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Successful patient inclusion of Phase II clinical trial for Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury

Posted on September 14, 2023 by Hippocratic Post

Neuroplast, a Dutch clinical-stage biotech, focusing on cell-based treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, has Injury (TSCI). Preliminary data indicate an excellent safety profile due to the complete absence of product related adverse events. Furthermore, patient feedback confirms excellent tolerability. The trial is conducted in collaboration with Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos in Toledo, Spain, and Rigshospitalet in […]

Stem cell plasters to stop children needing repeated heart surgeries

Posted on January 3, 2023 by Hippocratic Post

Stem cell plasters to stop children needing repeated heart surgeries: Researchers at the University of Bristol, funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF), have developed ‘stem cell plasters’ to revolutionise the way surgeons treat children living with congenital heart disease, so they don’t need as many open-heart operations. Heart defects are the most common type […]

Future of premature baby care

Posted on July 26, 2022 by Hippocratic Post

Study shows potential for improving premature baby care: One in two premature babies receives transfusions of red blood cells (RBC) due to anaemia. There are no generally accepted clinical guidelines for the degree of anaemia necessitating blood transfusions. MedUni Vienna researchers have now conducted a critical review of the currently available literature. Their review has […]

New way to reduce scarring

Posted on May 9, 2021 (November 19, 2025) by Hippocratic Post

Researchers have been able to reduce scarring by blocking part of the healing process in research that could make a significant difference for burns and other trauma patients. University of Queensland Professor Kiarash Khosrotehrani said scars had been reduced by targeting the gene that instructs stem cells to form them in an animal study. “The body’s natural […]

Stem cell research for ‘untreatable’ STDs

Posted on September 24, 2018 by Hippocratic Post

Stem cell research offers hope for those with ‘untreatable’ STDs. Stem cell research has advanced significant research which could offer hope to people suffering from previously incurable sexually transmitted diseases, such as herpes. The UK’s Stem Cell bank StemProtect.co.uk, has analysed the latest in clinical trials of stem cell treatments and seen real positive steps […]

Eliminating the need for bone marrow donors

Posted on July 18, 2017 by Vladislav Sandler

Can we eliminate the need for bone marrow donors? There is a chance that we can. At the moment, people who develop leukaemia, lymphoma and other blood diseases often need to undergo a hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (“HSCT”). This is because initial treatment of the disease (front-line therapy) often fails and the disease comes back. […]

Life and death on the operating table

Posted on May 13, 2017 by Rebecca Wallersteiner

Rebecca Wallersteiner reviews “Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table” by Stephen Westaby – at the cutting edge of medical memoir. “The finest of margins separates life from death, triumph from defeat, hope from despair – a few more dead muscle cells, a fraction more lactic acid in […]

A Day to Unite – World Cancer Day

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Hayley Leonard

World Cancer Day brings people together across the world who have been affected by the disease. As a specialist nurse in the patient services team at blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan, my job is to provide information and support for patients and families who have had a stem cell transplant. Recovery can be challenging and […]

Stem cell donation

Posted on June 12, 2016 by Jane Feinmann

The first treatment for all types of leukaemia is usually chemotherapy, a powerful drug treatment that kills the cancerous cells in the blood. Treatment can also involve a transplant of new blood-forming stem cells, which are produced in the bone marrow, the spongy tissue that forms the centre of the bone. Stem cells are immature […]

New Hearts for old

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Dr Georgina Ellison

For a long time, it was thought that the heart muscle was post-mitotic – meaning the heart cells (that are responsible for the contraction of the heart, the cardiomyocytes) you were born with, you died with; there was no replenishment of new cardiomyocytes throughout life. In fact, over the last two decades, scientists have shown that the heart’s cardiomyocytes can […]