Thursday, August 19, 2010

CUBANS HAVE BENEFITTED FROM STEM CELL TREATEMENT





HAVANA, Aug 17 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) - Nearly 1,478 Cubans have benefitted since 2004 to May this year from stem cell treatment which improve their living standard, Granma newspaper reported.

Seventy four percent of them are people with severe ischemia in the lower limbs and vascular diseases (angiology) and were incapable of responding to conventional therapy.



According to Dr. Porfirio Hernandez, coordinator of the National Group for Regenerative Medicine at the Ministry of Public Health, Havana City is the province with more advanced cases.

Dr. Hernandez who is also assistant director of research at the Institute of Hematology and Immunology here termed favourable the results in angiology in preventing many patients to suffer from major amputations, the daily reported.

The use of the so-called regenerative cell therapy in orthopedics and traumatology with 301 assisted patients has also increased progressively in the country, Hernandez said. -- NNN-PRENSA LATINA


Read more about stem cell:
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Biology (Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine)
Stem Cell and Gene-Based Therapy: Frontiers in Regenerative Medicine
Regenerative and Cell Therapy: Clinical Advances (Ernst Schering Foundation Symposium Proceedings / Schering Foundation Symposium Proceedings Supplements)



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