Banking of umbilical cord blood has little physician support

Friday, March 6, 2009 - 15:35 in Health & Medicine

A survey of physicians has found broad support for the position that parents should not bank their newborns’ umbilical cord blood in a private blood bank unless another member of the family is at risk for a blood disease that will require a stem cell transplant.read more

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