Autistic Minority International - CRPD side event - 2 April 2015
Side event on occasion of the UN #39;s World Autism Awareness Day 2015 "Medical Experimentation on Autistic Children: Fake Cures and Global Stem Cell Tourism", organized by Autistic Minority ...
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2014 Annual Meeting: Timothy Caulfield, LLM, FRSC, FCAHS
Timothy Caulfield, LLM, FRSC, FCAHS Science Hype and Stem Cell Tourism: What Can Be Done? September 12, 2014.
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What stem cell treatments (advertised elsewhere) can you recommend?
HSCI Kidney Program Leader Benjamin Humphreys, MD, PhD, at Brigham and Women #39;s Hospital answers patient frequently asked questions. (Video 2 of 4) More about stem cell tourism: http://www.closerlo...
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What is stem cell tourism? Narrated by Professor Timothy Caulfield
Scientific discoveries can lead to great enthusiasm about their potential medical benefits. A danger is that this enthusiasm may lead to hype and exaggerated...
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Brickhouse Productions Manchester - Stem Cell Tourism Drama
Part of a series of e-learning/ educational videos produced for the University of Manchester, this video addresses the growing existence and demand for stem ...
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Stem Cell Tourism (Pause Point Version)
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LogiCON 2013: Stem Cell Tourism: Ubaka Ogbogu
Stem Cell Tourism: Educating the Desperate or Whacking the Mole. Stem cell tourism refers to medical travel to foreign desttinations for the purpose of recei...
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Media cheerleading is misleadingly legitimizing the booming "stem cell tourism" industry.
Peyton Manning [JohnGress/Reuters]
One could argue that stem cell research is currently the most promising area of biomedical research. It is no surprise that this year'sNobel Prize in Medicinewent to a duo that work in the area.But much of the press coverage associated with the field falls squarely in the too-good-to-be true category.It is this sort of unsubstantiated hype that contributes to inappropriate public expectations and the legitimization of bogus therapies.
A new and troubling dimension to the hype has emerged: the well-publicized use of "stem cell therapies" by high-profile athletes.
The phenomenon has been around for a few years. The first big stem-cells-help-athlete story seems to have been the 2011 story of New York Yankee pitcher, Bartolo Colon. He received cell therapy for a chronic shoulder injury. Then, also in 2011, came the story about Peyton Manning's neck treatments in Germany. There here have since been dozens of similar articles. Google "NFL and stem cell therapy" and what you get is a bunch of stories about football players receiving allegedly cutting-edge cell treatments from practitioners throughout the world.
While some of these stories note the experimental and possibly harmful nature of the treatments, most of the articles cast the treatments in a positive light.
The implied take away: this stuff works. If Peyton Manning is using stem cells, it must be the real deal! It has even been suggested that stem cell therapies are so powerful that they might end up being a new, undetectable, performance enhancement technology.
But a more dispassionate examination of the available scientific data paints a much different picture. There are, in fact, few stem cell therapies that are ready for the clinic. These are, in general, truly experimental procedures and it remains unclear if they can actually help injured athletes. As noted in one recently published review of the use of stem cells for knee injuries, "[m]ost reports represent animal model studies; few advances have been translated to human clinical applications."
In fact, it is an open question in the research community whether this work should truly be considered "stem cell" therapy. As noted by colleague Mick Bhatia, Director and Senior Scientist McMaster Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute, "these injury therapies lack any evidence to indicate 'stem cells' by any definition or means are being used. Any therapeutic effects noted are most likely from any cell type being injected, including cell lines, that would cause local anti-inflammatory response that is both transient (days) and does not involve any stem cell biology." His blunt conclusion: "Lots of stem cell conclusions here are bogus all the way around ... The treatment fetches a lot of money by claiming a stem cell therapy is being used."
Despite this clinical reality, a recent analysis I did with a colleague found that much of the media coverage(72.7 percent)doesn't even touch on efficacy issues. In fact, many of the stories(42 percent)specifically refer to alleged benefits, and only a few (5.7 percent) mention possible risks or safety issues. The overall vibe from the sports-oriented media is even more promotional in tone. For example, the author of an editorial on a popular sports news website states that he has observed a number of athletes get "stem cell treatments and universally each one improved dramatically."
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12-10-2012 15:11 This information session will focus on a very hot topic - stem cell ethics. Marleen Eijkholt, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Core for Neuroethics at UBC. There are many ethical issues surrounding the use of stem cell procedures for spinal cord injuries. We all need to understand and be concerned about what is right and what is wrong, what is good science and bad science and most important - how it affect us all. Many individuals are asking about unproven treatments in other countries and others are going abroad to receive treatments. No matter what your views are it's important to educate yourselves on this topic. Marlene will share her knowledge on many issues on the ethics of stem cell research but also share her knowledge and concerns surrounding stem cell tourism.
