Liane Hansen reports on the growing industry of private cord-blood banks. There are about 16 of these for-profit facilities which cryogenically store blood from newborns' umbilical cords. Research ...

Prospective parents face an array of medical decisions before their baby is born: Which pediatric practice to use? To circumcise, or not? What about prenatal testing to screen for possible genetic ...

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 government should set up a program to link and regulate the country's cord-blood banks, which store samples of blood from the umbilical cord, which is rich in the adult stem cells used to treat ...

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 ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — July is Cord Blood Awareness Month. LifeSouth is a local cord blood bank using its platform to educate the public about the life-saving value of umbilical cord blood. Founded in ...

SINGAPORE, Aug. 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CytoMed Therapeutics Limited (NASDAQ: GDTC) (“CytoMed” or “Company”), a Singapore-based clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on harnessing its ...

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 ...