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By Julie Stachowiak, Ph.D., About.com Guide to Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis Treatment in Baghdad

Friday June 19, 2009
Dr. Abdul Majeed Hammadi is using a state of the art stem cell treatment in the midst of Baghdad. His treatment uses stem cells and he has performed it on 34 patients (most of whom have multiple sclerosis). The treatment uses adult stem cells and is funded by the Iraqi government.

Read the full article from Stars and Stripes.

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Comments
June 19, 2009 at 8:21 am
(1) Angel Negron Jr says:

Trying too hard to not blindly believe in stem cells, but too much evidence has been starting to pop up everywhere, (even in the States) regarding being able to successfully treat, if not cure, diseases like MS with them.

Here’s hoping.

June 19, 2009 at 9:44 pm
(2) Penny says:

My certainty in this science as the answer to MS (and so many other dreaded illnesses) is only surpassed by my cynicism about the length of time it will take the US medical establishment to allow such miracles to flourish in America.

The “industrial medical complex” will not like unleashing the cure to all the maladies that keeps the pockets of doctors and insurance companies flush with profits. As long as the profit motive remains paramount in the healthcare policy of this country, we will be left to suffer at the hands of “super” capitalists who are only in it for maximum profit.

Waiting for this science to come to us will mean a long wait – maybe too long for some of us. It’s going to take some activism to create some pressure for that to change, and it could start with us. Contact your elected representatives and tell them we need a single-payer healthcare system in America (it’s NOT “socialism”), or at the very minimum, the creation of a public policy option. It’s the only way to control the power of out-of-control capitalists holding life-altering treatment’s just “out of reach” for decades longer than they need be,

June 20, 2009 at 10:26 am
(3) monica says:

it makes me mad, when u get these ms society saying that people that can help people with ms with stem cel, we shouldnt get our hopes up, dam thats all we have. i think im speaking 4 a lot of ms people we here in australia and around the world hope 1 day we can do a lot of things. but i know the ms society dont wanty 2 now because they be out of work and the nuros and pharmacies would be 2. so let us all wiuth ms hiold out heads high and make up our own minds dont lstern 2 people tjhat dont have ms and woulsdnt have a clue what we go though everyday? all the best monica downunder.

June 21, 2009 at 9:14 am
(4) Stefan says:

The MS has many variables and stem cells are of a great promise to those who have their axons severed.
A few days ago, I stumbled across this site http://www.myelinrepair.org/, which is more promising than any other research, I have seen so far. This is different because the individual is part of our MS Family. He has no corrupt intentions. They should publish their findings this summer. It takes a long time to do the research. Especially, for those who are not in the inner circle of the power and money grid….However,
if we all us just picked one MS marker and followed it to wherever it takes us we would not need to complain about the profit oriented industry or in many cases ignorant research academics who play politics with real lives and in most cases are selling their souls in the name of the tenure or a Nobel prize…

June 21, 2009 at 2:30 pm
(5) Penny says:

“The system for funding and conducting medical research and translating that research into patient treatments is broken.”

http://www.myelinrepair.org/research_model/

Thanks, Stefan. The MRF has done an excellent job of outlining the current gapping disconnect between science and industry, and what needs to happen to translate “science” into real therapies that reach real people who desperately need them much more quickly. (The “40-year gap” example was both “priceless” and frightening.)

We all need to study, understand the problem thoroughly, and work within our own spheres of influence to help insure the paradigm changes, and that patient health and quality of life emerges as a cultural and ethical “priority” – somewhere above “corporate profits” or some academic’s “personal reputation.”

June 24, 2009 at 12:10 am
(6) brady says:

much promise here

June 24, 2009 at 6:00 pm
(7) cmdrleaf says:

The key is they are using adult stem cells which have great potential for the future. I see how far treatment has come since the 60’s when my mother was diagnosed with MS. There was nothing and no hope. I was diagnosed in 1996 and feel blessed with all the research and treatment now available. The future has even more hope than ever.

July 2, 2009 at 4:48 pm
(8) Dave says:

Go to Iraq for treatment; In that HEAT? :) Ouch!

July 29, 2009 at 3:56 pm
(9) David Taylor says:

All looks to be the same as the LDN story. LDN stops MS getting worse so drug funded charities rubbish that. Stem cells get you better so the drug funded charities rubbish that. Thank god for the Internet.

October 1, 2009 at 2:01 pm
(10) abdulmajeed hammadi says:

we can do the procedure in lebonan if you can come
dr majeed hammadi

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