A re-energized Max convinces vet-owner that stem cell therapy is option for relieving pain

Dr. Pat McInteer wasn’t quite sure what to expect when he performed his first stem cell treatment on his longtime companion, Max, a 13-year-old chocolate Labrador retriever.

Nine weeks later, the rural Lincoln veterinarian is pleased. And his veterinarian wife, Dr. Kelly Stich, notices that the once-arthritic and lethargic dog seems to be getting in her way -- a lot...Read Full Story

Veterinarian Performs Stem Cell Transplant On Golden Retriever

Veterinary doctors at AV Animal Emergency and Critical Care in Antelope Valley have performed an unprecedented double in-clinic stem cell therapy procedure on a pair of canines. Dr. Balpal Sandhu performed the regenerative stem cell therapy Thursday on a Golden Retriever named Granola and a...Read Full Story

Stem cell treatment helping local pets

Stem-cell therapy is an exciting new way to potentially battle diseases such as cancer and diabetes. For humans, the technology is still mostly in the experimental phase. For pets, though, the future is here already.

A handful of Hawaii veterinarians have embraced stem-cell therapy, easing the aches and pains of dozens of aging dogs and cats over the past...Read Full Story

Amazing Pet Stem Cell Results

I have a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in biophysics and I worked for more than 20 years on the human side of health care. I worked for Bristol-Myers Squibb (a global biopharmaceutical company that specializes in discovering, developing and delivering innovative medicines) and Dendreon Corporation (a biotechnology company focused on novel cell-based therapeutics for cancer). A year ago, I started taking my more than 20 years of human health care experience and bringing it to animals. My background is in laboratory science, cells and biologics. I’m with MediVet, and we provide ...Read Full Story

A couple of years ago, Brad Perry's dogs started having joint problems. Cowboy, the golden retriever, developed a severe case of arthritis, while Mr. Jones, the mutt, tore the ligaments in both of his knees during some overenthusiastic play.

"It was so sad. They wouldn't even come to the door to greet me they were in so much pain. It just broke my heart," recalled Perry, a tractor-trailer driver from Alexandria, Ky ...Read Full Story

Local animal hospital leads way in stem cell procedure

CHUBBUCK, Idaho -
One local animal hospital performed southeast Idaho's first stem cell procedure Monday.

For the first time, the Alpine Animal Hospital in Chubbuck helped two animals ease their arthritis pain using a procedure that takes stem cells from the animals' own fat tissue.

Karen Vargas noticed her 9-year old dog, Sadie, growing older and more effected by arthritis in her joints.

“She has arthritis in her front paws and her front legs and so I thought this is a wonderful time to have it done,” ...Read Full Story

Veterinarians run stem cell trial on horses

Veterinarians in Wichita conducted the first phase of a stem cell trial today in Wichita. Their goal is to treat laminitis, a disease in horses hoofs. They will do this using stem cells taken from the horses using liposuction. Laminitis is painful and even crippling for horses ...Read Full Story

Man's best friend — his first stem cell patient, too

Age is catching up with Max.

Arthritis in his hips and knees makes it painful — and difficult — for him to get around the Hillcrest Animal Clinic and grounds.
The 13-year-old chocolate Labrador retriever has the heart, blood and soul of a youngster, but unfortunately, the joints and bones of a senior citizen...Read Full Story

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STEM CELL THERAPY PROVING VIABLE ALTERNATIVE FOR PETS WITH DEGENERATIVE
CONDITIONS

The team members at Branchburg Animal Hospital greeted Auggie, a 9-year-old beagle, and Sonny, a 10½-year-old Duck Tolling Retriever, warmly as they released them from their cages for a last-minute walk before prepping them for their procedures ...Read Full Story

Stem Cell Therapy for your Pet

Stem cell research can be a controversial topic, but one type of treatment in idaho uses an animal's own fat cells to help regenerate tissue. According to veterinarians, this therapy can be extremely helpful to animals suffering from a variety of ailments.

Summer Joy stopped by alpine animal hospital in chubbuck to find out the details

Salina kangaroo undergoes stem cell therapy

Emerald is a six-year old Red Kangaroo and like most kangaroos, Emerald likes to hop.

