Alabama Doc Treats Athletes With Image-Guided Stem Cell Therapy

Alabama Doc Treats Athletes With Stem Cells (Biloine Young @ OTW) An Alabama physician, Jason Williams, M.D., at Precision StemCell of Gulf Shores, Alabama, has been treating a procession of football players and other athletes with image-guided stem cell therapy, according to an April 3 report inPR Newswire. Among his patients has been Oakland Raiders linebacker [...]

Stem Cells in Sports Injuries: A Performance Enhancement? Not Reimbursable? C’mon Man!

     Stem Cells in Sports Injuries: A Performance Enhancement? Not Reimbursable? C’mon Man! (Josh Sandberg @ OrthoSpineNews) By: Jeff Chandler, Sports Medicine Writer at OrthoSpineNews.com Have you had enough? Let’s see, the last time I checked I thought that Doctors were to supposedly “best” treat our ailments in the US. It certainly appears that today’s [...]

BioRestorative Therapies Signs License Agreement for Stem Cell Disc/Spine Procedure

     BioRestorative Therapies Signs License Agreement for Stem Cell Disc/Spine Procedure (press release) Patient Treatments of Bulging and Herniated Discs Show Promising Results Closing of License Grant Scheduled for March 2012 BioRestorative Therapies, Inc. (OTCQB: BRTX) (“BRT”) today announced that it has entered into a License Agreement with Regenerative Sciences, LLC (“RS”) with respect to [...]

Korea Set to Approve Stem-Cell Drugs for Cartilage Repair

     Korea Set to Approve Stem-Cell Drugs for Cartilage Repair (Biloine Young @ OTW) The officials of two South Korean biotechnology firms expect to receive Korean Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) approval for their stem cell drugs this month. Approval will pave the way for the world’s second stem cell-based medicines to enter the market. [...]

SANUWAVE Shock Wave Technology Shown to Proliferate Adult Stem Cells

    SANUWAVE Technology Shown to Proliferate Adult Stem Cells (press release) SANUWAVE Health, Inc., an emerging medical technology company focused on the development and commercialization of noninvasive, biological response activating devices in regenerative medicine, today announced the publication of peer-reviewed, preclinical data that demonstrate the ability of the Company’s extracorporeal shock wave technology (ESWT) to [...]

Nationwide Study to Determine if Spinal Discs Can Be Regenerated With a Stem Cell Injection

         Definitive Back-Pain Study? (Biloine Young @ OTW) Can a single injection of stem cells repair and regenerate diseased lumbar discs? That question may soon be answered by the first of its kind nationwide study that will test the safety and efficacy of the use of mesenchymal precursor cells (MPCs) to replace bone, [...]

UK Clinical Trial Set to Begin With a Stem Cell “Bandage” Meniscus Repair

    Stem Cell “Bandage” Meniscus Trial Set (Biloine Young @ OTW) A British company, the developer of what it calls a “stem cell bandage” which is designed to heal torn meniscal cartilage, is subjecting its technology to a human clinical trial. The trial, believed to be the first of its kind in the world, is [...]

British Surgeons Are Using the TiGenix Technology to Re-Grow Knee Cartilage

        Brits Re-Grow Knee Cartilage (written by Biloine Young @ OTW) A 50-year-old British mother is pain free for the first time in six years, she says, after undergoing a revolutionary new treatment to have her damaged knee cartilage re-grown. This is the first time the re-growth treatment was used outside of clinical [...]

3 US Multi-Center Stem Cell Trials Are Underway – Injecting Cells Into the Disc, the Annulus and the Fractured Vertebra

     Spine Stem Cell Trials Underway (written by Bilioine Young @ OTW) Dr. Hyun Bae, co-director of the spine fellowship program at Cedars-Sinai Spine Center, Los Angeles, was among the first surgeons to use growth factor tissue engineering for intervertebral discs and multilevel artificial disc replacements for both the lumbar and cervical spine. Now he [...]

A Stem Cell Research Center With a Focus on Osteoarthritis Opens in the UK

        UK Opens Stem Cell Research Center (written by Biloine Young @ OTW) Scientists at Newcastle University and Arthritis Research, in the United Kingdom, are joining the international campaign to successfully regenerate bone and cartilage, damaged by degenerative joint disease, through the use of a patient’s own stem cells. The research, if successful, could [...]

