UK scientists hope to mend shattered bones and damaged cartilage using a patient's own stem cells. They are developing a "bioactive scaffold" to protect the stem cells and encourage them to grow into bone or cartilage when placed in the body.

The Dallas Morning News published a follow-up story today about Caden Ledbetter, a local toddler who recently underwent an autologous cord blood transplant to treat neuroblastoma.

CBS Evening News aired the second segment in its two-part series about regenerative medicine, focusing on the regeneration of human fingers and limbs.

A diabetes health Web site posted an article about the ongoing trial at the University of Florida using children's own stem cells to treat type 1 diabetes.

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Just 5 days after the procedure, Dallas said his first word "momma". That was quickly followed by learning to wave and even laughing. Three months after the treatment, the little boy who didn't have the muscle control to crawl is now scooting all over without using a walker. He also looking at his parents when they talk to him. Cord blood stem cells are now being used to treat dozens of medical conditions from heart disease to leukemia. But banking cord blood is not cheap. The cost is about $2,000 initially and then $100 every year after that in storage costs.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday signed a package of bills intended to improve care for California's 77,000 foster children by extending benefits to kids with disabilities when they reach age 18 and improving access to health care and mental health services.

Now the miracle of medical science can save more lives. A new born baby's cord blood stem cell can be used as a resource to treat life threatening diseases.

Researchers at the University of Buffalo created blood vessels from a patient's own bone marrow, providing a desirable alternative to the venous grafts now routinely done in patients undergoing coronary bypass operations. Although the vessels are not yet ready for clinical use, they performed similarly to native tissue in critical ways, including their expression of several smooth muscle cell proteins, the ability to proliferate and the ability to contract, one of the most important properties of blood vessels.

A new study sheds some light on children and diabetes.  It says that white children are the most likely to have Type 1 diabetes, while minority teens are the most likely to have Type 2 diabetes.  Each year in the US, about 15,000 kids are diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, and about 3,700 are diagnosed with Type 2.  Research shows that kids with Type 1 diabetes were most likely to be white and diagnosed between ten and fourteen years old; Type 2 diabetes was much less common.

SUFFERERS of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) are prone to infections and diseases.  Their bone marrow stem cells are defective and cannot produce white blood cells to fight infections.  David Vetter, a SCID sufferer, lived his entire life inside a sealed plastic bubble. He died when he was 12.  In 1976, his story was made into a movie, The Boy In The Plastic Bubble, which starred John Travolta.  The disease then came to be known as 'Bubble Boy' disease.  The disease is so rare that between 1990 and 2000, doctors here have diagnosed only two cases.  Both were infants and died within a year, a report in the Singapore Medical Journal (2003) stated.  SCID sufferers' only hope would be a stem-cell transplant from cord blood...

An article posted on the Orange County Register Web site gives background information on several types of stem cells, including those found in cord blood. The article indicates that cord blood stem cells have proven useful in treating the same types of health problems as bone marrow stem cells but that they have not been shown to have extensive proliferative capacity and are not able to produce all the cell types in the body. Potential future regenerative medical applications of stem cells, including the treatment of diabetes, heart damage and brain injury are also discussed.

Hopes have been raised of a new treatment to free thousands of diabetes sufferers from the burden of daily insulin injections.

British scientists hope to repair the damaged brains of stroke patients using stem cells from aborted foetuses, it was reported today.

When Nashville resident Anderson Jordan, at age 72, said he wanted to fly to Bangkok to treat his congestive heart failure in July 2008 with "VesCell stem cell treatments". These procedures involved using a patient's own stem cells to build new blood vessels and heart muscle.

When Nashville resident Anderson Jordan, at age 72, said he wanted to fly to Bangkok to treat his congestive heart failure in July 2008 with "VesCell stem cell treatments". These procedures involved using a patient's own stem cells to build new blood vessels and heart muscle.

VesCell for Heart Disease and VesCell for PAD are adult stem cell therapies using the patient's own stem cells for treatment of various kinds of heart disease as well as for peripheral artery disease.

Medical research indicates that stunned or dying tissue can be awakened, or revascularized, by the injection of adult stem cells into your heart, such as is the case with VesCell adult stem cell therapy.

The United States, and indeed other nations, are experienced an epidemic of heart failure. Cardiovascular disease claims about as many lives annually as accidents, cancer, diabetes and chronic lower respiratory diseases combined. Patients can gain significant healing from heart failure with the VesCell adult stem cell treatment for Heart Disease

The groundbreaking adult stem cell treatment, called VesCell, offers relief and a return to active living for patients with coronary artery disease, as well as other conditions of heart failure and 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.