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Experts Believe in Adult Stem Cells
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NewsUSA
(NewsUSA) - In America, the term "stem cells" is automatically associated with "embryonic stem cells," the cells that scientists can only extract by destroying a human embryo.
But while American politicians, scientists and religious leaders debate moral issues, the rest of the world uses adult stem cells to treat -; and heal -; patients.
Adult stem cells exist in every human being's tissues, where they help regrow skin, muscle and nerve cells. Scientists can extract adult stem cells from patients, then multiply the cells in labs. When the cells are injected back into a patient, they help grow healthy tissues.
In countries including the U.K., Thailand, China, Israel and Argentina, adult stem cells have successfully treated patients with everything from Hodgkin's lymphoma to broken bones.
Don Margolis created the Worldwide Center for Adult Stem Cell Education LLC (WCASCE) to help Americans locate and use adult stem cell treatment centers. Through Margolis's Web site, http://donmargolis.com/treatment.php, people can search a list of treatment centers for over 100 different diseases.
Margolis writes on his Web site, "Americans need to know that that they can receive immediate, life-changing treatments for congestive heart failure, sickle-cell anemia, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury and many other diseases -; as long as they search outside of the U.S."
Adult stem cell treatments can be very beneficial. The WCASCE's Scientific Advisory Board contains expert physicians who have used adult stem cell treatments. Its Chairman, Kittipan Visudarom, M.D., co-founded the Minneapolis Heart Institute before going to Thailand, where he treated over 100 end-stage heart patients with adult stem cells.
Carlos Lima, M.D., is a ground-breaking neuropathologist who developed an adult stem cell treatment that helps regrow nerves in parapalegics. He works in Portugal.
Zannos G. Grekos, M.D., uses adult stem cells to treat people with heart and peripheral vascular diseases in the Dominican Republic.
"The adult stem cell research and medical treatments have been done." says Margolis. "Americans simply need to access the same technologies that already save lives across the globe."
For more information, visit www.adultstemcelleducation.com.
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© 2008 The Valley American
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