Publications about our research and other web resources
On This Website
What is a Clinical Trial?
Texas Heart Institute Heart Information Center
THI Continues at the Forefront of Stem Cell Therapy
Heart Watch article, Spring 2009, page 1
Dr. James T. Willerson Shares Medical Expertise About Stem Cell Therapy
News of Note article April 7, 2009
First in the World Treatment of Patient after a Heart Attack with a Special Stem Cell Type
Text and video news release, April 7, 2008
National Institutes of Health Selects THI for Stem Cell Study Consortium
News release, March 19, 2007
Adult Stem Cell Study Using Patient's Own Fat Cell Tissue
News release, February 1, 2007
Stem Cell Clinical Trial to Treat Critical Limb Ischemia
News release, December 15, 2006
Patients Sought for Adult Stem Cell Studies
News release, September 12, 2006
New Automated Mapping and Therapeutic Cell Injection Procedure for Stem Cell Therapy
News release, May 16, 2006
On Other Websites
"Rebuilding the Heart" is a 12-minute video from the PBS State of Tomorrow series featuring physicians at the Texas Heart Institute and their patients who are enrolled in clinical trials of stem cell therapy to treat heart failure. Drs. James Willerson, Emerson Perin, and Edward Yeh are interviewed. (November 2007)
Discover: September 2005 “Can Stem Cells Save dying Hearts?” Vol. 26 No. 09
discovermagazine.com/2005/sep/stem-cells-save-dying-hearts
PBS
www.pbs.org/news hour/bb/health/july-dec04/stemcell_7-14.html
Wired News
www.wired.com/news/medtech/0, 1286,58295,00.html
San Francisco Chronicle Online
www.s fgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/25/MNGTKDF1LI1.DTL
Science News Online
www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/4459/title/
Rebuilding_the_Heart_Marrow_cells_boost_cardiac_recovery
Genome News Network
www.genomen ewsnetwork.org/articles/2004/04/16/stem_cell_trial.php
Cardiology Online
www.cardiolog yonline.com/journal_articles/Bone_marrow_cells.htm
Other Web Resources
The National Institutes of Health resource for stem cell research
http://stemcells.nih.gov/index.asp
Updated May 2009
