Medical News

Recognized finance expert Suze Orman approves cord blood banking:

Cord Blood Transplants

• Children Cured With Cord Blood Transplant
  NBC Philadelphia - October 2011

Cancers (including Leukemia)

• Cord Blood Transplants A Viable Option In Leukemia
  Reuters.com – June 2010
• Yale Althlete Mandi Schwartz in Urgent Need of Marrow of Cord Blood Donor
  Yale.edu – June 2010
• Cord Blood To Help Save Oklahoma Boy - Treatment Will Help Fight Boy's Leukemia
  KOCO.com – May 2010
• Two Units of Umbilical Cord Blood Reduce Risk of Leukemia Recurrence
  ScienceDaily – November 2009
• Children's Hospital in Colorado Rounds off List of 24 Cord Blood Transplant Centers Worldwide Enrolling for ExCell Trial Studying StemEx® for Leukemia and Lymphoma
  The Children's Hospital – September 2009

Cerebral Palsy

• FDA Permits Study of Cord Blood Stem Cells for Cerebral Palsy
  Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg, Director of Duke University's Pediatric Bone Marrow and Tranplant program, has been authorized by the FDA to conduct a randomized clinical study to test the efficacy of cord blood stem cells in treating pediatric patients with spastic cerebral palsy. "The study could entice more parents to have their child's cord blood stored in private cord blood banks," Kurtzberg said.

Cord Blood Banking

• What Do You Know About Cord Blood Banking?
  FoxNews.com – July 2011

Diabetes

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  Cord Blood Breakthroughs
  ABC News – January 2010
• Cord Blood for Diabetics
  HealthScout – November 2008
• Stem Cell Transplants In Diabetes Type 1 Patients Kick Starts Own Insulin Production
  Medical News Today – April 2007

Heart Disease

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  Cord Blood Stem Cells May Help Treat Heart, Lung Disorders
  U.S. News – November 2009
• Cord Blood Used to Treat Childhood Heart Defects
  Medical News Today – December 2008
• Cord Blood Stem Cells Used to Fashion Heart Valves
  MedicineNet – November 2008
• Cord Blood Stem Cells And Cardiovascular Disease
  Medical News Today – February 2008

Regenerative Medicine

• What is Regenerative Medicine?
  The next frontier is regenerative medicine. Growing human body parts, essentially from scratch.
  
  It's already happening. Skin. Bladder. More or less "printed" out, layer by layer, with cells blown through an inkjet printer. The great hope is creating and replacing body parts on demand. The U.S. military is all over it.
  
  Anthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and chair of the urology department at the School of Medicine at Wake Forest University. He led the first team ever to implant a laboratory-grown organ into a human, a bladder, in 2006.
  
  
• Researchers Study Cord Blood Stem Cells for Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury
  Medical News Today – January 6, 2011
• Human Umbilical Cord Blood Cells Found to Enhance Survival and Maturation of Key Brain Cells
  PhysOrg.com – December 14, 2010
• Evidence for the Cure of HIV Infection by CCR5Δ32/Δ32 Stem Cell Transplantation
  Journal of the American Society of Hematology – December 2, 2010
• House Revives Umbilical Cord Blood Bill
  LifeNews – September 30, 2010
  The House of Representatives on Thursday reauthorized the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act, a bill that aims to advance the use of umbilical cord blood in research. The bill would allot $23 million in federal funding for the National Cord Blood Inventory between 2011 and 2014 and $20 million in 2015. The bill also would set aside $30 million from 2011 to 2014 for the Bone Marrow Transplant initiative and $33 million for 2015.
  Update: On 10-8-2010 the president signed P.L. 111-264, (S 3751), the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Reauthorization Act of 2010, to amend the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005.
• Multiple Sclerosis Patient Walks Following Stem Cell Therapy
  Fierce BioTech Research – December 2009
• Lone Star Paralysis Foundation Readies to Find a Cure
  Austin Business Journal – December 2009
• Researchers Hope to Save Lives by Regenerating Body Parts
  CBS – December 2009
• Retinal Cells From Stem Cells Treat Blindness in Rats
  The Santa Barbara Independent – December 2009
• StemEx(R) Noted As A Reliable Investigational Product Of An Expanded Population Of Stem Cells
  Medical News Today – November 2009
• Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplant May Help Lung, Heart Disorders
  Science Daily – November 2009
• Umbilical Cord Blood Made to Function Like Embryonic Stem Cells
  The Stem Cell Source – October 2009
• Concentrating on Stem Cells
  Harvard Gazette – September 2009
  Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology launches firts undergrad concentration.
• Umbilical Cord Blood as a Readily Available Source for Off-the-Shelf, Patient-Specific Stem Cells
  NewsWise – September 2009
• What Baby Discards Could Save
  National Post – August 2009
• Cord Blood: Research Progress and Future Promise
  AABB News – April 2009
• Lifetime Probabilities of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in the U.S.
  ASBMT – American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation

Parkinson's Disease

• Breaching The Blood/Brain Barrier To Improve Treatment For Neurodegenerative Diseases
  Medical News Today – July 2010
• Mesenchymal stem cells might be useful in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease
  PlosOne.org – February 2010