NHS maternity units should not encourage commercial banking of umbilical cord blood, argues a senior doctor in this week's BMJ. Instead, women should be encouraged to donate altruistically to public ...
Umbilical cord blood - the blood that remains in the placenta after birth - can be collected and stored frozen for years. It is sometimes used as an alternative to bone marrow for treating diseases ...
If people hadn’t been generous with their veins instead of their pocketbooks 25 years ago, Erskine Gillespie wouldn’t have been in the gym at Brown Missionary Baptist Church’s South Campus Saturday.