While paying for the storage of your baby’s umbilical cord blood in a bank can be somewhat expensive over an extended period of time, it could still save you money in the long run and, more importantly, save your child’s life some day. Generally, private umbilical cord blood banks charge two kinds of fees. The [...]

The Brigham and Women’s donation center, which opened in late spring, is the first Umbilical Cord Blood Donation Bank in Boston and has so far collected 130 cord-blood donations. UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester and Women & Infants Hospital in Providence are the other two hospitals in New England allow mothers to donate cord [...]

Cord Blood America announced today it has hired Immunologist Dr. Geoffrey John O’Neill as its new Laboratory Director and Brian Pockett as Vice President of Laboratory Operations. Cord Blood America recently announced it is opening a state-of-the-art laboratory for the storage of multiple stem cell products, including umbilical cord blood stem cells, in Las Vegas, [...]

Cord Blood America, Inc, one of the largest umbilical cord blood stem cell preservation companies focused on bringing the life saving potential of stem cells to families nationwide and internationally, said today it has signed a lease for a 17,000 square foot building in Las Vegas, Nevada, for a state-of-the-art laboratory for the storage of [...]

MIDLAND – Midland Memorial Hospital is now collecting new born baby’s umbilical cord blood. The Hospital says that umbilical cord blood has a plethora of cells that make blood which can be used to treat such illnesses as leukemia and lymphoma as an alternative to waiting for a bone marrow transplant, which could take years [...]

Once removed from the umbilical cord and properly cryogenically frozen and preserved, cord blood should last forever. Again, this cannot be confirmed as the concept of this umbilical cord blood banking is relatively new. It started in the 1970s and as of yet there isn’t sufficient evidence available that will definitively prove that your babys [...]

Interested in the process behind umbilical cord blood storage? Here is an overview of how stem cells are preserved after being taken from the umbilical cord. The cord blood is stored in specially designed bags or syringes and couriered to the blood bank centre, where it is then labeled with the donors name, date of [...]

Cord Blood America, an umbilical cord blood stem cell preservation company, has received a commitment for up to $2.3 million to either buy or build its own laboratory for the purpose of storing of multiple stem cell products including umbilical cord blood stem cells. About $300,000 of the funding has already been received by the [...]

On Tuesday, in North Carolina, the state House passed a bill to encourage pregnant women to donate umbilical cord blood to help cancer patients. State Representative Margaret Dickson of Fayetteville sponsored the bill, which now moves to the Senate. If the bill becomes law, the state Department of Health and Human Services would place documents [...]

It can cost anywhere from $1,000-$2,000 for umbilical cord blood banking and about $100/year for storage and maintenance. This week, Catherine Claeys of the National Marrow Donor Program in Minneapolis released the following information in the Washington Post Health Section. Banking umbilical cord blood is useful when there is a sibling with a diagnosed medical [...]