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This week: 8 Quick Facts about Cord Blood Awareness brought to you by the Cord Blood Awareness Campaign with BioInformant Save the Cord Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to cord blood banking...

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Bipartisan Support for National Cord Blood Inventory

July 21, 2015, 3:06 am

Vital legislation is getting bipartisan support for National Cord Blood Inventory to reauthorize funding for cord blood and bone marrow programs for an additional 5 years. UPDATE: THIS IS COMING TO...

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Cord Blood Fact : OB/GYN has Key Role

August 24, 2015, 5:48 am

Cord Blood Fact : The OB/GYN has a key role in helping parents decide if and how to store their baby’s cord blood. Cord blood collection is still only practiced in small numbers, yet more and more...

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LA Times Article Reaches Parents with Key Cord Blood Information

September 4, 2015, 7:09 am

Save the Cord Foundation was recently asked to contribute an important article on key cord blood information to be included in the August edition of the LA Times “Journey to Parenthood” section. This...

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Stem Cells: What is the Controversy Exactly?

September 8, 2015, 3:45 pm

Stem cells are a critical to your health, located throughout your body, and routinely used in medicine so where’s the controversy? During recent years, the term “stem cells” has been a hot topic in the...

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Cord Blood Banking : Pro-active Parents Needed!

September 14, 2015, 4:17 am

Cord Blood Banking : Pro-active Parents Needed! Dear Parents, I have bad news. . . being a successful parent is not easy. It starts even before your baby is born and requires you to be pro-active....

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Dylan Praskins: Being a Kid. . . Thanks to a Cord Blood Transplant for Leukemia!

November 13, 2015, 11:15 am

If you have been following Save the Cord Foundation for a while then you will remember meeting young Dylan Praskins in a previous article where we introduced this amazing boy shortly after his cord...

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Regenerative Medicine: Save Lives & Cut Healthcare Costs

December 11, 2015, 10:18 am

Parents, we have a new buzz word for you. But, this is a wonderful buzz word that could help you. Have you heard about “regenerative medicine”? Have you heard how this emerging field of medicine has...

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NEWS: North Carolina Cancer Hospital Helps Judge Fight Cancer With Cord Blood...

January 27, 2016, 2:38 am

The North Carolina Cancer Hospital is helping Judge Carl Fox, 61, fight cancer thanks to a cord blood transplant. At Save the Cord Foundation, we have been actively following this story of an amazing...

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GUEST POST: Giving Hope to Indian Children with Thalassemia

February 12, 2016, 7:21 am

Save the Cord Foundation invited Dr. Saranya Narayan from Jeevan Blood Bank and Research Center to tell us about their growing public cord blood bank and how Jeevan Blood Bank is giving hope to Indian...

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Cord Blood Uses and Innovations with Dr. Curtis Cetrulo

November 4, 2015, 4:17 am

For parents all around the world, it starts with a question. . . should I save my baby’s cord blood? To help answer this question we sat down with Dr. Curtis Cetrulo (Former Professor OB/GYN and...

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Dylan Praskins: Cord Blood for Leukemia (part 2)

March 4, 2016, 3:40 am

Continued. . . Dylan Praskins: Being a kid! (Cord blood for leukemia) (Go back to part 1 of this article.) As this video points out, Dylan’s case was special because he was only 2 months old when he...

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NEWS: TechKnow Al Jazeera Goes Behind the Scenes of the Cord Blood Transplant...

February 5, 2016, 5:27 am

Dr. Shini Somara and the team from TechKnow Al Jazeera went behind the scenes of the cord blood transplant process in this fascinating story of baby Grace Matthews. Al Jazeera’s Dr. Shini Somara, heads...

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GUEST POST: We are Having a Baby! A Father’s Advice on Cord Blood

March 29, 2016, 4:12 pm

When talking about cord blood, we must not forget the father’s opinion. He brings a unique perspective to the decision making process. Save the Cord Foundation recently reached out to several fathers...

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