Medical Advances, Including Cord Blood, Herald A Golden Age Of Medical Advances

We live in amazing times when it comes to medical advances. In our media-centric world, we have a tendency to focus on disease outbreaks or what seems like ever increasing odds of contracting cancer, but we never really stop to put these facts in context. Certainly we have seen some significant outbreaks. SARS was a [...]

The Benefits of Cord Blood Banking

The primary benefit to cord blood banking is that it provides a type of medical insurance. This insurance is not from a financial prospective, but rather takes the form of having the necessary medical building blocks available should they be needed in the event of certain illnesses and diseases. Those medical building blocks are the [...]

Is Cord Blood Banking Right For You?

Saving your baby’s umbilical cord blood allows it to be cryogenically stored, and then available if your child later becomes sick and needs a bone marrow transplant. Umbilical cord blood was discarded until the 1970’s, when researchers discovered that umbilical cord blood could save lives under certain circumstances. How do you decide on cord blood [...]

Cord Blood Banking: Should you Bank your Baby

Cord blood banking is a relatively new concept. It is only in the last ten years that parents have seriously begun to bank their baby’s cord blood. While the practice of banking cord blood is still not common it is becoming more popular as people begin to learn about its benefits.

Cord blood is [...]

Cord Blood Banking: A Medical Safety Net

The primary benefit to cord blood banking is that it provides a type of medical insurance. This insurance is not from a financial prospective, but rather takes the form of having the necessary medical building blocks available should they be needed in the event of certain illnesses and diseases. Those medical building blocks are the [...]

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