Blood in your baby’s umbilical cord after birth contains special cells that can be used in transplants to treat certain types of leukemia or other blood diseases. Donating cord blood is a lot like regular blood donation. If you donate it to a public bank, your baby’s cord blood can help to save the life [...]
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Why there is a need to bank your baby’s CORD BLOOD ?
Stem Cell treatment helps in treating for Spinal Cord Injury, MS, Muscular Dystrophy, Autism, Brain Injury, and more. Stem cell banking services includes harvesting and banking stem cells from all known sources including umbilical cord, cord blood, bone marrow and peripheral blood. Stem cells obtained from the above-mentioned sources are called “adult stem cells”. These [...]
Cord blood helping in malignant diseases
Cord blood is the blood that is found in the umbilical cord and placenta after a child is delivered. Unless you choose to bank your child’s valuable cord blood, these valuable cells will be thrown away after the birth of your child. Cord blood is special because it contains high concentrations of medically important cells [...]
Stem cell therapy for thalassemia patients
Stem cell have already changed—and saved—thousands of lives around the world. They have already been used to treat more than 70 diseases, including numerous types of malignancies, anemia’s, inherited metabolic disorders and deficiencies of the immune system.
Exactly 49 days ago, Harshil Nanda was a severely ill thalassemia patient with B positive blood group. Today, he [...]
DISCOUNTED CORD BLOOD BANKING WITH SCGF
A baby’s umbilical cord blood is a valuable source of stem cells, which are genetically unique to your baby and family. Umbilical cord bloods offers a perfectly natural, controversy-free method of acquiring stem cells and has become a major source of hematopoietic (blood) stem cells for transplantation and are now used in the treatment of [...]
Cord blood stem cells can be used to treat Lung Disease-Kidney and Lupus
Cord blood, which contains a rich source of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells, has been used successfully as an alternative allogeneic donor source to treat a variety of pediatric genetic, hematologic, immunologic, and oncologic disorders. Because there is diminished risk of graft-versus-host disease after transplantation of cord stem cells using matched related donors, the use [...]
CORD BLOOD STEM CELL BANKING- THE BEST GIFT FOR YOUR CHILD
Stem cell transplant is the new world for patients suffering with incurable diseases. More and more parents are investing in cord blood stem cell banking as means of securing their kid’s future. But do you really need to bank your kid’s stem cells?
The biggest advantage with such transplants is that these cells can grow into [...]
Cord Blood reverses treating Cerebral Palsy patient
Chloe Levine was born seemingly perfect — she was the happy and healthy baby her parents had dreamed of. But by the time she was 9 months old, Chloe was not reaching the milestones her older sister Shayla had met at that age. Chloe’s right hand was constantly clenched in a tight fist – she [...]
Cord blood is either stored or donated—but not wasted
Umbilical cord blood contains stem cells, a coveted commodity in medicine. Stem cells from cord blood — particularly blood supplied by unrelated donors — have been used to treat diseases such as cancer and some genetic conditions. Those cells can be used to treat many of the same illnesses (multiple myeloma or leukemia, for example) [...]
High blood pressure very harmful for human being
High blood pressure is one of the most common causes of stroke because it puts unnecessary stress on blood vessel walls, causing them to thicken and deteriorate, which can eventually lead to a stroke. It can also speed up several common forms of heart disease.
When blood vessel walls thicken with increased blood pressure, cholesterol or [...]