THAT TITLE IS A LITTLE MISLEADING AS THE ARTICLE IS REFERRING TO THE CAPITOL OF COLORADO- DENVER.  HOWEVER, THIS ARTICLE (SEE BELOW) IS  GOOD NEWS ON TWO LEVELS!

1.   THERE IS A NEW BILL WHICH JUST PASSED THROUGH THE COLORADO HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE UNANIMOUSLY.  THE BILL- HOUSE BILL 1372 WILL CREATE AN ADULT STEM CELLS CURE FUND IN WHICH MOTHERS COULD DONATE THEIR UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD (RICH IN STEM CELLS)  AND IT COULD BE A VOLUNTARY INCOME TAX CHECKOFF. THIS WOULD PROMOTE UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD COLLECTION ALL OVER COLORADO AND PROMOTE ADULT STEM CELL THERAPY AS WELL.

2.  THE BILL PASSED MAINLY BECAUSE OF THE TESTIMONY OF LEUKEMIA SURVIVOR, SHEILA GANNON WHO  RECEIVED AN ADULT STEM CELL TRANSPLANT WITH BLOOD FROM A DONATED UMBILICAL CORD.  SHE TESTIFIED THAT IT SAVED HER LIFE!

GANNON GOES ON TO SAY-
"We are extremely grateful for this technology and the medical community that administers it," she told the State House Health and Human Services Committee. "I often think about the moms that graciously donate their umbilical cord blood. There is no doubt that without this, I would not be here today."

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EARLY IN MARCH I BLOGGED ABOUT TWO BROTHERS IN MINNESOTA WHO SUFFERED FROM A RARE SKIN DISEASE CALLED EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA.  THIS AWFUL DISEASE CAUSES THE PATIENT'S SKIN TO BLISTER AND FALL OFF.  EVENTUALLY WHEN THE PATIENT GETS OLDER IT TURNS INTO A SKIN CANCER.  FROM WHAT I CAN GATHER, A COUPLE IN WALES HEARD ABOUT THE FAMILY IN MINNESOTA AND NOW IS TRYING TO RAISE MONEY FOR THEIR OWN SON WHO SUFFERS FROM THE SAME DISORDER TO GET A STEM CELL TRANSPLANT.  THIS WELSH COUPLE IS WATCHING ANXIOUSLY TO SEE IF THE STEM CELL THERAPY HELPS THE MINNESOTA BROTHERS AND HOPE IT CAN BE APPLIED TO THEIR OWN SON AS WELL.  I WISH BOTH THE FAMILY IN MINNESOTA AND THE WELSH FAMILY ALL THE BEST.  WE ARE CHEERING FOR YOU HERE.

Dad Peter Davey, 33, of Swn yr Arfon, Llangefni, said: “We are hoping and we are praying.

“We are desperate for news about how successful this has proved because if it has gone well then this could help Tie as well.

“It is hard waiting for news like this but there is nothing else we can do but wait and hope.

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ALTHOUGH STEM CELL TREATMENT FOR LEUKEMIA ISN'T A SCOOP-  DOCTORS HAVE BEEN USING STEM CELL THERAPY TO HELP LEUKEMIA PATIENTS FOR APPROXIMATELY 20 YEARS,  I STILL LOVE STORIES LIKE THIS ONE.

REBECCA GRISHAM RECEIVED A STEM CELL TRANSPLANT FROM HER SISTER AND ACCORDING TO THE STORY SEEMS TO BE DOING BETTER EACH DAY.  ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER FAMILY SAVED WITH STEM CELLS.  I AM A HAPPY MAN.

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The future looks brighter for Rebecca Grisham of Jackson, her son and daughter after treatment in early February at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville for acute myelogenous leukemia.

After stem-cell therapy through a match with her sister, Grisham has made progress and is residing at a Village at Vanderbilt apartment, courtesy of the Stem Cell Foundation.

"She would say the Lord is blessing her daily," Vaughn said. "She's feeling good and able to get out some but has to be cautious" because of her weakened immune system.

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THIS VIDEO COMES COURTESY OF THE FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL. STEM CELL THERAPY PATIENTS WHO WERE ALREADY SUCCESSFULLY TREATED WITH ADULT STEM CELLS TESTIFIED IN FRONT OF CONGRESS. ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN ADULT STEM CELL HEROES, DR. RICHARD BURT IS MENTIONED MORE THAN ONCE.

MANY THANKS TO DAVID PRENTICE OF THE FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR BRINGING THIS TO MY ATTENTION.

PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO HEAR SOME GREAT STORIES OF ADULT STEM CELLS. - DM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX4lgz0-R5I

IF ANY OF YOU ARE IN FLORIDA, YOU MAY WISH TO SEE THIS TALK-

"Medical Awareness in the Park" will feature the success stories of families, including that of Cameron Petersen, who have improved sight as a result of umbilical cord stem-cells. The event will take place 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday (MARCH 27) at Gilchrist Park in Punta Gorda.

Cameron, a toddler who was legally blind, has made significant progress since undergoing a stem-cell infusion in China last year. Carol Petersen of Port Charlotte, Cameron's grandmother, is a champion of the procedure.

"We will be discussing the umbilical stem-cell treatment my grandson and several other children had in China," Peterson said. "This treatment has given sight to all these children who were legally blind and/or totally blind.

Doctors from the University of Florida, along with Dr. David Klein of Port Charlotte, will be speaking on the medical test results recently done on three of these children at UF. The public is invited. For more information, go to www.cameronsmiracleofsight.com.

IF YOU GO TO CAMERON'S WEBSITE, YOU WILL SEE HIS SUCCESS IS OWED TO THOSE STEM CELL FOLKS IN CHINA AGAIN.  KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK CHINA.  DON'T WORRY, THE UNITED STATES IS STILL AGES BEHIND YOU IN REGARDS TO STEM CELL THERAPY.

 http://www.sun-herald.com/breakingnews.cfm?id=5275

I HATE TO BE REPETITIVE, BUT HERE IS YET ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL STEM CELL THERAPY STORY COMING OUT OF CHINA.  AN AMERICAN FAMILY FROM MISSOURI WENT TO CHINA TO RECEIVE ADULT STEM CELLS FOR THEIR DAUGHTER WHO SUFFERS FROM SEPTO-OPTIC DYSPLASIA WHICH MEANS HER EYES DON'T HAVE ENOUGH NERVE FIBERS THAT THE BRAIN NEEDS TO RECEIVE VISUAL CUES FROM THE EYES.  WOULD THE STEM CELLS HELP WITH THIS CONDITION?  LET'S FIND OUT! READ ON!

KEY PARAGRAPHS FROM THE ARTICLE AFTER RETURNING FROM CHINA FOR  HER STEM CELL TREATMENT-

But Juli said she is already noticing changes in Lydia's vision. "After her second treatment, we started to notice a change," Juli said.

Before the treatments Lydia was able to sense a flashlight 6 to 12 inches in front of her eyes. After treatments she noticed it 6 feet away, Juli said, and she's become less sensitive to light. After a Monday visit to her ophthalmologist, Barlett said Rylea's prescription has increased to somewhere between 20/800 and 20/600, an improvement from being completely blind. "If that's what hers is," Barlett said of the 20/600 prescription, "the way we see something at 600 feet is how she sees it at 20 feet."

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IF YOU HAPPENED TO MISS THE 2007 AMERICAN ASSOICIATION OF EQUINE PRACTITIONERS CONVENTION, HELD DEC. 1-5 IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA, WELL, YOU ARE PROBABLY NOT THE ONLY ONE.  YOURS TRULY MISSED IT AS WELL.  HOWEVER, AFTER READING THIS ARTICLE, I AM SORRY I DID MISS IT.  THE RESULTS OF ADULT STEM CELLS TRIALS BEING IMPLANTED INTO HORSES IS FANTASTIC- JUST MORE PROOF THAT ADULT STEM CELLS ARE HELPING NOW , NOT ONLY HUMANS, BUT HORSES, DOGS AND CATS AS WELL.

Smith reported that lab animal studies have found that treatment of surgically created tendon and ligament lesions with mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) results in better tissue organization, composition, and mechanics compared to controls. In addition, an equine study in the U.K. using bone marrow MSCs found that in 82 of 168 treated racehorses that were available for follow-up after one year, there was a 78% success rate (no re-injury) compared to 43% of horses conservatively treated in another study--a 35% improvement in success rate.

A 35% DIFFERENCE IN HORSES TREATED WITH ADULT STEM CELLS AS OPPOSED TO HORSES NOT TREATED WITH STEM CELLS.   A THERAPY (STEM CELL THERAPY)  WITH ALMOST ZERO RISK, THAT INCREASES THE SUCCESS RATE OF HEALING BY 35%,  ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

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WE HAD A FEW DAYS WITHOUT ANY ADULT STEM CELL VICTORIES, BUT I AM ALWAYS HAPPY TO SHARE MORE VICTORIES WITH YOU.  LOTS OF SUCCESSFUL STEM CELL THERAPY STORIES COMING OUT OF CHINA THESE DAYS.
More than a year after she received stem cell treatment in China, Tori Schmanski is still showing signs of improvement. Tim and Maria Schmanski aren't sure how much of their daughter's progress is due to that trip to the Beike Clinic in Hangzhou, China, but they believe it helped. Progress may be slow, but Tori is still making new strides all the time.

