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Irving Wesissman, M.D., is a physician scientist who directs Standord's Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. This is a major stem cell program and Weissman is therefore a major figure in stem cell research. He recently became president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) an independent, nonprofit that ...
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Respiratory Management Following Spinal Cord Injury: What You Should Know has just been published by the Consortium of Spinal Cord Medicine. It's a must-read for people with any sort of respiratory complication. This consumer-friendly guide is the companion book to the clinical practice guideline Respiratory Management Following SCI. The guide is ...
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This came in the other day, text and punctuation (cringe) unchanged:i have been a patient of geeta shroff and i know she is a fraud and a manipulator of desprate people she is just trying to make as much money as possible with no regard as to the dangers of this kind of experimental therapy.i hope anybody who is thinking of going to that shithole ...
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On Friday August 7 a group of ex-pat Canadians living in Southern California will host a charity golf tournament. The newly formed Canada California Business Council first planned to raise money to help one of their own, Andrew Trevitt, who was paralyzed in a motorcycle accident last year. Andrew said no thanks but suggested the money go to the ...
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We visited the Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Hospital wheelchair sports program this week in Downey, California (for reference, it's right in the middle of the Los Angeles metroplex, one town over from Compton, framed by the 105, 605 and 5 freeways). Rancho is a venerable place of healing and hope, going back 100 years ago as the site ...
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Well all right. First question: what difference does it make now that the CDRPA has passed? W2W got what it wanted? Changes everything or changes nothing?
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Qualified women have been selling their eggs on the open fertility market for many years. There are some who would call this a form of reproductive prostitution but egg donation is quite common: The going rate nationally is between $5,000 and $8,000 per cycle, more for attractive, educated women. Getting paid for donating eggs for stem cell ...
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The red pill makes you better. So does the blue one, even though its action is different. So, doesn't it figure that taking red and blue together will make you all the more better? If two or three, or even six or a dozen therapies showed some promise on their own, why not just take everything. Toss in the proverbial kitchen sink. Of course ...
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The 4th edition of Spinal Network arrived the other day. Itโs big and bold and for the first time, colorful. This book is so full of life it literally has a pulse; itโs so rich in character and dripping with personality that you just want to hug it. Itโs so nourishing, in areas of medical, lifestyle, community, etc., that if you could fit it in the
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Stem cell treatment overseas anyone? You may still be tempted by Internet testimonials as people who spend thousands of dollars report uniformly modest results. One more plea for rational thought may not make much difference but there are some very good reasons not to become a medical experimental tourist. A group of prominent scientists and ...
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Itโs being heralded as a โnew dawnโ for MS: Three new drugs have shown well in clinical trials; these would be the first significant medications that can be taken orally. A small trial using blood cord stem cells seems to be on to something. And the role of Vitamin D in MS is becoming clearer: high dose D answers the question why people in Canada ...
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Geron gets nod for stem cell trial for acute SCI.It apparently took 10 months to wade through the 21,000-page application, and perhaps a regime change at the top of the United States government, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration finally gave the go-ahead to the nationโs first embryonic stem cell clinical trial. The Geron Corp. has had data ...
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On January 15 the U.S. Senate passed a big public lands bill emerging from the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that places the Bill Clinton birthplace in Hope, Arkansas, on the National Historic Register. The omnibus bill also protects 290 million-year old fossilized animal tracks in the Robledo Mountains in Doรฑa Ana County, New ...
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The historic inauguration of Barack Obama as the new President of the United States is Tuesday, January 20. The day rings in a new administration, a new era in politics and a fresh outlook for the American people. Most of us will see this event unfold on television; some will keep up-to-the-second on Facebook or Twitter. Of course thousands of ...
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Cautionary stem cell tourism guidelines came out earlier this month, taking aim at overseas clinics characterized by unsupported expectations, overhyped therapies and uninformed risk. The new guidelines originated from the International Society for Stem Cell Research. (Mission statement: โan independent, nonprofit organization โฆ to promote ...
