Another Autism “Treatment”: Stem Cell Therapy
July 12, 2007 by Kristina Chew, PhD
Filed under Health
I noted a few days ago that causes for autism seem to proliferate like wildflowers: Look away for one moment and there is another one springing up. It is the same with treatments for autism; perhaps it would not be unuseful to feature an “autism treatment of the week,” if only to underscore how many there seem to be. The latest is stem cell therapy, as noted in a July 11th Business Wire press release: “The Institute for Cellular Medicine (www.cellmedicine.com) announced today what appears to be the first publication in a peer reviewed journal outlining scientific rationale for the use of stem cells in the treatment of autism.” The Institute for Cellular Medicine has a clinic in Mexico; its director, Dr. Frank Morales, is listed as “board certified” in “Hyperbaric Medicine” and “Oxidative Medicine,” both of which are connected to some “alternative” and unproven treatments for autism. Dr. Morales is one of the authors of an article, Autism Stem Cell Therapy, which was published in the June 27th Journal of Translational Medicine.
Or, if not to Mexico for stem cell treatment, you can go to China: The July 2nd Wall Street Journal reported on parents who are taking their autistic children to China for stem-cell injections at a cost of $10,000. (The article is only available via subscription; a WSJ blog contains a summary of the article.)
Dozens of foreigners a month, many of them children, have been flying to a handful of hospitals in China, seeking stem-cell injections for a variety of conditions. There is no widely accepted scientific evidence that the procedures work or are even safe. Nonetheless, desperate patients are spending thousands of dollars, hoping to find cures for brain injuries, cerebral palsy and even autism — a developmental disorder with uncertain origins and a range of symptoms, from the failure to develop language skills to the inability to sense the feelings of others.
Some stem cells have the potential to turn into different cells, including muscle, blood and brain cells, leading scientists to believe that they may be useful in treating medical disorders. In the U.S., embryonic stem cells have been hugely controversial because researchers must destroy a days-old human embryo to harvest them. Chinese doctors use different, more mature stem cells from umbilical-cord blood, brain tissue of aborted fetuses and other sources.
These types of treatments aren’t allowed in the U.S. The National Institutes of Health supports research on adult and embryonic stem cells as therapy for a variety of disorders, but Naomi Kleitman, program director for the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, notes that the cells “are still being investigated at a basic level in animal models.”
Last March, Bruce Dobkin, the medical director at the neurologic rehabilitation and research program at the University of California, Los Angeles, published a report in a peer-reviewed medical journal on the work of a Chinese spinal-cord researcher who has offered stem-cell therapies to foreigners for years. Dr. Dobkin’s study said none of the seven spinal-injury patients who were observed experienced significant improvements, and five suffered potentially dangerous complications.
The article profiles the experience of Christina Bogert of San Jose, CA, an aerospace engineer for Lockheed Martin Corp; in June 2006, she took her 10-year-old autistic son Douglas to receive five injections at a hospital in Shenzhen, a city not far from Hong Kong.
After the month of injections, Ms. Bogert and Doug waited for their flight home in Hong Kong’s airport. Doug was running circles around his mother. Somehow, he had lost his shoes. Ms. Bogert was hopeful the treatments would help, but unsure if they would return for more. “I’ve played guinea pig so many times with my kid already,” she said. “I don’t really want to do it again.”
Back home in San Jose, Calif., she watched her son’s behavior closely, looking for hints of progress. There were some hopeful signs. Doug’s handwriting, which used to be barely legible, began to improve, according to his mother. When his parents tried to teach him his telephone number, they figured they would have to break it into three parts. But the first time they showed him the number in full, they say, he memorized it immediately.
But since these “encouraging surprises,” Bogert has not seen any progress and does not plan a return trip to China. And I’m wondering what will be the next headline-making “cure-all treatment” for autism?
I agree with your general tone in that, at the moment, stem cell therapy is probably offering false hope more than anything else. But, unlike many other type of therapies/treatments/cures, etc., I think stem cells or some deriviative type of treatment may eventually offer significant benefit. Any tangible progress using stem cells is probably at least a decade away, but, in my non-scientific opinion, I think it possible that stem cell research may offer real benefits for many types of conditions, including autism, in the coming years and decades.
Yes, it’s good to keep open possibilities, but one is always concerned to read about parents trying out experimental treatments, for reasons of safety and economics. Hopefully more answers will be found.
