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Sometimes I get frustrated with the media. I see this story from Fox News stating that stem cells taken from a patient's nose could help patients with Spinal Cord Injury.
Maybe you are asking yourself "why is Don frustrated? On the face of it, it seems to be a positive story on Adult Stem Cells"
However, let's take a closer look at
the story covered by Fox News on Dec. 16, 2008 :
Research from the University of New South Wales in Australia indicated that stem cells from the nose may help spinal injury victims walk again, London™s Daily Mail reported.Scientists injected paralyzed rats with human nose cells and found the rats could move their hind legs six weeks later.The scientists are hopeful the research could eventually be done on humans.The nose cells, called olfactory ensheathing glia cells, normally help the regrow the fibers that link the lining of the nose to the brain.We think these cells have lots of potential, Dr. Catherine Gorrie of the University of New South Wales, who led the study. They are very accessible. It™s a relatively simple procedure to take them from the patient, grow more of them in the laboratory and then insert them back into the same person.While I love positive news on Adult Stem Cell research, this isn't news!!! Dr. Carlos Lima has been helping HUMAN patients using Adult Stem Cells taken from the nose for the last 10 years!!! Not rats! HUMANS!!!
The media is a decade behind the times in reporting Adult Stem Cell news and that is one of the reasons I have this blog and formed the Repair Stem Cell Institute. I want people to know that there is help out there and it is available now in the form of Adult Stem Cells. You just won't find it on the front page of the Washington Post or the New York Times, you have to dig a little.
I covered Dr. Carlos Lima and his
Spinal Cord Injury protocol (using stem cells taken from the nose) for treating humans last week. I have also covered Spinal Cord Injury patients like
Erica Nader and
Jacki Rabon treated by Dr. Lima using Adult Stem Cells taken from the nose of the patients.
For even more on this procedure, please see the Repair Stem Cell Institute's
Stem Cell for Spinal Cord Injury page. You can also email Dr. Carlos Lima directly email: carlosvlima@sapo.pt