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Hip Replacement Side Effects in the News

A physician discusses the recent news about problems with hip resurfacing metal implants.

Helping a Veterinarian Get Back to Trail Running

A doctor discusses how a veterinarian tried stem cell therapy for his knee, after seeing it work so well in the dogs he treats.

Stem Cells Cure Man’s HIV: Implications for Using Someone Else’s Stem cells

A physician explains why receiving someone else's stem cells may have side effects.

Low Back Stem Cell Long-term Success

A physician reviews a patient who got rid of her low back disc bulge with an injection of her own stem cells and avoided low back surgery.

Framingham Strikes Again: No Association between Inflammation and Arthritis

A physician reviews new research showing no connection between blood tests for inflammation (like CRP or c-reactive protein) and arthritis.

Ankle AVN and Stem Cells: Only Halfway Toward the Finish Line

FB is a middle aged businessman who injured his ankle in a running related fall about 12 years ago. The ankle talus bone was fractured, so his doctors placed him into a cast. He saw many doctors as he had continued pain and then in 2006, he received the diagnosis of AVN of the ankle (also…read more

Bartolo’s Successful Stem Cell Injections

Bartolo’s stem cell therapy success…  Being the first clinic in the United States to use stem cell therapy injections in orthopedics, and the only one that has a significant number of scientific publications on stem cell injections and that has an advanced stem cell lab as part of it’s medical practice, we’re happy to see these valuable injection therapies getting…read more

More Problems with IPS Cells: Rejection Now an Issue!

While IPS cell problems are not new, this particular one came a bit out of left field. Scientists uncovered this week that stem cells made in the lab from normal cells were rejected by the same animal from whom the cells originated. As I’ve blogged before, this whole concept of IPS cells, while very interesting from a…read more