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About Blue Horizon Stem Cells

Worlds leader in advanced stem cell therapy

Welcome to the Blue Horizon Stem Cell Therapy Program and Research Center. We are the worlds leading provider of adult and childrens stem cell therapies. Blue Horizon has treated over 500 patients and safely and efficiently performed more than 2,300 procedures. We are the only treatment provider approved and associated with The Wuhan University Department of Medicine.

Experience you can trust

The team at Blue Horizon Stem Cells is experienced in successfully treating conditions such as Alzheimers Disease, Sports Injuries, Spinal Cord Injuries, Cerebral Palsy, Stroke, Diabetes Mellitus, Arthritis, Heart Disease, Autoimmune Disorders, Anti-Aging and many more.

Highest quality treatment at a reasonable price

Blue Horizon Stem Cells has been providing treatments to patients for many years. We are able to provide extremely competitive rates to our patients as we have streamlined our operations and have package options to choose from based upon your needs.

Option of your stem cells or umbilical cord donors

The Blue Horizon Stem Cell Therapy Program ONLY utilizes stem cells from either your own body or umbilical cord donors whom have proceeded through a multiple step testing process that ensures stem cell patient safety. The procedure is virtually painless and for most patients, takes less than a few hours. We have US trained and board certified physicians on staff for your comfort.

At just 21 years old, a devastating motorcycle accident left top athlete Greg Mucci on the sidelines while he worked through a painful recovery from a serious hip injury. After conventional medicine took his recovery as far as it could go, Brian Mehling, M.D., an orthopedic trauma surgeon and founder of Blue Horizon Stem Cells, offered Mucci the opportunity to receive innovative stem cell therapy at his center in Wuhan, China to avoid a hip replacement. Through Dr. Mehlings foundation, the Blue Horizon Charitable Foundation, Mucci received the treatment and now, at age 30, is on the field playing in a semi-pro football league. Watch Greg Muccis story and learn about the amazing health benefits of stem cell treatments.

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Nine Things to Know About Stem Cell Treatments

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Stem cells have tremendous promise to help us understand and treat a range of diseases, injuries and other health-related conditions. Their potential is evident in the use of blood stem cells to treat diseases of the blood, a therapy that has saved the lives of thousands of children with leukemia; and can be seen in the use of stem cells for tissue grafts to treat diseases or injury to the bone, skin and surface of the eye. Important clinical trials involving stem cells are underway for many other conditions and researchers continue to explore new avenues using stem cells in medicine.

There is still a lot to learn about stem cells, however, and their current applications as treatments are sometimes exaggerated by the media and other parties who do not fully understand the science and current limitations, and also by clinics looking to capitalize on the hype by selling treatments to chronically ill or seriously injured patients. The information on this page is intended to help you understand both the potential and the limitations of stem cells at this point in time, and to help you spot some of the misinformation that is widely circulated by clinics offering unproven treatments.

It is important to discuss these Nine Things to Know and any research or information you gather with your primary care physician and other trusted members of your healthcare team in deciding what is right for you.

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Be the Match event gives hope to former Grinnell graduate

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Sam Coster of St. Louis has Stage IV Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and is in need of a stem cell transplant

J.O. PARKER joparker@registermedia.com

Family, friends, neighbors and former classmates at Grinnell High School are working the frontlines in the fight against cancer that is raging a battle in Sam Costers body.

Coster, 25, a 2008 graduate of GHS, was diagnosed in the fall of 2013 with Stage IV Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.

Id been sick and tired for a few months and was lucky to get diagnosed when I did, Coster said. Mine is particularly aggressive, so at the time of discovery, my insides bones, organs, everything were covered in cancer.

Since that time, Coster has been in and out of the hospital and outpatient clinics too numerous times to count.

Sam Coster, second from left, is surrounded by his girlfriend, Diana Zeng, and brothers, Adam Coster and Seth Coster during his first cancer treatment in St. Louis in November 2013. Coster, who develops computer games with his two brothers, is in need of a stem cell transplant. Coster, along with Nichole Bushong, will be in Grinnell on Wednesday, April 22 to meet with local and area resident to talk about donating and signing up for the National Bone Marrow Registry. Courtesy Photo

Hes undergone six rounds of R-CHOP chemotherapy, two rounds of high-dose Methotrexate, three rounds of R-ICE chemotherapy, three surgeries, a needle biopsy, three bone marrow biopsies, a spinal tap and nine Neulasta shots, which cause crippling bone pain for a few days, he said.

When mentioning the three surgeries, Coster said they were on his left chest wall through one incision point to remove lymph nodes for biopsy purposes.

Ive been thinking about getting a tattoo of a zipper on it, he said with a chuckle.

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Encapsulated stem cells accelerate wound healing

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Mesenchymal stem cells captured in microcapsules. Each microcapsule is roughly 40 micrometers across.

A team of Cornell scientists has shown that stem cells confined inside tiny capsules secrete substances that help heal simulated wounds in cell cultures, opening up new ways of delivering these substances to locations in the body where they can hasten healing.

The capsules need to be tested to see if they help healing in animals and humans, but they could eventually lead to living bandage technologies: wound dressings embedded with capsules of stem cells to help the wound regenerate.

Microencapsulated equine mesenchymal stromal cells promote cutaneous wound healing in vitro appeared in the April 10Stem Cell Research & Therapy.

The encapsulation seems to increase the stem cells regenerative potential, said Gerlinde Van de Walle of the Baker Institute for Animal Health in the College of Veterinary Medicine, adding that the reasons why are not yet known. It's possible that putting them in capsules changes the interactions between stem cells or changes the microenvironment.

To her knowledge, Van de Walle said, this is the first time encapsulated stem cells have been used to treat wounds. Her team used horse stem cells and cell cultures because, unlike mice, the healing process in horses shares important similarities with the healing process in humans and because wound healing in horses is a particularly difficult problem in veterinary medicine.

Mesenchymal stem cells are adult stem cells that can be isolated from different parts of the body, and its long been known that they secrete substances that aid in tissue healing. Problems arise when trying to use these stem cells in real patients, Van de Walle said, because they often wont stay put in the healing area and can occasionally form tumors or develop into unwanted cell types. She and her team began exploring the possibilities of encapsulating these cells as a way of avoiding these pitfalls. The capsules help cells stay in place while they secrete substances into the wound and can be removed easily if the stem cells would develop in an adverse way.

The researchers collaborated with Mingling Ma of the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering and his laboratory to create the coreshell hydrogel microcapsules around the stem cells

Van de Walle says she was excited to see that the capsules did not abolish the stem cell properties but instead appeared to enhance the beneficial effects the stem cell secreted products have on tissue cultures. This suggests that encapsulating the stem cells for wound healing not only avoids certain problems, it can boost the effectiveness of treatment.

With their mesenchymal stem cell work, Van de Walle and her colleagues are trying to understand the basic science behind the regenerative abilities of these cells.

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