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Can heart attack damage be reversed?
Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores whether stem cells can help regrow dead cardiac tissue after a heart attack.
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By Maureen Salamon HealthDay Reporter Latest Womens Health News
FRIDAY, July 11, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- For the millions of women who can't cough, sneeze or laugh without losing bladder control, researchers are testing a treatment that uses stem cells to regenerate weakened urethra muscles.
In a small pilot study, European researchers found that injecting stem cells isolated from patients' own fat tissue improved or eliminated stress incontinence in all participants within a year.
Stress incontinence affects about twice as many women as men because of pelvic floor strain from pregnancy and childbirth.
Most women who choose to treat the condition undergo a procedure that inserts surgical mesh between the urethra and vagina to reduce urine leakage, urologists said. But widening controversy over the use of surgical mesh makes the idea of stem cell treatment even more attractive.
"This is an application that makes sense because of the ease of access to the urethra, which isn't a difficult area to inject," said Dr. Timothy Boone, chairman of urology at Houston Methodist Hospital in Texas, who wasn't involved in the study.
Globally, similar research is under way on the use of stem cells to treat stress incontinence.
However, "a lot of other stem cell therapies are a lot more invasive," Boone added. "It's too soon to tell, but the hope would be that a significant number of women would benefit from this and avoid the possible complications of surgery."
The study is published online in the July issue of the journal Stem Cells Translational Medicine.
Stress incontinence occurs when pelvic floor muscles supporting the bladder and urethra become too weak to prevent urine flow when pressure is placed on the abdomen. The problem can range from being a nuisance to highly debilitating.
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(CNN) -- In medical school, Gerald Karpman was taught that when it comes to matters of the heart, what's done is done.
"If you survived the heart attack, you survived at the level that you were going to be," he recalls. "Whatever damage was done was permanent."
That thinking has prevailed until very recently, when studies involving a handful of patients showed an infusion of stem cells might help rebuild healthy hearts in heart attack survivors.
On March 7, Karpman joined that perilous club. A dermatologist in Camarillo, California, and a former marathon runner, the 66-year-old had a rigorous routine: eight to 10 miles of walking each day and a meticulous, meatless diet.
But that morning, sitting at his home computer, a pain kicked in.
"Within about 30 seconds, I was in extreme discomfort," recalls Karpman, who says it was worse than the kidney stones he once suffered. "I couldn't sit still. I mean even driving the car (to the hospital), I couldn't put a seat belt on; I'm just moving around, just trying to think of something else."
Karpman made it to Los Robles Hospital and Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, where doctors used stents to reopen an artery in his heart and save his life.
As he lay recovering, he took in some grim news: Nearly 20% of his heart muscle was dead, starved of oxygen. Dead heart tissue leaves a scar, interrupting the coordinated muscle action that makes the heart such an efficient pump.
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Clive Randell, 57, injured his leg in a motorcycle accident in 2011 Thanks to a new stem cell procedure, he can now ride his bike again Stem cells taken from the pelvis are blended with gel to 'glue' the bone
By David Gerrie
Published: 16:01 EST, 12 July 2014 | Updated: 19:59 EST, 12 July 2014
A pioneering stem cell procedure to repair fractured bones could provide a lifeline for accident victims facing the amputation of a limb.
The development involves harvesting stem cells master cells that are able to transform into any kind of body tissue from the patients pelvis, blending them with a specially created gel and injecting the solution into the damaged bone.
One patient already benefiting is lifelong motorcycle enthusiast Clive Randell who suffered horrific injuries to his left leg when his Harley-Davidson was rammed by a car in 2011.
On yer bike: Clive Randell, 57, pictured with his 'saviour' Professor Anan Shetty at Kents Canterbury Christ Church University, can now ride his bike again after undergoing the new stem cell procedure
He suffered multiple open fractures, leaving bone protruding through the skin, and extensive skin loss. Doctors repeatedly told him his leg would have to be amputated.
Today, though, Clive, 57, is back on his feet and, astonishingly, also his bike thanks to the ground-breaking stem-cell treatment.
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Advances in plan for individual gene therapies for leading cause of blindness Scientists use stem cells to investigate causes of degenerative eye disease Two patients with retinitis pigmentosa had mutations in a certain gene New gene therapy was used to rescue vision of mice with the same condition
By Julian Robinson
Published: 06:49 EST, 11 July 2014 | Updated: 08:08 EST, 11 July 2014
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Scientists have moved closer to a breakthrough in 'personalised' treatments for a leading cause of blindness.
Researchers have stepped up their bid to create individual gene therapies for one of the factors that triggers inherited vision loss.
They used 'induced' stem cells - taken from ordinary skin cells - to investigate patient-specific causes of the degenerative eye disease retinitis pigmentosa (RP), which leads to blindness or severe visual impairment.
Scientists have moved closer to a breakthrough in 'personalised' treatments for a leading cause of blindness
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The citys biotechnology cluster will be scaled up to international quality, says the Union Budget 2014-15.
This effort will include global partnerships in accessing model-organism resources for disease biology, stem cell biology and high-end electron microscopy, it adds.
The cluster will give small and medium enterprises the opportunity to set up labs for innovative solutions to problems in agriculture, health, energy and environment, said Tanusree Deb Barma, Director, Information Technology and Biotechnology directorate.
It is being developed near Electronics City, in collaboration with the Karnataka Vision Group on Biotechnology, Department of Biotechnology, the industry and academia, she said. It will complement the existing biotech cluster of north Bangalore.
The cluster will also provide opportunities for translational research and collaboration, and in the future for business marketing. Developed in a public-private partnership mode, the campus may be able to explore bio-manufacturing capabilities, Ms. Deb Barma said.
A biotech cluster in Faridabad will similarly be scaled up, according to the budget. Chair of Karnatakas Vision Group on Biotechnology and CMD Biocon, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw said scaling up these biotech clusters will give a boost to the Indian biotech sector which has the potential to position India as the global biotech hub.