Great to hear from you, Tim!
I agree, it seems that the causes and treatments are on a conveyer belt of sorts. It’s hard to know sometimes what to “weed” out. There’s always a negative side to every treatment, whether it be possible side effects or opinions. ABA is a good example. ABA has been very helpful for John but recently I’ve heard some STRONG opinions against it.
There are a lot of opinions and criticism against ABA and rightfully so I think—I tried to indicate something of this in an essay I wrote for the Lovaas newsletter, Meeting Point. With ABA, you have to look so very closely at the provider—not only their background—-experience, how you might interact with them……..
Can I just hop up and down in fury for a moment that I cannot get a proven-beneficial stem cell treatment for MS (using my little one’s cord blood) that might save my rapidly-ebbing-away ability to walk. and yet somehow every experimental treatment under the sun is being touted for autism.
No, seriously, I’m sorry, I JUST found out yesterday that it would probably cost us literally hundreds of thousands of dollars to do this treatment, and I happened on your post this afternoon. I’m bitter…
The question to me about the “autism stem cell therapy” mentioned is: Is it “proven”? And safe…..
There is absolutely no basis what so ever to presume that stem cells will have any benefit at all to autism.
The most characteristic symptom of the ASDs is a larger brain. How are stem cells supposed to “help” that?
Has there ever been any demonstration of any loss of any neural structure in the brain of ASDs? No, there hasn’t been. It has been looked for innumerable times, and it isn’t there. There are subtle differences, but nothing so gross that it stands out as something that can be “fixed” with such a crude treatment as injecting stem cells.
The “logic” of stem cells to treat ASDs is just like the “logic” of chelation.
“People with autism act differently, they must have brain damage, mercury can cause brain damage, chelating out mercury must fix autism.”
“People with autism act differently, they must have brain damage, stem cells must fix brain damage, stem cells must fix autism.”
Stem cells can cause severe injury, even death. Early “complications” from neuronally implanted stem cells were the filling of the skull with teratomas.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=16456136&ordinalpos=13&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum
Presumably to do any “good”, the stem cells have to be injected deep into the brain. If a teratoma forms there, it can only be removed by hacking out large chunks of the brain.
Stem cells are a lot riskier than chelation.
My name is Thomas Ichim, I am an author on the paper described.
Please understand that the proposal in the paper involves only adult stem cells that have been clinically used and are in clinical use in the US.
Specifically, mesenchymal stem cells are used in clinical trials by the company http://www.osiris.com, as well as numerous academic investigators.
Cord blood stem cells appear safe in conditions without myeloablation. Please read our paper ”
Riordan NH, Chan K, Marleau AM, Ichim TE.
Cord blood in regenerative medicine: do we need immune suppression? J Transl Med. 2007 Jan 30;5:8.
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one. Chinese Proverb
That principle has indeed been applied time and again regarding autism.
Do not believe these people at MediStem/Institue for Cellular Medicine .. they are frauds. Check into the academic credentials of Neil Riordan and others associated with the Company. There are claims of PhDs from Universities that Do Not Offer a PhD Nor Ever Did. These guys are simply conartists.
If you go to Costa Rica or Mexico for “treatment” there is a good chance that this “treatment” will kill you!
Hello Kristina
I dont actually know what my child has. Doctors placed her in a category referred to as severe encepalopathy borderland. She is learning impaired. I track the net for ideas of what is going on in the world of Stem Cell research. I am wondering what time frame you believe we should be looking at before children like mine might benefit from stem cell research?
Thanks for writing her-e–may as I ask how old your daughter is? I’m not a physician or scientist so this response is from neither of those perspectives. For myself, I would only pursue such an experimental and expensive solution after a lot of research and consultation and questioning. Have you been able to speak to any parents whose children have undergone this treatment? What have your daughter’s doctors said? From my experience in considering treatments “alternative” and not for my son, my husband and I have tended to prefer to err on the side of caution if any “medical” procedures are involved; we have put the greatest emphasis on education and things like speech therapy, occupational therapy, and physical therapy.
