As a parent, you want to do everything possible to keep your children healthy. For some, that desire spurs them to sign up for umbilical cord blood banking as an insurance policy to help their kids in ...

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 ...

In the fall of 1988, Matthew Farrow, a 5-year-old boy with a rare blood disorder, received the world’s first transplant of umbilical-cord blood from a newborn sibling. It worked: Farrow was cured.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Cord Blood Registry is one of several companies in the U.S. that "banks" a baby's cord blood. Cord blood banking is suddenly ...

IN TONIGHT’S WOMAN’S DOCTOR, IF YOU’RE INTO YOUR SECOND TRIMESTER OF PREGNANCY, YOUR DOCTOR MAY HAVE TALKED WITH YOU ABOUT CORD BLOOD BANKING. THAT’S WHEN YOUR BABY’S UMBILICAL. CORD BLOOD IS ...

Umbilical cord blood banking has gained notoriety ever since it was discovered that those cords are a rich supply of hematopoietic stem cells. Operating on the premise that cord blood samples are a ...