Treatment of Raynaud’s Phenomenon and Blood Circulation Problems with Stem Cells from Fat
In a recently published clinical study from Marseille 12 patients with circulation problems in the hands (Raynaud’s disease) underwent promising treatment with the body’s own (autologous) stem cells. The pale fingers are caused by the reduced blood flow. The circulation problems were triggered by the connective tissue disease scleroderma, which is considered an autoimmune disease. […]
EU Plans to Ban Doctors from Treating Patients!
“Investor protection” in favor of the pharmaceutical industry is important for the EU, but the physicians’ freedom of treatment that is required for the benefit of their patients is not. Do you remember my blog How the Imhotep “Mummy” became the God of Medicine…? The brilliant doctor and vizier Imhotep not only built the first […]
Stem Cells from Fat Help in Blood Circulation Disorders and Scleroderma
New study shows high therapeutic potential of stem cells from body fat Vienna (2014-10-07) — In a recently published study from Marseille 12 patients who suffered from circulatory problems in the fingers (Raynaud’s phenomenon) underwent promising treatment with the body’s own (autologous) stem cells. The circulatory disorders were caused by the autoimmune connective tissue disease […]
Improvement in Joint Problems, Autoimmune Diseases and Circulatory Disorders with Stem Cells from Fat
Is there a panacea, a cure for every disease? Of course not. But the body’s own stem cells from fat tissue have a considerable healing potential. Scientific studies suggest that the body’s own (autologous) stem cells of the patient can be used in a variety of very different disorders and at least relief and amelioration […]
Are You Allowed to Use Your Own Stem Cells Without Restriction? (Part 3)
Stem cell treatment of a patient with advanced amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) can only be performed in a specialized hospital with all-round support in the intensive care unit for legal, medical, and ethical reasons. If such a patient wishes to undergo stem cell therapy, he/she is facing challenges: The patient has to travel to a […]
Are You Allowed to Use Your Own Stem Cells Without Restriction? (Part 2)
Therapies with donor stem cells (allogeneic stem cell therapies) or your own stem cells (autologous stem cell therapies), which were frozen after removal, can only be carried out abroad at present. In addition, hospitals are allowed to perform “approved” therapies only almost everywhere in the world. Stem cell therapies are considered “novel” and “experimental”. This […]
Are You Allowed to Use Your Own Stem Cells Without Restriction? (Part 1)
This was supposed to be a rhetorical question! If you are sick, you should of course be allowed to use your own stem cells for treatment! But in fact stem cell therapies currently are legally severely restricted in Europe. For example, treatments with donor stem cells or the body’s own (autologous) stem cells that are […]
Treatment of Severe Diseases with Donor Stem Cells
There are several chronic diseases or attritions of the body, e.g., osteoarthritis, which can be treated with autologous stem cells from body fat (Adipose-Derived Stem Cells, ADSC). For this purpose, a small procedure under local anesthesia for extraction of a portion of fat from the patient is required. The stem cells are injected after isolation […]
Legal Obstacles to Stem Cell Therapy in the EU
Stem cell therapies are legally severely limited in Europe at present. For example, treatment with donor stem cells or the body’s own (autologous) stem cells that are not injected immediately after removal is currently prohibited in in the EU and in Switzerland. Therefore such therapies must be carried out abroad. In addition, hospitals in most […]
Cure for Infertility with Stem Cells?
I recently received an e-mail from a patient who asked for ways of stem cell treatment for infertility. Although still a long way off, a stem cell procedure to treat male infertility has already been used for years: If radiation treatment or chemotherapy for cancer is necessary in a prepubescent boy who does not yet […]