I am not sure that I am answering your question here—I hope you have had a good start to the new year and thank you very much for writing here. Very best wishes—-
Hello Kristina
My daughter is 4 years of age. She will be 5 on April 29. I believe she was born quite normal (overdue slightly by 1 – 2 week and a little underweight as a result before being delivered by inducement) but her language skills were not the best and she seemed to be delayed in her ability to crawl and walk and talk. So we took her to a paediatrician who referred us to a speech pathologist. She couldnt get any results.
Though we followed her instructions and tried things neither could we her parents.
. At 18 months (approximate guess here) she had a scheduled vaccination and everything started to go awry.
She had massive seizures and epileptic reactions (tonic/clonic) and had to be rushed to emergency in hospital and to intensive care so many time in a 3 month spell we practically lived in paed wards. We nearly lost her twice in that time. After much experimenting with the meds she eventually reached a stage where the seizures abated from 5 – 6 per day (15 at worst) and long ones that would leave her exhausted and collapsed for an hour a time and sometimes unconscious most of the day to a situation where we now have weeks of no seizures or if they occur…she returns to awareness within less than a minute. Very rarely do we need hospital now but maybe 2 – 3 x a year if seizures go > 5 a day and they seem close to 5 minutes on a rare bad day.
We saw neurologists and had MRI scans and tests for genetic abnormality etc etc. Basically her white and grey matter were considered normal and we as parents were genetically tested and found to have normal gene set (tests sent to Scotland). No history of epilepsy in family of either that we knew of.
Neurologists were perplexed. They ended up saying she more than likely was suffering Severe Eplieptic Encephalopathy (tonic/clonic seizure types with some abscences) Borderland. They really couldnt pin point it. So they didnt label her Autistic or Cerebal Palsy. No doubt she suffered some hurt from the worst period of her attacks (but nothing visible on scans). CT scans showed she had at her worst time non localised epilepsy from multiple points of her brain. But that was 2 years ago and last time a test was done at home with a portable monitor…her abnormal activity was no detectable.
She must be fed by us, we spoon feed her (always soft puree’d foods as she cant handle anything more) and syringe her drinks to her. She cant or wont feed herself. She is recognises people and engages them in eye contact but cant make speech. Just odd words like mama, dad, stop, baby etc. Monosyllable or one word outbursts. She can walks ok but doesnt sense danger and must be watched. She rarely cries unless she hurts herself and even then it has to be bad.
I really find most doctors and specialists very tactless. I ask them questions or show them information I have researched myself and they shove it back at me without response as though I am too stupid to be given the time of day. One Neurologist asked my wife to repeat Shaveenas table of events from birth and then looked so blank I asked her for an opinion based on similar cases as to where Shaveena might be in terms of future potential and how such children sometimes progress/dont progress compared to the so called “normal” line of achievement(ok call it desperate question but I felt I had to ask). She looked as me and said in a most horrible tone: “Mr Moore your child is learning impaired…..” I thought no kidding! It seems some people can read about a subject but they still dont understand the people who live it each day.
All the “therapies” have not really worked for Shaveena. She loves life and is a smiling and happy child and loves to be fussed over. But I always want more for her.
I am starting to liase with people who have had children suffering the range of ailments like encephalopathy/autism/cerebal palsy (given our specialists confusion with what our daughter has) and who have been through the programs by such organisations as offered by :www.stemcellschina.com
Many of these have had results they say have helped their childs condition. Not always instantly. But over time. I have read also those who have had no sign of improvement so dont take this as a miracle cure or “cure for everyone”. Where money is concerned and the ability of organisations to falsely promote results and plant people who are paid to tout results…I am always sceptical. But as I collect information I feel a little bit more optimistic in my daily life for myself and daughter than I did before learning about this.
I started doing so after seeing Discovery Channels documentary on Stem cell treatments in China. I am also looking to liaise with a father in USA who took his daughter with positive results to Germany for treatment (using stem cells from bone marrow cultures derived from hip/leg) and all up am collecting as much information as possible.
I would not be put off if treatment did not work here and now as I believe in 10 years medicine may improve and stem cells research with it. However I am disgusted by western nations and governments who pander to extremist religious views and fail to research something so important while they can fund weapons and wars and nonsense that improves no ones quality of life. Hence why I look to countries like China (though I prefer to use my own country (Australia) if I could.
We all must have hope. My child is not a vegetable and I have seen some cases from my many visits to Royal Childrens hospital here in Melbourne that show my and my daughters situation is far from a worse case scenario when I see what some families must endure. My child is bouncy and alert and very loving. She is just very dependant in her daily routines on us.
