Acute heart patients to receive own stem cells

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This is great news from U.K. on somatic otherwise known as adult stem cells which will be delivered to the patient within five hours after a heart attack.
Heart attack patients will be given a groundbreaking new treatment involving an injection of their own stem cells to attempt to repair the damage their hearts have suffered, it was announced today.
Fifty cardiac patients at two London hospitals will have the stem cells extracted from their bone marrow and injected into their hearts, when they are brought in suffering from an acute heart attack. Consent for the procedure will be sought from patients after an angioplasty procedure has been completed…
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guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,1942340,00.html

Let’s pray the clinical trials will prove astonishingly successful.👍
 
It is very important when in disucssions with those in favor of embryonic research that we can offer them an alternative.
 
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