Studies: Cord Blood Works Vs. Leukemia
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Umbilical-cord blood, now used mostly to treat children with leukemia, could save thousands of adults with the disease each year who cannot find bone marrow donors, two big studies indicate.
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NEW YORK  - Children being treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) seem more able to deal with their treatment if their levels of antioxidants don&#39;t drop too much, new study findings suggest.
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Stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood can help reduce stroke damage, claims a study by scientists at the Medical College of Georgia and the University of South Florida.
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A study published in the journal &#39;Thorax&#39; has revealed that high levels of antibodies to allergens in a baby&#39;s umbilical cord blood might be more important in the development of childhood allergies and asthma than exposure to allergens.
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Researchers have made a breakthrough discovery by identifying a gene that is responsible for childhood leukemia and the effects of the mutated gene, called NOTCH1, they say, can be inhibited by a type of drug designed to treat Alzheimerâs disease.
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Using a recently developed technique for turning skin cells into stem cells, scientists have cured mice of sickle cell anemia -- the first direct proof that the easily obtained cells can reverse an inherited, potentially fatal disease.
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EDMONTON - Blood from umbilical cords of newborns can be used in place of bone marrow for some adults with leukemia, doctors say. Bone marrow transplants are used to restore the immune systems of leukemia patients after radiation and chemotherapy.
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The research focused on women like Linda Aponte who are stressed because they care for chronically sick children. Her daughter Lana was diagnosed with leukemia at age 4. &quot;I thought to myself, &#39;This is impossible.
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MILWAUKEE -- Umbilical-cord blood, now used mostly to treat children with leukemia, could save thousands of adults with the disease each year who cannot find bone marrow donors, two big studies indicate.
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While fatal in adults, organ transplants from donors with different blood types work in children under 2. The trick? Taking advantage of children's underdeveloped immune systems. By the Associated Press.
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Blood from a newborn baby&#39;s umbilical cord can be used to treat adults with leukaemia, a US-based study says. Cord-blood transplants have tended to be used only on children as it was not thought to contain
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Oct. 18, 2004 -- Premature babies may be less likely to need blood transfusions if their umbilical cords are cut a bit later than normal.
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A leukemia vaccine has been successful enough in its first trials to warrant larger studies that will include hundreds of patients, researchers report.
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A terminal leukemia patient must have daily blood transfusions or die. A family begs doctors to do everything possible to keep their elderly mother alive. Parents cannot accept their newborn baby will not survive.
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NEW YORK  - Unlike cranial radiation,   chemotherapy for children with a certain type of leukemia does   not appear to have harmful long-term effects on intelligence,   even at high doses, a new study shows.
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Two experimental drugs could offer hope to leukemia patients who no longer benefit from Gleevec, the groundbreaking cancer pill, research presented Sunday in San Diego at the meeting of the American Society of Hematology shows.
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Pesticides and other pollutants in the environment may contribute to childhood leukaemia, say researchers.