Adult Stem Cells Power Improvement in Multiple Sclerosis Bryan Britt, a former baseball star with the University North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW)and a fighter with multiple sclerosis, has improved tremendously after undergoing stem cell treatment. Britt, who recently gave a speech at the UNCW spring training banquet, suffered through the common MS symptoms- balance problems, vision problems,

Bone Marrow Stem Cells Save Man’s LegA man suffering from Diabetes and very close to losing his leg from gangrene has had that leg saved by stem cells taken from his own bone marrow. Bhadwhan Dass, a native of India, had his own stem cells injected into his leg in December, 2010.Before the stem cell transplant, Bhadwan was facing an amputation of his whole leg. Dass was out of options as he had

New Year Gets A Kick Start From Stem Cell TreatmentThe new year is already past us, but it looks to be a promising year for Dalton Rogers-Ford, age 4 of Pearl City, Illinois. Dalton, suffering from cerebral palsy went to Dusseldorf, Germany for treatment using stem cells from his own bone marrow.Since being diagnosed with cerebral palsy at the 18 months old, Dalton has been struggling. However,

Stem Cell Institute Helps Texas WomanA Texas woman who has suffered from multiple sclerosis (MS) for 14 years, has found a new life after undergoing adult stem cell treatment in Panama. Judi Lecoq, 50, is able to walk again without pain after receiving stem cells taken from her own fat.Multiple sclerosis had taken away Judi’s life and forced her to shut down her catering business. She was

The SF Business Times published an article highlighting CBR’s Wendy Grant as the founder of the nation’s first cord blood bank and as the creator of an industry.

(Bloomberg) — Umbilical cord blood, rich in stem cells, may provide raw material to repair the hearts of thousands of babies born each year with defective heart valves, according to researchers.

Children born with heart defects could someday get new valves using stem cells from their own umbilical cord blood.

The New York Times reports today that European physicians have successfully transplanted a human windpipe using the recipient’s own bone marrow stem cells to reline a donor trachea, thus preventing its rejection by her immune system. Using a new technique developed in Milan, physicians incubated stem cells removed from the patient’s bone marrow, growing them into “a large population” which was then used to “seed” the donated windpipe. This is yet another interesting use of autologous stem cells, demonstrating their quickening pace of use in regenerative medicine.

Includes the recent issue of Stem Cells Under the Microscope which covers cord blood stem cells in the use of congenital heart defect.

WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared the way for the first trial to see if human embryonic stem cells can treat people safely, a company involved in the controversial research on Friday. Geron Corp (GERN.O: Quote, Profile, Research), a California biotechnology company, said it plans a clinical trial to try to use the stem cells to regrow nerve tissue in patients with crushed, but not severed, spinal cords.

President Barak Obama Reverses Bush’s Stem Cell Policies

This week the Obama administration has given embryonic stem cell researchers what they’ve been seeking: the potential to receive funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Here’s the irony: now that the funding restrictions are lifted, embryonic stem cells may not be the primary focus of stem cell research anyway.

Autologous use of stem cells (in this case, from bone marrow) show promising results and is noteworthy because the treatment is cheaper, safer and less invasive than other alternatives (angioplasty or bypass) for peripheral artery disease. Medicare is said to be looking into the treatment.

This feature story highlights the many positive reasons a local family decided to bank with CBR

Federal bill that directs the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to conduct an education campaign on cord blood stem cells so that every pregnant woman can make a more informed decision about cord blood banking.

The article highlights the frequency of stroke in children and calls attention to the potential consequences of neurological deficit. The story reinforces the significance of the research being conducted at Duke University using a childs own cord stem cells to help heal the damage caused by stroke. Chloe Levine is one example of a child who has experienced positive changes since her infusion.

Women are in as much danger when it comes to heart disease as men, although a full half of all American women don’t know that fact. TheraVitae, creators of VesCell for Heart Disease adult stem cell therapy, offers these women health heart attacks facts to help make sense of the very real heart failure epidemic that affects women, too.

Learn more health facts on the heart, such as the fact that groundbreaking biotechnology now uses adult stem cells for heart repair, known as VesCell.

VesCell adult stem cell treatment is a simple, safe procedure, starting with the patient giving a small amount of blood, which is then treated and re-injected back into his/her body to repair damage from heart disease or peripheral artery disease.

Rest pain in one’s leg is one of the symptoms of peripheral artery disease (PAD), a serious blockage of circulation that can lead to the loss of limb often related to diabetes. A treatment known as VesCell PAD uses the adult patient’s own stem cells to treat the limb suffering the effects of PAD. This painless stem cell therapy was chosen by a middle-aged American diabetic woman who traveled to Thailand in the summer of 2008 in the hopes of avoiding amputation.