Mostly now she has very minor abscence seizures.
But she needs medication to prevent the worst coming back.
My wife blames her gyno for leaving the delivery of our baby past the due date. Or not monitoring baby on the day of delivery for stress. I consider the vaccination did not help. But thats blame game and doesnt help daughter now. But Stem Cell research is in the “Sputnik” stage. I can only hope it one day – if it cant help her now – progresses far beyond this and is of use to her.
Many a night i never slept and am on anti depression tablets myself. But I am coping much better now and can handle the situation. My wife refuses to use medication for herself and I know she carries a lot of stress from this daily.
Graeme,
I apologize tremendously for not writing back sooner. I’m afraid I have no answers, only thoughts—-I do have some friends whose children have Landau Kleffner Syndrome, or who have been given an autism diagnosis only to find that it is epilepsy. One friend told me also about her son as “typical” at birth and then having seizures and losing skills, including speech…… I have not met my friend’s son; I think he is on medication, like your daughter, and also does teaching at home (using the Floortime method).
I know that education and teaching can only do so much—-but what kind of learning program or school or such is Shaveena in?
Sorry I cannot say much more concrete or truly helpful. My son does not have seizures (his diagnosis is definitely autism; I know that some autistic children start to have seizures in adolescence and I watch him closely, as he is on the verge of entering puberty). But regarding the difficulties communicating with the Western medical establishment—not that this might provide any real answers either!—-there is a book about a girl with epilepsy called The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Ann Fadiman. The girl, Lia, is Hmong and her family emigrated from Laos to California; the book is about the conflicts, miscommunications, and confusion that arose between the well-meaning Western doctors and her family. I often reflect on this book when we are trying to speak to doctors about Charlie; he does not have a lot of language, so figuring his ailments is quite a guessing game.
My son was induced—-he was a relatively big baby, with a large head; he was very behind on all of his gross motor skills (rolling over, sitting, walking).
Do you have other children, if I may ask? Charlie is our own and only—–his has been a different story, but there have been times when his behaviors became so serious (and self-injurious) that we were not sure what would happen. But the stress can be daunting and my husband and I are just now coming through some crazy time ourselves. Many best wishes—- I wish I could say something more directly helpful.
Thank you, most of all, for writing about your daughter.
Hello to all!
I have just finished taking to a medical doctor about stem cells .He is a head of main hematology laboratory in Poland .He told me , tak THERE IS not possible to treat pacient with stem cells ( cd34+etc) without KILLING immune system with chemio therapy (partly or all) and that stem cell will
be from donner ( family or its own ambilicocord taken after one’s birth) .
I than , have a question to Kristina or parents of Mathew , how child is prepared to this procedure??
Is this save ??
What about similarity of cell?
possible side effects?
Please
Monika
@Monika, I think Matthew’s father would have a better sense than I—–I will make sure that he sees your comment. Very best.
Thanks!Kritina!
I have seen many Youtube and testimonials from China stem cell clinic .One patien had his cell removed from his hip .I belive they are cultured and IV drip given .There is some autistic children , some follow stem cell with IV EDTA (why?)Can someone contact mother of FIRST child treated in Costa Rica ???
Matthew’s parents know this too , I belive .
I still do not understand how foreign stem cells can “take ” in my child body .
How does it work ??
I was told that immune suppresion must be given .
Please explaine
Monika
Kristina Chew,
As a physian surgeon and father of an autistic child I am more than a little surprised that you have a blog where you criticize a scientific discipline that you have absolutely no knowledge training or credentials to even intelligently discuss let alone critique. This devastating disease has been vary plausibly linked to vaccines and most likely represents a multifactorial combination of events that involves in some cases heavy metals like mercury and most likely an autoimmune response that causes demylenation and possibly ischemia and cell death. The mirror neuron cells in the brain (see Cognitive Brain Research 24 (2005) 190–198) have been shown to be dysfunctional as reflected in mu wave activity in comparative
EEG’S in ASD children and control groups. The idea that stem cell research may or may not contribute to the improvement of ASD can be directly evaluted with these same tools. Your baseless opinion and flippant remarks add nothing intelligent to the discussion of stem cell therapy as this is not classical Greek literature. Parents such as myself that have knowledge and resources are definitely looking into to stem cell research as possible way to improve our childrens life and hope.
