News and media about our research and other web resources for stem cells.

November 15, 2011
Stem cells give new hope to heart attack survivors
"There is promising news for people at risk of heart failure after US researchers found stem cell therapy in humans has been surprisingly successful in replacing damaged muscle and getting the heart to pump better." ABC reports on the groundbreaking research work of Dr. Emerson Perin and others.

"The Current State of Stem Cell Research"
July 2011 video of Dr. Guilherme Silva on Eddy Warman TV (Mexico).

May 5, 2010 
$1.5 million NIH grant awarded for study of adult stem cells and heart assist devices as combined therapy for heart failure.

April 22, 2010 
Research findings could help improve stem-cell treatments for damaged hearts.

November 10, 2009 
$1M in Stimulus Funds Awarded to Rice University, THI for MRI Tracking of Stem Cells

THI Continues at the Forefront of Stem Cell Therapy
Heart Watch article, Spring 2009, page 1

Dr. James T. Willerson Shares Medical Expertise About Stem Cell Therapy
News of Note article April 7, 2009

First in the World Treatment of Patient after a Heart Attack with a Special Stem Cell Type 
Text and video news release, April 7, 2008

National Institutes of Health Selects THI for Stem Cell Study Consortium
News release, March 19, 2007

On Other Websites 

"Rebuilding the Heart" is a 12-minute video from the PBS State of Tomorrow series featuring physicians at the Texas Heart Institute and their patients who are enrolled in clinical trials of stem cell therapy to treat heart failure. Drs. James Willerson, Emerson Perin, and Edward Yeh are interviewed. (November 2007)

Discover: September 2005 “Can Stem Cells Save dying Hearts?” Vol. 26 No. 09
discovermagazine.com/2005/sep/stem-cells-save-dying-hearts

PBS
www.pbs.org/news hour/bb/health/july-dec04/stemcell_7-14.html

Wired News
www.wired.com/news/medtech/0, 1286,58295,00.html

San Francisco Chronicle Online
www.s fgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/25/MNGTKDF1LI1.DTL

Science News Online
www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/4459/title/
Rebuilding_the_Heart_Marrow_cells_boost_cardiac_recovery

Genome News Network
www.genomen ewsnetwork.org/articles/2004/04/16/stem_cell_trial.php

Cardiology Online
www.cardiolog yonline.com/journal_articles/Bone_marrow_cells.htm

Other Web Resources

The National Institutes of Health resource for stem cell research
http://stemcells.nih.gov/index.asp

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Updated November 2011