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Treating Disease with Stem Cells
Title: Treating Disease with Stem Cells
Category: Science & Technology
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Treating Disease with Stem Cells
Treating Disease with Stem Cells
This article was written by Dr. Gregory Hale, professor of Pediatrics at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, in response to questions posed by Scientific American Magazine regarding the treatment of certain diseases with cord blood stem cells. There is some additional information provided by Viacord, a medical service company that provides private family cord blood banking, processing, and research. Dr. Hale discussed the advantages of cord blood stem …showed first 75 words of 1100 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1100 total…are currently treatable with Stem Cells*:
Malignant Diseases
· Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
· Acute myeloblastic leukemia
· Chronic myelogenous leukemia
· Hodgkin’s disease
· Multiple myeloma
· Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Nonmalignant Diseases
· Aplastic anemia
· Sickle cell anemia
· Osteopertrosis
· Globoid cell leukodystrophy
· Severe combined immunodeficiency
· Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
· X-linked lymphoproliferative syndrome
· Hunter’s syndrome
· Hurler’s syndrome
· Lesch Nyhan syndrome
· Beta thalassemia
*Scientific American, January 1998
Bibliography
Gregory Hale, Ph.D.
Scientific American Magazine Online
January 1998
http://www.sciam.com/medicine/medicine29.html
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