Dennis Turner Adult Stem Cell Success for Parkinson's now Peer Reviewed
Dennis Turner was treated for Parkinson's disease with his own neural stem cells, taken from his brain, nearly ten years ago. He went into a significant remission that lasted for about four or five years before symptoms returned, that as I wrote in Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World, allowed him to go on photo-safaris at a time he expected to have to use a wheelchair.
But whenever those of us who argue that ESCR is not "the only hope" for treatment of Parkinson's and other conditions tried to use his case as an illustration of the potential of adult stem cells, we were pooh-poohed by "the scientists" because his case had not been peer reviewed, and of course, ignored by the prominent media. Well, now the case has been peer reviewed and published. From the story:
The researcher reports that the publication of the article, "Therapeutic Microinjection of Autologous Adult Human Neural Stem Cells and Differentiated Neurons for Parkinson's Disease: Five-Year Post-Operative Outcome" in the Bentham Open Stem Cell Journal heralds an important moment in regenerative and personalized medicine. "Our paper describes how we were able to isolate patient-derived neural stem cells, multiply them in vitro and ultimately differentiate them to produce mature neurons before they are reintroduced into the brain's basal ganglia. This is performed without the patient requiring immunosuppressants. Of particular note are the striking results this study--for the five years following the procedure the patient's motor scales improved by over 80% for at least 36 months. A word of caution must be added however, since this is a single case study, a larger clinical trial is needed to replicate these findings," says LevesqueThat last point bears repeating: As I have said repeatedly about Turner and other such cases, one success does not a cure make. But the time has come to recognize this potential treatment of Parkinson's as a bona fide hope. Stage 2 trials are in the works.
Labels: Adult Stem Cell Success. Dennis Turner. Parkinson's disease.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 7:37 AM
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3 Comments:
I am so sick of "peer review," "studies," "protocols," etc. If something works logically that's all that counts. This could have been figured out by sheer thinking. It didn't need a lot of experiments to "discover" it. The best "developments and advances" CAN be figured out by sheer logic and without needing animal testing, which is uncivilized and barbaric in every sense of the word. "Primitive" has more gravitas than animal testing does. This works because it makes sense.
But researchers don't want to think. Most of them aren't that smart to start with. Let alone ethical. They want to advance their careers. That's why medicine has turned callous and unethical against humans. You can't have it both ways, can't have cake and eat it too, when it comes to this. Just can't. It doesn't work out. The other day I met a taxidermist who told me he used to work in the vivarium at the teaching hospital here, and that the doctors and researchers working there didn't care about anything but their careers and advancement, and did terrible, unnecessary things to those poor creatures not to help advance science or help humanity, but just for the sake of their own careers. Well I've been saying that here for as long as I've been here. Am I talking to my shadow? Once again: GOOD DOES NOT COME OUT OF BAD. NOT IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS. That's why we've GOT abortion and euthanasia and the assisted suicide movement and the death culture. But "human exceptionalism" wants the benefits without paying the price. IMPOSSIBLE.
Your article on peer-reviewed should have included the fact that the same "scientists" who demand "peer reviewed" papers went berserk when Dr. David Prentice listed 73 PEER REVIEWED papers showing ASC successes on 73 diseases in 2005.
So what did the charlatans do when backed into their own corner?
Simple---just change the rules! According to the NEJM, 73 peer-reviewed papers did not count because the FDA approved treatments on only nine. So if you cure something, prove it in a peer-reviewed paper, but don't have a quarter-billion to get through the FDA, it doesn't count.
So now, embryonics, a false science which has never produced one positive event, a science based on nothing but hype and lies, holds the "most promise" in the Bagladesh of stem cells, the USA, while patients suffer and die unnecessarily because the only stem cells that work are intentionally being held away.
Meanwhile, I send 20 Americans a month to the best stem cell doctors in the world to successfully treat many of Prentice's 73 diseases and a couple dozen more, while 99% of Americans believe their kept-ignorant doctors when they say "Sorry, it is incurable."
Don Margolis
Chairman
The Repair Stem Cell Institute
I say, Amen to prior comments by Don Margolis. I had the privilege of being treated in July 2008 for congestive heart failure. I spent 22 days in Bangkok with a heart that increased in pumping power from 19% to 27%, Praise God for mavericks that are leading the way in the regenerative medical field.
Today March 2, 2009 my pumping power is 33% and rising.
Andy Jordan,
Nashville, TN
PS: My wife is currently being evaluated for Parkinson and she is looking seriously at ASC being done in China or Germany. She could only feel this way having traveled to Bangkok and observed the ASC results to her spouse of 51 years.
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