Tuesday, October 09, 2007

UCSD Physicians Breathe Life Into Cutting-Edge Stem Cell Procedure

Source: University of California - San Diego
Date: October 9, 2007

Summary:

Patients living with Myasthenia Gravis (MG), a rare neuromuscular autoimmune disease where the body’s immune system, which normally protects the body, mistakenly attacks itself, may breathe easier thanks to a rare bone marrow transplant procedure performed at The Bone Marrow Transplant Program at University of California, San Diego Medical Center, the only program in the western United States that has attempted this procedure.