Image via WikipediaIn Canada, India and elsewhere great advances are being made using stem cells to treat Pulmonary Hypertension. At present stem cell therapy is not providing a cure but some people are being treated with the therapy and it is not just stopping the illness from progressing it seems to be having some success in actually improving it.I think a cure for Pulmonary Hypertension will come and the evidence is that it will be found through this treatment.
Unfortunately other countries seem to be making more advances in this field then we are in the United Kingdom.More money seems to be putting into research and the doctors seem to be more willing to take the risk of failure by giving the treatment to patients. The treatment costs about forty thousand pounds and at present has to be renewed about every three years but considering some of the drugs used to control PH cost something in the region of thirty thousand pounds a year the cost savings to the NHS are there if only they would take the risk with the treatment and didn`t want to see proven success before authorising it here.
I think its wrong that some people from the UK are being forced to raise large amounts of money to get this treatment so they can extend there lives and increase the quality of their lives.Its about time that our doctors in the United Kingdom showed the same ability to innovate and experiment with new treatments as those in such places as Canada and India do and served patients in the UK with PH better by doing so.
