on the issue of stem cell research……….
The following are diseases and conditions that research shows can be cured through the development of embryonic stem cell therapy.
Type 1 diabetes, cancer, heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer's, osteoarthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis
There are around one million Americans suffering from type 1 diabetes, which represents somewhere between 5% and 10% of the total number of Americans suffering both type 1 and type 2 forms of the disease. Type 1 diabetes often first appears in children over the age of 4, and is especially seen with the arrival of early adolescence at around 12 or 13 years of age. 1,000,000 children.
About 700,000 people in the United States suffer a stroke each year and more than 158,000 of them will die, according to the American Cancer Society. Over the course
of 40 years, that comes to a total of 6,320,000 people who will die from strokes.
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