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Cord blood, also known as placental blood, is the blood that remains in umbilical cord and placenta following a live birth. There are 3 sources of stem cells: umbilical cord blood, embryonic cells and bone marrow. Adult stem cells from bone marrow have limited uses while embryonic stem cell research is a major area of controversy.

What happens when we do get sick or fall into a state of disease? For most people that means turning to pharmaceutical drugs for relief and treatment. In the US alone pharmacies filled 3 billion drug prescriptions in 2000. "That's enough drugs for every man, woman and child to have a prescription each new month of the year!"

Cord blood stem cells are commonly used to treat childhood leukemia. In recent years, adults with leukemia have been successfully treated with transplantation of cord blood stem cells from unrelated donors. One case is that of Stephen Sprague who was diagnosed with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) in 1995.

Umbilical cord blood contains blood-forming cells that can be used to treat life-threatening diseases and conditions. Expectant parents who do not want to store their baby?s cord blood for private use can donate it to a cord blood bank. Donated cord blood is available for public use and research, and has proven to save many lives.

Men and women, though human, have biology that is gender specific. Women have breasts, men don?t, women have uteruses, men don?t and men have prostate and women don?t. Each gender has its own unique biological parts with a reason for each. But what is the prostate in a man and what is its function?

Thanks to Suzanne Somers, natural hormone replacement, including estrogen, is gaining acceptance by women. But Board certified internist Dr. Michael E. Platt, M.D.is not happy about Suzanne?s promotion of natural estrogen Dr. Platt says estrogen, natural or synthetic, causes six kinds of cancer, and has statistics to back it up.