For which diseases or conditions is umbilical cord blood stem-cell therapy most effective?
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I don't agree that the answer is "none" when in fact cord blood stem cells has already proven to be effective. Below is a link for a full list of diseases treated by cord blood stem cells.\n\nIt seems as if more of the successful stories from using cord blood stem cells are for leukemia, lymphoma and sickle cell anemia.
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See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell_research#Controversy_surrounding_stem_cell_research for help \n\nGood Luck!!!
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If the person is younger than 55 and healthy otherwise, a bone marrow transplant or stem cell transplant can give some people a chance for complete recovery. As you age, this therapy becomes more problematic and is rarely done past age 70. Usually AML is fatal unless a BMT or SCT is done. Chemo and radiation can slow down the decline, but it takes a BMT to give a good chance for survival.  good luck\n\nhttp://www.marrow.org/PATIENT/aml.html
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cord blood can be either saved or donated.  it's the basics that can save a child's life, but only if they are stricken with certain diseases.  it won't help regrow a spinal cord, but can help strengthen immune systems
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Don't know how urine therapy is going to help the trasnmission of HIV/AIDS. Boosting the immune system is great but aids is a highly specific virus that attacks T-cells and macrophages. Often times the fetus is taken as a forgeign entity and attacked by the mother's own body. By these very same leukocytes. I don't know how likely it is but I would assume the chance is very high for transmission to occur. We can't even cure AIds at this stage in time. How could we isolate the disease in one area of our body and keep it from others. It's not entirely feasible.
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See:\nhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000621.htm#Treatment
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I am for it. Esp if it can help cure diseases that we can not prevent with any other alternative method. Why wouldnt anyone want to spend more time with the ones they love. I do understand that stem cells come from aborted fetuses. But if we can use the stem cells that are collected to better help everyone then we should do what we can with what we have. But lets not start creating abortions to just harvest stem cell. I am healthy.
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Well those stem cells were going to be thrown out anyways. But I believe that most of the research these days is using cord cells.
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When getting from a baby, they're in the Umbilical Cord:\n\nEmbryonic stem cells (ES cells) are stem cells derived from the inner cell mass of a blastocyst. A blastocyst is an early stage embryo - approximately 4 to 5 days old in humans and consisting of 50-150 cells. ES cells are pluripotent, and give rise during development all derivatives of the three primary germ layers: ectoderm, endoderm and mesoderm. In other words, they can develop into each of the more than 200 cell types of the adult body when given sufficient and necessary stimulation for a specific cell type.\n\n:::::\nIn adults, stem cells are found either in blood or bone marrow:\n\nAdult stem cells are undifferentiated cells found throughout the body that divide to replenish dying cells and regenerate damaged tissues. Also known as somatic stem cells, they can be found in children, as well as adults. A great deal of adult stem cell research has focused on clarifying their capacity to divide or self-renew indefinitely and their differentiation potential. Many adult stem cells may be better classified as progenitor cells, due to their limited capacity for cellular differentiation.\nNevertheless, specific multipotent or even unipotent adult progenitors may have potential utility in regenerative medicine. The use of adult stem cells in research and therapy is not as controversial as embryonic stem cells, because the production of adult stem cells does not require the destruction of an embryo. In contrast with the embryonic stem cell research, more US government funding has been provided for adult stem cell research. Adult stem cells can be isolated from a tissue sample obtained from an adult. They have mainly been studied in humans and model organisms such as mice and rats.
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Embryonic stem cell research is unquestionably wrong because it involves the destruction of a human baby.  There are other sources of stem cells such as placental cord blood, adult stem cells, etc. that are right and good research which promises to produce many good therapeutic procedures and products.  Stick to that kind of stem cell research and many good things will come of it.  But, at all costs, avoid anything to do with embryonic stem cell research.
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Your best bet would be to get in touch with Neroblastoma researchers and doctors at St.Judes as they are the best hospital in the world.I spent almost 2 years straight there when my daughter was battleing a rare form of Leukemia.Called acute promyelocitic Leukemia. She's in remission after relapsign three times!
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then get it from the cord.  stem cell research can save so many lives. but baby butchering to get the stem cells do not work well with me
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It is the wave of the future of human medicine. There are many web sites that support that concept. International Stem Cell Research - WEB site.
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Diabetes is really a non-curable disease.  There are many 'tests' and hopeful research being done at this point.  The cure is out there...someplace.  My daughter will tell you that it is in a strange lab somewhere...she was diagnosed when she was two.  There have be SOME successful transplants in adult patients...but they are on high doses of anti-rejection drugs at this point for the rest of their lives.  This would not work for children.  Their immune systems would not be able to handle this.  \nIt can be a sucky disease, but it is a lifestyle, not a disease....
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Stem cell research can lead to discoveries of cures for diseases.  Transplants save people with bad organs from dying.
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Don't know how you fall on the stem cell issue.  But, There have been complete remissions of RA utilizing stem cells.  \n\nAlso, Vitamin D deficiency is the next big thing.  You will start seeing it everywhere concerning many health issue, because most of us are deficient due to lack of sun from just no exposure to the use of suncreen.  Vitamin D is used in more places than just bones.  They are even investigating if Winter sicknesses are a result of a decrease in Vitamin D slowing down the immune response, rather than cold and wet issues.\n\nArthritis Foundation recommends Omega-3 fatty acids to decrease some of the pain.  And, it's good for your heart.  Can be found in Ocean fish such as salmon or supplements.\n\nTurmeric also has anti-inflammatory properties, but can cause problems with liver so open minded doctor should be utilized for this.\n\nShouldn't wear braces during rest, it will weaken your ligaments ultimately causing a more rapid degeneration of the area.
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While I am a fan of the Cord Blood Registry (the link previously posted), I have to point out that they work with a subset of stem cells, the hematopoietic stem cells, and most of what is talked aobut in the media has to do with embryonic stem cells. Their web site does distinguish the two, but it's worth keeping the difference in mind.\n\nGood link nonetheless.