Texas Spine Surgeon Finds Fusion Success by Simply Injecting Adult Stem Cells Into Cages

    Adult Stem Cells – Roses of Texas (written by Biloine Young @ OTW) Texas docs are at it again! When 37-year-old Dallas firefighter Chris Youngman found he could barely bend down to put on his shoes because of back pain he went to Forest Park Medical Center neurosurgeon Rob Dickerman. Dickerman fused Youngman’s spine [...]

Orthopedic Surgeons in Austin Are Injecting Bone Marrow Stem Cells Into Knee Joints to Reduce Inflammation

  Texas Docs Injecting Stem Cells  (Bilione Young @ OTW) Dr. Robert Johnson, an orthopedic surgeon in Austin, Texas, took stem cells from the bone marrow of the hip of a 59-year-old man and injected it back into the patient’s knee joints. The result? Johnson said the stem cells reduced inflammation and pain and then became [...]

FDA Questions Classification of Alphatec’S PureGen Osteoprogenitor Cell Allograft for Spine Fusions

           Alphatec Disputes FDA Warning Letter over PureGen (OTW) Alphatec Spine, Inc. Comments on Untitled Letter Related to PureGen Osteoprogenitor Cell Allograft (press release) Alphatec Spine to Answer FDA’s Questions on PureGen Product for Spinal Fusions (Beckers) The FDA has questioned whether PureGen is within the classification of human cell, tissue and cellular or [...]

Stem Cells May Prevent Need for Joint Replacements, if FDA Allows It

Stem Cells May Prevent Need for Joint Replacements, if FDA Allows It (press release) TUCSON, Ariz., June 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Patients’ own adult stem cells show great potential in regenerative medicine, including orthopedic applications. Stem cells isolated from bone marrow can enable bone and cartilage to heal. Once removed, the patients’ cells are processed and allowed [...]

FDA’S Regulations Stymie Stem Cell Therapies for Orthopedics

  AAPS: FDA’s Regulations Stymie Stem Cell Therapies for Orthopedics (posted by Laura Miller @ Beckers) The FDA has imposed regulations on using stem cell therapies for orthopedic applications despite studies that suggest these therapies are beneficial, according to a news release from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. Surgeons remove the cells from [...]

Use of PRP (Platelet-Rich Plasma) Does Not Accelerate Rotator Cuff Healing

No benefit of platelet-rich plasma found for rotator cuff healing (OrthoSuperSite) Using autologous platelet-rich plasma at the time of rotator cuff repair fails to have a significant positive impact on healing time as determined by ultrasound observation, according to a study presented at the AANA meeting.  

MiMedx to Acquire Surgical Biologics for Their Processed Amniotic Tissue

MiMedx Announces Agreement to Acquire Surgical Biologics (press release) The amniotic tissue processed by Surgical Biologics is donated by mothers who have scheduled Cesarean sections. The human amniotic membrane comprises the innermost layer of the placenta, and lines the amniotic cavity.  Each donor is screened and tested in accordance with FDA regulations and AATB standards.

Are Fibrin Microthreads the Future in Orthopedic Stem Cell Delivery?

Training Stem Cells to Sit, Stay (OTW) A team of intrepid stem cell whisperers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute believe they may have found a clever solution. The team’s paper, “Fibrin microthreads support mesenchymal stem cell growth while maintaining differentiation potential ,” was published online, ahead of print, on November 29, 2010, by the Journal of Biomedical [...]

Chinese Government Approves Pricing & Reimbursement for NeoStem’S Arthroscopic Orthopedic Autologous Adult Stem Cell Based Treatment

Local Chinese Government Authorities Approve Pricing and Reimbursement for NeoStem’s Licensed Adult Stem Cell Treatments for Orthopedic Applications in China (Press Release) NeoStem holds an exclusive royalty-bearing, perpetual and irrevocable license to use the Regenerative Sciences, Inc. stem cell-based orthopedic technology in Asia, and is in the early stages of implementing operations designed to offer these [...]

Mesoblast and Angioblast Systems Agree to Merge Creating the Largest Largest Publicly-Listed Adult Stem Cell Developer in the World

+   Mesoblast shareholders agree to merger (Sydney Morning Herold)

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