Children suffering from a chronic liver disease which causes irreparable damage to the organ may get a new lease of life as doctors at AIIMS in New Delhi, India’s premier medical institute, have achieved initial success in their experiments with stem cells.
A team of five doctors at AIIMS tried stem cell treatment for liver repair [...]
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Stem Cells Therapy For Chronic Liver Disease in Children
March 25th, 2010 · No Comments
Herbal Medicine Could be Effective for Period Pain
October 18th, 2007 · No Comments
Chinese herbal medicine has been used to treat the condition for hundreds of years and women are increasingly looking for non-drug treatments. One recent survey involving 39 trials — 36 in China, and one each in Taiwan, Japan and the Netherlands– has reported interesting findings.
Participants given herbal concoctions were prescribed herbs that regulated their ‘qi’ [...]
Tags: Blood · Kidney · Liver · Natural Remedies · Womens Health
Stem cell therapy ‘could cut liver transplants’
September 26th, 2007 · No Comments
The liver is known to be one of the few major organs able to regenerate itself when parts have been removed. With that as the basis, scientists believe they can encourage this natural tendency by inserting stem cells into the damaged livers of rodents. More specifically, they used Mesenchymal stem cells found in the bone [...]
Tags: Liver · Organ Donation · Organ Transplant Surgery · Stem Cells
