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It could be if stem cells can be used to grow human cochlear hair cells.
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I posted the cite because I was very impressed with the discovery. It is a lot like the early promoters of stem cells thought: a general means of curing afflictions.It will still be hard for the human...
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I can't myself imagine how repair of blood vessels, or angiogenesis could be directly useful in curing tinnitus, but this does look like a major scientific advance in the broader area. This would have...
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Unfortunately, it's also a political issue. Well, a religious issue really, but they're often the same thing. At least I have an answer to the question now. "Do you support the advancement of stem...
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Tony, I think the type of stem cell reported, that can repair blood vessels, is just one type and that the other classes needed to repair other tissues will soon be identified.Jim
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Sometime in 2003 I believe Dr Raphael and his team at the Kresge Hearing Institute, U of Mich, successfully regrew hair cells in guinea pigs, using the math1 gene (now called...
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Excellent article.Here's one from my old website (which shouldn't exist as I'm not with AOL).Prof Carol Hackney and her colleagues (esp Dave furness) did a lot of the groundwork on understanding hair...
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All progress which will be killed by Politics. Face it, in my belief we will never see a drug for tinnitus, and never see a drug for IBS. All conditions which have vicious endpoints and cause many...
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i will eat anything unpleasant for a breakthrough, so confident I will not have to perform my dare.
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A "breakthrough " simply means that they will start working on it. ANy drug for t would take 15 years from start to finish to get to the market.Research is lsow and thorough. Gayle
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Gayle, et. al., I've been reading about a guy named Ray Kurzweil, a scientist, inventor and businessman who recently wrote a book titled The Singularity is Near. In it, he argues that technological...
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Well Newbie all I can say is that I have HORRIBLE earaches every night with my t. And drs cannot find a way to ease the pain without totally sedating me It's 2007 and we do heart transplants yet drs...
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In my opinion, we are at the point of a huge break with past medicine. And the change will occur at startling speed.Modern medicine made the great progress it made after discovering immunization,...
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Newbie I don't see this technological progress on the street, as the author is succinct about. I don't feel we will see it in our lifetime. Its not like a @#%$ simulation as simcity is where the...
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Good article, JIm. I agree that stem cell research is an incredibly exciting frontier in medicine. I have never seen an area that is more promising. It's a shame that our tax dollars aren't being used...
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I have seen great advances in health care with the use of modern compters when I was working at a VA Hospital.For example we would have a rolling table with a laptop and a wireless connection to the...
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The arts of physical diagnosis are also being lost. Woe betide you if you come down with something that won't show up in an MRI or blood test. I had extremely painful endometriosis that went...
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Yes, physical diagnosis skills are disappearing. Seven years ago I developed severe pain in my lower legs and feet. My internist drew blood and ruled out some things from that. I asked to see an...
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