Cord Blood Stem Cells May Help Treat Children with Hearing Loss
New research investigating the use of a child’s own (autologous) umbilical cord blood in the treatment of hearing loss has yielded positive results, as reported in the Journal of Audiology and Otology. Over 2,000 babies are born in Canada every year with hearing loss...
Expanded access to cord blood therapy for cerebral palsy and autism patients
Children with various brain disorders, such as autism and cerebral palsy, who have their own or a sibling’s cord blood stored in a family bank may now be able to receive cord blood therapy. The cord blood therapy is being provided by Duke University Medical Centre...
New Cord Blood Research Shows Improvements in Cerebral Palsy
Results published this week, in Stem Cells Translational Medicine, find the use of umbilical cord blood stem cells increases motor function and brain connectivity in children with cerebral palsy (CP). The phase 2 clinical trial, conducted at the world leading Duke...
Cord Blood Stem Cells Provide New Hope
For patients with blood based cancers such as, leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma, one of their only treatment is a bone marrow transplant. A bone marrow transplant is a procedure that infuses healthy blood cells taken from a donor, and it aims to stop cancerous blood...
