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In the new study, just published in The Lancet, a group of researchers led by Robert Bolli grew stem cells from patients’ own hearts, after the patients had suffered serious heart attacks, leaving their hearts permanently damaged. They measured the patients’ heart function by how much blood was being pumped through the left ventricle. The patients had an average LVEF of 30.3% at the beginning of the study, an indication of very severe heart disease. Four months later, the 16 patients who received the stem cells had an average LVEF of 38.5%, while patients in the control group showed no change. Even more dramatically, after one year the patients LVEF had improved further, to 42.5%.

Thus, remarkably, the cardiac stem cells seem to have “taken” in these patients, growing back into healthy cardiac cells in these severely ill patients.

 Doug

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The apple and grape juice your kids are drinking may have arsenic at levels high enough to increase their risk of cancer and other chronic diseases, according to a new study by Consumer Reports.

A full 10 percent of the juices tested by the magazine had arsenic levels higher than what is allowed in water by the Food and Drug Administration.

Doug

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Many fruit drinks and energy drinks have as much added sugar and calories as full-calorie soda:
    An 8-ounce serving of a full-calorie fruit drink has 110 calories and 7 teaspoons of sugar – the same amount found in an 8-ounce serving of a full-calorie soda or energy drink.  According to a new study at Yale.  Doug

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The family of a California toddler whose feet, left hand and part of her right hand were amputated because of a lengthy emergency room delay has agreed to a $10 million malpractice settlement.

Malyia Jeffers was 2 years old when her parents took her to Sacramento’s Methodist Hospital last November with a fever, skin discoloration and weakness. According to court documents, the family was told to wait, that wait went to 5 hours before being seen.

Emergency visits have increased by 60% in recent years, delays and emergencies have moved wait times through the roof. More of these kind of suits are sure to follow. Doug

Study funded by DOD, found copper surfaces in ICU rooms cut the amount of bacteria in the rooms by 97% and reduced the rates of nosocmial infections by 41%. Time to put some blame on housekeeping and ease up on our washed and bleeding hands. Doug

Eli Lilly & Co. said Tuesday it’s withdrawing its 10 yr. old med. Xigris (sepsis treatment) from all markets after the drug failed to show a benefit over a plecebo in a 1,680 person trial. How is it a drug like this makes it to market? How is it that people were given this and charged for it ( $104 million in sales in 2010) and if they didn’t die for lack of a real antibiotic aren’t getting a refund.? How is that the whole bunch responsible, aren’t in jail? Unbeliveable ! Doug

A report published yesterday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that, every 15 minutes an individual in the US dies as a result of suicide.

They also report that since 1988 use of antidepressant use is up 400%.  I wonder what made 1988 such a happy year?

 A precise method has been developed that prospectively isolates just the stem cells that can treat multiple sclerosis and childhood diseases caused by the brain’s inability to make myelin.

–After analzying genes in different stem cell types, the scientists searched for and found the genes that were most likely to differentiate into stem cells that make myelin.

–The human stem cells were then successfully injected into the brains of mice with MS.

–The new method brings the prospect of clinical trials that much closer, the scientists say.

Doug

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