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Monday, September 24, 2012, 5:00 am
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Continuing its commitment to increasing the numbers of primary care physicians in California, the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development awarded more than $2.89 million to 29 family practice residency training programs. The awards are administered through OSHPDs Song-Brown Program. In the North Bay, Santa Rosa Family Medicine received $51,615. The awards are funded by the California Health Data and Planning Fund, which was statutorily established to receive and expend revenues in support of health carerelated programs. The funds are generated through annual fees collected from health facilities.
Enphase Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENPH) last week announced the availability of the Enphase Microinverter System at Dynamic Solar, a leading distributor of photovoltaic solutions in the United Kingdom. Enphase recently announced its entrance into the U.K. solar energy market and established a local office in Milton Keynes, England. Enphase M215 microinverters are certified under U.K. standard ENA G83/1-1.
Napa-based digital wine tourism pioneerWineCountry.comreleased a new iPhone app. Offering speedy mobile access to a large network of local wineries, restaurants, hotels and visitor-facing businesses, the app provides detailed lodging, dining, wine tastings and activitiesinformation for both Napa and Sonoma counties in a fast, user-friendly, and practical interface. Time-savers include location-based listings, preplanned itineraries, door-to-door directions and discount promotions. The calendar function offers extensive event listings and allows users to easily bookmark activities of interest using the favorites list.
OFFbeat Brands of Petaluma was selected by Grant Burge Wines of Barossa Valley as the Australian brands exclusive importer in the U.S. OFFbeat, which represents a small number of international wine properties under its Luxury Estates & Domains division, has also been named importer for Drift sauvignon blanc from Marlborough, New Zealand, widely recognized as producing some of the finest and most distinctive sauvignon blanc.
Pivot Charter School, North Bay, a free public charter school that offers full-time programs for grades 612 in Sonoma and surrounding counties, will offer new two- and five-day-a-week programs for the 20122013 school year. Both programs combine a quality online curriculum that lets students work at their own pace with high levels of student support and assistance. Students attend school at Pivots new state-of-the-art facility, located at 1577 Farmers Ln., Santa Rosa, from 12:303:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays or 8:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. Monday through Friday while working in an individualized curriculum with credentialed teachers onsite and online. Pivot North Bay is still enrolling for fall 2012. For details, visit pivotnorthbay.com or call 707-843-4676.
Assemblymember Jared Huffman presented his Sustainable North Bay Award to Novatos Andalou Naturals in September in recognition of the companys commitment to creating personal care products that are both good for people and the planet. Andalou Naturals skin care, hair care, and body care products utilize innovative fruit stem-cell science, blended with natural and fair-trade ingredients, with a minimum 70 percent certified organic content. The brand is available at Whole Foods, Pharmacaand natural products stores nationwide. Since its launch in 2011, Andalou Naturals has employed 14 full time.
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Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond is in California this week, knocking on the doors of disgruntled CEOS tired of high taxes, trying to lure them to expand research and manufacturing facilities to Scotland.
Top on the list of targets are businesses in the life sciences industry ---- which is a strong sector in San Diego County that has seen rapid growth and attracted millions of dollars in investment locally.
However, one of the first big deals to emerge from Salmond's visit may come in the renewable energy field ---- another strong area in San Diego County ---- following a meeting between Salmond and California Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday.
In a phone interview Wednesday, Salmond said that he and Brown agreed to have their staff look into drafting a memorandum of understanding that addresses how their two governments could share ---- or pursue ---- renewable energy research or manufacturing. One of the first avenues to pursue may be to form joint research work at the university level, Salmond said.
"Yes, we think the relations between Scotland and California could be a flourishing one," Salmond said. "We've set up a working party to look at potential cooperation in renewable energies."
The life sciences field is another area of interest to Salmond in Scotland, which gained international fame with the cloning of "Dolly" the sheep in the 1990s.
Dolly was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell by scientists at the Roslin Institute and the biotechnology company PPL Therapeutics, located near Edinburgh in Scotland.
Public relations statements distributed before Salmond's visit this week indicate that Scotland is ranked No. 1 in the world for stem-cell research, which is yet another field that San Diego County has gained high marks globally.
Of interest to Salmond is Carlsbad-based Life Technologies Corp., a biotechnology and medical instrumentation company that employs about 370 workers at a manufacturing and distribution facility in Paisley, located in the west central Lowlands area of Scotland.
"We have not made any further announcements in reference to what our plans are there," said Patty Zamora, a spokeswoman with Life Technologies.
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Calcutta News.net Wednesday 20th June, 2012
Long-time exposure to pesticides via inhalation may cause moderate to severe blood toxicity and reduction in the total number of bone marrow cells, leading to several degenerative diseases like aplastic anaemia, researchers at the School of Tropical Medicine (STM) here say.
