Another Adult Stem Cell Breakthrough: Lupus Successes
By Terry Vanderheyden
CHICAGO,
February 2, 2006

(LifeSiteNews.com) – A young woman and lupus sufferer is praising a new adult stem cell treatment that she credits with giving back her life.

Edjuana Ross, now 33, was diagnosed with the autoimmune condition known as systemic lupus erythematosus – lupus for short – soon after graduating from high school. She was one of 48 people who received the experimental therapy – a stem-cell transplant from her own bone marrow.

Ross said she has been in remission since recovering from her stem cell treatment done in 2003. “I’m just trying to get used to being well, and it’s a very weird feeling,” she said, according to an Associated Press report. Thirty-three of the 48 patients with lupus who received the groundbreaking treatment from Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital have been symptom free ever since. Story