July 7, 201115 yr comment_40034 A 36-year-old man who had tracheal cancer has received a new lab-made windpipe seeded with his own stem cells in a procedure in Sweden they call the first successful attempt of its kind, officials said Thursday.The Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm said the surgery was performed June 9, and that the patient is on his way to a "full recovery." He will be released from a hospital Friday. Dr. Paolo Macchiarini says the first synthetic tissue engineered windpipe that has been successfully transplanted.Read the resthttp://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2011/07/07/windpipe-transplant-stem-cell.html Report
July 8, 201115 yr comment_40062 Nice. Cool to see progress being made and people being helped. Report
July 9, 201115 yr comment_40123 It's a shame they won't allow us to do things like this in the statesBut yay medical advances! Report
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