by Cells4Life Middle East | Jul 21, 2016 | Stem Cell News
Teenagers are usually so busy having fun that they don’t get time to reflect on life. But when a teenager in the prime of their life suddenly becomes ill from a serious disease like Leukaemia, it puts everything into perspective. This was true for American...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Jul 19, 2016 | Stem Cell News
Doctors from Vietnam’s National Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion successfully used a cord blood transplant to treat a young thalassaemia patient this week. Three-year-old boy Tran Gia Hung received a cord blood transplant to treat his thalassaemia, a...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Jul 17, 2016 | Stem Cell News
For Ben and Jamie Page, the decision to save their child’s umbilical cord blood was a simple one. With medical advancements occurring so rapidly in the field of stem cell research, they thought preserving the umbilical cord blood would prove a wise decision....
by Cells4Life Middle East | Jul 14, 2016 | Stem Cell News
Doctors in Germany have successfully treated a 2.5 year old boy with his own cord blood stem cells, to greatly reduce his cerebral palsy symptoms. After a heart attack that led to severe brain damage, the child was being kept in a persistent vegetative state with a...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Jul 12, 2016 | Stem Cell News
Childhood Apraxia Syndrome (CAS) is a motor speech disorder that makes it difficult to say words, form syllables or even make sounds. This condition happens when the brain is having difficulty in telling the lips, jaws and tongue how to speak or make sounds. Isabella...
by Cells4Life Middle East | Jul 10, 2016 | Stem Cell News
A new study suggests that a stem cell transplant is the best possible course of treatment for HIV patients battling lymphoma. The research also found that the best form of stem cell transplant was autologous — where the stem cells come from the patient’s own body....
