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Oct 15 08 12:15 PM
Dear xxxxx :
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is a teaching and research institution not a clinic though we are associated with the UW Hospital and Clinics. Some of our researchers are clinicians but we have very little in the way of research that is ready for human clinical trials much less for therapies that might alleviate your suffering at this time. Existing stem-cell-related clinical trials at UW-Madison appear on our website, www.stemcells.wisc.edu, at http://www.stemcells.wisc.edu/patients/ -- at the moment these are in the blood and heart categories.
Please search for more clinical trials-- not limited to stem cells, of course, at: http://clinicaltrials.gov and http://www.clinicaltrials.wisc.edu/
Please talk to your doctor or a patient advocacy group for information on new clinical trials. As you know, only a licensed physician with the patient under his or her care should be recommending the person for a clinical trial or other therapy. A person's entire health profile must be considered, in addition to the disease in question, and only a licensed, qualified physician who is intimate with the patient's health should should determine what treatment, if any, is warranted and available.
For continuing national research progress information, write to the Foundation for Biomedical Research and ask if you can subscribe to the Total E-clips news service (click on "subscribe"). FBR keeps up to date with animal research progress, and animal research moving in clinical trials. Tell them we sent you (or just include this e-mail):
http://www.fbresearch.org/Journalists/EClips.htm
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, we cannot provide any medical advice to patients or their families, unless the patient is under the direct care of one of our doctors. I am sorry I don't have a more hopeful answer for you, but it is the best I can do at the moment and I hope I've given you some good resources.
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