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Match found in ‘needle in a haystack’ search for stem cell donor – The Guardian

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2016-02-09

The Guardian

Match found in ‘needle in a haystack’ search for stem cell donor
The Guardian
After a worldwide search for a stem cell donor who could match the rare Thai-Italian background of a student suffering from leukaemia, one has been found – a chance described as “a needle in a haystack” when the hunt was launched. The search for a …
Lara Casalotti: Student finds rare stem cell donor after #Match4Lara campaignThe Independent
Lara Casalotti announces stem cell donor found after her worldwide #Match4Lara appealTelegraph.co.uk
Family speak of relief as Leukaemia sufferer finds rare stem cell donorITV News
BBC News –Mirror.co.uk –Metro
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2016-02-09

Mirror.co.uk

Stem cell donor found for mixed race woman after huge global appeal backed by celebrities
Mirror.co.uk
A student who sparked the world’s biggest hunt for a stem cell donor is to undergo a life-saving transplant after finding a match. Lara Casalotti, 24, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of blood cancer before Christmas and warned she needed the …
Match found in ‘needle in a haystack’ search for stem cell donorThe Guardian
Leukaemia victim, 24, who sparked worldwide #Match4Lara appeal, finds a stem cell donorTelegraph.co.uk
Leukaemia sufferer Lara Casalotti has found a stem cell donor match after her #match4lara campaign went viralBT.com
Metro –BBC News –Sky News
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2016-02-08

Memphis Business Journal (blog)

Stem cell treatments drawing patients to Jackson
Memphis Business Journal (blog)
Roy Schmidt, whose clinic New Life Medical Group specializes in regenerative medicine, is attracting patients from as far away as New Mexico for stem cell and hyberbaric oxygen therapy. However, the treatments aren’t covered by most insurance plans, …

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2016-02-08

CBC.ca

Ben and Jenn McInnis’s baby, Kane, was born 12 weeks premature to allow his mother to undergo chemotherapy
CBC.ca
… Ben McInnis, who is spending much of his days in Halifax hospitals with his wife and child. “She’ll be going for another aggressive form of chemotherapy and radiation, to basically clean her bone marrow out so they can administer the stem cell

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2016-02-08

FDA Targets Stem Cell Clinics In California Offering Pricey, But Unproven, Treatments
California Healthline
The clinics have largely avoided regulation because they use stem cells from their patients’ own bodies, but critics call the therapies dangerous quackery. “It’s a huge, unapproved human experiment,” said Paul Knoepfler, a stem cell researcher at the …

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2016-02-08

Morning Break: Zika, Zika, Zika; Stem Cell Clinics; Stopping Chipotle Burrito Blues
MedPage Today
Stem cell clinics offering treatments for conditions ranging from autism to erectile dysfunction have flourished in an unregulated atmosphere, but that is about to change as federal regulators prepare a “crackdown.” (STAT). A fourth transplant patient