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The recent Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington, DC, showcased a huge range of work that, in the whole, leaves little doubt that regenerative medicine and functional recovery are moving forward. (A tip of the MadWire hat to Steven Edwards, a C3 quad from South Carolina and a moderator for the CareCure community who compiled a long list of
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Thanks be given.Thereโs plenty to be thankful for. Hereโs to the sun, our star, our life-source. Iโm thankful it comes up everyday, and Iโm grateful it does so much to keep me alive and well. Wouldnโt you know, as I scribe this from Southern California, itโs raining. Doesnโt have much heart, this storm, but itโs wet enough to wash away ashes from ...
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Start with algae, add light, treat paralysis. Itโs one of the coolest science stories coming out of the big Society for Neuroscience meeting this week in Washington D.C.Scientist Jerry Silver, who sits on the Reeve Foundation Science Advisory Committee, and who got partial funding for this work from the Foundation, infected certain spinal cord ...
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Day one of the Barack Obama Administration, a mere ten weeks away, will witness a dramatic shift toward the pro-cures movement in this country. The freshly inaugurated Obama will almost certainly lift restrictions on federally funded embryonic stem cell research. The president-elect supported the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, legislation ...
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If your doctor gave you something for what ails you and it made you better -- even if it was a fake drug, or placebo -- would you mind? In other words, would it be OK if your doctor lied to you if it was in your best interest? A fascinating study came out a few days ago about placebos and just how widely used they are in the U.S. About half of ...
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Where are you? Information specialists at the PRC have lot of contacts.
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The Scientist, a prominent life sciences magazine, reported that the first clinical trial using embryonic stem cells may finally get the green light early in 2009. The stem cells have emerged from the work of Hans Keirstead, a scientist at the Reeve-Irvine Spinal Cord Research Center at the University of California, Irvine. Earlier this year ...
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Life Rolls On, the LA-based charity started by injured surfer Jesse Billauer, held its annual Night by the Ocean dinner gala last Sunday at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. It was in the same room as the Oscarโs party. It was billed as black tie, which in New York means the men wear a tux. In Hollywood it means wear a shirt, preferably with a ...
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..it was the best of times, it was the worst, you knew that was coming. I got my copy of the monthly journal Spinal Cord today. This is the house publication of the International Spinal Cord Society and the primary repository of clinical research in SCI. Thereโs a paper from a team at the Boston VA: ''Evaluation of cranberry tablets for the ...
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Itโs distracting in these times of economic vaporization, but weโre hearing a lot more about the war in Iraq these days, not because we really want to think about more than 4000 Americans who died there, or nearly 100,000 civilian deaths. Itโs due to the presidential campaigns and the supposed choice between Obamaโs exit plan/white flag of defeat ...
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There was quite a bit of talk about stem cell tourism last week at the World Stem Cell Summit in Madison, Wisc. For good reason: Itโs a fascinating confluence of homegrown medical distrust, internationalism and online culture, with a dash of adventure and blind faith. These medical pilgrims are enchanted by hopes driven by years of media ...
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More MadWire from the 2008 Stem Cell Summit in Madison, Wisc., birthplace of embryonic stem cells.Do not doubt that regenerative medicine is going to revolutionize health care. There was talk in Madison about a fledgling industry at the โtipping point.โ To be sure, the stakeholders gathered here validated the depth and breadth of innovation and ...
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Madison, Wisc. โ Hereโs the message from the 2008 World Stem
Cell Summit: The tool kit to repair bodies damaged by disease and trauma is
coming along. Great progress is being made, clinical trials are coming,
treatments are in the pipeline.
The experts gathered here in MadTown, including many of the top
people in stem cell science, industry
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New site, clean slate, fresh ideas. MadWire promises to keep things moving here in blogland. Let the details unfold as we go, starting next week live from Madison, Wisc., site of the 2008 World Stem Cell Summit. Expect news, personality, background and if the words are working, a sense of being there too. Until next time, don't get mad, get ...
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Internet coverage is good but still not close to the mainstream. The viewer who wants to see the Paralympics will do so but the casual channel surfer who might discover how deeply competitive and interesting these sports are won't get here. Nonetheless, the production quality should be good as this is an NBC company.
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