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Spinal Cord
Paralyzed Man Walks Again
The Tribune Trust
February 25, 2007
Last October, while Akbar was working at a construction site in Abu Dhabi, he fell from the fourth floor of a building and sustained significant injuries to his spinal cord. After only two months of adult stem cell therapy, he has regained the ability to walk again. Doctor’s said that the procedure usually works best on recent injuries in younger individuals, but could be used to treat all paraplegics. There were no ethical concerns connected to the treatment, nor was there any risk of rejection.
Toddler Fights Rare Leukemia Using Stem Cells
Cambridge Evening News
February 9, 2007
Using stem cells from an umbical cord from Japan, her best chance of beating acute myeloid leukemia is now a new form of stem cell therapy. This option became available after she failed to respond well to chemotherapy treatment at Addenbrooke's Hospital and as no suitable donor was found. Her ground-breaking surgery is scheduled for today, and she must be closely protected from now on. She will be highly vulnerable to infection says her father who is in Bristol with her.
FDA Approves Australian Spinal Disease Adult Stem Cell Trial
Australian Associated Press
December 20, 2006
A world-first Australian medical therapy that uses stem cells to treat degenerative spinal disease has been approved for testing on patients in the United States. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration allowed it to skip the small phase-one human safety trial and move straight into a larger phase-two trial since the preliminary animal trials were so promising.
Stem Cells to Deliver Potential Cure for Back Pain
BBC News
November 30, 2006
Chronic back pain could become a thing of the past thanks to a patients own stem cells. Treatment will be available in three years said a team of researchers from the University of Manchester. The soft shock-absorbing discs which separate the vertebrae in the spine are being rebuilt using stem cells. The researchers are in route to perfecting the technique.
Hope for Paraplegics, Stem Cell Therapy in India Delivers Results
The Hindu
August 11, 2006
Stem cell therapy has brought sensation back to a man who was left a paraplegic after his spinal cord was damaged during a road accident. His doctor surprised by such great results of stem cell injections at the site of injury.
Safety of Spinal Cord Stem Cell Transplant Established
Medical Studies/Trials
July 19, 2006
According to University of California - Irvine researchers, transplanting human embryonic stem cells is not harmful and can serve as a therapeutic approach for the treatment of severe spinal cord injury. Identical data published by four other laboratories in the world show that rats with either mild or severe spinal cord injuries that were transplanted with a treatment derived from human embryonic stem cells suffered no visible injury or ill effects as a result of the treatment itself.
Experimental Procedure Brings Hope to Man
The News Journal
July 4, 2006
At the Hosptial de Egas Moniz in Lisbon, Portugal, Yaros underwent an olfactory mucosa autograph - a type of stem cell surgery. Researchers believe that the transplanted stem cells in this procedure can help repair a damaged spinal cord.
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