Stem cell injections may offer a viable alternative to joint replacement. May 9, 2011 — -- Last year, Patricia Beals was told she'd need a double knee replacement to repair her severely arthritic ...

Stem cells can effectively repair damaged heart muscle in patients with chronic heart failure, reducing scar tissue and improving their quality of life, according to a preliminary study by researchers ...

Researchers have shown how stem cells, together with other cells, repair damaged tissue in the mouse spinal cord. The results are of potential significance to the development of therapies for spinal ...

Researchers suggest a new view of how stem cells may help repair the brain following trauma. University of South Florida researchers have suggested a new view of how stem cells may help repair the ...

In December 2011, I reported on one of the first attempts to inject stem cells into damaged hearts. In that study, published in The Lancet, scientists grew stem cells from patients’ own hearts after ...

A handful of biotech companies have been laboring for years to turn stem cells into treatments that can repair damaged tissue after a heart attack, but with limited success. A team from the Cincinnati ...

Stem cell therapy offers a minimally invasive alternative to joint replacement surgery, with recovery times of just one to two weeks compared to months for major surgery Clinical studies show varying ...

Jeanne Mitterando, 46, is a very active family medicine doctor— she hikes, skis and works out with a personal trainer. But all that stopped after she was hospitalized for asthma and given high-dose ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Stem designs, which have different design features, may produce similar clinical survival curves. Alternatively, ...

Neurosurgeon Ivar Mendez of the University of Saskatchewan often shows a video clip to demonstrate his work treating Parkinson's disease. It features a middle-aged man with this caption: “Off ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The Echelon Primary femoral stem is an extensively porous coated cylindrical cobalt chrome hip component. A ...

In 1990 the Human Genome Project started. It was a massive scientific undertaking that aimed to identify and map out the body's complete set of DNA. This research has paved the way for new genetic ...