The Health Center

With the advancement in technology today, it has become such a privilege to experience the cutting edge equipment and tools that are being utilized in the hospitals or medical institutions, doctors such as Dr. Hitesh Patel Edison have been able to provide his clients with the best LASIK surgery possible. LASIK is the newest, most effective and efficient way of treating cataract in the human eye, this is also highly considered as the only probable option to help repair vision and regain eye performance at best. This method of eye surgery or enhancement has only surface the public eye for a about few years ago, and after this eye surgical approach has been launched, it has already helped thousands individuals who have long been suffering eye dysfunction. Because of this, Dr. Edison has been able to even gain more patients, it is because he has fully studied and practiced how LASIK works. Other than being a specialized surgeon in performing LASIK operations, Edison is also a noted individual for his other eye special treatments; after all he wouldn’t be able to even learn the system of LASIK if he has no background on anything else related to eye repair.

Dr. Hitesh Patel Edison has reached tremendous heights in his entire ophthalmologist career; he has delivered hundreds of successful operations on a day to day basis. Because of that reason alone, Edison was able to put up his very own eye clinic in Pennsylvania, he is now widely respected and recognized as the founder of the Patel Eye Associates and also the Patel Eye Care Rehabilitation Foundation. These entities are just a mere proof or example on how successful Dr. Edison has been throughout his entire existence, his foundation receives a lot of patients who are in deep need of eye surgery, and because he has expanded his network, having the enough means to continue the foundation is not a hard thing to perform.

But what sets Dr. Hitesh Patel Edison apart from all the doctors who happen to be ophthalmologists is the mere fact that he treats every person that walks right in his clinic as a family member. The patients and clients who went through his hands have always said that they always get a special treatment from Dr. Edison, they have always been very comfortable in confiding and telling him everything about their situation, and because of that they are able to get to the core problem and vice versa for Dr. Edison to truly have the full information about their problems. Dr. Hitesh strongly believes that every patient deserves to be treated as royalty; after all they are the ones who will greatly affect his profession in the medical industry.

One field of medicine that is being pushed further by medical professionals and scientists in the medical community is the use of cord blood as an alternative for bone marrow transplant. Both cord and the bone marrow have blood–forming stem cells which in turn can be used to reform and treat the diseased blood or a debilitating disease of a patient.

Cord blood is harvested from the blood which is left over in the placenta and in the umbilical cord right after a normal birth of the baby. The method most commonly used would be similar to standard blood collection techniques. The medical technician cannulates the vein of the severed umbilical cord using a needle connected to a blood bag, and the cord blood through the needle into the bag. One might wonder how this small piece of blood sample can change the lives of people. Just recently, medical professionals and scientists were able to uncover the buried magic this piece obtained from the placenta and umbilical cord has. Cord blood not only contains elements of a whole blood but it has also been found to be rich in hematopoietic stem cells.

One important fact to take note of is that cord blood can only be obtained and extracted from a newborn infant’s umbilical cord and placenta, thus the importance of doing the procedure of extraction properly and safely. Collecting cord blood samples is more possible and plausible with normal births since with normal births, the doctors and other medical staff do not have to worry about another ongoing operation which occurs during births through C-Sections. After the collection of these cord blood samples, the next important step would be the safe keeping of such riveting medical pieces. Cord blood can be stored and processed two ways. One is through public cord blood banks and another is through private cord blood banking. Cord blood banks are where cord blood samples are being stored and kept and can only is accessible to the donor or the donor’s immediate family and relatives.

Parents of newborn infants can now choose to have this very special and useful part of the umbilical cord to be saved for future health uses. The fact that this part can be kept and stored is one of the most wonderful characteristics of cord blood. It does not degenerate and lasts years in proper storage. This process of cord blood banking may seem like too commercial, too business like to most but when it comes to health and safety, nothing should matter more.