There are some serious people looking at this disorder now and we will be asking hard questions of drug companies that produce these vaccines in third world countries and hospitals and peditricians that administer these vaccines without truly informed consents from both parents.
I will be starting my own blog soon so people can come and get a real education at a forum that offers hope and new knowledge. As you do not have any training at all in this field of discipline it is not appropriate for you to try to distinguish hype and hope. Taking away peoples hope for there childrens improvement serves no purpose.
@David V. Payne,
Thanks very much for your thoughtful criticism. It is noted on this blog that these are the writings of a parent and not medical advice. As a parent of older child, I have been concerned to see the ever-increasing number of “treatments” proposed for autism; some of these I have myself tried and, in more than a few cases, had much reason to question. Thank you for noting your future blog and look forward to more discussion of important issues. Very best——
David H. Payne thank you for your post .
For the past few days I researched umbilical blood stem cells , and I’m convinced it may work .I learned that stem cells with a proper handling and culturing (pre treatment with Mannitol etc) can really help.
As a parent of 10 yo girl I took many avenues , and NO regrets!!Today we use homepathic potenties DPT/POLIO/HIB remedies , and this only prooves that this is a key to my child problems .
But to recover I need to REPROGRAM whole cell membrane , as pertussin toxin has blocked AMP.
Look forward to hear /read your new blog
Monika
A must read, peer review paper on why you don’t need to suppress the immune system when giving cord blood stem cells
http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/pdf/1479-5876-5-8.pdf
I realize that this conversaton concerns stem cell treatment for autism. That is why I was reading it. But I wanted to mention hyerbaric oxygen therapy.
My daughter has a diagnosis of Landau-kleffner syndrome. But if you put her into a giant paper bag with a bunch of autistic kids and gave the bag a good shake, you couldn’t pick her out of the bunch just by lookjing at her.
I took her for Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy years ago and it has changed our lives.
Before, she was barely human–biting herself and us, wearing more food than she ate, smearing feces, no sense of danger of pain…she had no idea who I was and didn’t care.
She also had a seizure disorder that was so severe that she would always stop breathing during seizures and never started breathing on her own. Rescue breathing is terrifying.
She had 200 mono-place hyperbaric oxygen treatments.
She is sweet and loving. She is in school and she has friends. She has a wicked sense of humor. And I have not had to resuscitate her since her first treatment 6 years ago. She didn’t even have another seizure until last year, but I was told that she would probably need 20 or so “refresher” treatments every few years.
She still cannot speak. And she seems more like a rather high-functioning autistic. But she is a miracle none the less.
the catch is that The mono-place hyperbaric chamber is supposed to be more effective for this kind of thing. And in America, it is insanely expensive–which is why I have not taken her back for more treatments. And, you have to do 200 treatments.
Huge commitment. Tons of money.
But I wanted to put it out there for anyone who might be interested. There really aren’t terrible side effects, either.
There is a website called the parent-to-parent network (AKA MUMS mothers united for moral support) that is pretty interesting.
My child has come a very long way. But I’m still looking for that Holy Grail.
Charly
respected dr,
i am renuga occupational therapist, from india city of coimbatore. i would like to ask some doubt regading stem cell therapy, we have a plan to do our indian childern, so please reply for my mail how can i contact you.
thank you.
I have two children on the spectrum – the elder received vaccinations and the younger has not. I have experienced the wide range of emotions that most parents do – it is not an easy road. However, does my own experience on some leves refutes vaccinations as the main cause of autism……
@k, some other parents have noted similar experiences—-choosing not to vaccinate a second child (after an older one had a diagnosis) and the second child also being on the autism spectrum.
Yes, not an easy road; knowing others like you are out there has made a tremendous difference.
http://www.recoveringMatthew.blogspot.com
Seriously Concerned how dare you say the things you have said.
My son Matthew is recovering from autism thru Adult Stem Cells from cord blood. We have been to the clinic in Costa Rica in Feb 2008 and June 2008 and think they are the greatest Drs we have ever met. You can watch all of our news stories and read our blog at http://www.recoveringMatthew.blogspot.com
why did US Govt lock the Doors of Embroyonic Stemcell Research which will lead to cure those millions of innocent Americans with non-curable Diseases under current Medical standards. I wish people who are against Embroyonic Stemcell Research to suffer those terminally ill diseases to understand & feel the pain of others. I hope, oneday these ruthless Pharma companies fearing about loosing their Drug sales due to stem-cell therapy,stupid politicians fearing about votes due to stem-cell support and Ignorant/ruthless religious fanatics will be thrown out to pave a way to Stem-cell research.
