A Poll - would you want your deafness cured?

Cure my hoh, NO.

Cure my heart condition and asthma, YES.
 
Buckdodgers said:
And I Have type 2 diabetes too.Thats why im Voting democrats straght down the line this november to get george bush impeached from office.And This Bitch will lead the way
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That's good thinking, I understand how are you feeling about hearing loss and diabete.

Also, I got signal with diabete because of family genetic but it would going start in certain age or can never happen.
 
It's not funny to take re-surgery to remove CI (also remove the sting out from cochlea) and replace new eardrum (execpt for people who never wear HA or FM) before stem cell start work properly to bring normal hearing back.
 
I chose culturely deaf, no because I dont want to be a hearing person.. Deafness is what I have known all of my life and it took me 24 years to adjust to this life (im 24 and still dealing with it heh ofc being deaf never is easy but its only life I know) I do not think I want to take another 24 years just to relearn how to hear. No, thank you! One type of life is enough for me heh.

plus I got a reason to be proud to be deaf... I worked hard to live my life as a normal person... generally... and I am able to idenfity myself as a deaf person but if I become hearing or had it cured then what can I call myself? "a former deaf person who is learning how to live as a hearing person"? hmm a bit too long heh
 
Buckdodgers said:
Y If i was a Billionare id buy you this.
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That would be Great as long as this will be
a "Second vacation home"
along with a few jetskiis and yacht attached for the
transportation purpose
 
I'm not so sure about this latest medical advance. If it is successful, it will be used on the vast majority of Deaf infants and children. Before you know it, an entire DHH generation is lost and future generations will never materialize.

But, for adults, I'm not so sure. Our brains are already 'wired' and having hearing (almost) fully restored, may still not enable the vast majority of DHH people to understand speech, should they undergo this newest procedure. Moreover, it appears that even if the FDA approves this treatment, it seems to be invasive in nature. Just how stem cells (or its equivalent) are delivered directly to the cochlea for hair cell regeneration?

For now, this emerging technology is still at least 5-10 years off in the future. If you're DHH and you want or need to hear better than the current state of HA technology, go ahead and opt for the CI regimen. Don't wait.
 
Y said:
That would be Great as long as this will be
a "Second vacation home"
along with a few jetskiis and yacht attached for the
transportation purpose
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jetski & yacht Not Included But the Satelite Dish is Included in your home.
 
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Being Deaf is not big deal for me ... I only want Meniere's (included Tinnitus) and BPPV (BENIGN PAROXYSMAL POSITIONAL VERTIGO) to be cured. NO ringing sounds etc etc. At this moment there is no cure for both. :-(

I respect others who wished to have CI and others .. I just don't like the idea of the foreign object is placed inside of my ear. If Stem cells - I could try but ... there are alot of question marks for me. Again Deafness does not affect my daily life. If I have Parkinson's or whatever -- I would go for it.
 
Buckdodgers said:
It has everything to do with the white house.If US Taxpayers would fund into the stem cell reserach it could develop faster and sooner.When Bush Vetoed that bill now we gotta hope private billionares would spend their money on stem cell reserach.I Rather want my Hard earned money goes towards stem cell reserach than funding welfare so people dont have to get a job and get free food stamps.
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Uh, there are two kinds of stem cells...adult stem cells and embryo stem cells. We're talking about using the stem cells from your OWN body, in this case a mouse's own, that showed promising results of new hair cells being regenerated. But that was done on a petri dish, so to speak. The next step is to do this with a live mouse and somehow transfer the very small microscopic stem cells to the damaged hair cells inside the cochlea.

What Bush vetoed was the embryo stem cells...not the adult stem cells.

How many of you actually understand what stem cells do, especially adult stem cells?

