Month: August 2018

Stem Cells Repair Injured Hearts

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Heart muscle has limited ability to regenerate. This is why heart attacks cause permanent heart damage. A goal in cardiovascular medicine is to induce healing rather than scarring, especially in patients with large areas of heart damage that compromise heart function. One strategy under investigation is injecting immature heart muscle cells, called cardiomyocytes, into the … Read more

Cannabinoid Combo Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer

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Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest forms of cancer with most patients surviving much less than one year from diagnosis. This was certainly the experience that my family had—diagnosis was made at the end of January and the patient died in April. For patients with metastatic disease, combination therapy with conventional chemotherapeutic agents, which … Read more