Last week I met a couple from Texas who had come to Bangkok as their last hope of getting help for heart failure. The patient (the husband) had exhausted all avenues of help in the U.S. and had been told to go home and await the inevitable. During the past few years he had steadily declined in health and had spent a small fortune on a cocktail of medications. He arrived in a wheelchair, tired, very ill and exhausted.

In a simple procedure his cardiothoracic surgeon here (who, incidentally, has spent many years working in the U.S.) withdrew about half a pint of the patients own blood which was taken to a lab where the therapeutic stem cells were isolated and multiplied many times. These were returned to his body by direct injection into his heart muscle.

The patient had been told that it may take up to six months before he joined the 75+ percent who felt considerable benefit after adult stem cell therapy.

Just days later the man got out of his wheelchair and walked without effort and without experiencing any shortness of breath. He was sleeping better and had no angina. His wife, with tears in her eyes, called it a miracle. Yes, it is. The body has a remarkable capacity to heal itself - regenerative medicine is just now finding out how. He joins the hundreds who havebeen treated in Bangkok for heart failure, cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure and who have gained a new lease on life. Good luck to him.

Jon