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promise for lupus LONDON (AP) - New research bolsters the hope that doctors might one day be able to use bone marrow transplants to cure autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and lupus. A few people with autoimmune diseases - where the immune system goes awry and attacks the body - already have been injected with their own immature blood cells, called stem cells. The results have been promising, with some remaining in remission, but researchers have not tracked many people for very long. A preliminary study of seven people very sick with systemic lupus, reported in The Lancet medical journal this week, found that the transplanted blood cells appeared to have dominated renegade immune cells in all the patients and repaired organ damage previously considered permanent. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2569169811-26b |
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