My adult stem cell organization, just put out a press release today.   It addresses some recent ads by Barack Obama that are misleading regarding stem cell research.  However, for the record, I'm not attacking Barack Obama, rather I wish to point out to him and the rest of America, that adult stem cell therapy is already offering cures/treatments for various diseases such as Diabetes.

Here is an excerpt from my stem cell press release :

BANGKOK, Thailand, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama's political advertisement focusing on "stem cell research" and using the mother of a child with juvenile diabetes "implies there are currently no stem cell therapies available for someone with this disease and that's just not true," stated Don Margolis, Chairman of The Repair Stem Cell Institute (www.RepairStemCells.org) based in Bangkok, Thailand. The Obama ad features a mother, Jody Montgomery, who says in the commercial: "My name is Jody Montgomery and my daughter Maddy was diagnosed with type 1 juvenile diabetes at age 3. Six times a day, I take her blood. Six times a day, I pray for a cure. Researchers are working hard to do just that. Our best hope is stem cell research, and that's why we support Barack Obama."

According to Margolis, "Patients with the same type 1 diabetes as Maddy Montgomery are being treated with 'adult stem cells' today in Cologne, Germany, one of the world's finest government-approved medical facilities, as well as at medical facilities in Latin America. Furthermore, a National Institutes of Health (NIH) web site (www.clinicaltrials.gov) has at least 7 medical and life science studies where 'adult stem cells' and diabetes treatments are mentioned. There are over 2000 adult stem cell clinical trials listed on the NIH web site and only five 'embryonic' stem cell trials registered.

Margolis urged Senator Obama "to visit www.RepairStemCells.org/StemCellTreatmentCenters.php for RSCI's global listing of stem cell treatment centers and the doctors/researchers meeting the Institute's rigid Standards of Excellence. He could then review the 100+ diseases (including type 1 diabetes) now being treated with adult stem cells by renowned doctors throughout the world."

Please let me know what you think about our press release in comments.  Or, you are always welcome to contact me personally -  donmargolis@gmail.com or call me at 1-214-556-6377.   Thank you and I hope you find this website and www.repairstemcells.org useful and helpful as well as interesting.

In August, I posted the story about Savannah Watring, 8, from Missouri, who suffers from Optic Nerve Hypoplasia.  At the time, she was in China for her stem cell therapy and blind since birth, the ADULT stem cell treatment helped almost immediately while she was still in China.

Now, they have updated the story on how she is doing and there is even a very cool video on Savannah too.  I am very happy to present it here:

An 8-year-old Missouri girl who'd never seen the faces of the people who love her can now see thanks to stem cell treatments.

Doctors said it would be three to six months before they would see any change, but after her fourth treatment, something amazing happened in an elevator.

"When Savannah was facing the mirror, she said, 'hi.' Brent looked at me and I looked at Brent. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry," Watring said.

"It was like, one day she was not seeing anything, and the next day she was seeing the letter E and which way the legs went," Savannah's aunt Shonna Millsap said.

While, she doesn't always get every letter and shape right, her family believes the improvement is nothing short of a miracle.

"I'm not a bit sorry. I'd do it all over again. It might plateau over the next few months, and if we need to go back, we will," Watring said.

Click here for the story and Optic Nerve Hypoplasia video starring Savannah Watring 

For more information on this stem cell treatment for optic nerve hypoplasia or any optic nerve condition, I suggest you contact Kirshner Ross-Vaden who works for the stem cell therapy company in China that treated Savannah.  Her email is kirshner.ross@gmail.com