Unfortunately, last December she aggravated an old injury in her hock, which is the equivalent to a person's ankle. ...Read Full Story

Stem cells help arthritic animals

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT)-- A new stem cell therapy helps animals with arthritis and could be the answer for humans with more research. The stem sells are harvested from the animal's adipose (fat) tissue. MediVet America is just one of the many companies that does this stem cell therapy and explains how they do it.
"Adult stem cells are highly concentrated ...Read Full Story

New stem cell therapy for pets making life better for some dogs

A new type of stem cell therapy is benefiting some four-legged friends in East Tennessee. So far, Village Veterinary Medical Center in Knoxville has operated on three pet patients.
In this procedure, vets harvest stem cells from the fat of the animal that needs the therapy. Once the cells are processed, they're injected back in to the animal. Right now, this therapy is used for animals with arthritic or orthopedic injuries...Read Full Story

New Procedure Gives Race Horses A Second Chance

For a champion race horse, a fractured tendon is typically a devastating and career-ending injury. But a cutting-edge procedure is now available that could possibly get him and other horses back out on the track.

It's called Regenerative Stem Cell Therapy and for horses, it's a very new treatment option, only practiced since 2011.

One Missouri couple traveled six hours to Wichita....Read Full Story

Dog Receives Stem Cell Treatment For Ailment

A Nicholasville veterinary clinic performed a treatment to help a service dog Wednesday...involving stem cells.
MediVet America performed the procedure--called Adipose-Derived Stem Cell Therapy--to treat Booster, a service dog.
But it's not stem cell therapy in the way people might think of--vets take fat from animals like Booster, separate the stem cells from....Read Full Story

Dog receives stem cell therapy for arthritis problems

BIRMINGHAM - AL - If Gus could talk...he'd have something to tell you.
He's a farm dog. His age is unknown. He lives in Irondale. Last September, though, he wound up in Dora, which is about an hour away.
"How he ended up in that landfill, we have no earthly idea," Dr. Barbara Monaghan said.
But that was the least of his worries. His journey led to multiple broken bones....Read Full Story

Greenwood animal hospital offering new stem cell therapy for joint issues

Lakelands animal lovers can now treat their aging pets to a cuttingedge medical therapy similar to that of such celebrity athletes as Kobe Bryant and Peyton Manning.
That's because Chinquapin Animal Hospital began performing stem cell therapy this week. The clinic, at 123 Old Abbeville Highway, America...Read Full Story

Canine cop receives stem cell treatment in Wyoming

Blitz is an emphatic and petite Labrador with more than four years on the Sweetwater County force. Instead of a badge, she has a sheriff's collar. Instead of a gun, she has a nose that can smell what humans can't: concealed drugs. She's trained to seek the four flavors: heroin, cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine. Blitz is great at finding the vacuum-sealed and hidden contraband that's so hard for law enforcement to uncover ...Read Full Story

Canine cop receives stem cell treatment in Wyoming

Blitz is an emphatic and petite Labrador with more than four years on the Sweetwater County force. Instead of a badge, she has a sheriff's collar. Instead of a gun, she has a nose that can smell what humans can't: concealed drugs ...Read Full Story

Stem-cell therapy helps dogs get years back
Treatment revolutionizing veterinary medicine

DeNiro jumped though the open door into
the backseat of a Ford Explorer parked in
the lot of Packerland Veterinary Center on
Monday, three months after undergoing
stem cell therapy to ...Read Full Story

Stem Cell Therapy Treats Pets

Green Bay - You hear about people getting stem cell therapy for various
ailments. Now it's even available for your pet.
A Northeast Wisconsin veterinary center is the first in the state to offer it. It's not cheap, but we found pet owners feel the results outweigh the cost.
Eleven-year-old DeNiro is about to do something he couldn't do when he was ten. ...Read Full Story

New stem cell treatment for dogs

GREEN BAY - Statistics show Americans spend almost $51 billion on their pets every year.
A new stem cell treatment for dogs is providing relief for pets and their owners, and now it's being done here in the Green Bay area.
It's designed to treat problems like hip dysplasia and
arthritis. ...Read Full Story

