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.

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 News Today, the largest independent health and medical news Web site on the Internet, posted the content from CBR's Stem Cells: Under the Microscope on the subject of cord blood stem cells and cardiovascular disease.

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.

TIME.com posted an article about cord blood preservation options and the current and future applications of cord blood stem cells.

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.

The Trenton Times published an article about the importance of cord blood education for all expectant parents.

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

A study presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology meeting reported on the use of autologous bone marrow stem cells to treat patients with Parkinson's disease.

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

Pennsylvania passed legislation requiring healthcare providers to educate pregnant patients about umbilical cord blood stem cell banking and donation.

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.

Lifetime Health Corner, a health program on the Lifetime cable network, aired a segment about cord blood banking. The segment emphasizes the difficulty that ethnic minorities face when searching for a bone marrow donor within the public system. Dr. Jeffrey Thurston, a Texas based ob-gyn, states ethnic minorities and those of mixed ethnicity should have particular interest in storing their children's cord blood in a family bank.

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...

In a news release issued today, Cord Blood Registry forecasts significant growth in the cord blood banking business for the remainder of 2008, based on first quarter results. The company reported client enrollments in the first quarter were up 24 percent from the previous quarter ended December 2007. In 2007, the market for cord blood banking also grew an estimated 15 percent.

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.

Haller's Type 1 diabetes study was highlighted in this week's issue of Stem Cell Week - which offers additional insights into cord blood's potential mechanism of action in T1D and the latest scientific research supporting continued study in this area. Several media outlets also highlighted cord blood's potential as a possible treatment for Lou Gehrig's disease based on recent animal studies.

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.

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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.