{"id":12371,"date":"2010-12-13T09:01:55","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T14:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=12371"},"modified":"2016-01-04T10:31:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T15:31:41","slug":"healing-diabetic-foot-ulcers-regenerative-medicine-dermagraft-and-heal2gether","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=12371","title":{"rendered":"Healing Diabetic Foot Ulcers: Regenerative Medicine, Dermagraft, and Heal2gether"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Researchers have been working for more than 20 years to develop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nih.gov\/about\/researchresultsforthepublic\/Regen.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">regenerative medicine<\/a> therapies which will repair or replace tissue or organ function that does not heal or repair on its own.\u00a0 This field, still in its infancy, holds great promise.\u00a0 To date, however, there&#8217;s been a fair share of disappointment surrounding regenerative medicine, since after all these years it hasn&#8217;t\u00a0 delivered cures for diseases like Parkinson&#8217;s or type 1 diabetes.\u00a0 That said, regenerative medicine has had its successes, and one of them is in the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abh.com\/corporate\/management\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dean Tozer<\/a>, Senior Vice President of <a href=\"http:\/\/abh.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Advanced BioHealing, Inc.<\/a> answered questions for us about diabetic foot ulcers, Dermagraft, a therapy used to treat them, and a new community health education program called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heal2gether.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heal2gether<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ABH-LOGO.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-12375 alignleft lazyload\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dermagraft is an advanced wound care product that contains living human skin cells&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":12389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1542],"tags":[323,193],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dermagraft: Healing Diabetic Foot Ulcers with Regenerative Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Regenerative medicine has had its successes, and one of them is in the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers. 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