I am glad that medical advances are helping to find a cure of Cerebral Palsy. It affected a lot of people around the country, and i am sure they would be glad to hear about this. Thanks for the updates.

I also hope we can make some progress with stem cell research. It also holds great promise in curing many diseases. But i hope we do it the correct way, not by destroying human embryos to achieve it.

I am glad that medical advances are helping to find a cure of Cerebral Palsy. It affected a lot of people around the country, and i am sure they would be glad to hear about this. Thanks for the updates.

I also hope we can make some progress with stem cell research. It also holds great promise in curing many diseases. But i hope we do it the correct way, not by destroying human embryos to achieve it

Thanks Jonathan. I have watched your great reporting over the years. You are good but it is your stories that I remember, not you really. That speaks well of a reporter. You get us the news without self promotion. Having two fatal diseases myself I am familiar with both Doctors and Procedures. This new Procedure looks hopeful. Thanks for explaining it and the importance of some sort of banks for umbilical cord blood. Doctors, like true reporters, forget themselves to accomplish the job. There are good Doctors and unfortunately some bad ones now days. We are thankful for the good ones….just like we are thankful for you good reporters who stand in the gap and get the truth out to us daily. The proof of the pudding is in the eating…..no matter what the product. Thanks for a story that gives many a little bit of hope.
Your fan,
N.Hillman

I don’t understand how this would work unless the stem cells were filtered out of cord blood and injected into the damagaed areas of the childs brain. Even then I would think that there would have to be a very rigerous physical cognitive thearapy going on to make the body need the added cells.

What a touching story. Thank you, Fox.

Thaknks, Fox.

The story was very good, but I wish it had been balanced with donation to the National Donor Marrow Program. There are a lot of reasons why using the donor’s cord blood is not the best alternative, but for cancer patients needing a transplant, cord blood provides much hope. Either way, to be using a biological component that was once tossed and burned says a lot about how far we’ve come.

Thank you for sharing this information. As a mother of a child with Cerebral Palsy (and who stored my child’s blood — thank God), I am more than hopeful.

Thank you,
Jacque

I’m Giancarlo’s grandmother , 4 years age.
The doctor delayed too much to make the cesarian and Giancarlo lost his movements.
He’s not able to seat, if we hold him, he tries to walk, even to run. He makes effort to hold things, to talk – very difficult. He eats and smile as a normal child does, he’s happy. He’s an intelligent, smart and very beautiful little angel. Apparently, the only damage occured in body movements area. My question is: if my daughter, Giancarlo’s mother has another baby, a Giancarlo’s brother or a sister, could we try to make use of the umbilicard cord blood to treat Giacarlo?
We suffer too much for Giancarlo.
Hope you are going to answer and gives some hope and relief.
Please reply

Jacqueline Rostagno
São Paulo – Brazil
ph. 0055-11-8175-3447
jackierostagno@gmail.com