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FASTER, PLEASE: Healing The Heart With Bone-Marrow Cells: ?Injecting the hearts of angina sufferer?

By Glenn Reynolds

FASTER, PLEASE: Healing The Heart With Bone-Marrow Cells: “Injecting the hearts of angina sufferers with cells extracted from their own bone marrow can reverse the condition and relieve its symptoms, a new study suggests. The Dutch cardiologists behind the placebo-controlled study say that the results may lead to radical new treatments for patients for whom surgery and medication bring little or no relief from this painful and debilitating condition, which results from narrowed arteries that cannot supply enough blood to the heart during exercise. All 50 subjects involved in the study were resistant to existing treatments. Three months after being given the injections, patients’ hearts were less starved of blood, and they were able to exercise more, researchers report in the latest issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on May 24, 2009 (boomark / email).