Best to do a little research before jumping to conclusions here.
 
kokonut said:
Uh, there are two kinds of stem cells...adult stem cells and embryo stem cells. We're talking about using the stem cells from your OWN body, in this case a mouse's own, that showed promising results of new hair cells being regenerated. But that was done on a petri dish, so to speak. The next step is to do this with a live mouse and somehow transfer the very small microscopic stem cells to the damaged hair cells inside the cochlea.

What Bush vetoed was the embryo stem cells...not the adult stem cells.

How many of you actually understand what stem cells do, especially adult stem cells?

Best to do a little research before jumping to conclusions here.
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Well if a woman gonna kill her baby might as well use the embryo stem cell instead of wasting it.Thats why im voting democratic straght down the line in november cause george bush is a compleate asshole only cares about himself.
 
Buckdodgers said:
Well if a woman gonna kill her baby might as well use the embryo stem cell instead of wasting it.Thats why im voting democratic straght down the line in november cause george bush is a compleate asshole only cares about himself.
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Well, we have had heard successes from the use of adult stem cells (more accurately called tissue stem cells) to treat various forms of conditions. As for embryonic stem cells there have be no successes reported in peer-reviewed science journals. What many people do not know is that the mainstream press conveniently forget to mention that embryonic stem cells cannot be used safely in human beings at present because of worries over tissue rejection and their demonstrated propensity in animal studies to cause deadly tumors--problems not associated with adult stem cell therapies.

We have stem cells all over inside our bodies where it can be harvested, coaxed and put back into our own tissues to help with regenerating new and fully functioning tissues such as ear hair cells.

From the August 7, 2006 The Weekly Standar report ( The Great Stem Cell Coverup) :

More than that, the actual data published to date in peer-reviewed science journals tell a far different story. While there have certainly been successes in embryonic stem cell experiments in animal studies--many of them hyped to the hilt in mainstream media reports--the numbers pale in comparison with the many research advances being made with adult and umbilical cord blood stem cells, which are already being used in human patients.

Based on the published science, there are 72 maladies for which human patients have received some benefit (which is not the same as being "cured") from adult stem cell or umbilical cord blood interventions. Meanwhile, embryonic stem cells have yet to demonstrate any human therapeutic use.
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These 72 maladies were all reported in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Now, I would rather use my own tissue stem cells to treat my conditions, hearing loss, or whatever rather than face the possibility of tissue rejection from tissues grown in labs from the use of embryonic stem cells. Our own body has the potential to treat and/or cure itself from the conditions or illnesses that we are experiencing. That alone should be an amazing revelation.

“A Korean research team recently made history by using human embryonic stem cells to cure Parkinson’s disease in rats.”

Research is a long way from producing a safe and effective treatment for humans. On the one known occasion when earlier-stage (before 6 weeks) fetal tissue was used to try to treat a human Parkinson’s patient, the tissue killed the patient by forming clumps of bone, skin and hair in the middle of his brain. 4

Moreover, animal trials with embryonic stem cells repeatedly kill many of the animals because of formation of brain tumors.

Meanwhile, the first clinical trial using a patient’s own adult brain stem cells to treat Parkinson’s has produced a lasting 80% reversal of symptoms, and wider human trials are being planned.5


4 See Neurology, issue of May 1, 1996, at Survival and proliferation of nonneural tissues, with obstruction of cerebral ventricles, in a parkinsonian patient treated with fetal allografts -- Folkerth and Durso 46 (5): 1219 -- Neurology.

5 See Parkinson's Breakthrough: Healthy For Life from the Eyewitness News Newsroom.

6. See CBHD: Adult Stem Cells - 3, Embryonic Stem Cells - 0 - Daniel McConchie

There is a reason why the use of embryonic stem cells should not be used because it creates more problems than it does solving them as they so claimed. This is looking at from a practical point of view rather than ethical point of view.

I've been aware of how many of the press manipulates stem cell coverage by touting embryonic stem cells to no end versus adult or tissue stem cells successes.

Ask yourself this question. Why is the mainstream media doing this?
 
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