Below you'll find a list of all posts from December, 2016
When he was born at Mount Sinai Hospital, Jack was not breathing. Doctors whisked him away from his mother and started efforts to resuscitate him. They managed to save his life but soon had to deliver some bad news to his parents, Stephen Pankratz and Kim Kucher. Their son had Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE), brain damage caused by lack of …
Angels ace Garrett Richards, who suffered a high-grade tear of his ulnar collateral ligament in early May, has opted to forgo ligament-replacement surgery — for now — in favor of stem-cell therapy in hopes of pitching again this season. Richards underwent the procedure, in which stem cells are derived from bone or fat and injected into the injury site in …
British biotech ReNeuron has posted generally encouraging midstage data which showed their stem cell therapy could help certain stroke patients move their arms better after being left disabled by their condition. Despite not hitting its primary endpoint, it is still plotting a pivotal test starting next year. READ MORE
