HEALTH
2018
REPORTS
Plus
EMERGENCY MED KITS
TRAGEDY SEEMED TO STRIKE IN 2017 IN VARIOUS WAYS, BUT ONE MESSAGE WAS
LOUD AND CLEAR. BEING PREPARED SAVES LIVES. MANY LIVES WERE SAVED AT
THE SHOOTING IN LAS VEGAS BECAUSE PEOPLE WERE TRAINED TO SAVE LIVES BY
SIMPLY APPYING SOME SIMPLE TECHNIQUES THAT YOU TOO CAN LEARN. Page 72
STEM CELL TRIALS
CUTTING EDGE THERAPY IN THE SOUTH
IT’S SAID THAT, AT A SUFFICIENTLY HIGH LEVEL,
TECHNOLOGY SIMPLY BECOMES MAGIC. SOMEONE
COMING OUT OF A 30-YEAR COMA, FOR EXAMPLE,
WOULD HAVE A HECK OF A TIME WRAPPING THEIR
HEAD AROUND THE FACT THAT WE CAN NOW USE OUR
PHONES TO DO EVERYTHING FROM CONTROLLING THE
TEMPERATURE OF OUR HOUSE TO BUYING GROCER IES.
That shock would double when that person finds out about
the tremendous breakthroughs in modern medicine. If they
think a smartphone is amazing, imagine how they’d react to
the tantalizing possibility that we could use specialized cells to
replace damaged body parts with entirely new ones.
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“It’s not the fountain of youth, but it’s the regenerative material
that can be directed to grow a new body part; It sounds crazy,” said
Dr. Priscilla Ross, part of a bleeding-edge FDA-approved study
on the frontiers of this new science.
The study, currently underway at University of Miami, aims to
eliminate degenerative disc disease (DDD) by utilizing special cells
called marrow-isolated adult multilineage inducible (MIAMI)
cells. Harvested from human bone marrow, these keys could
potentially be a game-changer in internal medicine. At the risk of
oversimplifying a very complex process, by adding these MIAMI
cells to a specific matrix, researchers are able to turn them into
nearly everything. Including, most tantalizingly, spinal tissue.