The researches arrived at the conclusion from procedures performed on mice.
"As a whole, exposure to pesticides reduced the total number of bone marrow cells or, in other words, suppressed them," Sujata Law, assistant professor (Stem Cell Biology) at STM's Department of Medical Biotechnology, told IANS.
Bone marrow is the soft, flexible tissue found in long bones such as the thigh bone and the hip bone that contain immature cells called stem cells.
Stem cells, particularly the haematopoeitic stem cells (HSC) or the blood-forming stem cells can develop into the following types - red blood cells that carry oxygen, white blood cells that fight infection and platelets that help to clot blood.
So, in effect, bone marrow is the birthplace of these important cells.
"Bone marrow suppression leads to a number of degenerative diseases like aplastic anaemia, where the deficiency in the number of cells in the circulating blood (peripheral cytopenia) is the main feature," Law said.
The exact underlying mechanism is unknown but it has been concluded from the research published in the Journal of Environmental Toxicology that the microenvironment of the stem cells, in which they develop, is somehow deranged and this prevents their development into the various types of cells.
"In order to prevent degenerative diseases related to pesticide exposure, it is of prime importance that those handling pesticides take precautions like wearing protective clothing, including masks and gloves," she said.
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MANILA, Philippines - Bawat isa sa atiy may pangarap at kung paano matutupad itoyitatampok ngayong Sabado alas-diyes hanggang alas-onse ng umaga sa Life And Style with Ricky Reyes na prodyus ng ScriptoVision at napapanood sa GMA News TV.
Marami sa atin ang mainipin. Parang sa modernong panahoy hangad nating instant o madalian ang mga kaganapan sa buhay. Parang instant coffee, instant tea, atbp. Ang mga panoorin sa LSWRR ay tungkol sa mga success story ng iba-ibang klase ng tao na di bumitiw sa pangarap at naniniwalang habang may buhay ay may pag-asa, sabi ni Mader Ricky na host-producer ng programa.
May interbyu sa mga kinoronahang finalist ng Miss Earth 2012 na magsasalaysay ng pinagdaanang hirap bago nila nakamit ang tagumpay. Ang mga itoy sina Miss Eco-Tourism Mary Claudine Ramos, Miss Phil-Water Samantha Purvor, Miss Earth Stephany Stefanovitz, Miss Phil-Air Glennifer Perido, at Miss Phil-Fire Thoreen Malvorse.
Dalubhasa sa sakit na cancer si Dr. Tranquilino Elicao, pero dahil sa isang malubhang sakit ay nanghina siya at di nakalakad nang walang tungkod. Matapos sumailalim sa isang Fresh Stem Cell Therapy ay bumalik ang lakas at kalusugan ng mabait na doktor na kasama.
Mahirap kumita ng pera. Grabe ang sitwasyon ng ekonomiya ng bansa. Tutukan ang pagbibigay ng tip sa mga nagnanais magtayo ng sariling negosyo. Mula ito sa mga taong nagtiyaga, nagsipag at di lang nangarap.
Eto ang instant ang New You segment na isang simpleng bank officer ang inayusan ni Mader Ricky na ang ginamit na make up at accessory ay courtesy ng first Philippines Leading Direct Selling Company na Natasha at napalitaw ang natatagong alindog at ganda.
Kung may problema sa katawan, huwag nang malungkot. Mayroong ipakikita sa LSWRR na paraan ng pagbabago ng puwet, pag-alis ng mga nunal at birthmark, pagpapalusog ng buhok.Pampababa ng weight at pati na pampataas.
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Omani scientists collect semen of Arabian tahr for future research
(Our Correspondent) / 22 May 2012
MUSCAT - Scientists in Oman have reported a significant breakthrough in research in the offsite conservation of rare wild animals.
Biotechnologists in the Department of Biology at the College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University, said they had successfully collected semen of the Arabian tahr or ibex (locally called Waal Al Arabi or Arabitragus jayakari), an endangered species indigenous to Oman and the UAE, and successfully frozen it for later use in reproductive biology.
Dr Senan Baqir, who is leading the research, underlined that this was the first ever project to investigate the fertility of the male ibex. He added that the high viability of the collected and frozen semen could be used in reproductive biotechnologies such as artificial insemination and embryo transfer.
This, in turn, could lead to a rapid increase in the numbers of the Arabian Waal and to eventually remove it from the red list of endangered animals prepared by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), he added.
Baqir said that the project could be expanded to other endangered wild animal species of Oman such as the Nimir Al Arabi, Caracal, sand fox and the Arabian wolf, also expressing hope that the frozen samples could be the beginning of the establishment of a gamete bank or cell bank in future.
