FAIRFAX, Va. (WUSA9) -- For hardcore 30-year-old athletesto baby boomers, achy and worn out joints can literally be a pain. Cateena Powers know about the pain, after years of athletic competition and ...

Heart muscle doesn't regenerate when it's damaged, one reason heart attacks are so debilitating. A dream of researchers is to build new heart muscle using transplanted cardiac stem cells. Scientists ...

Leukemia is a type of cancer that affects the bone marrow and blood cells. Stem cell transplants are one possible treatment. In some cases, a stem call transplant – alongside chemotherapy or radiation ...

Baseball superstar Max Scherzer — whose back injury has prevented him from pitching for the Washington National s since he last played on July 25 — is the latest in a long list of professional ...

A phase II clinical trial in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease, suggests that transplanting human stem cells into the spinal cord may be done safely. The ...

Shotzi is on the mend. The WWE Superstar shared that she’s currently in Mexico and recently had a stem cell procedure to treat a back injury that has been plaguing her for more than two years. Shotzi ...

An ingenious 12-year-old girl with cerebral palsy started a lemonade stand in her hometown in Missouri to raise money for ...

To undergo kidney dialysis, doctors must first surgically create an access route—an arteriovenous fistula—usually in an arm, ...

TAMARAC, Fla. (CBS12) — A South Florida mother credits the controversial stem cell procedure for helping her non-verbal toddler grow into an ambitious teenager. Kenneth Kelley couldn’t talk or read ...