Embroyonic Stem cells are a hoax. The real cures are with Adult Stem Cells.
http://www.recoveringMatthew.blogspot.com
hello,
I am mother of a cerebral palsy child who got bone marrow stem cell injections. and improved in his speech tremendously, because of seizures he couldnt make out to walk but know trying to do so. So dont lose hopes on stem cell therapy because it is the only solution for all brain damaged children. Dont leave those children without treating with stemcells. there are improvements which are seen in recent world.Therapy itself would work good for the child. So please dont leave the child only with therapy, do something very recently developed for good of the child.
Hi, I have an 8 year old beautiful boy. Diagnosed with Autism at 4 1/2
He was born with no complications two weeks early, started walking unassisted at 11 months and reached all necessary milestones. At 18 months he started to wear nappies only at bed time. (He would see his older brother use the toilet and he would want to as well).
He loved playing games with us and would get excited when other children would come to play. He would sit in at kindergarten with his brother and enjoy taking part in activities.
He knew the alphabet and could name the letters even when they were not in order. When I named the animals he would make the noises. He could point to things and could follow simple instructions, eg; where are your shoes?
He would play hide and seek with his grandfather and understood both Greek and English.
We had no problems or any reason to doubt his development. However,
When he was 18 months he was immunised. He had a very bad reaction, for over a week he had temperatures over 40, we were at the hospital every day and the doctors just kept on sending us home. He became very lethargic,did not move from the couch and lost his appetite.
Once this episode was over he was never the same. For the following months instead of gaining words he started loosing them, he then started wearing nappies all the time. He lost his smile and eventually lost all eye contact and words. He could no longer say ‘mummy’. His face was like a blank canvas.
By the time he was 3, my baby was never the same.
For the last 3 1/2 years we have done early intervention, speech therapy, OT, changed his diet, Kinesiology, and attends an Autistic based school.
He loves playing computer games; he can master a new game within seconds without needing to refer to instructions. Another interest of his is cars. He loves to film them on his camera and show us.
He does have some words now and limited eye contact, however, I have to force him to look at us and use his words. We have a long way to go to get him back to what he was before he got sick.
We are investigating whether a stem cell transplant can help him.
If anyone can help me with their advice or if they have treated their child to let me know of progress.
Much appreciated.
Dianne (located in Australia)
Diane,
Your son’s story sounds very similar to that of our son, except he started to rebound at age 3 literally within a week of starting him on small amounts of DMG. Since then, he has made tremendous strides forward – first regained eye contact, gradually started “getting” cause and effect in a way he never had before, gained a tremendous number of word and speach, and is simply worlds away from where he was. He is now 4 1/2, still diagnosed on the spectrum, but the progress since a year and a half ago has been amazing. It sounds like you’ve tried many different approaches, but wondering if you’ve tried DMG?
hemasaravanan, I have a son who needs help. could you give me details?
My 3 yr old son has been diagnosed with Autism. We have banked his cord blood and I would like to know the risk of using these stem cells to treat him. I believe his autism was caused by the 6 months of antibiotics he took from 6-12 months old for chronic ear infections. I’ve tried emailing anyone I can find that would have some knowledge, finding no leads, but am still trying…
Dianne,
I have a child with ASD just like you. We tried stem cell treatment and it has shown good changes in my child.
Hi! I also have cord blood of my son’s that I would like to use for my 6-yr old boy with PDD-NOS. Can anyone have any information that would help me?
Thanks!
Hi,
If you have cord blood stored and your child has CP,there is a clinical trial starting soon at MCG.
I was wondering…..I watched a vidoe on u tube from 2007 on WSVN.Com and they said that this stem cell injections were $15,000.00 and could financed. Do u have any info on this or do u know of how I could get info on financing this??? Thanks Jadest
Hi,
Why dont you try this organisation, NTAF Southeast Stem Cell Transplant Fund. They maybe able to help you. Good Luck.
Please add me you your e-mail and website when you are up and running. I also have a 7 year old boy with Autism. Thank You.