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Arroyo undergoes 4th stem cell treatment

By Leila B. Salaverria Philippine Daily Inquirer

Former President and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo: Stem cell treatment

MANILA, PhilippinesLike her predecessor, former President and Pampanga lawmaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has turned to stem cell therapy in an effort to improve her health.

Arroyo said in her official Twitter account that she would have her fourth stem cell intravenous treatment with her alternative medicine doctor on Monday.

Arroyo said her treatment would involve cultured stem cells, and it would be much more modest in price than the one coming from sheep or ones own body.

A close friend and ally of Arroyo, Quezon Representative Danilo Suarez, confirmed that the President has started stem cell therapy, and that she told him that the stem cells she has been using did not come from lamb placenta, and was the less costly form of stem cell treatment.

If you have a lot of health problems, you will try such things, Suarez said on Sunday.

Suarez said he has even filed a resolution to investigate the practice of stem cell treatments in the country, as well as the claims being made about it, considering that it has been gaining popularity.

The public needs to be better informed about it. It might have setbacks that we need to know about, he said.

The therapy involves the use of fresh cells, which are injected into the body to regenerate cells to treat illnesses or reverse aging.

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Arroyo to have stem cell therapy

MANILA, Philippines Former President and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo joins the growing list of public personalities turning to stem cell treatment.

In her official Twitter account, Arroyo said: "This Monday I will have my 4th stem cell intravenous treatment with my alternative medicine doctorIt's cultured stem cell and much more modest in price than the one coming from sheep or one's own body."

Arroyo did not give any more details.

In previous Twitter posts, Arroyo said she has turned to alternative medicine for treatment of complications from her cervical spine surgery,

On Thursday, September 6, Arroyo tweeted: "I just came from my thrice weekly therapy at Veterans. This week I also saw two alternative medicine practitioners as part of my search for a second opinion while initiating my communication with an opinion with a neurovervical spine purist who does repeat surgery daily, as recommended by Dr. Anastacio. "

Arroyo has been in and out of the hospital since she was first operated to address a pinched nerve last year.

A recent medical finding by attending physician Roberto Anastacio indicated that Arroyo risks sudden death for the complications from the dislodging of the titanium implanted during her cervical spine surgery at St. Luke's Medical Center.

Previously, former President Joseph Estrada and Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile admitted undergoing stem cell therapy.

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Manila, Philippines Former President now Pampanga Rep. Gloria M. Arroyo is set to undergo her fourth stem cell intravenous treatment tomorrow.

This Monday, I will have my fourth stem cell intravenous treatment with my alternative medicine doctor, Arroyo, who has been in and out of the hospital in the past two years, said in her Twitter account. Arroyos alternative medicine doctor is Dr. Antonia Park, who owns a wellness center in Tagaytay City. After she was granted bail in July, Arroyo sought Parks help for her medical condition.

Its cultured stem cell and much more modest in price than the one coming from sheep or ones own body, she tweeted without divulging how much the treatment will cost.

Arroyo has started finding a specialist who could treat her problematic spine. She disclosed that she found at least two alternative medicine practitioners for a second opinion, while initiating my communication with an opinion with a neurocervical spine purist who does repeat surgery daily, as recommended by her cardiologist, Dr. Roberto Anastacio of the Makati Medical Center.

She also attends her thrice a week therapy at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City, where she was detained for eight months following the electoral sabotage charges hurled against her by a Pasay City court.

Anastacio earlier said Arroyo should immediately undergo a surgery to address life-threatening blockage in her neck due to a displaced titanium implant. He said the treatment is only available in Austria and New York. (Charissa M. Luci)

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Arroyo to undergo stem cell treatment Monday

Coordinates 13.6500N79.4200N Name Pasay City Official name City of Pasay Native name Lungsod ng Pasay Settlement type Highly-Urbanized City Motto Aim High Pasay! Image seal Ph seal ncr pasay.png Seal size 100px Map caption Map of Metro Manila showing the location of Pasay City. Pushpin map Pushpin label position Subdivision type Country Subdivision name Subdivision type1 Region Subdivision name1 National Capital Region Subdivision type2 Province Subdivision name2 none Subdivision type3 Districts Subdivision name3 Lone District of Pasay City Subdivision type4 Barangays Subdivision name4 201 Leader title Mayor Leader name Antonino G. Calixto (Liberal) Leader title1 Vice Mayor Leader name1 Marlon A. Pesebre (Liberal//PMP) Leader title2 Sangguniang Panlungsod Leader name2 Established title2 Incorporated (town) Established date2 December 2, 1863 Established title3 Incorporated (city) Established date3 June 21, 1947 Unit pref Area total km2 19 Population as of 2007 Population total 403,064 Population density km2 21213 Timezone PST Utc offset +8 Elevation footnotes Postal code type ZIP code Postal code 13001309 Area code 2 Website Official Website of Pasay City Footnotes }}

The City of Pasay (Filipino: Lungsod ng Pasay) is one of the cities and municipalities that make up Metro Manila in the Philippines. It is bordered on the north by the country's capital, Manila, to the northeast by Makati City, to the east by Taguig City, and Paraaque City to the south.

