CHICAGO, June 15 (Reuters) - Adult patients with leukemia fare just as well when they get stem cell transplants taken from a cord blood bank as they do from a well-suited adult donor, U.S. researchers ...

A mother who donated umbilical cord blood after giving birth has described how her daughter’s life was saved by a similar ...

Cord blood banking is a topic that has gained significant attention in recent years, especially among expectant parents. Cord blood is the blood that remains in the umbilical cord and placenta after 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 ...

If her social media accounts are any indication, model, cookbook author, television personality, and entrepreneur Chrissy Teigen is a wonderful mother. Many parents regard her as a role model. That’s ...

Cord blood banking was all the rage about a decade ago. Companies pitched it almost as an insurance policy for a child’s future health, preserving the stem cells in the blood for life-saving ...

Cord Blood Registry is a Food and Drug Administration-registered cord blood bank. It stores stem cells from umbilical cord blood or a combination of cord blood and tissue. The stem cell in cord blood ...

Some private UK biobanks may be misleading expectant parents about the value of storing umbilical cord blood to treat life-threatening diseases that may arise in their child in the future, reveals an ...

MiracleCord is an industry leader in cord blood banking and provides advanced and comprehensive cord blood and cord tissue stem cell banking services. The company offers exclusive direct medical ...

Cord blood banking is the storage of a baby's cord blood immediately after birth. After collection, cord blood is frozen and can be stored for many years without degradation. In case, this cord blood ...

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