New Procedure Saves Dogs Lives

GREEN BAY, WI--A breakthrough in veterinary medicine In Green Bay. Two dogs recover amazingly well after receiving stem cell transplants at Packerland Veterinary Center two months ago. They are the first vet clinic in Wisconsin to perform the procedure.
It's a story that gives hope to pet owners all over the country. Stem cells are taken out of the dog's fatty tissue, harvested, then injected into...Read Full Story

In recent years, Kumba, a 13-year-old rottweiler mix, and
beloved pet, had been living a life in pain.
"Kumba had a lot of problems with his back legs; both his
hips and his knees were affected by really severe arthritis and
he was having a hard time getting up and down and his
quality of life was really being affected," said Dr. Cristina
Miliaresis, who is a veterinarian at Surf Paws Veterinary
Hospital in Hawaii Kai....Read Full Story

First dog on Oahu to get stem cell therapy

A 13-year-old dog who was barely able to walk is back on his paws thanks to stem cell therapy.
Before the treatment Kumba suffered from arthritis so bad he could barely get off the floor.
Two months later his owners say Kumba is like a new dog. ...Read Full Story

Powerful weapon available to help fight
joint inflammation disease

Veterinarians believe that approximately 60% of lameness issues in horses can be traced to osteoarthritis. Many people hear "arthritis" and think it's limited to older animals, but osteoarthritis is also found in young horses. Heavy athletic use contributes to osteoarthritis, as can aging, and in racehorses, problems commonly show up in the knee and fetlock joints. ...Read Full Story

Cutting-edge surgery

Murphy – Three dogs suffering from injuries that make it painful for them to walk were the first in Cherokee County, as well as the region, to undergo in-clinic animal stem cell therapy on Aug. 6.
The surgery was done at Alpine Veterinary Hospital on U.S. 64 West. Dr. Carlton Van Horn performed the operation...Read Full Story

Arthritis a thing of the past? Stem cell treatments for pets mark new era in pain relief

For decades, older cats and dogs suffering from arthritis had few options aside from painkillers and anti-inflamatory medications. Pill therapies are costly, harmful to the liver and, at best, offer only minor relief for our beloved pets...Read Full Story

Animal Stem Cell Therapy

BYRON, MN--It's a dream for many in the medical field, to use a person's own stem cells to help them heal. And it's a reality already happening in our area.
But it's not humans who are being treated. In this case, dogs are the ones being treated.
Animal Stem Cell Regenerative Therapy has been performed a few thousand times now across the U.S. Doctors harvest stem cells and re-enter them where the animal is having problems...Read Full Story

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Bridgeville veterinarian gives dogs new lease on life

Published: Tuesday, June 12, 2012, 1:04 p.m.
Updated: Wednesday, June 13, 2012

"Wow, my dog's a puppy again,"
Gregg Stewart, president of Medivet Pittsburgh, says that's the reaction veterinarians most often hear...Read Full Story

In-house stem cell therapy plays emerging role in animal care

GREENSBORO - It's used to treat a broad range of ailments in humans and stem cell therapy also is showing growing promise in the treatment of animals. Doctors at University Animal Hospital have performed stem cell therapy in-house for less than a year but say the cutting edge treatment is producing remarkable results and restoring quality of life...Read Full Story

Green Bay veterinarians practice stem cell therapy

 Laura Heider, Katie Jones and Chanda Holschbach – all certified veterinary technicians – anesthetize DeNiro as part of a new strum cell therapy procure at Packerland Veterinary Center Monday. / Nathan Phelps/Press-Gazette

