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Biotech / Medical : Stem Cell Research

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To: SnowShredder who wrote (59)	12/8/2004 7:26:08 AM
From: SnowShredder	Read Replies (1) of 495

Stem Cells May Help Cure Female Incontinence fwiw... Best of Luck, SS elitestv.com >>>>> Stem Cells May Help Cure Female Incontinence According to a study conducted by Austrian researchers, women could cure incontinence by using their own stem cells in treatment. The stem cell treatment helped keep patients from a reoccurance of incontinence for at least one year after treatment began. The study dealt with stress incontinence which affects approximately 15 million people worldwide, the vast majority of them women. In most cases, it is caused by aging or the afteraffects of child birth where the urethra and/or the muscles that control the urethra weakens and causes urine leakage. The new technology used stem cells which were injected into the wall of the urethra and into the sphincter muscle which helped repair the function of the muscle and prevent incontinence. The stem cells stopped growing when enough muscle had been formed and did not spread to other parts of the body. 'The good thing about this new procedure is it's less invasive and the stem cells are harvested from the patient's own body, so you don't have to worry about rejection,' said Dr. Joe Littlejohn a clinical instructor of urology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. Further studies are scheduled to be conducted in Austria, Germany and Switzerland in 2005. Studies are also going to start in the U.S. but no specific startup date has been announced. So there is new hope for incontinence from stem cells. But will the Bush Administration's limited use of stem cell research keep the United States from being at the forefront of this kind of discovery?

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