UNFORTUNATELY, THE ARTICLE TAKES ON A PRO EMBRYONIC STEM CELL POINT OF VIEW NEAR THE END.  AS USUAL, THE WRITER FAILS TO POINT OUT THAT ALTHOUGH "proponents of embryonic stem cells say that embryonic stem cells  "offer the best chance of treating or curing many fatal and debilitating disease,"  OPPONENTS OF EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH (LIKE YOURS TRULY) DON'T AGREE WITH THAT STATEMENT.  AGAIN, FOR NEW READERS, I'M NOT COMING AT THIS FROM A RELIGIOUS/LIFE PERSPECTIVE.  MY POINT OF VIEW IS EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS DO NOT WORK AND IF THEY DO, I WILL PROBABLY NOT SEE IT IN MY LIFETIME NO MATTER HOW MUCH THE U.S. TAXPAYERS PUT INTO IT.  ADULT STEM CELLS ARE WORKING NOW AND HELPING PEOPLE LIKE TERI SCHMANSKI TODAY.  I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT ADULT STEM CELL THERAPY IS THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE AND IF THE WRITER HAD BOTHERED TO ASK ME MY OPINION, I WOULD HAVE BEEN  HAPPY TO HAVE STATED IT.

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 SINCE THIS IS THE WEEKEND, I'M GOING TO TRY AND KEEP IT LIGHT.  I AM POSTING SOME OF MY FAVORITE INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES-  QUOTES I TRY TO READ EVERY SO OFTEN TO REMIND ME OF WHAT LIFE IS REALLY ABOUT.  SOMETIMES WE FORGET THE IMPORTANT THINGS IN LIFE AND WE SHOULD TAKE A STEP BACK AND GAZE AT WHAT IS REALLY MEANINGFUL.

MY FAVORITE QUOTE IS FROM THEODORE ROOSEVELT.  I FEEL THIS SUMS UP HOW I FEEL AS I TRY TO GET THE WORD OUT ON ADULT STEM CELL THERAPY, I MAY BE MAKING SOME MISTAKES ALONG THE WAY, BUT I FEEL I AM DOING THE RIGHT THING.  HERE IS TEDDY'S QUOTE-

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

HERE ARE SOME MORE NICE ONES-

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood -Marie Curie

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong
thing at the tempting moment."

Lady Dorothy Nevill

"You miss 100% of the shots you never take."
Wayne Gretsky

"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow."
Orison Swett Marden

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength."
A. J. Cronin

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him."

Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."

Swami Sivananda Saraswati
"The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities."

Vic Braden

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, Nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; It is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one, When they discover that someone else believes in them And is willing to trust them."
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The key to change . . . is to let go of fear."
--Rosanne Cash
"There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are." --Frederick L Collins

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not..

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."
-Eric Hoffer


Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
---J.C. Watts

THIS OPEN LETTER ON STEM CELL THERAPY WAS SENT IN BY ONE OF OUR READERS. HE HAS KINDLY GIVEN ME PERMISSION TO POST IT HERE. INSTEAD OF OPENING MY BIG MOUTH TODAY, I WILL LET THE LETTER SPEAK FOR ITSELF.

I am not a scientist. I am a High School English teacher. Every statement in this letter is based on research that I found in news articles, internet web sites, and science and medical journals. Anyone who has access to the internet can learn what I have learned.

I have been a quadriplegic for fourteen years. I was a healthy, athletic seventeen-year-old when I became injured and confined to a wheelchair. I would love to walk again. I fully believe that a cure for spinal cord injuries will occur in my lifetime. Over the last few years, there have been many promising advances in stem cell research. Stem cells have the amazing ability to become any cell in the body and thus are capable of “repairing the damage done by numerous diseases and conditions. Stem cells are found in both the cells of adults and of embryos. Debate over which source to use for stem cells has been very heated. Recently, there has been a great media push for the United States government to overturn its ban on funding research that destroys human embryos by experimenting on stem cells. As of this moment, though, the research that exists makes it clear that it is unnecessary to continue experimenting on the stem cells taken from human embryos.

First of all, evidence supports that adult stem cells hold many advantages over embryonic stem cells. For example, embryonic stem cells have a much higher risk of becoming a tumor in the patient.[i] Also, by using a patient's own stem cells rather than injecting foreign stem cells, there will be no transplant rejection.[ii] And third, various experiments using both adult and embryonic stem cells found that adult stem cells achieved greater results.[iii]