Articles for Professionals

August 4, 2023
Reproductive Health and the value of stem cells
Discover how modern lifestyles contribute to reproductive health issues, impacting couples’ fertility. Delayed family planning exposes reproductive organs to risks. Explore emerging treatments, including stem cell therapy’s potential to address these problems.

July 18, 2023
Hope for Leukemia Patients: Cord Blood Transplants Prove Effective in High-Risk Cases
Discover the game-changing potential of cord blood transplants in high-risk AML cases. Promising outcomes with reduced relapse and improved survival rates.

May 25, 2023
Ovarian Cancer: Stem cell treatment to the rescue
Ovarian cancer is the fifth most common cause of cancer among women, accounting for more deaths than any other cancer of the female reproductive system. A woman’s risk of getting ovarian cancer during her lifetime is about 1 in 78. Due to later stages of diagnosis and reduced therapeutic efficacy, ovarian cancer is one of […]

May 24, 2023
Cervical Cancer and the Future of Stem Cell treatment
Cervical cancer is the second most frequent cancer among women in South Africa and the first most frequent cancer among women between 15 and 44 years of age.

April 28, 2023
Stem cells showing promising results in developing a treatment for Haemophilia
Hemophilia is a genetic disorder that affects the body’s ability to form blood clots, leading to severe bleeding. There is no cure for hemophilia, but recombinant clotting factors have increased life expectancy. Research on stem cell therapy is showing promise.

March 9, 2023
Stem cells’ therapeutic potential in treating Preeclampsia
Preeclampsia (PE) is a hypertensive disorder in pregnancy and the leading cause of death and disability, for both mothers and babies. With the greatest morbidity and mortality, PE affects 5% to 7% of all pregnant women but is responsible for over 70 000 maternal deaths and 500 000 fetal deaths worldwide every year.

November 22, 2021
What Is Regenerative Medicine?
The main benefits of this therapy are the healing or replacement of tissues or organs that have been damaged by disease and trauma. The field of regenerative therapy is still relatively new and if you would like to know more about the groundbreaking research and healing properties, this article will answer all the questions that you may have.

September 1, 2021
COVID-19 in pregnancy
Two-thirds of women who get COVID in pregnancy will have no symptoms at all, the majority of those who develop symptoms will experience mild flu-like symptoms, and only a very small number will develop severe disease.

September 1, 2021
A summary of COVID-19 Mesenchymal stem cell therapy to date
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting everyone, some more than others. For many families, it means making changes to daily routines because of financial hardships. For others, it means raised anxiety in children and tension in parenting relationships. It can be difficult to cope with the “new normal”, since everything we are used to has changed, […]

June 7, 2021
Graft-versus-Host Disease: Know your donor
For more than five decades, Haematopoietic (blood-forming) stem cell transplantation has been recognised as potentially curative therapy for certain types of cancer and non-malignant disorders. Umbilical cord blood has emerged as a viable alternative source of blood-forming stem cells which could be made available, without delay, to the child or a sibling. Parents now have […]

September 20, 2020
Can umbilical cord blood be used to treat autism?
Over the years, umbilical cord blood has been found to be a highly effective source of stem cells for transplants to treatvarious diseases.

September 20, 2020
The Application of Umbilical Cord Stem Cells in the Treatment of Covid-19
We at CryoSave South Africa wish to assure all clients that we are structured to be fully operational during the Nationwide COVID-19 lockdown. Together with ourSupport Services, we trust that we will be able to continue to provide you with an excellent service and keep you updated on recent developments in the field of stem […]