Stem Cell Preservation

Stem Cell Preservation In the past decade, most new parents have been given a choice of banking their baby’s cord blood or donating it to a public storage bank.  This is a once in a lifetime opportunity that is available when your baby is born and before the umbilical cord is discarded.  Collecting cord blood [...]

History of the Value of Cord Blood Storage

History of the Value of Cord Blood Storage To date, approximately 8,000 people worldwide have received medical therapies using the stem cells saved from a newborn’s umbilical cord during cord blood storage. Among the diseases treated: leukemia, breast cancer, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease, Aplastic Anemia, Sickle Cell Anemia, various other cancers, blood diseases, hereditary/genetic conditions and [...]

The Life Saving Practice of Collecting Cord Blood Stem Cells

The Life Saving Practice of Collecting Cord Blood Stem Cells Collecting cord blood stem cells has become a common practice in modern medicine and can be addressed by the OBGYN as the expectant mom during the first trimester of pregnancy. If you’re an expectant mom, undoubtedly health and wellness for you and baby are at [...]

The Value of Cord Blood Storage

The Value of Cord Blood Storage With all the excitement over a new pregnancy, parents reading a pamphlet on cord blood storage may not be as high on their list as, say, decorating the nursery. However, cord blood storage, also know as stem cell preservation, marks one of the most exciting ways that the new [...]

How Popular is Cord Blood Banking?

How Popular is Cord Blood Banking? If you’re pregnant or have had a baby within the past decade, you have likely read all of the advertisements encouraging storing your baby’s umbilical cord blood in public and private banks as an insurance policy against future disease and illness. And like some parents, you probably passed up [...]