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To: LindyBill who wrote (91132)	12/17/2004 3:26:25 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793782

Stem cells from fat used to repair girl's skull Doctors report damaged bone grew back after surgery The Associated Press Updated: 12:46 p.m. ET Dec. 17, 2004 Surgeons have used stem cells from fat to help repair skull damage in a 7-year-old girl in Germany, in what’s apparently the first time such fat-derived cells have been exploited to grow bone in a human. The girl had been injured two years before in a fall, which destroyed several areas of her skull totaling nearly 19 square inches, the German researchers reported. Other surgeons had failed to correct the defects, and the girl wore a protective helmet. Her brain could sometimes be seen pulsating through the missing areas of her skull. But several weeks after the stem-cell surgery, she was able to leave her helmet behind, the researchers report in the December issue of the Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery. The skull is now smooth to the touch, the missing parts replaced by thin but solid bone, said Dr. Hans-Peter Howaldt of the Justus-Liebig-University Medical School in Giessen, Germany. The child was not identified. Howaldt, who performed the surgery last year, said the damage was too extensive to be repaired with bone grafts from her body. He said the hope was that if bits of the child’s bone were mixed with stem cells, the cells would turn into bone-building cells that would create additional bone. That appears to have happened, Howaldt said in a telephone interview Thursday. “I cannot prove that our success comes from the stem cells alone,” he said, “but the combination of the two things simply worked.”

To: LindyBill who wrote (91132)	12/17/2004 3:52:24 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793782

but I will definitely find a Wal-Mart to shop at for some reason this week. It's funny how none of the reports mention that Wal-Mart cut back on days the Salvation Army could solicit. I guess this is designed to make up the shortfall. The Wal-Mart shortfall, not the Target shortfall.