The landmark operation involved injecting the scaffold of a windpipe, taken from a dead donor, with stem cells from the boy before implanting it in his throat.
The stem cells were removed from the boy's bone marrow and were ready for use just four hours later.

The cells trigger regrowth to create a normal windpipe without ... ]]>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=78http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=78Europe's first accredited private cord blood bank, Future Health Technologies Ltd (Future Health), has given its support to the HTA's campaign, launched today (Tuesday 9 March 2010), to ensure that all UK cord blood collections are both lawful and safe.

Interest in cord blood banking - cryogenically storing the stem cells from the umbilical cord for up to 25 years - has become increasingly popular with parents around the world in the last ten years, in line with increasing evidence of t... ]]>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=70http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=70Researchers at the Medical College of Georgia are conducting the first FDA-approved adult stem cell clinical trial in cerebral palsy. The trial, led by Dr. James Carroll, professor and chief of pediatric neurology in MCG School of Medicine, will investigate whether stem cells from umbilical cord blood can improve the quality of life for children with cerebral palsy. Umbilical cord blood is rich in adult-type stem cells, which can divide and morph into different types of cells throughout the b... ]]>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=69http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=69A paper in Nature Medicine has been has been heralded as a major advance for bone marrow transplantation, reporting a new way of manipulating cord blood stem cells to expand their numbers without causing differentiation from stem cells into normal blood cells (which are unsuitable for transplantation).

Bone marrow donations are used ... ]]>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=64http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=64Umbilical cord stem cells may help treat people whose vision is damaged by a cloudy cornea, US research suggests.

The cornea is the transparent front part of the eye, which protects the delicate structures underneath and helps focus light.

But disease or injury can make it go cloudy, impairing vision, and corneas for transplant are in short supply.

A US team used human umbilical cord stem cells to treat laboratory mice with abnormally thin, cloudy corneas.Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=63http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=63Karl H. Schuleri1, Gary S. Feigenbaum2,3, Marco Centola1, Eric S. Weiss4, Jeffrey M. Zimmet1, Jennifer Turney5, Joshua Kellner5, Menekhem M. Zviman1, Konstantinos E. Hatzistergos2,3, Barbara Detrick6, John V. Conte4, Ian McNiece3, Charles Steenbergen6, Albert C. Lardo1 and Joshua M. Hare2,3,*  

_{1 Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
2 Cardiovascular Division, Department of M... ]]>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=61http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=61Future Health Technologies Ltd has appointed a new midwifery advisor to assist the company in continuing to improve and enhance its services and to help develop its relationship with the NHS.}

Tracy Thomas is a fully qualified and practicing midwife and will hold the post alongside her current role as Head of Midwifery at the Private Birth Centre in Northwich, Cheshire.

Having started her career in healthcare in 1989, Tracy qualified as a midwife in 1999 and began work in the NHS. ... ]]>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=56http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=56 

Paula Aspinall, 34, of Northwich, Cheshire, and her partner, Peter, paid up to £2,000 for the unique insurance policy for themselves, baby Daniel and his three-year-old sister Megan.

Samples of tissue and blood from the cord will be stored cryogenically for 20 years with the potential to use the cord's stem cells if any of the family fall s... ]]>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=58http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=58A FIRM in Nottingham has become the first in the UK to store tissue as well as blood from babies' umbilical cords.

The technique is set to help fight even more illnesses.

Future Health Technologies has been offering parents the chance to freeze and store potentially life-saving stem cells from new-born babies' cord blood for years.

These can be used to treat dozens of illnesses of the blood and immune system.
But Future Health Technologies at Nottingham Science and Tech... ]]>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=59http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=59A family from Cheshire have become the first in the country to have tissue from their baby's umbilical cord frozen as a health insurance in case they become sick.

 The cord contains stem cells, which are the body's 'building blocks'. Cells from stored cord blood are already being used in place of bone marrow transplants to treat 85 different blood and immune diseases, including ... ]]>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=55http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=55You may already be familiar with the phrase Hematopoietic Stem Cells (HSCs). These are the cord blood cells that Future Health are already fully accredited to collect and store. The ones already used in a whole host of medical therapies.

Now, we're delighted to announce that we offer a new service - for the processing and storage of Cord Tissue Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs).

Like HSCs, MSCs are also derived from the umbilical cord, only unlike HSCs, which are extr... ]]>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=53http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=53From Times Online, September 24, 2009

A British surgeon has saved a dying heart patient by giving him an artificial... ]]>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=51http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=51A 21 Year Study of Acute Myeloid Leukemia Treated with Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation:
Long-term outcomes of myeloablation and autologous transplantation of relapsed acute myeloid leukemia in second remission: a British Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation registry study.

Chantry AD, Snowden JA, Craddock C, Peggs K, Roddie C, Craig JI, Orchard K, Towlson KE, Pearce RM, Marks DI; BSBMT Clinical Trials Committee.

Academic Unit of ... ]]>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=50http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=50Evening Telegraph, June 3rd, 2009

Two years after a little girl underwent life-saving treatment for leukaemia, doctors have proclaimed the procedure a success.

Specialists have told Eva Winston-Hart's parents Amy and Dave that the five-year-old remains free of the cancerous cells which threatened to take her life.

Eva received a stem ... ]]>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=49http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=49By Bob Ellis

May 28th, 2009

No, it wasn't embryonic stem cell therapy that cured Joseph Davis Jr.'s sickle cell anemia. But from the "mainstream" media's hype of embryonic stem cell research, you probably guessed it was.

While there is still not a single successful therapy derived from embryonic stem cell (ESC) research, the case of Joseph Davis Jr. is yet another success from a stem cell therapy that, unlike ESC, does not destroy innocent human life.

OneNews... ]]>Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=47http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=47A clinical trial involving a potential new stem cell therapy for multiple sclerosis (MS) has been described as 'exciting' by researchers.

The study is published in the Lancet Neurology medical journal and suggests that, by giving patients injections of their own immune stem cells, it may be possible to reverse the neurological dysfunction of early-stage MS.

The technique was trialled on 21 patients who had typically been diagnosed with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis five y... ]]>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=44http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=44
Press Release: Raynish Consumer

2 December 2008

First NZ Child With Brain Injury Successfully Treated With Her Own Cord Blood

A young Auckland girl has become the first New Zealander to undergo a ground-breaking umbilical cord blood treatment for a birth-related brain injury.

Four-year-old Maia Friedlander was treated with her own cord blood at Duke University, North Carolina, USA in August 2008 and her parents say the results over the past 12 weeks ha... ]]>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=43http://www.futurehealth.co.uk/newspage.asp?lang=1&Page=43By Michelle Roberts
Health reporter, BBC News

Surgeons in Spain have carried out the world's first tissue-engineered whole organ transplant - using a windpipe made with the patient's own stem cells.

The groundbreaking technology also means for the first time tissue transplants can be carried out without the need for anti-rejection drugs.

Five months on the pati... ]]>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00