Stem Cell Therapy Helps Blind Patients Regain Vision

It’s being held hailed as one of the biggest successes in the use of stem cell therapy to treat medical conditions and illnesses. A group of researchers has found dramatic success in the treatment of blindness using stem cell therapy.

These patients had suffered serious eye injuries when caustic chemicals had been splashed into their eyes, either at home or during an industrial accident. The burn injuries had led to deteriorating vision. The Italian researchers treated these persons with stem cell transplants from the healthy eye, and monitored them all over for a number of years. The researchers used stem cell transplants from the healthy eye, and placed these on the damaged cornea of the injured eye. They found that the injured eye was able to grow new tissue in the cornea to replace the damaged tissue.

 

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Study Shows Drop in Burn Injuries in Children

A new report published in this month’s issue of the Pediatrics, has some good news for New Jersey burn injury lawyers. The report indicates that there has been a drop in the number of children suffering burn injuries during the 17-year study period.

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Blink 182 Donates Money to Burn Centers in Appreciation of Drummer's Burn Injury Treatment

Burn centers help treat some of the most horrific injuries out there. Severe burns require specialized care, and an ultra sterile environment to prevent the kind of infections that can set in.

Last year, burn injuries and the kind of disfigurement they can leave behind were all across the gossip media, when Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker suffered serious burn injuries in a plane crash. Barker and his friend DJ AM were in a Learjet on its way from South Carolina to Los Angeles. The plane failed to clear a runway, and exploded into flames. Barker and DJAM survived the accident with second and third degree burns. Barker received medical care at the Grossman Burn Center in California and the Joseph M Still Burn Center in Georgia.

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