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the FDA approved a human embrionic stem cell trial on 10 participants that are 14 days out. FINALLY the USA can get started. check it out.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/23/stem.cell/index.html?section=cnn_lates t
Thanks Marty
This is C-67. Why was it to slow to find out about this? Should we have not hear anything about a trail before? I thought, with all of us on the look out for hopes, we would have have been first to know and start to get on the train before the new paper reporters fill up the train. I called the company's number on the web site that I discover throught this news paper to find out that they are swap with calls.
650 473 7730
Well, if nothing else I hope the train does not leave me behind.
God bless and good health,
Anthony
Thanks Marty!
Did you happen to notice that the trials will start only on patients who sustained their injuries within 7-14 days? And only on 8-10 patients. Why don't they do a real study on all of us? Rhetorical question. Other countries are perfoming stem cell injections-to people who are on this site. One patient I recall wasn't given anesthesia! They have paid tons of money to go as far as China.
I'm not an Obama fan - he's already proven things he said to get elected aren't happening the way he said they would. But if he can get anyone of us on this site up and walking again, I will go to Washington to thank him in person.
We live in the greatest and most messed up country in the world. Pray for our leaders.
God bless,
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i saw this on good morning america. they interviewed a lady that is part of the chris reeve foundation thats quad like he was. but yea i agree...if they're gonna do studies, why not on people in many stages after an injury.not just within 2 weeks.im betting 99% of us would volunteer. just another step in the long waiting game.
hope it works!!!
i think its a tiny lil step, but... it is a good one, that will start a chain of other ones...
what if....?
all of you interested in making your voice "loud and clear" sign a letter, wirtten by one of you of course! explaining who all of you are, at what stage in life, treatment, therapies, and hope you are, what are your expectations and what you think good be a good option, or optionS?
everything in a not 10 pages letter!!, to the FDA or whoever needs to read it... signed (ID number, email, name and date of birth) up by all of you potential volunteers.
shout out loud! this is the moment... you may not all be obama´s fan but i do think he ie the best option to introduce new things and new thoughts in many many areas.
life is not only about waiting!!! life is doing, being proactive, so, what if....
im sending the best warmest vibes!! you all deserve THE BEST!
love,
m
sorry my spelling!!!!!
i should have written: what are your expectations and what you think WOULD be a good option, or optionS?...
i do think he IS the best option to introduce new things...
sorry!!!
This is great news! My family and I have been waiting a long time!
Its a start.....I feel the Geron Corp. should have scheduled more trials for sure. Why so few to determine a pass or fail test is puzzling.
You're voices do need to heard and you should write letters but they need to be directed to your congressman or the NIH (National Institue of Health) and demand more funding for Chronic spinal cord injury research. There seems to be a lot more funding for avalible for Acute spinal cord injury research because it is percieved that it is an easier target, and more appealing to drug companies. The FDA is only going to approve developed research projects that are submitted to them so writting to them isn't going to do much good.
Things are getting better, the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis act was recently passed in congress and with the FDA approving Gerons embryonic st cell therapy for acute spinal cord injury is a huge step. If it proves safe which is the most important thing with this trial other treatments will follow and some will be for Chronic injuries, the tide is turning for the better.
To learn more go to the Reeve-Irvine Research center website, they invented the work that Geron just got approved or go to www.carecure.org under the "Cure" section and read about it. Best yet set up a Google Alert for all things "Spinal cord Injury" and "Stem Cell" and you will get emails everyday about what's going on.
Things are changing...........
keep as healthy as possible and keep the faith :)
Tjames,
your advices are great!
I dont live in the states so i wasnt sure if FDA was the correct place...
but as you say, NIH or congress will be a better option.. i just think that if someplace could get ALL the signatures together instead of 10 to California, 15 to Washington, 10 to Iowa, etc, would have more impact.
But whatever you do I think you should start moving... right?
Good luck!
m
This is huge. From my understanding this trial is to test safety for the most part, of course they will monitor the effects it has on function, but this is just a safety trial. Although it's for thoratic injuries within seven days to 14 they will eventually move to cervical injuries within the same time limit, then to incomplete injuries within the same guidelines, also I believe there was something I read about a enzyme that absorbs scar tissue that blocks the healthy tissue in preexisting spinal cord injuries so they can run trials on chronic as well. Oh well, I guess we'll just have to see what happens.
Hello everybody.
We do some research on stem cells for some time here in switzerland. These methods are not ripe yet for application on humans.
We have some patients who went to china or russia for allegedly stem cell based therapys. We observed a severe pressure ulcer in one case after return , but in no coas a better neurology. I suspect sometimes that the therapy was sham, since stem cells are a bit tricky to handle and i dont believe they can do it properly.
This trial is very interesting, BUT seems to be a phase 1 study. That means the aim is NOT to cure somebody but simply find out about dosage, mode of application and after all....safety. Plese do not forget that stem cells can turn into many cells, good ones and bad ones:
http://blog.aperio.com/the_daily_scan/files/economist_stem_cells_cancer.pdf
We do not know enough on how to guide the stem cells in to the right direction, ant therefore we do not know what we do if we implant stem cells into the spinal cord. If it is simply injected into a new injury, the scar will most probably block regeneration of nerve cells.
I think it is wise to try on very few volunteers first.
Maddoc,
Thank you so much for the clarification. We are all so very desparate for physical healing and want to walk, run, ride etc. again. The news is so very exciting and this could be the first step toward what could change our lives.
I have no faith in our FDA - just look at the peanut factory issue. We are battling a "moral" issue with the use of embryonic cells here. If there were a way to harvest my eggs to create embryos, I would do it in a heartbeat. However, my age precludes that.
How are the use of embryonic cells viewed in your country? Do you battle any governmental agencies in your research?
Thanks again for your input.
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