A supposedly revolutionary new treatment for heart attacks that uses stem cell therapy to heal damaged areas of the heart is not as effective as earlier reports had suggested, according to a new study. Researchers hoped that the treatment might help the heart repair damaged tissue, a goal that medicine has never been able to attain. The research, which was led by Dr. Albert Schömig of the German Heart Institute in Munich, found little evidence to back the thesis. Critics say other approaches could validate the theory.
- see this article from the New York Times