In a bid to change his life through controversial stem cell treatment, a paraplegic man will travel 5,000 miles to the other side of the world.

After a terrible high speed driving accident in 2002, Christopher, the rally racing father of two, was robbed of the use of both legs.

But he is now on a journey to China for stem cell treatment, with the hope of regaining the capability to walk. The treatment is not available anywhere in the UK and Christopher will be paying

Bill was running out of time. He owned 126 different timepieces, he was in a sense, a time collector. But ironically enough, he was losing the very thing he spent his life trying to gather.

Bill only had a year to live according to his cardiologist. That was 7 months ago. His 77-year-old body had been through enough after he suffered damaged tissues and blood vessels in three-quarters of his heart due to three separate heart attacks over the past 15 years. The damage was supposedly irreversible.

“My heart looked like a moon just coming up over the horizon,” he said. “Most of my heart was dead.”

Performing even the most uncomplicated tasks became almost impossible because breathing became so difficult for Bill.

“Going to the barn or even across a room was so hard I had to sit down,” he said. “I couldn’t think real good and I was so weak.”

Then one day, Bill

Passing a bill to allocate more money for stem cell research is again on the table at the U.S. Congress. But it

When you hear about an award-winning body builder, a mini-marathon winner, and an intramural basketball player, an image of an out standing athlete comes to mind. But how about an outstanding athlete who cannot walk? The 20-year-old Jeff, can claim all of the aforementioned accolades, but there is just one thing; his legs are paralyzed. Now, he is as mentally and physically strong as ever after a car accident left him without the use of his legs two years ago. Jeff plans to attend medical school and become a radiologist. He is currently a sophomore at Ball State University and is majoring in chemistry and exercise science.

“I really don’t want to die like this.” – Jeff

In order to meet his curfew, Jeff left his friends house at midnight on May 21st, 2005. He had about 10 minutes to get back to his parents home in Selma, and his friend lived near the YMCA in Northwest Muncie. He drove in the middle of the narrow back roads, something he did on most nights. The drive home was always uneventful, but not this time. Jeff saw another car coming from the opposite direction as he reached the peak of a hill.

“I swerved off the road to the right and then tried to correct to get back on the road, but I over-corrected and it sent my car over off to the other side into some trees,” he said.

With his car stopped, his cell phone had fallen to the passenger side floor. As Jeff reached over for it so he could call for help, he realized that he couldn

A chance to regenerate healthy liver tissue using adult stem cells could help patients in the future thanks to new research.

The latest issue of Radiology has highlighted the achievement of a team of German scientists who used adult bone marrow stem cells to regenerate human liver tissue.

For the sake of improving recovery, the findings could be crucial say the researchers from Heinrich-Heine University in Dusseldorf.

The procedure could facilitate surgery to remove any cancerous growth that previously would have been impossible if the cells can indeed enable patients to grow more healthy cells in the liver.

“Our study suggests that liver stem cells harvested from the patient’s own bone marrow can further augment and accelerate the liver’s natural capacity to regenerate itself,” explained radiology professor, Gunther F

Embryonic stem-cell use is morally unacceptable, while adult stem-cell use is acceptable and is saving lives now. The was the messages that was crystal clear after reading 12-year-old Erik

University of Wisconsin basketball games make Steve pop nitroglycerin tablets to relieve his chest pain. He is such a huge fan, that the games cause his angina to flare up, and each missed basket or lost possession is painful for him to watch; literally.

“A good basketball game is a three-nitro game for me,” said Steve, 68.

His doctors however, haven

Amber had to take every single available test during her first pregnancy because her husband was so worried, tests that mothers her age should never even worry about.

When their daughter Emma was born, they learned that her umbilical cord blood could be preserved and used later to treat diseases that are every parent