Stem Cell Contacts Restore Sight
Submitted by Shawn on Friday, 5 June 2009One Comment
Australian scientists restored the sight of three patients in less than a month. Using contact lenses cultured with stem cells.
All three patients were blind in one eye. The researches extracted stem cells from the patients working eye, cultured the contact lenses for ten days. Within two weeks of use, the stem cells repaired the cornea. Two of the patients were legally blind, but can now read the big letters on an eye chart, while the third, who previously could read the top rows of the chart, is now able to pass the vision test for a driver’s license. The procedure is inexpensive, which means this could be carried out in poorer countries.
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There is a group of physicians, patients and other interested people working together to get treatment with adult stem cells legalized in the U.S. as it should be. The organization was formed in response to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) recent position that the adult stem cells found in everyone’s body are drugs. A person’s cells (autologous) should be their own and NOT regulated by the FDA. That is one of the major reasons why most stem cell clinics are overseas. This stance is ridiculous and is costing millions of lives while sick Americans wait for the use of their own stem cells which would improve their quality of life. The FDA is not protecting us, but hurting us. Please ask your family and friends to sign up (“JOIN”), and get as many doctors to sign up as well. Please see The American Stem Cell Therapy Association (ASCTA) site and the associated Safe Stem Cells Now patient site. If enough people sign up and show a protest to this thing, the FDA will have to back down. They have no right to claim your own tissue is a “drug” to be regulated by them in the first place.
Patient Site: http://www.safestemcells.org
Physician Site: http://www.stemcelldocs.org