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Stem Cell Research

A 28 year old mother is playing with her child when her left leg begins to tingle. She brushes it off as nothing to worry about. Within the next couple of days her vision gets very cloudy and blurry. After many tests at the doctor’s office, the diagnosis is found to be Multiple Sclerosis (M.S.). She is given a grim vision of her future in a wheel chair. For many weeks the mother was depressed, asking why me and what will happen to my children? The final question was what she can do for herself? Is there a way to help herself avoid or prolong this horrible disease? There were many articles to read and some shows to watch on different theories on how nutrition, drugs, chemo therapy, or stem cell therapy could help. After all the research was done, in her opinion the most promising treatment was from stem cell therapy. Scientists are discovering new and better ways to harvest stem cells today with out using human embryos. People deal everyday with the mental and physical effects of M.S. The biggest fear in this mother’s life is that one of her children will be diagnosed with M.S. She never knows when an attack will happen. Will the her legs or sight be the first to go? It is like living with a ticking bomb inside one’s self and there is no one who knows how to defuse it. The hope is to one day find a cure. With Stem Cell Research there is a possibility of finding a cure for M.S. and other diseases.
Stem cell research could be one of the biggest breakthroughs in medical history. Stem cell research has shown signs of finding treatments or cures for many diseases and may be the answer to correcting dying or malfunctioning organs. Many people are against stem cell research because they are uninformed about the new ways of harvesting stem cells. The main focus on stem cell harvesting should not be where and how they are obtained but how scientists are trying to save lives. Medical research has brought many exceptional improvements in one’s health...