Four years ago, I banked my daughter's cord blood. When I was pregnant, I saw a poster that read: "Saving your child's cord blood could save your child's life," in my obstetrician's office. An ad on ...

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As a parent, you want to do everything possible to keep your children healthy. For some, that desire spurs them to sign up for umbilical cord blood banking as an insurance policy to help their kids in ...

With the promise and pitfalls of umbilical cord blood samples in mind, how should parents decide whether to put their baby’s blood on ice, either for their own family’s future use or as a donation for ...

using cord blood donated by a family he will never know. Since then, the 4-year-old boy’s parents, Sean and Michelle Wolford, have been on a mission to make banking of umbilical cord blood a ...

The umbilical cord — the lifeline between mother and baby — was historically discarded as medical waste after birth. Today, an increasing number of parents are choosing to preserve the cord blood for ...

Blood from the umbilical cord of a baby expected to be born in Indianapolis later this month will be collected after her birth and saved for her 5-year-old sister, who has been diagnosed with cancer.

When you’re pregnant, especially for the first time, you have to make a lot of decisions. Will coffee remain a part of your life? Where are you going to give birth? What are you going to name the baby ...

Umbilical cord blood banking is useful due to its role in transplantation. Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) possess the ability to reconstitute any blood cell type, offering the potential to treat ...

Parents-to-be have a lot to think about. There are decisions to be made about the baby’s name, nursery color scheme, birthing plan, whether or not to breastfeed — the list is endless. Now, in recent ...

CHENNAI, INDIA --An Indian blood bank plans to take advantage of the country's booming birth rate by opening a repository for blood taken from umbilical cords. But critics worry that without proper ...