Your early life may quietly set the stage for developing Type 1 diabetes, an increasingly common, lifelong condition that can ...

If her social media accounts are any indication, model, cookbook author, television personality, and entrepreneur Chrissy Teigen is a wonderful mother. Many parents regard her as a role model. That’s ...

When a baby is born, medical professionals routinely throw away a sick child's potential lifeline. Dr. Hugh Miller of Obstetrix Medical Group, 5301 E. Grant Road, is working to establish the upside of ...

SEATTLE — What would normally would be tossed out as medical waste after childbirth, has the potential to save a life. That was the case for a Seattle woman. "I started having what felt like asthma ...

Lab operations manager Beth Mapother reaches into a dewar at the Cord Blood Registry offices in Tucson, Ariz. The growing number of parents who bank their children’s cord blood believe it is a form of ...

Dear Doctors: My fiance and I plan to have kids someday. I was wondering if it would be beneficial to keep our babies’ umbilical cords, which would be full of stem cells. We would like to know how ...

Cerebral Palsy Center reports Kidswell Bio is advancing stem cell therapy for cerebral palsy in the U.S., focusing on cells ...

Two states are suing a major cord blood storage company, claiming it misled parents about the benefits of saving their newborn's stem cells. Texas filed a lawsuit last month against Cord Blood ...

Cell International, Inc. (NYSE American LLC: CCEL ) (the "Company"), the world’s first private cord blood bank to separate and store stem cells in 1992, announced results for the fiscal first quarter ...

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Rep. Josh Gottheimer's leadership on stem cell research is needed — and must continue.