Source: Reuters / MSNBC
Date: January 8, 2006
A Bangkok hospital is trying a novel therapy that involves injecting stem cells culled from the patient’s own blood into the heart to try to regenerate ailing heart muscle. The two-hour procedure, which involves a patient’s own adult stem cells, skirts the risk of rejection by the body and thorny ethical issues surrounding the use of embryonic stem cells posed by some who equate using embryos with destroying human life.
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