Think about whether you want to bank your baby's umbilical cord blood for possible future use.

Stem cells may also be taken from umbilical cord blood.

Whether to bank your baby's umbilical cord blood after the birth for possible use as a stem cell treatment.

Obstetricians could give patients the facts about the need for umbilical cord blood.

Banking your baby's umbilical cord blood means having it saved and stored for future use.

There are also three private firms charging parents to store umbilical cord blood cells.

And two stocked umbilical cord blood when their youngest children were delivered.

Nowadays, you have to decide whether to save the baby's umbilical cord blood from the trash.

Routine storage of umbilical cord blood for potential future transplantation.

If you are pregnant and wish to donate your baby's umbilical cord blood after birth, find out how at Marrow.org.

Should I bank my baby's umbilical cord blood?

This program is for a mother or a family that wants to process and bank the umbilical cord blood stem cells from the present pregnancy.

The idea would be to use the umbilical cord blood, which is rich in basic cells, to treat leukemia patients.

Should you save your baby's umbilical cord blood?

Patients must often undergo a bone marrow or umbilical cord blood transplant.

In 1994, the result of many years of research produced the first successful umbilical cord blood transplant.

Umbilical cord blood is collected from a placenta with the birth mother's consent.

Umbilical cord blood transplants also cause fewer problems with graft-versus-host disease.

But it is currently not clear whether there are enough stem cells in umbilical cord blood to treat adults.

The treatment, chemotherapy and a transplant of umbilical cord blood, might save Hannah, do nothing or kill her.

The mutations were found by examining umbilical cord blood.

But some families who are facing a child's serious illness see umbilical cord blood banking as a godsend.

Before your labor and delivery, tell your health professional that you plan to have umbilical cord blood collected.

Commissioner, you spoke about umbilical cord blood cells and about their storage.

Doctors determined their prenatal lead exposure by taking samples of umbilical cord blood at birth.