Every year thousands of people are diagnosed with cancer and other life-threatening diseases that could be cured with a cord blood transplant.
The birth of your child is a miraculous event — Your miracle could be someone else’s too when you donate the blood from your baby’s umbilical cord to LifeCord.
Thousands of children and adults are alive today because mothers like you have donated their baby’s cord blood. (more…)
By: Erin Digitale, Stanford School of Medicine Leukemia, the most common form of childhood cancer, affects the blood-forming cells in the bone marrow. It is often treated with stem cell transplants that replace the patient’s bone marrow cells with stem cells donated by a healthy individual. Successful transplant depends on finding a donor who is a [...]
By: Kids Doctor, WFAA.com As a practicing pediatrician, I regularly participate in “grand rounds”. This is doctor lingo for a weekly teaching conference, and grand rounds occur on a regular basis in teaching hospitals all around the country. Recently, I attended the most interesting and informative “grand rounds” on cord blood banking. The topic this [...]
By: University of Virginia Health System The new Stem Cell Transplant Program at the University of Virginia Health System recently performed its first two stem cell transplants, using non-embryonic stem cells from umbilical cord blood. The program offers both bone marrow and stem cell transplants, with a focus on cord blood, to treat leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s [...]
By: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Stem cell therapies offer the potential to treat diseases or conditions for which few treatments exist. Stem cells, sometimes called the body’s “master cells,” are the precursor cells that develop into blood, brain, bones and all of your organs. Their promise in medical treatments is that they have the [...]
By Catharine Paddock PhD, Medical News Today Stem cells from cord blood “re-educated” the immune system T cells of people with type 1 diabetes so their pancreas started producing insulin again, thereby reducing the amount of insulin they needed to inject. These are the findings of a study led by Dr Yong Zhao, from University [...]
By Elaine Rackley, Clayton News Daily, Jonesboro, GA One of two Georgia hospitals with LifeCord program – December 9, 2011 A stem cell program designed to aid medical research and help cancer patients, was started this week at Henry Medical Center. The LifeCord program is sponsored by the area’s LifeSouth Blood Centers. In it, new mothers [...]
