The hype makes one gasp and stretch one's eyes!

Every day of every week someone, somewhere announces yet another breakthrough. Proponents of embryonic stem cells hold their breath waiting for the cure for Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinsonism. Okay, it's only nine years since embryonic stem cells have been kept alive long enough to study. However, they get all the funding and have produced not one human trial or cure. All they have done to date is produce tumors in rodents. Great hype - lousy results.
By contrast, there are hundreds of trials under way in various countries treating patients with over 70 diseases using adult stem cells. Here the hype at least bears some relationship with humans who are, or were, suffering what medicine has not so far been able to cure.Hundreds of people are playing golf, walking, running, scuba diving etc etc - or simply being able to bend and lift to hug a grandchild. These people ought to be dead, but instead have a new lease on life after a safe and non-invasive (or minimally invasive) procedure whereby their own adult stem cells were harvested and injected into their failing heart. Others have found new mobility and far less pain from relief of claudication associated with peripheral artery disease. The list goes on,and on. How much research money do these researchers and developers get compared with the embryonic lobby?
Please let us listen to the patients who have dramatically improved. If they sound like crusaders I guess it's because they feel so much better, more energetic and more mobile.Their hype is based on measurable improvements NOW and not at some fanciful future time. They have guts to try something still experimental but the results speak for themselves. Good on them!