http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101117184355.htm

Regenerative Stem Cell Therapy Offers New Hope for Treating Cardiovascular Disease
ScienceDaily (Nov. 17, 2010) — "Northwestern Medicine physician researchers are revolutionizing treatment of cardiovascular disease by utilizing patients' own stem cells to regenerate heart and vascular tissue. Northwestern Medicine is the lead site for a study examining stem cell transplantation as treatment for critical limb ischemia. Chief investigator Douglas Losordo, MD, director of the Program in Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and the Eileen M. Foell Professor of Heart Research of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, will present the findings of this study at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions in Chicago, on November 17. (more...)

Northwestern Memorial Hospital (2010, November 17). Regenerative stem cell therapy offers new hope for treating cardiovascular disease. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 4, 2012, from http://www.sciencedaily.com­ /releases/2010/11/101117184355.htm

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120502112711.htm

New Hope for PAD Sufferers
ScienceDaily (May 2, 2012) — "Research led by vascular surgeons at Dartmouth-Hitchcock may offer new hope to sufferers of peripheral artery disease, the cause of nearly 60,000 lower-limb amputations annually, through the use of a patient's own stem cells.
"Richard J. Powell MD, chief of vascular surgery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, is the principal investigator on a national study -- involving 550 patients at 80 sites around the country -- of so-called "no option" patients, for whom the disease is so advanced that amputation is the only available treatment.
Powell's study is now in a three-year, third-stage clinical trial, after second-stage trials showed remarkable success at treating patients with CLI. The final results of the second-stage clinical trial have been published in the April, 2012, issue of Molecular Therapy." (more...)

Journal Reference:
Richard J Powell, William A Marston, Scott A Berceli, Raul Guzman, Timothy D Henry, Amy T Longcore, Theresa P Stern, Sharon Watling, Ronnda L Bartel. Cellular Therapy With Ixmyelocel-T to Treat Critical Limb Ischemia: The Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled RESTORE-CLI Trial. Molecular Therapy, 2012; DOI: 10.1038/mt.2012.52



Utterly facinating. Looks like they are getting there then - good job in the doing of!

Hey Molly!

Adult stem cells are so exciting! I have so much hope for them! I am also excited for nanotechnology and genetic research and the combination of all three!

Craig

Thanks Molly as always for the great information. Hope you're well!!

I've already been in touch and spoken directly with Dr. Richard Burt of Northwestern.
He's told me that he is going to develop a protocol for AS and do his stem cell transplants that he has been doing for other auto immune diseases.
i met him through a friend of mine who's wife has scelorderma and was very sick. She had the stem cell transplant and is 100 percent fine now.
It's only a matter of time.

Sign me up! I just read up on it.

Wow, that's amazing! I am so hopeful

This is extremely exciting! And finnari, you rock, my dear. Actually being able to talk to him about AS and the use of stem cells. I'll be watching for news!

Molly, as usual, love, you have found some awesome info.

Love and hugs,

Woo-Hoo guys - what a breakthrough. Possibly even in my own lifetime!

Craig - fast track - clever, clever. Right in there to the heart of the matter. Excellent. Now we wait with bated breath...

Thanks jessxo - yep, am doin good.

Thanks Kat - an ya know me, I like diggin...

Have a good one -

I hate to be a kill joy and add a bit of negativity to this exciting idea, but I just can't see a cure for AS becoming a reality.

While I have no doubt that we have the ability/potential to find a cure, you have to ask the question, why would it be beneficial to provide a cure to those suffering with disease? The medical institution has to be one of the biggest profit making industries in history and that's the way it is designed.

Just look at cancer for example. It is probably one of the main causes of death in the modern western world. Think about the amount of money spent on cancer medication. If a cure for cancer was ever found, drug companies would go out of business, the medical institution would collapse, unemployment would skyrocket to unprecedented heights. It would disastrous perhaps beyond repair for the economy.

I don't mean to sound negative and pessimistic but I'm just trying to be realistic. I don't know if it would be beneficial to anyone to cure the sick. But then again I do hope I am wrong and I would welcome somebody to argue my point.

No hard feelings, just the way I see it.

Actually Seb if one multinational in India finds a cure and it costs 200 000 they would market it in competition against biologics and all the rest of it... even though there is no doubt collaboration between multinationals there is still some degree of competition.

No doubt there is a lot to be said for autoimmune diseases as they don't kill you but you need medication constantly (perfect for big pharma) if someone came up with a cure and they could make money off it there's a pretty decent chance they would...

Rippin