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Cord Blood Stem Cells Treat Sick Children

February 4, 2011

SCIENCE IN THE NEWS on Voice of America News Room with Faith Lapidus.

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Umbilical Cord Blood: Save It and Save Lives

June 22, 2010

(CBS) Imagine throwing a lifesaving treatment in the garbage. That’s exactly what happens in the United States over ten thousand times a day because we do not routinely offer to collect precious umbilical cord blood at the time of birth. Thousands of Americans – many of them children – needlessly die annually because they cannot [...]

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Full Scale Clinical Trial for Cord Blood Stem Cell Treatment for Cerebral Palsy

April 22, 2010

Researchers at the Medical College of Georgia have begun the first full scale clinical trial to test if stem cells from a child’s own umbilical cord (autologous) can help treat Cerebral Palsy. CP, which affects 2-3 children per thousand in the US, is caused by oxygen deprivation before birth or in the early year of [...]

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Cord Blood Breakthroughs

March 25, 2010

NEW YORK (WABC) — Cord blood is already helping cancer patients and those suffering from blood disorders. Now, doctors are using umbilical cord blood to tackle a new set of incurable conditions including brain damage to diabetes. A stroke at birth caused 6-year-old Max’s cerebral palsy. He’s one of about 150 kids getting infusions of [...]

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Duke University Receives $10.2 million Grant for Cord Blood Research

March 22, 2010

Duke University has received a grant from the Robertson Foundation to facilitate  Duke Medicine’s pioneering cell therapy research and treatment programs for children and adults with cancer, cerebral palsy, stroke and brain injuries suffered at birth.   The intention of the grant, according to Victor J. Dzau, M.D., chancellor for Health Affairs, is to facilitate the [...]

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