By Nancy Singh, April 2007 (expresshealthcaremgmt.com)- Four-month-old Aarohi Bhatt recently created medical history for being cured of a rare heart condition believed to be untreatable. The cause of her cure—Stem Cell Therapy (SCT) using her father's blood at Frontier Lifeline Hospital, Chennai. Besides being a difficult surgery, it was for the first time in the world that SCT was successfully done on a child so young...
By Nancy Singh, April 2007 (expresshealthcaremgmt.com)- Stem cell therapy (SCT) has long captured the imagination of scientists worldwide as a way of regenerative medicine. Many species, most notably amphibians and certain fish, can regenerate their body parts. The salamander regenerates its limbs, tail, upper and lower jaws, lens and retina of its eye, and its intestine! This remarkable ability is particularly pronounced in the larval stage. For this reason, larval salamanders are favourites for research on regeneration...
By Brian Wallheimer, April 15, 2007 (jconline.com)- Work done by a researcher at Purdue University's Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering could have an impact on treating spinal cord injuries.
Purdue associate professor Alyssa Panitch and other researchers recently submitted a paper on a scaffold-like gel material that can be injected into the body and solidify to fit any space...
By Karen Ravn, April 9, 2007 (latimes.com)- At Purdue University's Center for Paralysis Research, director Richard Borgens and his colleagues have pioneered three successful canine treatments that are now in various stages of development for human use.
• Helping nerves communicate. Nerve damage can interrupt transmission of nerve impulses and make it impossible for the brain to "communicate" with affected parts of the body...