Cardiac Patch for a Broken Heart 147
Roland Piquepaille writes "People who suffered from heart attacks or other heart failures often need transplants because their hearts are essentially non-functioning. But imagine what would happen if it was possible to engineer living heart tissues to fix these broken hearts? This is what bioengineers at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City are starting to make. According to HealthDay News, their patches for broken hearts are made of heart tissue grown in the lab. Right now, animal trials are just starting and it will take at least a decade before human trials begin. But when these living bandages are ready for cardiac care, they'll have the potential to save millions of lives in the world every year."
Stem cell source (Score:1, Informative)
Whether everyone else agrees or not, Catholics have strong objections to abortions and, thus, to any product derived from the tissues of aborted children. Thus there is a demand, froma Catholic perspective, and a refusal, from an anticatholic perspective, to differentiate cells derived from aborted babies.
on vaccines from aborted babies:
http://www.geocities.com/titus2birthing/VacProLif
http://www.cogforlife.org/fetalvaccinetruth.htm [cogforlife.org]
http://www.physiciansforlife.ca/stemcells.html [physiciansforlife.ca]
www.priestsforlife.org
Re:Stem cell source (Score:0, Informative)
Also the phrase: 'from an anticatholic perspective'
---FLAME ON!
Wouldn't an anticatholic perspective be pointing out that the low estimate of catholic priests involved in homosexual child abuse in the US is 10%.
Because of the AMA, don't hold your breath... (Score:2, Informative)
My daughter was born eleven years ago needing a heart transplant. The four pediatric cardiologists in this state all argued over which of several procedures would be best, but in the end none of them would do a damn thing to help her because the AMA recommended against all of the procedures except a transplant. Legally the doctors could help her, but they were too afraid of the AMA. In the end, we had to do a transplant. That cost $225,000 for just the procedure plus about $45,000 in the following two years before she passed away. The AMA does a great job of screwing people over. They work very hard to make sure that people stay sick for a very long time to maximize the profit of their members. In the end she died of pulmonary edema. Basically she drowned in her own fluids. Again, the doctors wouldn't do what they could to save her. I had to listen to them whine about what the AMA recommends and what the AMA recommends against. In the end, her last stay in the ICU lasted 17 days and not a single doctor would do a thing. They just watched her die.
Without the AMA, we would have been able to find a doctor that would have helped her soon after she was born. I think that if the AMA had allowed her to start-off healthier, while she might not have lived much longer, she would have had a much happier life and been healthier and more active for a time.
Expect the AMA to fight against this with everything they have since it attacks the profit of their wealthiest members.