells can be used to repair the damage to the heart muscle which is inflicted during a heart attack. And that could help prevent subsequent heart failure, which is more of a threat than the initial attack itself.

Science is moving forward and any spin offs will benefit us either directly or indirectly.

Stem Celll Therapy has been brought up many times over the last years. I believe it will still be many years away before a major breakthrough is made.