Heart
- July 7, 2011 - Doctors at Northwestern University have shown success using patients' own adult stem cells to treat their otherwise untreatable angina. Patients had less chest pain and had better scores on exercise stress tests.
- Mar. 17, 2011 - A small study showed promise in shrinking the enlarged hearts of heart attack patients by using their own bone marrow stem cells. The experiment achieved better results than traditional treatments.
- Nov. 16, 2010 - Nine of 14 patients in a clinical trials using patients' own cardiac stem cells to treat heart failure showed significant improvement.
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Feb. 24, 2010 - Two studies published in the journal Cell Transplantation show further advances in using bone marrow adult stem cells to treat heart conditions.
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May 19, 2009 - Reuters reported a study showing that injecting bone marrow adult stem cells into patients with ischemic heart disease can help improve their condition. The treatments resulted in improved blood flow and ability to exercise.
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July 27, 2007 - Medical News Today reported that an international biotechnology company called Theravitae claims to have successfully treated a man suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy using his own stem cells.
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Mar. 26, 2007 - Researchers have extracted adult stem cells from the legs of patients suffering from heart failure and then injected them into the patient's heart. The researchers saw improvement in the health of patients who received the adult stem cell treatment while the health of patients who received traditional treatment worsened.
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Sept. 21, 2006 - The Los Angeles Times reported on research by German scientists who found that adult stem cells could improve the function of patients’ hearts who experienced heart attacks in the past. Researchers were also optimistic that repeated treatments could continue to improve the function of damaged hearts.