Archive for November, 2009
Why we must bank our baby’s cord blood…….??
Blood in your baby’s umbilical cord after birth contains special cells that can be used in transplants to treat certain types of leukemia or other blood diseases. Donating cord blood is a lot like regular blood donation. If you donate it to a public bank, your baby’s cord blood can help to save the life of someone who needs a stem cell transplant. Or it might be used for vital medical research.After your baby is born and the umbilical cord is clamped, blood from it and the placenta are colle... Readmore
Why there is a need to bank your baby’s CORD BLOOD ?
Stem Cell treatment helps in treating for Spinal Cord Injury, MS, Muscular Dystrophy, Autism, Brain Injury, and more. Stem cell banking services includes harvesting and banking stem cells from all known sources including umbilical cord, cord blood, bone marrow and peripheral blood. Stem cells obtained from the above-mentioned sources are called “adult stem cells”. These cells have enormous therapeutic potential and have been proven to be extremely beneficial in the treatment of several incu... Readmore
Cord blood helping in malignant diseases
Cord blood is the blood that is found in the umbilical cord and placenta after a child is delivered. Unless you choose to bank your child’s valuable cord blood, these valuable cells will be thrown away after the birth of your child. Cord blood is special because it contains high concentrations of medically important cells known as stem cells. There is only once in the lifetime of a child that his/her cord blood is available for banking. After the birth of your child, you have the opportuni... Readmore
Stem cells in breast milk plentiful resource
A new research has found three different types of stem cells in breast milk which may be the reason why mother’s milk is deemed best for babies. Dr Mark Cregan, medical director at the Swiss healthcare and baby equipment company Medela, has discovered adult stem cells of epithelial (mammary) and immune origin and found “very preliminary evidence” that stem cells in breast milk boost the growth of muscle and bone tissue. According to him, mother’s milk could enable a child to “fulfill ... Readmore
STEM CELLS CAN NOW BE USED TO TREAT AIDS/HIV
AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is the final and most serious stage of HIV, which severely damages the immune system. About 40.3 million people around the world are currently living with HIV/AIDS and it is the 5th leading cause of death among people aged 25-44 in the United States. In some countries in Africa, more than 10% of the population is infected. Currently, no cure is readily available and treatments tend to only prolong the inevitable while boasting serious side effects (if t... Readmore
Stem Cell Treatment For Crohn’s Disease
Crohn’s disease, together with ulcerative colitis, is included in what is called irritable bowel disease. It is a chronic genetic disease that occurs when the immune system loses tolerance to the patient’s own intestinal flora, leading to an abnormal inflammatory response that continues over time. It is a disease that usually affects young people between the ages of 18 and 40 years, and approximately 2000 new cases are diagnosed in Spain every year. Cellular therapy with stem cells i... Readmore
Stem cell treatment cures thalassemia patients
Thalassemia, one of the most common genetic disorders, is considered to be a global problem. Several millions of the patients suffer from severe thalassemic diseases. Stem cell transplantation is currently the only curative therapy. Bone marrow transplantation offers a high probability of cure when performed in young children. There is a higher risk as the patient becomes older, especially the high incidence of graft rejection. Modified conditioning regimens have been developed to overcome graft... Readmore
Stem Cell Treatment can help in treating Cardiac Arrhythmias
Transplantation of both skeletal myoblasts and stem cells into the region of infarcted myocardium results in improved myocardial function in both the murine and porcine infarct models. Intravenous injection of stem cells and bone marrow stimulating cytokines also improves cardiac function. The optimal cell type and dose, delivery route, delivery catheter, and the timing of cell injection are still being defined. In order for cell therapy to be widely clinically applicable, the optimal cell has t... Readmore
Stem cell therapy for thalassemia patients
Stem cell have already changed—and saved—thousands of lives around the world. They have already been used to treat more than 70 diseases, including numerous types of malignancies, anemia’s, inherited metabolic disorders and deficiencies of the immune system. Exactly 49 days ago, Harshil Nanda was a severely ill thalassemia patient with B positive blood group. Today, he is a healthy infant with A positive blood group and a confirmed evidence of how stem cell transplant ca... Readmore
DISCOUNTED CORD BLOOD BANKING WITH SCGF
A baby’s umbilical cord blood is a valuable source of stem cells, which are genetically unique to your baby and family. Umbilical cord bloods offers a perfectly natural, controversy-free method of acquiring stem cells and has become a major source of hematopoietic (blood) stem cells for transplantation and are now used in the treatment of more than 70 disorders. “As many as 16,000 leukemia patients diagnosed each year require a bone marrow transplant, but have no matched relative or ... Readmore
Leukemia can be treated with Stem cell treatment..
An estimated 14,985 people in North America had autologous (8,585) or allogeneic stem cell transplantation (6,400) for leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, myleodysplastic syndrome and other blood cancers in 2003. Stem cell tranplantation procedures continue to be improved as treatment options for patients.There are two major types of stem cell transplants: autologous and allogenic. Autologous transplantation uses the patient’s own marrow. The marrow is collected while the patient is in remissio... Readmore
Cord blood stem cells can be used to treat Lung Disease-Kidney and Lupus
Cord blood, which contains a rich source of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells, has been used successfully as an alternative allogeneic donor source to treat a variety of pediatric genetic, hematologic, immunologic, and oncologic disorders. Because there is diminished risk of graft-versus-host disease after transplantation of cord stem cells using matched related donors, the use of less-than-completely matched HLA cord blood stem cells may incur less risk of graft-versus-host disease than m... Readmore
CORD BLOOD STEM CELL BANKING- THE BEST GIFT FOR YOUR CHILD
Stem cell transplant is the new world for patients suffering with incurable diseases. More and more parents are investing in cord blood stem cell banking as means of securing their kid’s future. But do you really need to bank your kid’s stem cells? The biggest advantage with such transplants is that these cells can grow into other cell tissues. This opens up a whole new world of treatments for diseases like Alzheimer’s, diabetes and Parkinson’s, apart from debilitating bl... Readmore
Adult stem cells more promising than Embryonic stem cells
Adult stem cells PROVED to be much more promising for medical treatment than embryonic stem cells. The use of adult stem cells poses no ethical difficulties and has already contributed to advancing treatments for degenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s. The technique for producing iPSC cells has allowed something to happen that was unthinkable in the field of cellular biology: to convert differentiated adult stem cells into immature, undifferentiated cells of an embryonic type.” Adult stem... Readmore
Cord Blood reverses treating Cerebral Palsy patient
Chloe Levine was born seemingly perfect — she was the happy and healthy baby her parents had dreamed of. But by the time she was 9 months old, Chloe was not reaching the milestones her older sister Shayla had met at that age. Chloe’s right hand was constantly clenched in a tight fist – she couldn’t even hold her bottle. And she wasn’t able to crawl; she would “shuffle” her body across the floor in a seated position, her mother, Jenny, recalls. Soon after Chloe’s first bir... Readmore
