Archive for January, 2009
Friday, January 30th, 2009
Cord Blood America, Inc. (OTCBB: CBAI), the umbilical cord blood stem cell preservation company (http://www.cordblood-america.com) focused on bringing the life saving potential of stem cells to families nationwide and internationally, said today that it intends a rapid expansion of its health insurance partnership program to new geographies in 2009.
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
Ahead of the publication on Friday 30 January of a paper in The Lancet Neurology reporting the results of a trial involving stem cell transplantation in people with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (MS), please find below a comment from the MS Society:
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
A small trial at a US hospital where patients with early stage MS had their own immune system stem cells transplanted back into their bodies appears to have reversed the neurological dysfunction of the early stages of the disease by causing their immune systems to "reset". The scientists said the results should now be confirmed with a larger, randomized trial.
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