The story of how James Eilert had his heart muscle repaired after Vescell stem cell treatment is becoming widely known on the internet . Therefore, I wanted to update his story to check up on James and see how he is doing.In this new stem cell treatment story, we cover James on how he was before coming to Bangkok for the Vescell therapy in November 2007:The heart damage left James fatigued,

I am happy to say that Vescell Adult Stem Cell treatment for heart disease has been prominently featured in a new article in Forbes Magazine. The entire article featured different stem cell companies around the world and how patients from the United States traveled to these stem cell treatment centers through "Medical Tourism" to find help for their particular disease. Here is the section from

Reverend Mike Rumble, the Dilated Cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure patient who improved his heart function and quality of life after the Vescell Adult Stem Cell therapy, is now celebrating his "1 Year Stem Cell Treatment Anniversary." We last featured Mike in March showing that his ejection fraction had gone up from 10% before the stem cell treatment to 30% after the Adult Stem Cells

Last week, we at Theravitae received the sad news that David Foege, a member of Theravitae's Board of Directors passed away at the age of 63. David was not only a member of our board, he was one of our heart disease patients coming for Vescell stem cell therapy 3 times. In fact, that is the reason he was chosen to be a member of the board- he represented the patient's voice. He swore each

The American Stem Cell Therapy Association has been formed in response to the FDA's position that a patient's own Adult Stem Cells are drugs. The group has been formed by US doctors who believe that standards and regulations should be applied by responsible doctors rather than the FDA. The goal of this group is to bring the use of a patient's own stem cells (proven safe in hundreds of studies)

Reverend Mike Rumble, a dilated cardiomyopathy patient with congestive heart failure from Florida who was treated by VesCell adult stem cells is reporting more improvement in his ejection fraction in his latest test results. I first featured Mike in December, 2008. His ejection fraction had gone up from 10% before VesCell stem cell therapy to 25% approximately 7-8 months after the stem cell

The story about the young boy from Israel who was suffering from Ataxia and had fetal stem cells implanted into him at a stem cell facility in Russia has made the headlines recently so I wanted to touch on that. First, let me summarize the story (you can find it here). The boy was suffering from ataxia-telangiectasia, a rare incurable disease that affects 3 in 1,000,000 people. It also normally

Robert Pleva, a 60 year old electrician from Florida is back to work full time after being treated with VesCell adult stem cells for his congestive heart failure. Pleva had been facing a heart transplant due to heart damage suffered in a 1999 heart attack. Luckily, Pleva found Dr. Zannos Grekos of Regenocyte, a stem cell treatment company using VesCell stem cell technology from Theravitae to

Today, I have a published medical article from the Winter 2008 edition of Anti-Aging Medical News. Dr. Zannos Grekos M.D. of Regenocyte has published his results from treating Ischemic Cardiomyopathy patients using VesCell Adult Stem Cells.In this article (see below), Dr. Grekos took 16 heart disease patients with an Ejection fraction of less than 45% and New York Heart Failure class of II or

One of the most frequent questions we get asked here about our overseas treatment is "Does VesCell Adult Stem Cell therapy work for patients with Heart Disease?"We have hundreds of patients who have gone through the "Vescell" experience and have a better quality of life to show for it. I sincerely believe they would answer "yes" to that question.Congestive Heart Failure and Coronary Artery

Dr. Zannos Grekos, a cardiologist who uses VesCell Adult Stem Cells to treat his heart disease patients, was a featured speaker at the 16th Annual World Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine & Regenerative Biomedical Technologies in Las Vegas that ran from December 11th-14th. He presented clinical data showing that Vescell Stem Cell therapy definitely helps patients with congestive heart failure.Dr.

My last post was on Leonard Narracci, a Dilated Cardiomyopathy patient from Florida who was helped by VesCell Adult Stem Cell treatment. This post, I have a Dilated Cardiomyopathy patient from Florida, but this time his name is Reverend Mike Rumble from Boyton Beach, Florida. Reverend Mike, who was a volunteer chaplain, counseling patients at his local hospital, had been suffering from Dilated

My last post was about Karl Wagner and how VesCell Stem Cell therapy is now being used to help Pulmonary Hypertension patients. This post, I present another patient helped by VesCell Adult Stem Cells, but this time it is for Dilated Cardiomyopathy.Leonard Narracci saw the story of Karl Wagner treated for Pulmonary Hypertension with Vescell on the Adult Stem Cell research blog and apparently he

Dr. Leonel Fernandez Liriano, Professor of Medicine at Pontifical Catholic University School of Medicine (PCUSM) and Dr. Zannos Grekos announced they have the 9 month follow up results of the first patient treated with VesCell Adult Stem Cell therapy for Pulmonary Hypertension.The first patient, Karl Wagner, underwent the procedure in February, 2008. Since that time, his Pulmonary Artery Mean

We at Theravitae would like to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving. This is a very special holiday and it reminds us of the things we do have and can be thankful for. These days it is easy to focus on the gloom and doom, but it is much harder to think about the joy and hope we already have in our lives. So on this day, we can reflect on those things that make us happy and that we can be

While many of you are aware that many times heart disease (particularly congestive heart failure) leads to depression in heart patients, a study just showed that this depression likely leads to even worse heart trouble- showing another way that heart disease is indeed part of a vicious cycle. A just released published study in the Journal of American Medical Association showed that researchers

Surgeons in Houston at The Methodist Hospital announced they were the first in the United States to inject Adult Stem Cells directly into the heart of patients "providing an intense, direct hit on damaged tissue." From the press releaseIn an investigational study of new heart failure treatments, this promising new technique may be more effective in regenerating healthy heart tissue than current

Let me explain that as I know the title can be confusing. Claudia Castillo, a woman in Barcelona was suffering from Tuberculosis. The tuberculosis had made the tube connecting her windpipe (trachea)to collapse and it was slowly sinking into her lung. She was facing the removal of her lung. The trachea needed to be replaced.What to do? Grow a new trachea of course! Claudia has become the

Although Breast Cancer always rules the women's health spotlight in the media, women are much more likely to die of heart disease than breast cancer. What people typically aren't aware of is that twice as many women die from heart disease than die from all cancers combined! In Ireland, a survey of almost 1000 people were done. The results said that most men and women thought that breast cancer

The University of Wisconsin just put out a press release celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Dr. James Thompson's published paper titled "Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Blastocysts" which according to the press release "rocked biology - and the world - as the all-purpose stem cell and its possibilities were ushered into the limelight." The feat was hailed as a remarkable