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Below is an excerpt from an article sent to me by Diane. For the Phase I and standard therapies it listed leukemias and blood cancers and disorders. The PD nerve cell repair citation below under "Experimental" took me to MJFox's site with nothing about cord blood treatment for PD.Ray Experimental Treatments These are diseases for which stem cell treatments have not been proven to have any efficacy in human beings. In a "Phase I" clinical trial, the purpose of the study is to find out if the therapy makes any difference in the course of the disease, as compared to a control group. Some doctors may also be giving stem cells to patients in experiments outside of clinical trials, but in the United States such experiments are subject to limitations imposed by FDA regulations. This category also covers experiments in the laboratory, either with cell cultures or animals. Auto-Immune Diseases Arthritis, Juvenile Arthritis, Rheumatoid Crohn's Disease Diabetes, Type I Evan Syndrome Juvenile Dermatomyositis Scleroderma Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Gene Therapy (ie: Transplanting genetically altered stem cells) Fanconi's Anemia Metabolic Disorders (Leukodystrophy Diseases, Storage Disorders, etc.) Parkinson's Disease Nerve cell repair Diseases of the Central Nervous System Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, or "Lou Gehrig's disease") Alzheimer's Disease Huntington's Disease Parkinson's Disease Traumatic injury Spinal cord injury Stroke recovery Organ repair Kidney Combined transplant of kidney plus hematopoietic stem cells Growth of renal cells from hematopoietic stem cells Liver Growth of liver cells from hematopoietic stem cells Next: Private Cord Blood Banks in the USA Rayilyn Brown Board Member AZNPF Arizona Chapter National Parkinson's Foundation [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn