Families Finding Hope in China

Many people are traveling to China’s top tier cities, not for business or vacation, but to receive medical treatments unavailable in their home countries, such as stem cell therapies.
By: Sarah Kelly
 
Jan. 4, 2012 - PRLog -- Many people are traveling to China’s top tier cities, not for business or vacation, but to receive medical treatments unavailable in their home countries. Adult stem cells and umbilical cord lining stem cells have helped many patients with “incurable” cancers, autoimmune disorders, neurological conditions and congenital defects to significantly improve their quality of life, if not recover completely.

Seeing the Light
“It has changed our life” That is the comment of the parents of 8 year old Jordan, a boy with Optic Nerve Atrophy. His parents travelled from their home country to Shanghai after hearing many positive experiences from patients who had received stem cell treatments. The treatment was performed by doctors at the Life Stem Cell Treatment Center in Shanghai.

Before treatment Jordan was blind even to light and dark, and had to feel his way along walls in order to walk. Within 3 weeks after receiving stem cell therapy, Jordan was running outside in the gardens at the Treatment Center. Watching him, his mother said “It’s the first time I’ve seen him do that!”

Director of the International Patient Liaison said that “Those are great moments. Even small improvements in a patient’s condition can make a big difference in their quality of life.” Apart from walking the patient through the medical process, the Patient Liaison at Life Stem Cell takes care of the patient and family from the moment they step off the plane, arranging accommodation, transportation, and sightseeing. “Many guests are surprised at how modern and comfortable it is here, and notice that the hospital facilities are better than those in their own country.”

Breathing Easy
Ana, an 18 year old girl, recently made the trip from her native Spain to Shanghai to receive adult stem cell treatment for her chronic asthma and allergies. Since she was 2 years old she has suffered, taking allergy medication regularly and needing to use a ventolin inhaler several times a day. She could not run or participate in sports activities, even with the help of an inhaler.

The day after Ana’s first treatment using her own stem cells, she did not require any use of allergy medication or ventolin. A few weeks later she remarked that “I still haven’t used my inhaler and I feel like I finally know what it’s like to breathe!”

Alert to Change
Doctors are also looking to stem cells to improve their own family’s life. One medical doctor from the USA brought her 8 year Autistic son to Shanghai’s Life Stem Cell Treatment Center. After the first stem cell treatment she reported that “His teachers have already noticed a difference. He is more alert and more sociable. I look forward to seeing how he progresses after his next treatment.”

Why China?
China has been very supportive of the research and application of stem cells. This has attracted many native-Chinese scientists and physicians who trained in and established careers in North America and Europe to return to China.

Apart from the wealth of international stem cell knowledge and experience available in China, many people are also attracted by the infrastructure of China’s top cities. Says a Life Stem Cell representative “Thanks to the recent Olympics and World Expo, Shanghai is a very easy city for foreigners to visit. The 5 star hotels, excellent international airport and abundance of English signage make it very welcoming. It is a city rich in culture. Due to its political stability, economic power and safety, China will soon overtake Thailand as a top medical destination in Asia.”

The team of board-certified physicians and scientists comes from China, USA, Switzerland and Korea and are graduates and researchers of the world’s leading academic institutions such as Harvard, Stanford, Fudan, Cambridge and Oxford universities. Their headquarters are located in Shanghai, with stem cell laboratories and GMP manufacturing and cell banking facilities in Shanghai and Wuxi. Due to overwhelming demand from local Chinese and foreign patients, they have begun construction on a treatment center in Beijing as well, set to open in Q2 2012.

Life Stem Cell President states that “We have selected China as the best place to develop our stem cell lines and treatment centers. Although China regulations do not require it, we are currently the only biotechnology company in China that strictly adheres to a US FDA standard of collection, processing and clinical application of stem cells. We need to, in order to continue to be a leader in safety & efficacy, giving our patients the standard of medical excellence that anyone living in North America or the European community would expect.”

Visit http://www.lifestemcellgroup.com/our-advantage/unique-pro... for disease treatment details

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Life Stem Cell is a specialty biopharmaceutical company based in China, focused on developing, manufacturing and distributing stem cell products to treat neurodegenerative and other diseases.
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