Researchers from Italy have reported that the injection of umbilical cord blood directly into the pelvic bones of patients with leukemia appears promising. These results were recently published in an early online publication of the Lancet Oncology on August 9, 2008.
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A baby no more than a few months old from somewhere in France could have saved the life of a once desperately sick Perth teenager.
Two weeks ago, doctors at Princess Margaret Hospital were able to tell 15-year-old Ryan Lilburne and his family the news they had prayed for — that his body had “turned French”.
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EVERY time three-year-old Bethanie Thomson looks at her little brother, she will be staring at the boy who saved her life.
The young leukaemia sufferer is recovering after receiving a life-saving stem cell transplant from her baby brother – without which she would have faced certain death.
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A toddler with cancer is improving after receiving umbilical-cord stem cells from her baby brother.
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They were just bruises.
Or so Evan MacNeil’s doctor thought when he examined the purplish marks on the young boy’s legs last fall.
After all, bruises were just a rite of passage of an active nine-year-old boy. They were nothing a gentle scolding from Evan’s parents, Tim and Nicole, to be more careful couldn’t cure.
Still, the fact that the marks appeared only below their son’s knees didn’t sit well with the couple, who work for the Niagara Health System. Tim and Nicole’s concern became downright alarm when they discovered a ring of pinprick-like bruises, called petechia, on Evan’s neck less than a month later.
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Ryan Lilburne, the brave Perth teenager struggling to beat a deadly blood disorder, has been given an 11th-hour lifeline after doctors performed a lifesaving stemcell transplant using umbilical cord blood flown from France.
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The first year of any baby's life is full of firsts.
But a 9-month-old baby has blessed his parents with a second round of remarkable milestones as he tries to conquer a rare immune condition that has thousands of people praying for him and more than 2,000 willing to share their bone marrow, if he needs it.
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Newswise — Kansas State University researchers are working on a method of delivering cancer drugs that promises to be more efficient and reduce the side effects patients have to deal with.
The photo shows the human umbilical matrix stem cells loaded with nanoparticles containing doxorubicin,
a widely used chemotherapeutic drug that can damage the heart when given as the free drug.
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Umbilical-cord blood has transformed Granton Bayless from a frail, nearly immobile patient into a bubbly baby who plays with everything within reach, The Associated Press reported.
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A new study has revealed that stem cells derived from human umbilical cord may offer a treatment option for hepatic diseases.
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The package of blood from Spain would barely have filled a thimble. But for little Jordan Harden, the stem cells it contained meant the difference between life and death.
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TWINS Connor and Jared McCartin sadly share more than their cherubic looks. The 19-month-olds are identical right down to their extremely rare leukemia.
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Suze Orman discusses the benefits of cord blood storage and stem cell research!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HN4lbDF4Wg
Using stem cells from umbilical cord blood and bone marrow, researchers have apparently cured a fatal genetic disease in a 2-year-old Minneapolis boy, which could open the door for other stem cell treatments.
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Stem cells 'could have helped Lorenzo Odone'
Evidence that brain injections of stem cells could help to treat cerebral palsy and many other severe childhood neurological diseases is published today.
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