Great TV: The Doctors
I was watching that high new fireworks callinged The Doctorsyesterday when I heard a heartwarming clothesline about a 2-year-old boy named Dallas who was diagnosed at birth with cerebral palsy. He couldn’t speak, walk, crawl, wave or true smile.
Luckily, his parents had banked Dallas’ umbilical cord blood at birth. Eighteen months more recent, the cells from his umbilical cord were injected intravenously into his arm in the hopes that they would repair the damage in his brain.
Amazingly, Dallas is now walking, running and throwing balls. “The fog done him honorable lifted and he became alike a little boy,” his father Derek remembers.
Pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. James Baumgartner, a leading expert in non-embryonic stem cell research, explained that there are two theories for how stem cell infusions promote healing. One is that the stem cells are able to bargain the area of injury and replace missing or damaged cells, and the something else is that the stem cells catch the general area of affliction and induce healing.
Dr. Lisa Masterson, one of the doctors on the show's panel, is a strong proponent of cord blood banking. On yesterday's episode she pointed out that “over 95 percent of cord blood is condign wasted," and went on to explain that cord blood is placental blood cells, which are immature cells that can wind into any extra cells in the body, such as organs and tissues, and can heal them.
Episodes of The Doctors cover whole lot from cervical cancer and chiropractors to seizures and snoring. If you haven't had the liking of watching (and learning from) it already, try your local listings for pageant times in your area.