LRI doesn't make any claim that our flashlights have any healing power and the following articles are shown in an effort to inform the public about testing that Universities and other authorities are working on. LRI neither upholds their findings or can prove their validity.

Apollo Light Research  - www.ApolloHealth.com

	Direct brain serotonin measurement validates Light therapy for SAD - Dec. 7th, 2002 Read More (PDF)
	Beginning to See the Light - October 1998 Read More (PDF)
	Science and Light Therapy - November 11th, 1998 Read More (PDF)
	Bright Light vs Circadian Rhythm Disorders Read More (PDF)

HealthLink - www.HealthLink.mcw.edu

	Light Emitting Diodes Aid in wound Healing - November 28, 2000 Read More
	Healing with Light Moves Beyond Fiction - March 11, 2004 Read More

Light Therapy Products - www.LightTherapyProducts.com

NASA Light Emitting Diode Medical Applications Read More

Bringing the World the Light that Heals - http://www.bioscanlight.com/technology.asp

Light Emitting Diodes Aid in Wound Healing

Powerful light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have been shown to help heal wounds in laboratory animals and are now being tested on humans at the Medical College of Wisconsin. The LEDs were developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to spur plant life in space.

Harry T. Whelan, MD, Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics, and Hyperbaric Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin, found that diabetic skin ulcers and other wounds in mice healed much faster when exposed to the special LEDs in the lab. Laboratory research has shown that the LEDs also grow human muscle and skin cells up to five times faster than normal. The study is conducted at the College's MACC (Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer) Fund Research Center.

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Healing with Light Moves Beyond Fiction

Fans of the Star Trek television shows can recall many stirring scenes of medical officers treating patients without drugs or surgery, using instead a device the size of a cell phone that sends out light rays to "miraculously" heal wounds and cure disease before their very eyes.

Now, the use of light emitting diodes (LED) in the practice of medicine has moved well beyond science fiction and into the real world. Soldiers injured by lasers in combat, astronauts in space and children in cancer wards are already benefiting from the healing properties of near-infrared light in ways that could only be imagined a few years ago. Several research projects at the Medical College of Wisconsin are at the center of LED treatment development and the application of new technology to a wide range of injury and illness.

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NASA Light Emitting Diode Medical Applications

This work is supported and managed through the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - SBIR Program.  LED-technology developed for NASA plant growth experiments in space shows promise for delivering light deep into tissues of the body to promote wound healing and human tissue growth. We present the results of LED-treatment of cells grown in culture and the effects of LEDs on patients' chronic and acute wounds.  LED-technology is also biologically optimal for photodynamic therapy of cancer and we discuss our successes using LEDs in conjunction with light-activated chemotherapeutic drugs.

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