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Stem Cell Therapy for Spinal Cord Injury: A Status Report
Medscape
If you have a spinal cord injury, recent reports on stem cell therapy look like a dream come true. Like wire spliced into a severed cable, stem cells could restore communication between your body and your brain. After endless numbness, you might once …
MedRebels Educates on the Benefits of Regenerative Adult Stem Cell TherapyPR Newswire (press release)
A stem cell therapy to treat Parkinson’s disease enters clinical trialsNikkei Asian Review

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Georgia looks to lead on stem cell medicine; lawmaker says we have hospitals, tech in place
Northwest Georgia News
“I want Georgia to be the very first state in the Union to be able to put the structure in place where not only harvesting can take place — because that can happen anywhere nationwide — but we would have a safe environment for adult stem cell …

Georgia looks to lead on stem cell medicine; lawmaker says we have hospitals, tech in place
Calhoun Times
“I want Georgia to be the very first state in the Union to be able to put the structure in place where not only harvesting can take place — because that can happen anywhere nationwide — but we would have a safe environment for adult stem cell …

MedRebels Educates on the Benefits of Regenerative Adult Stem Cell Therapy
PR Newswire (press release)
AUSTIN, Texas, May 6, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Recent studies show that patients no longer need to risk drug addiction from prescription pain medication when treating certain types of pain. With the past decade’s advances in adult stem cell therapy …

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Japanese scientists have used skin cells to restore a patient’s vision for the first time
ScienceAlert
Japanese scientists have reported the first successful skin-to-eye stem cell transplant in humans, where stem cells derived from a patient’s skin were transplanted into her eye to partially restore lost vision. The patient, a 70-year-old woman …
1st skin-to-eye cell transplant partially restores AMD patient’s visionRT

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A stem cell therapy to treat Parkinson’s disease enters clinical trials
Nikkei Asian Review
TOKYO Stem cells have enormous promise in regenerative medicine, with the potential to treat a range of injuries and diseases, from Parkinson’s and cancer to infertility and baldness. The main roadblock, however, has been ethical concerns regarding the …

Another stem cell drive to try and save life of six-year-old Joshua Weekes
CKNW News Talk 980
Remember the story of Joshua Weekes, the six-year-old Richmond boy in desperate need of a bone marrow donor to save his life? Family and friends are holding another OneMatch event to find a donor, from 3 o’clock to 8 o’clock at Willingdon Church in …

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