Losing your vision is scary and can make you feel hopeless. There are many diseases that cause an eventual loss of vision. Many cannot be cured, only managed with medications and corrective lenses until it is completely gone. The most common reason people lose their...
Asthma is a scary condition to have, and severe asthma is extremely concerning. There are many triggers for people with severe asthma that can make everyday life seem difficult to manage, especially during allergy season. This disease can turn deadly if airways become too inflamed...
Stem cells have made a lot of headlines in past several years, most of them touting them as the next big thing in medicine, but few staying grounded in scientific facts. This hyperbolic buzz can be dangerous, and may become hard to separate the wheat...
Patients facing several degenerative illnesses can now benefit from a variety of stem cell treatments. To determine the best approach, it is important to understand the role of stem cells and their sources, and how they differ. What are Stem Cells? Stem cells are multipotent cells that...
Stem cells research has come a long way, and stem cell therapy is finding new roles in management of severe disorders. One of the main areas of stem cell research is curative treatment for neurological disorders. recently there have been significant strides made in the...
Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a group of genetic diseases described by progressive dysfunction and/or weakness of skeletal muscles. They are caused by genetic mutations that affect the synthesis and regulation of these proteins leading to disruption in the normal structure and function of the muscle...
Millions of people suffer from autoimmune diseases. ‘Autoimmune diseases’ are a wide range of conditions that involves the body’s healthy cells being attacked by its own immune system. Autoimmune diseases significantly alter the patient’s quality of life and are not curable. The damage to healthy cells...
SLAP is an acronym that stands for Superior (topmost) Labral tear from Anterior (front) to Posterior (back) and refers to a torn piece of cartilage in the inner portion of the shoulder joint. The labrum surrounds the edge of the glenoid, which holds the humerus...
Stem cell therapy has shown great potential in alleviating back pain and the variety of conditions that cause such pain. Unlike other injection therapies, such as steroid injections and nerve blocks to relieve back pain, stem cell injections do not use steroids or pain medication. ADSCs...
Stem cells are pluripotent cells present in various tissues of the body that can develop into specialized, differentiated cells when triggered. Currently, we have stem cell-derived hematopoietic, cardiac, neuronal, hepatic and pancreatic β cells that have been successfully generated and transplanted into recipient animals. There...
