Cord Blood Banking

The preservation of your newborn's stem cells, which allows you to have your baby's cord blood saved for potential medical uses to treat life-threatening diseases. If you do not choose to bank your baby’s cord blood, it will be discarded after birth.

Why are Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells Worth Saving?

"Stem cells are immature cells that can both reproduce themselves and have the potential to turn into other types of cells. There are several types. The ones in umbilical cord blood and bone marrow are called hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs), according to WebMD."

No one debates that cord blood cells can be lifesaving. "Cord blood is a proven, effective source of blood-forming stem cells for people with certain diseases," Stephen Feig, professor of pediatrics at UCLA, tells WebMD.



Newborn Stem Cells In The News

A Californian Woman's Life Saved by Cord Blood Stem Cells
As reported by Fox News

Woman was diagnosed with leukemia after she battled breast cancer. She then decided to undergo a treatment with umbilical cord blood stem cells – and the procedure saved her life, KNSD-TV reported.

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 5:00 AM

Umbilical Cord Blood Donation Helps Boy with Immune System Disease

He has no bone marrow match, but a donation of umbilical cord blood has brightened the future of Zachary Pietrzykowski. The 6-year-old Holland boy was diagnosed with an immune system deficiency called chronic granulomatous disease. Full Article
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Friday, February 15, 2008 5:01 AM

Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells -- An Alternative to Bone Marrow

(WCCO) Last year in the United States, more than 40,000 adult cases of leukemia were diagnosed. "I was a high school athlete and I was captain of the football team. I was preparing for my football season when I found out I had leukemia," said Jamie Dukowitz...
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Thursday, October 11, 2007 5:20 AM

Why Are So Many Hospitals Discarding Precious Umbilical Cord Blood?

Amy Winston-Hart spent many months preparing for the worst as her three-year-old daughter Eva fought a particularly vicious form of leukaemia. The disease was apparently curable only with an infusion of healthy blood stem cells from a bone marrow donor...
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007 5:02 AM

Umbilical Cord Blood Match: The Katie Trebing Story

Newsday published three articles this weekend in a series about Katie Trebing, a girl with Diamond Blackfan Anemia whose parents used genetic testing and in-vitro fertilization to ensure their second child would be a cord blood and bone marrow match....
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007 6:28 AM

Umbilical Cord Blood Is A Lifesaver

Doctors have given the all-clear to young leukaemia sufferer Eva Winston-Hart. Four months after receiving a life- saving stem cell blood transplant, the three-year-old no longer shows any signs of the disease. Eva, from Market Harborough, was given the...
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Monday, September 24, 2007 3:08 PM

Stem Cell Therapy – Heart Disease

South Florida studies aim to mend hearts with patients' stem cells, Sun-Sentinel.com (9/24) – Several clinical trials in southern Florida are studying the use of autologous bone marrow stem cells to treat heart damage. According to the article, the studies...
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Monday, July 30, 2007 12:13 PM

Umbilical Cord Blood Transplants Are Relatively New But Promising for South Asians

Sameer Bhatia first blamed his symptoms, which arrived just before the monsoon season in India, on the 100-degree weather and humidity. "I started feeling nausea, lack of appetite and my heart was racing when I had just climbed a flight of stairs," the...
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Friday, July 13, 2007 5:49 AM

Umbilical Cord Blood As Good As Bone Marrow In Treating Leukemia

In a stunning turn of fortune for leukemia patients, a University of Minnesota-led study has shown that children with the disease did just as well with transplants of umbilical cord blood as with transplanted bone marrow. Better yet, the cord blood didn...
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Monday, July 02, 2007 5:00 AM

Advantages of Extracting Stem Cells From Umbilical Cord Blood

Records have shown that a number of ailments have begun reversing their effects when cord blood cells are transplanted to patients. Researchers have shown that cord blood stem cells offer diverse treatment strategies for treating over 70 diseases. But...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 5:08 AM

Life Gets Better With Umbilical Cord Blood Banking

For years, doctors have discarded the umbilical cord and the placenta after delivery without realizing the immense potential these organs have! Things are changing now, people today are more aware of the latest developments in science and technology and...
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Sunday, June 10, 2007 5:20 AM

Research Shows Umbilical Cord Blood Comparable to Matched Bone Marrow

University of Minnesota researchers report that umbilical cord blood transplants may offer blood cancer patients better outcomes than bone marrow transplants, according to an analysis of outcome data performed at the Center for International Blood and...
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Friday, June 08, 2007 10:25 AM

Options for Children With Leukaemia Using Umbilical Cord Blood

An investigation into stored umbilical cord blood has given a significant boost to using this novel material for children struck by leukaemia. The mainstream approach for treating leukaemia -- cancer of the blood -- is to find a donor, typically a sibling...
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Thursday, May 31, 2007 5:14 AM

Personal Loss Translates to International Effort to Help Cord Blood & Bone Marrow Recipients

Joanne Raymond has turned a deep personal loss into a lifesaving gain for millions of bone marrow and cord blood recipients around the world. Raymond is the founder and executive director of the Caitlin Raymond International Registry (CRIR), the nation...
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Monday, May 14, 2007 10:04 AM

Umbilical Cord Blood

Umbilical cord blood is human blood from the placenta and umbilical cord that is rich in hematopoietic stem cells. Cord blood is collected after the umbilical cord has been detached from the newborn, and utilized as a source of stem cells for transplantation...
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Saturday, May 12, 2007 5:00 AM

Umbilical Cord Blood -- Growing Source for Transplants

Each year more than 35,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with diseases, such as cancer, for which a bone marrow or peripheral blood cell transplant is needed, according to the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP). Finding an exact donor match...
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