kokonut

Wow! This is a start of a new generation of deaf babies to become hearing with the help of their own cord blood stem cells.

Stem cells may help LaBelle toddler hear | The News-Press | news-press.com

Once proved successful that this treatment can restore sensorineural hearing loss in babies will certainly be much preferable for parents to choose from rather than cochlear implants for their deaf babies. It'd be cheaper, too. This will be a new generation, folks. The time is now.

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Cyborg

And adults are not in the clinical trials first?


I want to sign up for this.

TXgolfer

This is exciting news. I believe this will be very successful

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rockin'robin

I love News....all News!...and this is NEWS!

kokonut

And people say this wouldn't happen in another 15 or 20 years down the road on seeing that stem cells will help restore sensorineural hearing loss but this is happening right NOW!

Will this destroy the cochlear implant industry? Only time will tell....

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Cyborg

The cord blood stem cells treatment will cure profound deafness for all deaf people. It's going to be commercially approved in several years. This is going to happen way before the totally implantable cochlear implant.

kokonut

Cord blood stem cells are only good for deaf babies whose own cord, after birth, are stored for later use.

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Cyborg

No borrowing from the cord blood bank?

kokonut

No since the cord blood stem cells are compatible only to the deaf baby where the cord came from.

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Cyborg

Then the cochlear implant companies are not going to get destroyed overnight. The scientists got the cord blood stem cells curing deaf babies in Jan. 2012. Mid-2012 the totally implantable cochlear implant is behind schedule

kokonut

I didn't say it would destroy it overnight. I put in a qualifier saying that only time will tell.

It's not a cure yet. It is seen as restorative medicine right now and the study is still ongoing. It began earlier this year. Hopefully we will get an update this July/August and again in Jan/Feb of 2013. By next year if Madeline's hearing loss goes from extreme/profound to normal hearing and no side effects and is safe, then it's definitely a cure by using the baby's own natural stem cells.

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Cyborg

Okay. I'll give you that.



I disagree on one small point. If the cord blood stem cells treament gets the profound deafness down to moderate (instead of normal hearing)... then the Totally Implantable Envoy could cure the moderate deafness, too. This is a better option for profoundly deaf people, since the CI companies never get to it. Maybe in trillions of years for the totally implantable cochlear implant.

Jiro

oh my.... I truly feel sorry for the parents....

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kokonut

Um, the Envoy implantable hearing device is NOT a cure no matter how you look at it. It cannot stand alone. It is a device. It still requires a battery. But with stem cells ability to help restore hearing to the point of complete restoration and that normal hearing is reached then it can be called a cure where hearing is restored to a normal hearing level.

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Foxrac

Same here.

I just want rid of worthless CI from my head and I think stem cell is better alternative to CI.

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CSign

Wow... That is incredible. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the future.

Jiro

not even that. I feel sorry for them because of false hope and doctors took advantage of them. $$$$$ gone.

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Jiro

there's nothing to see in here. it's just as fruitless as cure for flu.

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both of CI and stem cell?

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Jiro

stem cell.

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kokonut

I think in the back of everybody's mind we knew this was coming sooner or later. Only this time deaf babies get the treatment first. Who knew?

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Jiro

nope. the first one to get the treatment is one on waiting list for organ transplant.

there's not much of profit for this in deaf field. and it's basically fruitless as well. very sad to see these parents got scammed.

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TXgolfer

Science is amazing that way.... I hope this works out for everyone.

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Cloggy

Great news.
When we were looking into options for Lotte (including no CI and the whole family learning signlanguage) we came across this as well. But that's 8 years ago, and it was an option for the future...
Great to see that it has become reality..

Guess blood from the umbilical cord should from now on be saved by default. Could make a huge difference..

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Sorry... as far as I know, after CI, this kind of treatment wouldn't work.
This was one of the reasons we considered waiting with CI for Lotte, but this technology was still in research fase... We didn't want to wait... and we're glad we didn't..

You'll have to wait for the "Middle-Inner-Ear transplant"....

Otherwise.... yes... I agree.. "I think stem cell is better alternative to CI" .. but in time.. If it can get the hearing up to "HOH" instead of "No hearing"... there might not be an incentive..
We'll see..

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The CI technology is much faster than I expected. There is no Nucleus 5 for people with Nucleus 22 and not know if CI will make one, however they did with Freedom for N22 but... only problem is shorter battery and performance difference. My ENT doctor told me that he recommended to replace the implant with newer, most recent one but I'm not interested for now.

Yup, It isn't problem if you implant your daughter with CI at earlier because she could develop the oral languages, however for me, it is different because I got CI at late childhood and had failed speech therapy for many years. I told my parent about it isn't worth to get CI if I don't fare with speech therapy so they didn't care. After one year of CI, my parent regretted to implant me with larger out of pocket expense because I couldn't hear any exact sound in languages, except for hear yelling all time so tried to get programmed but no success so I decided to gave up.

For stem cell, if they do restore to some hearing aka HoH but can be easily assist with regular hearing aids, I guess so.

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scooter62

I would not get stem cell because I do not want to hear anything when I am in sleep. HAHA

scooter62

Yeah, then you wont be able to turn off when you go to bed. Think about it. I have CI for 16 years. I love it and have no problems with it. Now my brand no longer use so I have extra parts just in case that happen in the future. Try to enjoy your life. Put God first and he will take care of all the problems. Scott

kokonut

I agree. Other than deafness, other conditions that may crop up because of the baby's exposure to viruses while in the womb, born prematurely, or any number of factors when it's recommended to save the cord for possible treatment later. And then, of course, keeping it for yourself for the inevitable down the road but by then perhaps adult stem cells research have grown out into the mature stages that even adults can tap into their own stem cells without the need for cord they never saved.

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kokonut

Wear ear plugs. That'd be the least of our worry. I've taken many naps with my hearing aid on hearing the sound. Especially yesterday at the park with the warm sun out amongst the pine trees with kids laughing and talking nearby at a playground...I dozed off to sleep hearing it. Sounds you hear can be just as soothing to lull you to sleep.

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