Stem Cell Injections Pioneering Step Forward?

sanspeak writes "Indian Doctors at All India Institute of Medical Sciences have performed a radical new operation of sorts by pioneering the method of stem cell injections. Ishika Gupta, a seven month old girl child who was suffering from cardiac myopathy, was treated by injecting stem cells into her heart from bone in her own leg. AIIMS has marked a global first in pioneering stem cell medicine by the "injection method''." From the article: "There will now be a national stem cell centre at AIIMS which will coordinate the research and its applications. The statistics speak for themselves. After six months, 56% of the affected (dead muscle) area injected with these cells had shown improvement." Additional details on this therapy available from the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel and Medical News Today.

Comments

Re:Not a general solution.....

[PortHaven]

You're a retard...

a) Bush Administration is the first administration to Federally fund stem cell research

b) This is further proof that the Bush Administration's stance was correct, fetal stem cell research is not necessary. In fact, every success I have read about in the past year has been non-fetal stem cells.

c) Please go educate yourself....thank you.

d) your point on them not knowing is potentially accurate and a good point, although it's very likely they "extracted" "tested" "re-inserted"

Please list examples.

[porkchop_d_clown]

Please list for us the therapies under development that use embryonic stem cells.

It's about time

[gillbates]

Somebody actually noticed that non-embryonic stem cells are being used to treat diseases today. Kind of ironic that while adult stem cell therapies are being tested in clinical trials, the Bush administration is taking heat because they didn't fund ethically suspect embryonic stem cell research - research which has yet to produce even a single cure.

Re:proof

[PortHaven]

Well....

In the past year i've read a dozen articles on stem-cell successes. ALL have been adult or umbilical.

I have yet to read a single success of embryonic stem cells. Most of what I have heard about them is the tests result in tumors.

Re:References to Bush are utterly irrelevant

[operagost]

Your whole "argument" is based on this premise:

A couple cells are not human.

And that's exactly what this debate is about. Your needs do not outweigh the rights of other humans, so if that embryo is alive, your argument is moot. Pro-choice people pull out the same red herring -- they say it's about the "right to choose" what they want to do about their body when it's never about that but about whether the unborn is a human and has a right to live. I personally don't give a hoot about what you do with your body, but I am interested if murder is being committed.