European stem-cell ruling is misleading

Is Movember misleading men?

Movember is a global campaign that asks men to grow moustaches in the 11th month of the year, “with the aim of raising vital funds and awareness of men’s health issues.” The campaign launched in the United Kingdom in 2007 (http://uk. movember.com), with funds going to the Prostate Cancer Charity (now Prostate Cancer UK). In 2010 funds started going also to the Institute of Cancer Research to fu...

Is stem cell therapy proarrhythmic? Stem Cell Therapy Is Proarrhythmic

Stem cell therapy appears to be a promising modality for myocardial repair of both hearts that are post myocardial infarction (MI) and those with other forms of structural cardiac disease (eg, congestive heart failure). In fact, recent experimental and clinical work has suggested that stem cell therapy contributes to cardiac regeneration. Unfortunately at this time, we contend that stem cell th...

Autologous Stem Cell in CHF(When is more effective?) Intracoronary Administration of Autologous Bone Marrow Stem Cell in Chronic Heart Failure

Introduction: We aimed at evaluating the clinical, laboratory and echocardiography effects of intracoronary administration of autologous bone marrow stem cell transplantation in different clinical entities of chronic Heart Failure (HF) patients.   Methods: This procedure was carried out during an interventional study conducted in the Cardiology department from JAN 2012 to APR 2013. The HF ...

Electric vehicle footprint analysis is misleading.

Tension pneumothorax case report is misleading.

The problem with the recent case report 'Tension pneumothorax mimicking giant emphysematous bullae' 1 is that the patient clearly did not have a tension pneumothorax. He was not particularly unwell and had only a minimal mediastinal shift. A much greater mediastinal shift can be seen in non-tension pneumothorax. 2 The actual definition of tension pneumothorax is not generally agreed. The 2003 B...