most legal experts consider cord blood to be the property of the baby -- and the parents are guardians of this potentially lifesaving material. Upon deciding to bank cord blood privately ...

Transplants are rare because of new cancer treatments and small volumes. But experts say they still save lives.

What is your baby's umbilical cord? The umbilical cord starts to form at about 4 weeks of pregnancy. It's your baby's ...

The facility will offer families a unique opportunity to preserve their newborns’ stem cells in Qatar for potential future ...

The umbilical cord that connects an expectant mother to her in-utero baby, which was once considered medical waste upon birth ... Medical professionals have witnessed remarkable success stories where ...

DOHA: Sidra Medicine, a member of Qatar Foundation, has launched a state of the art cord blood banking service. This is the ...

Normally following the birth of a baby, the placenta and cord blood ... said because of this she paid £2,700 to bank her son's umbilical cord blood and tissue. Although stem cell treatment ...

Do you want to bank your child's cord blood as "insurance"? Many private banks argue that cord blood banking is a form of insurance. The odds are low that your child will ever need it, they say ...

They bank their newborn’s cord blood. Now Kenyan parents can also store not only their baby’s umbilical cord but also the vital stem cells from the cord tissue. This comes after the signing of ...

One mother, Lauren Truelove, who banked her baby's cord blood ... some doctors say the way in which the blood is collected by the stem cell banking firms could be bad for the baby's health.

is the world’s first private cord blood bank. ‎More than 500,000 parents from 87 countries have entrusted Cryo-Cell International with ‎their baby’s cord blood and cord tissue stem cells.