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Adult stem cells treat diabetes

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

Thailand’s National Innovation Agency announced success in treating foot wounds of diabetes patients with their own stem cells. Several diabetes patients, aged from 50 to 72, with chronic wounds on their feet, especially difficult in the case of diabetics, were injected with stem cells extracted from their own blood and the wounds completely healed in […]

Thailand BOI approves TheraVitae

Monday, May 28th, 2007

Thailand’s Board of Investment (BOI) has approved the Israeli-Thai stem cell therapy company TheraVitae for special investor privileges under the BOI’s foreign investment program. Mr Narin Apichairuk, president of TheraVitae, says this will allow them to open a laboratory near Bangkok. Currently adult stem cells are extracted from patients’ blood and then sent to a […]

Thai stem cell therapy a life saver

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

The online news site NBC-2.com had a story about several patients, 10 actually, who came from Florida to Bangkok to receive adult stem cell therapy for their untreatable heart conditions. One of the interesting points from that story is that this therapy is “illegal” in America. So these 10 men from southwest Florida were condemned […]

Stem cell therapy for diabetic limb ulcers

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

Samitivej Srinakarin Hospital in collaboration with Chulalongkorn Hospital and Thai StemLife will carry out clinical trials on the use of stem cell therapy on diabetic patients to treat limb ulcers that often lead to amputation. The therapy involves collection and replication of a patient’s adult stem cells that are then injected back into the patient’s […]