Cord Blood Blog

You gotta see this.  It’s charming and compelling.  It’s great when celebs chime in to encourage us to do the right thing. We wrote about BeTheMatch.org a few weeks back.  It’s a drive to get people to register to donate their bone marrow if they are a match with an ill person.  There’s a big …

I read a blog today – wow, what a mouthful!  It’s written by a popular blogger in Singapore but it has just about every argument known to mankind about banking cord blood.  I almost believed she worked for one of the banks but I couldnt find any link or advertising. Here’s the blog entry on …

As you know, it’s sometimes hard to separate real journalism from hype when it comes to the web. Today we came upon a blog posting on Newsweek.com by Mary Carmichael in an e-column called “The human condition.” The blogger tells of her decision not to bank her baby’s cord blood, and goes on to support …

Recently we saw a story, a heartbreaker, really, about a boy with Sickle Cell Anemia, a serious disease in which the body makes misshapen red blood cells who had a bone marrow transplant. To have the transplant, the child had to go through chemotherapy to kill his immune system – a standard protocol for the …

The State of Arizona has a nice brochure available as a pdf file that you can print or just read.  It also references our favorite not-for-profit organization in the study and discussion of cord blood banking, http://parentsguidecordblood.org/ Here’s the link to the brochure if you think it might help someone learn more about cord blood …

We reported several days ago that the number of hospitals which will begin collecting umbilical cord blood donated by maternity patients to a public bank will increase.  We’re keeping track.  http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/82196397.html “The Texas Cord Blood Bank said it has started collecting umbilical cord blood from University Hospital in San Antonio.  University Hospital becomes the 13th hospital in …

New Yorkers!  Rally behind Jennifer Jones Austin! The Brooklyn-based mother, lawyer and family advocate has been stricken with Acute Myeloid Leukemia and has become the face of a city-wide blood and bone marrow drive in conjunction with New York Blood Center (NYBC) and The City University of New York (CUNY). After feeling tired, believing it …

Researchers at the Duncan Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston Tx received 12 individual grants totaling $11.5 million to be used for cancer prevention grants.  The grants went to a wide variety of research projects focused on various cancers, including the treatment of blood cancers in which there is currently aggressive, experimental use of …

Here’s the real shame:  a family decides to donate the cord blood stem cells at the birth of their child, however, the hospital at which she will deliver cannot accommodate the mom’s desire to donate that which will be discarded as trash. Many hospitals are set up to collect cord blood, but many are not.  …