Archive for June 2014
Melbourne trial to give babies back their own umbilical blood in the hope of preventing cerebral palsy.
Pre-clinical studies at the Ritchie Centre, part of the MIMR-PHI Institute of Medical Research, found that giving cord blood back to newborn animals in their first 12 hours of life, can help prevent brain damage caused by birth asphyxia. Last week, postdoctoral scientist Courtney McDonald told the Annual Congress of the Perinatal Society of Australia…
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