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Cell Procedure Saves A Boy's Leg

Stem cells have opened so many gateways to personalized medicine that no one could ever imagine a few years back. Not only the traditional transplants, with stem cells, medical practitioners are now able to treat many rare conditions. Thanks to the researchers and their novel techniques, involving stem cells. This is a story of Javier Tan, a 9 year old boy, who was suffering from a rare genetic illness, Fanconi anaemia, which led his blood count drop to a significantly low levels. He required a stem-cell transplant; so that his body would be able create new blood cells He received his first stem cell transplant when he was 7. The surgery was meant to save his life but call it irony of fate that it turned his life into a nightmare. Instead of healing, he contracted a bone infection. His condition was so severe that his doctors anticipated he would lose the limb. In that scenario, the optimum option was to wait for another donor, which might have taken several months. Instead his doct...

Incorporating Fitness With Fun

When movement is concerned in children, it is absolutely vital that parents consider assimilating sports and complex exercise in playtime. The benefits of physically demanding exercise in children are near endless and they help to not only produce short term advantages (quicker bedtimes) but long term as well. Children also tend to learn by experiences and the best way for that is through trial and error in the playgrounds. For a long while it was a rarity when a trip to the park or playgrounds would render your children exhausted and content for the entirety of the day, but these days the trend is on the way out. Just last week I heard the two incredibly desired words from my four-year old, "I'm tired". Now this is incredibly uncommon coming from my sugar-rushed son whose idea of a pre-bedtime meal is a massive bowl of Froot Loops. So hearing that he was exhausted from his afternoon on the local church's playground equipment had a welcome reception from the missus a...