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Adult versus Fetal Stem Cells

It makes sense that fetal stem cells would be more active than adult cells.  After all, we’ve all seen kids with incredible healing powers and we’ve all observed our own healing prowess get less as we age.  However, a recent study reversed this thought trend.  In this study, they examined the protective effect of adult…read more

NSAID’s and Alzheimer’s Disease

A research paper recently published is the strongest link yet between NSAID’s like Celebrex and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). NSAID’s have become standard fare in the medical community.   Any patient who has any type of musculoskeletal disorder gets them.  The above study shows a strong link between this drug and AD in more than 2,700…read more

Putting in a Thumbtack with a Sledgehammer

A new Regenexx-C procedure patient illustrates a major problem in our medical care system.  This is a 47 year old triathlete who has had 7 years of back and knee pain.  She was diagnosed with patellar tendinitis on the right greater than left side.  Her MRI showed significant cartilage loss on the medial side of…read more

Your Stem Cells and Breakfast Cereal are a Drug…

The FDA announced yesterday, with much fanfare, that your breakfast cereal will now be treated as a drug, with the FDA monitoring it’s claim that it can lower your cholesterol.  At first I thought this was a story out of the Onion, but it’s real.  This of course makes about as much sense as your…read more

Regenexx in China

NeoStem and Regenexx partner to bring orthopedic stem cell therapy to patients in Asia.

Surgical Complications and Two Colleagues

As I have said here before, we have a good number of health care providers as patients. As an example, yesterday I performed a stem cell re-implant on a dentist from Hawaii.  The reason I’ve usually given is that these medical providers know the other side of the big surgical procedure coin.  They have seen…read more

Making the Grade…

Like any procedure, the Regenexx-C procedure works better in some patients than in others.  We have always provided prospective grading of candidacy.  What does this mean?  It means that we obtain basic information about the patient and ask to review films to determine the severity of their disease.  We compare that severity to our clinical…read more

Embryonic vs. Adult Stem Cells

A doctor explains the difference between adult stem cells and embryonic stem cells.