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"Stem cell analysis holds wonderful promise for the 1.7 million kids and adults in the U.S. who sustain traumatic brain injuries every year," according to Susan Connors, president and chief executive officer of the Brain Injury Association of America. "We welcome investigations into this growing population and eagerly await favorable outcomes."
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Scientist Who Lost Daughter Champions Cord Blood
"She's the Mother Theresa of cord blood banking," said Marion Welch, medical coordinator LifeLine Cryogenics, a blood bank based in Stamford, CT".
By Bruce Goldfarb: April 17, 2012
Saving umbilical cord blood from childbirth is a growing practice, and those in the field credit a former NASA astronomer with raising national awareness about cord blood's potential for providing life-saving stem cells.
“There’s been a huge upswing in interest in cord blood banking,” said Danielle Winner Koontz, a childbirth educator and doula—or labor assistant—in Catonsville, MD.
“The conversation comes up in every single [childbirth] class now.”
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Cord blood stem cells may restore hearing
Published: Jan. 20, 2012 at 8:08 PM
HOUSTON, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers are undergoing a phase I safety study using a child's umbilical cord blood stem cells to try to restore hearing loss.
Dr. James Baumgartner, sponsor of the study and guest research collaborator at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Medical School, said the yearlong study will follow 10 children, ages 6 weeks to 18 months, who have sustained post-birth hearing loss. Children who are deaf as a result of a genetic anomaly or syndrome are not eligible for the test.
More Information >> UPI.com
UTHealth studies cord blood stem cells for pediatric traumatic brain injury
Partners in trial include Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital, Cord Blood Registry Center for Regenerative Medicine
HOUSTON – (Jan. 5, 2011) /PRNewswire/ — The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) has begun enrollment for the first Phase I safety study approved by the Food and Drug Administration to investigate the use of a child’s own umbilical cord blood stem cells for traumatic brain injury in children. The study is being performed in conjunction with Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital, UTHealth’s primary children’s teaching hospital. More Information >>
In Depth Interview: Cord Blood for Diabetes
Desmond Schatz, M.D., a pediatric endocrinologist and the medical director of the diabetes center at the University of Florida in Gainesville, explains how umbilical cord blood is being used as an experimental treatment for diabetes. More Information >>
CELL PROCESSING
Cord Blood Units Collected with Liquid CPD Appear to Contain Significantly More Nucleated and CD34+ Cells Than Units Collected
with Dry Heparin. More Information >>
First FDA-approved stem cell trial in pediatric cerebral palsy
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Cord blood-derived CD133 cells improve cardiac function after myocardial infarction
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Bank on it—one day, cord blood will save children’s lives here
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Growing joint with stem cells possible, study says:
Yahoo! News -
Stem cells reverse blindness caused by burns
By ALICIA CHANG, AP Science writer-Wed Jun 23
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email: mwelch@lifelinecryogenics.com
