You'll make a lot of choices during pregnancy – big, small, and everything in between. One decision that tends to fly under the radar but can have real, long-term impact? What to do with your baby's ...

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 ...

Pregnancy can be a time of great joy and excitement, but it can also be a period of infinitely increased anxiety. Everywhere you look, you're inundated by information about how best to set your new ...

Choosing a private cord blood bank is an important decision for new parents and healthcare professionals. With the rise of regenerative medicine, cord blood banking offers a proactive way to preserve ...

Millions of parents have paid to bank blood from their infants’ umbilical cords. But storage companies have misled them about the cells’ promise. By Sarah Kliff Pregnant women are bombarded with ...

Since the establishment of the first public cord blood bank in New York in 1992, a rising number of donors have given their child’s umbilical cord and placenta blood to banks in the growing ...

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 ...

Lab operations manager Beth Mapother reaches into a dewar at the Cord Blood Registry offices in Tucson, Ariz. The growing number of parents who bank their children’s cord blood believe it is a form of ...

DOCTOR, IF YOU’RE INTO YOUR SECOND TRIMESTER OF PREGNANCY, SEE YOUR DOCTOR MAY HAVE TALKED ABOUT BANKING YOUR CORD BLOOD AND DOCTOR ROBERT ATLAS IS HERE TO TALK MORE ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS AND WHAT ...

Umbilical cord and placenta blood, often referred to as “cord blood,” is the blood that is collected from the umbilical and placental tissue at birth. Once stored in “banks,” its stem cells can be ...