Story posted on FOXNews.com for July 28, 2008 (excerpt printed verbatim):
When Chloe Levine was 9-months-old, her parents noticed she couldn’t hold her bottle with her right hand.
That wasn’t her only developmental setback. Chloe, of Pinetop, Ariz., was unable to raise both hands above her head, and she could not crawl.
At 12 months, a CAT scan showed a portion of the left side of Chloe’s brain had not developed and contained fluid. Seeking answers, Chloe’s parents, Ryan and Jenny Levine took their daughter to a neurologist who diagnosed the toddler with right-side hemiplegic cerebral palsy.
That was when the Levines heard about an experimental procedure at Duke University in North Carolina where children with cerebral palsy were infused with their own cord blood stem cells in an effort to heal and repair damaged brain tissue.
The Levine’s remembered they had banked Chloe’s cord blood when she was born.
“It was a miracle,” Alvarez said Monday on FOX & Friends. “I congratulate you for banking her cord blood. Stem cells are a new field of medicine and they certainly can rejuvenate the tissue.”
For more on Chloe and a live interview with her parents watch this video clip from FOX & Friends:
For the full article on Chloe and her treatment: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,392061,00.html