The proposed cell bank, if coupled with other innovative technological approaches such as assisted reproductive biotechnologies, interspecies transplantation, reproductive cloning, semen sexing, stem cell lines, ovum pick-up (OPU) and in vitro fertilisation, would be appropriate tools to combat the continued population decline of endangered species in Oman, he added.
Dr Khalid Al Rasbi, from the Veterinary Services Division of the Royal Court Affairs, noted that the number of endangered animals in Oman was on a declining path despite the huge effort and investment made by the government.
He attributed this to conditions that go beyond government control such as cyclones, pollution, extreme hot weather, drought, smuggling and illegal trade, growth of wild life tourism, rapid urbanisation and construction and pollution and diseases.
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By Ellen Cogen Lipton
We must continue the fight for regenerative medical research
Regenerative medical research is about hope and potential. It holds the promise for life-saving cures and treatments and could revolutionize medical treatment for hundreds of thousands of people throughout Michigan who are battling debilitating diseases such as Parkinson's and juvenile diabetes. Yet, less than four years after Michigan voters approved such research, factions are continuing to try to thwart this industry that could save and extend countless lives while boosting Michigan's economy.
Michigan voters spoke loud and clear that they support regenerative medical research in 2008 when they approved Proposal 2, which gave families the option to donate for medical research unsuitable or leftover embryos from fertility treatments that would otherwise be unavailable for research.
Last year, we saw just how low opponents of regenerative medical research will go to overturn the will of the people. An amendment was added to a Higher Education Appropriations bill that attempted to prevent life-saving research and derail the industry from taking hold in Michigan. While we defeated this ploy, it should serve as a rallying cry that our work to this important research is far from over.
That's why I'm committed to doing everything I can to keep this research growing in Michigan. Opponents are working against this development at a time when this industry is just beginning to gain momentum.
With our top-notch educational and research facilities, Michigan - Southeast Michigan in particular - is poised to become the epicenter of the emerging life sciences industry, attracting high-tech job providers from around the world. Building on our University Research Corridor and Oakland County's Medical Main Street, we have a great foundation to advance this industry and benefit from thousands of good-paying jobs and millions in investment.
The passage of Proposal 2 and our hosting of the prestigious World Stem Cell Summit sent the message around the world that Michigan is serious about regenerative medical research and is a great place for businesses to locate and grow. Crain's Detroit Business recently listed increasing medical tourism, creating a bio-pharmaceutical research and development hub, and becoming a center for research and medical facilities as one of the six areas Michigan must strengthen.
We have the opportunity to help make great strides in medicine while also creating good-paying jobs. We must stay focused on expanding Michigan's footprint in this growing industry. Together, we can provide hope and progress to hundreds of thousands of Michigan residents and people around the globe whose lives could be improved and potentially saved. To me, that's worth fighting for.
State Representative Ellen Cogen Lipton represents the 27th District (Berkley, Ferndale, Hazel Park, Huntington Woods and part of Oak Park.)
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21-03-2012 23:31 CAUTION!!! DR. LOPEZ CORVALA and Dr. JESUS PEREZ will SCAM YOU at Hospital Angeles in Tijuana if you have TREATMENT THERE. After receiving stem cells for my cirrhosis, I did not show ANY IMPROVEMENT. They TRICKED ME into signing a CLINICAL TRIAL and said that I SIGNED PAPERS saying I might not show any improvement. They are using that against me by refusing to refund me or give me more stem cells. DO NOT GO THERE. Their website is regenerativemedicine.mx. They brag about how "great they are," that this is a state of the art hospital. DON'T BELIEVE THEM. THEY ONLY WANT YOUR MONEY. Regenerativemedicine.com is a scam. Only some of their patients improve and they video them the day after stem cells when they are sill in their hospital gowns. I said NO, that I would do a review after a few months. You can't tell that soon, that's ridiculous!!!
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Hospital Angeles Tijuana STEM CELL SCAM with Dr. Lopez Corvala Lap Band and Dr. Jesus Perez - Video
17-03-2012 15:26 WARNING! BEWARE of this Hospital Angeles and especially DR. LOPEZ CORVALA who performs bariatric surgery like Lap Band, Gastric Bypass, Gastric Sleeve, Gastric Band in Cuidad Juarez, Mexico. He apparently has some control over the Stem Cell Regenerative Medicine Institute. I payed $25000 for stem cells to regenerate my liver cirrhosis. After NO IMPROVEMENT, he had the audacity to ask for $25000 more to repeat the surgery and treatment. I DO NOT RECOMMEND Dr. Lopez Corvala at the Hospital Angeles in Tijuana. PLEASE NOTE: email in video is incorrect. FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AT shamralaray@gmail.com.
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13-03-2012 01:49 by:www.medicaltourism.hk
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