Insidermedicine.com Week In Review Nov 13 2006

In this weeks Insidermedicine Review Dr. Sanjay Sharma discusses new research published in Nature showing that a rats with retinitis pigmentosa derived more benefit from the injection of partially developed stem cells than from embryonic stem cells. This is good news for patients with macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa. It also may signal a new line of research in that other researchers may start to use partially developed cells as opposed to ones that are totally undifferentiated. In the second story, the issue of the "ballon- to-pump" time, that is the time taken for a patients with a heart attack to receive an angioplasty is discussed. Research showed that in hospitals that use 2 out of 6 best practices, patients with heart attack received their angioplasty within 88 minutes of walking into the ER- just under the 90 min window recommended by heart doctors.

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• retinitis
• pigmentosa
• stem
• cells
• angioplasty
• heart
• attack

[Orcaofhell]

may SCIENCE cure you

[mariapyhugom]

I have RP too my one eye is wose than the other

[kakitadechango]

Wow!! My name is George and i live in Orange County CA, and i also have RP. Just Recently i trien to join the USMC and i was not accepted because mhy vision is 20/30 distance and 20/20 near. Does anyone take any supplements to slow down the degeneration?? I take Vitamin A but im not too sure how much help its giving me...

[jaspertjuh]

I'm 16 years old, and I've got RP...

Very intresting video!

[nocurenopay]

I have RP too, and I'm 25. I just got the diagnosis 1,5 week ago. I don't understand (yet) how you can see it as an advantage. Can you please explain mmysticus?

[xXkikenXx]

my mom has RP im gonna let her know about this its interesting

[mmysticus]

I have RP, and I am 24. But it always depends on how one thinks about it, you can think of it either as a flaw, or as an advantage. :)

[platapca]

Thank you keep us posted. i have RP, I'm only 32

[O2007]

RP sucks... mostly because your tunnelview is getting smaller with the years

These days there is nothing to do about it, there was some cuba-project, but all doctors all over the world told their patients not to do it, because it's untrustable, it's way too expensive, and the chance you get blind is very high...

I have RP, and I have symptons of Usher Syndrome, which is RP and Badhearing, and both can get worse with the years

[rubberduckiegirl]

I wonder will this work on an RP patient whose Retina is allready very pigmented and weak.