Released on = January 11, 2007, 2:02 am

Press Release Author = Jon Whyte

Industry = Biotech

Press Release Summary = SUMMARY: The public are being misled by propaganda
emanating from vested interest groups determined to keep buried the fact that many
patients with failing hearts can be helped by adult stem cells right now.



Press Release Body =
BANGKOK, Thailand, 11 January 2007 -The retired founder of international
biotechnology company TheraVitae, Mr. Don Margolis, has attacked what he calls
"media lies and distortions" about adult stem cells. "The American media has been
fed multiple lies by embryonic fanatics at the highest levels of American medicine
and even doctors are being misled."

"A recent US newspaper article, contained not one but two lies that are typical of
the propaganda being spread by vested interest groups," he said. "Firstly it was
stated that '.it would likely be years before any resulting (adult stem cell)
treatment is readily available', and secondly that '.adult stem cells are rare, and
the methods for expanding their numbers in culture haven't panned out'. Both of
these statements are demonstrably false and are either deliberate distortions or
show appalling ignorance," he said.

To date, the company he founded has treated over 100 end-stage cardiac patients with
a level of success above 75 percent. "This therapy has already saved and improved
the lives of those patients. They were treated in hospitals superior to most in
America, and by doctors more thorough and caring than the majority of American
cardiologists, and these doctors are fully accredited in America," he stated. "That
is not my opinion but that of over 80% of treated patients."

"The company's hugely successful clinical trial results have been presented to the
American Heart Association, so it is misleading in the extreme to suggest that there
are no treatments available right now. The company's scientists are using adult stem
cells derived from the patients' own blood and harvested in their laboratory. They
are successfully expanding the stem cells they get from the patient's blood by
roughly 1000 times, which is something the powerful embryonic lobby does not want
you to believe, hence the "haven't panned out" fiction." he added.

"The tragedy is that seriously ill heart patients, and, more importantly, their
doctors, don't know enough not to believe such lies and not investigate or even
consider the treatment that is available right now to help restore the majority of
them to a quality of life they thought they had lost forever," he said. "The real
travesty is the entire medical and academic community is in general disbelief of the
health restoration of treated patients and intentionally ignores the factual data."

" A responsible press would ensure that statements like those above are better
researched and avoid sweeping statements that are not only false but result in
American heart patients being told "there is nothing more we can do for you." When
the patients mention stem cells, a cardiologist, based on everything he knows, might
easily say: "Based on what I have read, they are years away!" Yet adult stem cell
treatments are available from top cardiologists on three continents for many of
those condemned to suffer and die from heart failure

Thousands of Americans will die needlessly because of such stories," he said, "all
because those ready to suck up billions of embryonic research dollars manipulate the
news, even in respected medical journals, to convince the public and its doctors
that adult stem cells don't work, cannot work, or don't exist."

Jon Whyte is a freelance journalist and editor based in Bangkok. He writes mainly
about health and tourism. His e-mail address is: jaibangkok@gmail.com



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