More than two years after Health Canada warned that blood specimens stored at a private clinic in Edmonton could pose serious ...

July is Cord Blood Awareness Month, highlighting the benefits of umbilical cord blood for treating diseases like leukemia.

But, cord blood banking turned out to be expensive — and it wasn't covered by my health insurance. I paid exactly $2,724 upfront to harvest my daughter's cord blood stem cells at birth, and every year ...

Experts explain umbilical cord blood donations can help people living with more than 80 types of blood cancers and diseases. One such example is Montrealer Mai Duong, who was diagnosed with ...

According to Canadian Blood Services, there were 74 cord-blood transplants completed in Canada in 2012 using international sources. (While private banks facilitate some transplants, they account ...

Umbilical cord blood therapy, with its stem cells, could offer a safer, less taxing alternative, helping elderly patients fight cancer and live longer with a better quality of life.

Life How umbilical cord blood saved Jesse’s life Ten years ago, Jesse Farquharson became the first child at SickKids to receive stem cells from his own umbilical cord.

Private umbilical-cord-blood banks tell new parents that they could offer children future miracle cures. But medical professionals say those chances are very slim - and what's really needed is a ...

One small-scale trial conducted at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh used donated umbilical cord blood from public banks to treat 44 children with a ...

Canada's first national umbilical cord blood bank is expected to get underway in 2013 with $48 million in government funding through this decade, health ministers said Monday. Cord blood remains ...

Background: Umbilical cord blood is used as a source of hematopoietic stem cells for bone marrow transplantation in the treatment of malignant and nonmalignant disease. We sought to examine pregnant ...