Pasay City was one of the original four cities of Metro Manila. Due to its proximity to Manila, it quickly became an urban town during the American Period.

In one version, the name of the municipality came from the wail of a brokenhearted swain. Jose and Paz were in love with each other and were intent on a life together, but Jose's father was a mere tenant of the hacienda of Paz's father. For this reason, their love was forbidden and Jose was ordered to stay away from Paz. Unable to bear her misfortune, Paz died.

At her funeral, the elite came to mourn and pray as Jose watched from a distance. As soon as everyone left, Jose dug a tunnel into the earth to be with Paz. Once joined, he let out a sharp and anguished cry "Paz-ay!" In sorrow and regret, the parents of Paz named their hacienda Paz-ay. In time, the town came to be known simply as Pasay.

Historians have another explanation for the origin of the name of the city. It is said that back in the day, Pasay was thick with pasaw, a plant with an exotic aroma. It was said that a Spanish botanist, Antonio Pineda, frequented a place called Basal in the vicinity of San Rafael to gather pasaw.

The version deemed to be most credible is that Pasay was named after a princess of the Namayan Kingdom, Dayang-dayang Pasay. The Namayan Kingdom was a confederation of barangays that began to peak in 1175 and extended from Manila Bay to Laguna de Bay. Dayang-dayang Pasay inherited the lands now comprising the territories of Culi-culi, Pasay and Baclaran. The royal capital of the kingdom was built in Sapa, known today as Santa Ana.

The natives brought their products to the capital of Namayan. Trading flourished during the 12th to the 14th centuries. Merchants from Japan, China, Moluccas, Java, Borneo, Sumatra, India, Siam, and Cambodia came to trade with the natives.

Pasay's name may also have originated from the Spanish Paso hay meaning there is a pass. This referred to the paths cleared among the grass leading to the southern portions from Manila.

In 1727, the name of the Pasay settlement was changed to Pineda in honor of Don Cornelio Pineda, a Spanish horticulturist who requested for guardias civiles for protection from bandits. The name Pineda, along with Pasay, was used as the name of the place until the early 20th century.

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Former President and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will undergo stem cell therapy on Monday with an alternative medicine doctor.

Arroyo, in a post on her Twitter account Saturday morning, said Monday's session will be her fourth intravenous treatment.

"This Monday I will have my fourth stem cell intravenous treatment with my alternative medicine doctor," she said.

Also she said, "It's cultured stem cell and much more modest in price than the one coming from sheep or one's own body."

But she did not elaborate on how much the treatment will cost.

Stem cell therapy is type of intervention strategy that introduces new adult stem cells into damaged tissue in order to treat disease or injury.

Earlier this week, Arroyo said she continues to search for alternative solutions to an anatomic problem that prompted her to be rushed to a government hospital last month.

Arroyo said she had seen at least two "alternative medicine practitioners," and has initiated communication with a "neurocervical spine purist."

She said she also had her thrice-weekly therapy at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMMC) in Quezon City Thursday.

Arroyo underwent treatment last August for an anatomic problem that caused her to choke on her food.

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MANILA, Philippines - Former President and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will undergo on Monday, September 10, her fourth stem cell treatment to help correct her spinal condition.

This Monday, I will have my fourth stem cell intravenous treatment with my alternative medicine doctor," Arroyo posted on her Twitter account @gmarroyo on Saturday, September 8.

She did not provide more details.

After the former President was granted bail by a Pasay City Court last July, she contacted alternative medicine doctor Antonia Park, who owns a wellness center in Tagaytay City, and this week Arroyo started searching for another specialist who can correct her spinal condition.

Arroyo still has physical therapy sessions 3 times a week at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center, where the Pampanga Rep. had spent 8 months in hospital arrest over electoral sabotage charges in connection with the 2007 midterm polls.

Facebook status update on Thursday, September 6

Dr. Roberto Anastacio, her physician at the Makati Medical Center, earlier said the treatment for Arroyos condition cannot be found in the Philippines.

