Saturday, 24 February 2018

Stem Cell Therapy Centers Offer Hope For The Future

By Ruth Carter


The dizzying pace at which progress is made in the medical field is truly astonishing. New treatment options, procedures, medicines and tools are becoming available all the time. Many diseases that used to mean almost certain death have now been conquered. Research continues at an unabated pace and there is no reason to doubt that many more diseases will be brought under control very soon. For example, stem cell therapy centers promise medical breakthroughs such as the world has never seen.

Bone marrow transplants is not new technology at all but there are many new studies into the potential of this treatment method. In the past, transplants were restricted to patients suffering from leukaemia and other diseases related to the blood. These patients receive chemotherapy that destroy both healthy and diseases cells. Marrow transplants help to promote the growth of healthy new cells.

While patients suffering from certain types of cancer have most certainly benefited from bone marrow transplants, researchers firmly believe that these transplants will soon become a miracle treatment method for may other types of disease. Unfortunately, progress is slow because it is a very difficult field of research and their are numerous obstacle that need to be overcome before human patients can be treated.

Because bone marrow transplants promote the growth of new, healthy cells, it is hoped that they will one day be effective in treating debilitating brain degeneration diseases such as Parkinson and Alzheimer. It would also be used to reverse the damage done by strokes. It is believed that transplants will even be considered to treat brain damage and physical injuries to the spine.

Another possible application of these transplants is the treatment of a variety of heart diseases, currently one of the most common health problems in developed countries. Eventually, bone marrow transplants will cause damaged heart muscles to be replaced by the growth of new cells and blood vessels inside the heart. Sadly, this promising use of bone marrow transplants are still far into the future.

Not everyone is excited about the potential benefits of bone marrow transplants. Critics are convinced that the risks are simply too high and that too many patients will die. They also point out that the umbilical blood from unborn babies is already used in the place of actual bone marrow. This will lead to greed, unethical medical practices and moral dilemmas for which the world is not ready.

Critics also complain that there is too much hype about the future potential of bone marrow transplants. They say that positive results are still years away and that researchers are falsely creating the impression that major breakthroughs will be made in the near future. They also say that places that already offer this treatment do it for no reason other than money, knowing that the treatment is extremely risky.

Promises of new revolutionary medical treatments are always exciting. Whether bone marrow transplants will become a miracle cure, as researchers hope it will, no one knows for sure. One thing is certain, if even a fraction of the hopes and expectations of researchers becomes reality, millions of lives will be saved.




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