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Green Bay Press-Gazette

Certified veterinary technicians placed DeNiro on the table in the operating room at 11:15 a.m. Monday so Dr. Allen Dunbar could remove about 40 grams of fat from the dog.
The 9-year-old German shepherd was the first patient at Packerland Veterinary Center in Green Bay to undergo a new stem cell therapy to treat arthritis in his legs, spine and hips using adult stem cells culled from the removed fat.
The procedure, developed by Kentucky-based MediVet America, takes fat from the animal and separates out stems cells that are activated and then injected back into the animal to treat affected areas. Stem cells essentially are repair cells that can be used to rebuild cartilage or repair ligament damage, for example.
The stem cells are used in conjunction with platelet-rich plasma.
While joints were the focus of Monday's procedures, stem cell therapy has potential applications in other areas as well.
"Anywhere there is inflammation," said Dunbar, of Packerland Veterinary Center. "We're talking about renal disease, kidney issues, pancreatitis, liver disease. I really don't know where this is going to go, but the potential is exponential."
DeNiro's procedure was followed by Shadow, a 4-year-old German shepherd with hip dysphasia and a degenerative joint disease from a knee injury she had repaired several months ago.
Stem cell therapy is expected to show some results in the first few weeks with full outcomes known about six to 12 weeks later, Dunbar said. Stem cell treatment, on average, costs about $2,500.
For the owners of both DeNiro and Shadow, that cost was worth it for a shot at an improved quality of life for their pets, which, both said, are akin to family members.
"She's got such a big spirit and such a big heart, despite any pain she tries to keep up (with the family's other shepherd)," said Luther Kortbein of Cecil, Shadow's owner. "We hope to make her as pain-free as possible and let her express her spirit, run as best she can … and enhance her ability to enjoy life."
DeNiro's owner, Amy Noskowiak of De Pere, said she opted for the procedure to alleviate his pain and is optimistic about the potential outcome.
"I just want to see him run around again and to be able to go up and down stairs again without pain," she said. "He's a healthy dog besides the pain he is in."
Stem cells can be banked for use at a later time, if needed.
Animal Hospital of Howard is expected to do its first procedure today using the same Veterinary Stem Cell, Stem Cell Therapy for Pets, Adipose Stem Cell Therapy, Platelet Rich Plasma Horses, Adipose Stem Cell Treatment, Platelet Rich Plasma Dogs system.
Dr. Maureen Thornborrow, one of the practice owners, said technological advancements like those touted by stem cell treatment only come along once in a while, and if results match claims, it could open a new avenue of care available to pet owners.
"It's one more tool for our patients with chronic arthritis and long-term problems that we're starting to run out of options for," Thornborrow said. "Our clientele is getting to the point where they don't necessarily want to keep medicating, they want to fix these animals. Stem cell therapy is going to allow us an option to help them out over the long run."
The American Veterinary Medical Association said it supports the use of stem cell therapies that have been demonstrated to be safe for animals, but research is ongoing to determine effectiveness of treatment.
For Dunbar, stem cell therapy is an exciting proposition.
"If we can get to the root cause of some of the issues these animals are dealing with, then we can help them the best we possibly can," he said before the procedures Monday. "Quality of life is what we're looking for."

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Animal stem cell regenerative therapy is the newest service at the Animal Hospital of Tiffin.
"We are the official first site for the therapy in northwest Ohio," said veterinarian Bob McClung.
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The first veterinary hospital in Sebastian to perform in-house stem cell therapy has helped two dogs suffering from osteoarthritis.
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Cutting Edge Stem Cell Treatment in Boone

Many of us may be jealous of our dogs today, that after a new treatment was shown yesterday to use cutting edge medical technology to treat painful joint disorders such as arthritis—for your four-legged friend. The procedure was demonstrated by Dr. David Linzey of the Animal Emergency and Pet Care Clinic...Read Full Story

Stem Cell Therapy Helps Dog Recover

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A dog that became the first in the Kansas City area to undergo stem cell therapy is showing signs of recovery.
The 11-month-old dog made headlines and history two months ago when he became the first of his kind to undergo the first stem cell therapy treatment in the metro.
Before the procedure, Jake, a yellow Labrador suffering from arthritis, could barely walk.

Jake is now making strides in his health...Read Full Story

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Stem Cell Therapy Attracts Converts

It's easy to spot Brian Voynick, DVM, CVA, at a lecture
or conference–especially one of the holistic veterinary
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Vet Flies in for Stem Cell operation to save dying dog