Hard on the heels of
successful work on dogs we have here a review of the rapid progress underway in
China. The key point is that damage is
been healed now. It is also abundantly clear
that there is now serious momentum and full protocol resolution is essentially
at hand. Sooner than later, the wheel
chair will become a thing of the past for most victims.
It is now clearly inside
five years and it will be a triumph. Expect
governments to press ahead to support the resolution of all available medical
cases simply because this is a huge drain on government revenues. Everyone wants these folks up and active.
I have waited a long
time to see this day and what continues to be extremely welcome is the force multiplier
we are getting from China.
Spinal Cord injury
therapies and medical situation in China
JULY
11, 2013
China
will probably have 1 million people with spinal cord injury in 2020 (80,000 per
year). One third of the spinal cord injury people in the world. The US has
about 10,000 spinal cord injury patients per year.
Wise Young, MD, PhD Professor and Chair, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University Director, W.M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience Presents a talk at the March 2008 Spinal Cord Workshop: "Spinal Cord Injury: What are the barriers to cure?"
Yes this article has two long videos, but they are very interesting. Telling about procedures that are restoring mobility to full spinal cord injuries and to get past the myths about the state of medicine in China.
Chinese surgeons typically have ten times the experience of american surgeons.
Chinese
orthopedic surgeons can handle bone surgery and inject stem cells.
Spinal
cord procedures with stem cells need to have bone surgeons with stem cell and
nerve surgery all in one or at least a very tight working teams.
The
US has a strict split between bone versus neural surgeons.
China
has a lot of very well funded hospitals with the latest equipment (bought with
the trade surplus.)
China has shifted from government funded medicine to cash only to insurance with 50% copay.
China
in 2004 clamped down on clinical trials and has the most strict regulations on
it now.
They
executed some doctors who did not follow the rules. Now doctors are very
careful and precisely follow the rules.
Wise Young at the 2012 Spinal cord workshop
Wise Young, MD, PhD
Founding Director, W. M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience
Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Richard H. Shindell Chair in Neuroscience
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Talk title: Umbilical cord blood and lithium treatment of chronic spinal cord injury
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