However, the former President is prevented from traveling abroad by 3 hold departure orders issued by the courts in relation to electoral sabotage, plunder and graft cases filed against her. - Rappler.com

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Stem cell treatment gives Honolulu dog better life

Dog receives stem cell therapy

In recent years, Kumba, a 13-year-old rottweiler mix, and beloved pet, had been living a life in pain. "Kumba had a lot of problems with his back legs; both his hips and his knees were affected by really severe arthritis and he was having a hard time getting up and down and his quality of life was really being affected," said Dr. Cristina Miliaresis, who is a veterinarian at Surf Paws Veterinary Hospital in Hawaii Kai. Reports show it's a painful problem affecting up to 40 percent of the 164 million cats and dogs in the United States. "When we heard about the therapy, it was an option for us and for Kumba to live a better quality of life," said Kumbas owner Rumi Hospedar. In June, veterinarians took fat tissue from Kumba's shoulder, separated the stem cells, then injected it back into his ailing joints. In the past, veterinarians had to send tissue to the mainland, but a company called MediVet provided the equipment to do it all in clinic. "He came back today so we could check up on him and see how he's doing," said Dr. Miliaresis. She said most of their pet patients are more than 10 years and no longer candidates for orthopedic procedures. So for the family, they couldn't be happier knowing Kumba has another chance at being the kind of dog, they know, he wants to be. "Kumbas doing much better he's spends a lot more time moving around. He's much more active and my biggest vision of Kumba is him galloping around like a horse because when he's happy he's galloping around the back yard with almost like a smile on his face," said Hospedar.

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Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute awarded $1.3 million to study cardiac stem cells

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Contact: Sally Stewart Sally.stewart@cshs.org 310-248-6566 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

LOS ANGELES Sept. 6, 2012 A team of Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute stem cell researchers today was awarded a $1.3 million grant from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine to continue study of an experimental stem cell therapy that treats heart attack patients with heart-derived cells. Earlier this year, data from the first clinical trial of the stem cell treatment showed the therapy helped damaged hearts regrow healthy muscle.

To date, this cell therapy, developed by Eduardo Marbn, MD, PhD, director of the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute and Mark S. Siegel Family Professor, is the only treatment shown to regenerate the injured human heart. In this therapy, human heart tissue is used to grow specialized heart stem cells, which then are injected back into the patient's heart. The new research will focus on understanding the cellular mechanisms that have produced favorable outcomes.

"We have seen encouraging results in patients with this treatment, and it has the potential to revolutionize how we treat heart attack patients," Marbn said. "This further study will allow us to better understand how it works, which we hope will lead us to even more stem-cell based treatments for the heart."

During a heart attack, clots form suddenly on top of cholesterol-laden plaques, which block the flow of blood to the heart muscle. This causes living heart tissue to die and be replaced by a scar. The larger the scar, the higher the chance of death or disability from the heart attack.

Conventional treatments aim to limit the initial injury by opening the clogged artery and prevent further harm with medications. Regenerative therapy aims to regrow healthy heart muscle and dissolve the heart tissue -- an approach that, according to a study by Marbn published in The Lancet, led to an average 50 percent reduction in scar size.

Early study by Cedars-Sinai researchers indicates that much of the benefit in the experimental therapy is due to an indirect effect of the transplanted cardiac-derived cells. These cells seem to stimulate proliferation of the surrounding undamaged heart cells -- a previously unrecognized means of cardiac regeneration in response to cell therapy.

"This is vital basic science work that we believe will ultimately open pathways to new treatments in the fight against heart disease, the leading cause of premature death and disability," Marbn said.

The process to grow the cardiac-derived stem cells involved in the study was developed by Marbn when he was on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University. The university has filed for a patent on that intellectual property, and has licensed it to a company in which Dr. Marbn has a financial interest.

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Novel stem cell treatment helps paralyzed patients feel again

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Embryologist Ric Ross holds a dish with human embryos at the La Jolla IVF Clinic February 28, 2007 in La Jolla, California.

Two clinical trial patients, paralyzed with chronic spinal cord injuries, have regained some sensation after undergoing stem cell treatments led by a California biotech company and researchers from the University of Zurich.

The clinical trials by Newark, California-based StemCells, Inc involved three patients, two of whom regained some feeling after scientists injected them with purified human neural stem cells.

The neural stem cells are essentially adult stem cells that can renew and replicate into cells of the nervous system. They were derived from donated fetal brain cells, which dont require the controversial destruction of embryos, a company spokesman said.

The news comes ten months after another California biotech company Menlo-Park-based Geron Corporation surprised and disappointed many in the field when it abandoned its stem cell division including its highly-touted research into an embryonic stem cell treatment for spinal cord injuries.

The three patients in the University of Zurich trials had suffered complete injury to the thoracic - or chest-level spinal cord, which left each them with no function or feeling below the injury.

Four to nine months after their injuries, scientists at the University of Zurich transplanted 20 million stem cells into each patient's spinal column at the point of injury.

Six months after treatment, two of the patients can feel heat, electrical and touch stimuli below the location of the injury, according to results presented by researchers this week at the 51st annual International Spinal Cord Society meeting in London.

The reappearance of sensation was deemed rather unexpected by Dr. Armin Curt, principal investigator for the clinical trial at the Spinal Cord Injury Center at Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich.

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