Singer Don Ho has had great improvement in his heart function as a result of an experimental procedure that used his own stem cells, AP reports:
"I'm feeling terrific, 100 percent better," Ho told The Associated Press in one of his first interviews since surgery Dec. 6. "I'm ready to go, but I've got to listen to the doctors.
"When they say my heart is strong enough to get excited, I'm on."
The 75-year-old singer underwent a new treatment that hasn't been approved in the United States. It involves multiplying stem cells taken from his blood and injecting them into his heart in hopes of strengthening it.
"It was my last hope," said Ho, who suffers from nonischemic cardiomyopathy — a weakened heart muscle not due to blockages in the coronary arteries.
The experimental procedure he underwent was developed by TheraVitae Co., which has offices in Thailand and laboratories in Israel, where Ho's stem cells were sent to be multiplied. The therapy was supervised by Dr. Amit Patel, a heart surgeon from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
This is just another of the many impressive healings achieved by doctors using adult stem cells.
1 comment:
Great post!
Just more proof that the argument over embryonic stem-cells is false; increasingly, there is no good reason to support fetal tissue research. It is all about empowering the pro-death crowd and forever enshrining abortion as the final law.
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