The following was received from Mr. & Mrs.Rodrigues of Australia, regarding their daughter, Michaela (Princess) Sky Rodrigues, born sixteen weeks premature ten years ago, while her twin brother died.  Her first nine years had more motor neuron symptoms than anyone could count. Even with assistance she could could not stand on her feet nor raise her head from its permanent droop.  That story along with her stem cell improvement (Oct 2009) was in the RSCI January newsletter: http://www.repairstemcells.org/newsletters/NL010110.htm

Here is today’s Update

I HAVE TO GIVE YOU THE BEST NEWS EVER: I carried my princess to place her on the couch to change her diaper and massage her legs and her back.

WHILE I WAS PUTTING ON HER PYJAMA PANTS, TO MY AMAZEMENT, MY PRINCESS LIFTED HER HEAD UP ALONG WITH HER UPPER BODY FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME .  I LOOKED AND SAID “BABY , WHAT DID YOU JUST DO?”  MICHAELA SKY SAID “LOOK DAD, I AM LIFTING MY HEAD!”

Can you believe it, I am on such a high, i could not wait to tell Wendy when she returned back from work at 11.45pm.

Don we are so overjoyed. Now princess loves when we hold her by both her hands AND PULL HER UP.

This way we get her to lift her had and pull herself forward.

Wendy and I would like our PRECIOUS DAUGHTER to be a ROLE MODEL for the many families raising a child with *SECONDARY DYSTONIA*.

To have undergone STEM CELL INJECTIONS and WHO is thriving extremely great .

On the website of the greatest company in the WORLD WHOM HAS BLESSED US WITH THE MIRACLE OF STEM CELLS .

AND FOR GIVING OUR PRECIOUS DAUGHTER THE GIFT OF A NEW LEASE IN LIFE !

We will be forever grateful
 
I will keep you posted and up to date with ongoing miracles of my precious daughter princess * MICHAELA SKY *

Bye for now and blessings always

by David Prentice
June 18, 2010

Italian scientists report that they have restored sight to patients blinded by chemical burns using the patient’s own adult stem cells. The team treated 112 patients blinded in one or both eyes; some of whom had been blind for years. Adult stem cells were taken from the edge of a patient’s eye and cultured on fibrin, then the cell layers transplanted onto the damaged eyes. The adult stem cells produced healthy corneas and functioning eyes. Some patients regained sight within two months, while for others with deeper injuries the process took a year before vision was restored. Patients were followed up to ten years after the transplant. After a single transplant, 69% of patients regained vision; in some cases a second transplant occurred, with a total success in 77% of patients and partial vision restoration in 13% of patients. The long-term restoration was an especially encouraging success of the study.

Lead researcher Dr. Graziella Pellegrini, of the University of Modena, said:
“The patients, they are happy, even the partial successes. We have a couple of patients who were blind in both eyes. Can you imagine for these patients the change in their quality of life?”

According to the scientists, the key to success was insuring a high enough concentration of adult stem cells in the graft, so that the stem cells could continue to generate new tissue.

A center in Yerevan that opened recently as part of a larger donor registry to harvest Repair Stem Cells for transplants has registered its first success this week as its collection has proved life-saving for a patient in Europe.

The stem cells of Frederic Safarian, an Iranian-Armenian, matched with those of a non-Armenian woman living in Belgium and suffering from a grave blood-related illness. The transplant was successfully performed on Thursday night in Belgium.

The Stem Cell Harvesting Center in Yerevan is the only such establishment that is available in the territory of the former Soviet Union.

It is part of the Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry (ABMDR), which was established in 1999 for recruiting and providing matched unrelated donors for bone marrow or stem cell transplantation to all Armenian and non-Armenian patients who are suffering from leukemia and other blood related illnesses.



About 16,000 donors have been registered with ABMDR so far. A total of 821 matches have been found for 1,276 applications from patients during these years. This week has marked the tenth successful transplant assisted by the charitable organization, but the first stem-cell successfully matched. 

Doctor Mihran Nazaretyan, who works as part of this project, says that such successes not only save human lives, but may also hold out broad prospects for the future of Armenian medicine.

“We want not only to provide donors, but also create a transplant center in Armenia, which, naturally, will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, but we consider that 70 percent of work to achieve this goal has already been done,” Nazaretyan told ArmeniaNow.

Fabulous Strike, a five-time graded stakes winner and one of the top sprinters in the country over the past three seasons, recently underwent stem cell treatment at New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, Pa., in an effort to get him back to the racetrack later this summer.

Trainer Todd Beattie said Walter Downney's homebred 7-year-old gelded son of Smart Strike   had the stem cell treatment about five weeks ago after an ultrasound determined he had a ligament strain in his pastern.

Stem cell therapy is a breakthrough procedure in which bone marrow is used to help regenerate tissue. The relatively new technique has been used with success by a handful of equine veterinarians, including Dr. Doug Herthel, who helped pioneer the treatments at Alamo Pintado Equine Center in California. Stem cell therapy has been used successfully to help a number of horses recover from many types of joint, tendon, and ligament injuries.

It is the first time Beattie, who is based at Penn National Race Course in western Pa., has used stem cell treatment for one of his horses. Dr. Michael Ross performed the one-time treatment on Fabulous Strike.

“It wasn’t like he was limping or anything, but he just wasn’t right,” Beattie said of Fabulous Strike, who last raced in the Vosburgh Stakes (gr. I) in October, 2009 at Belmont Park when finishing second. “So we decided to do an ultrasound. There was no tear or anything but there was some edema. We decided to go the stem-cell route.

"I have so much confidence in Dr. Ross. Some of my family, who has been in the business many years, have had good success with it. It’s a really interesting technique. (Fabulous Strike) seems to be doing very well so far.”
Beattie said Fabulous Strike will return to the New Bolton Center for further observation in a couple of weeks and if he gets a clean bill of health, will return to training in July. Beattie is shooting for late fall to get Fabulous Strike back to the races.

“He’s never had a soundness issue his whole career,” said Beattie. “We're hopeful he will recover from this and everything will be good to start back.”

Out of the Lost Code mare Fabulous Find, Fabulous Strike has won 14 of 24 starts for earnings of more than $1.4 million.

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