Can Stem Cells Heal Damaged Hearts? No Easy Answers, But Some Signs Of Hope
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 - 21:28
in Health & Medicine
Recent studies indicate that infusing hearts with stem cells taken from bone marrow could improve cardiac function after myocardial infarction (tissue damage that results from a heart attack). But in a recent systematic review researchers concluded that more clinical trials are needed to assess the effectiveness of stem cell therapies for heart patients, as well as studies to establish how these treatments work.