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New procedure for healing bone fractures

Discussion in 'Science & Technology' started by Miamian, Nov 20, 2009.

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Jerusalem, Israel

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1258624597066&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

A team at Jerusalem's Hadassah University Medical Center has managed for the first time in the world to separate platelets and adult stem cells from the blood and bone marrow of patients with fractures and inject them - causing the bones to meld in a quarter to third of the time it usually takes to repair bones, and repairing some breaks that without the therapy would fail to heal at all.
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