When Amalia Kessler was pregnant with her first child, Stella, in 2008, she knew she didn’t want to waste the baby’s valuable umbilical cord blood, which can be a life-saving source of stem cells used ...

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 ...

Before you got pregnant, you may not have given umbilical cords much thought. But did you know it's full of cells that could save someone's life? Not to brag, but cord blood is a pretty big deal, and ...

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As their due date creeps closer, many pregnant women pack a go bag for the hospital: toothbrush, iPod, cute bringing-baby-home outfit. But in recent months, savvy mothers-to-be have started tucking in ...

When a baby is born, medical professionals routinely throw away a sick child's potential lifeline. Dr. Hugh Miller of Obstetrix Medical Group, 5301 E. Grant Road, is working to establish the upside of ...

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 ...

Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott, who are expecting their son in 2 1/2 weeks, left a doctors office on Tuesday with a cord blood collection kit. Read more about the process of cord blood collection ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- A new public cord blood collection program at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, the first of its kind in Northern California, is now enabling new ...

As the work it's been doing for more than a decade gains broader interest from industry, researchers and academia, the nonprofit Cleveland Cord Blood Center has taken steps in recent years to be ready ...

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Stem cells have demonstrated significant promise in preclinical studies of neuronal repair in pediatric disorders such as hypoxic–ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), stroke, intraventricular hemorrhage, ...