Millions of parents have paid to bank blood from their infants’ umbilical cords. But storage companies have misled them about the cells’ promise. By Sarah Kliff Pregnant women are bombarded with ...

The umbilical cord — the lifeline between mother and baby — was historically discarded as medical waste after birth. Today, an increasing number of parents are choosing to preserve the cord blood for ...

Umbilical cord and placenta blood, often referred to as “cord blood,” is the blood that is collected from the umbilical and placental tissue at birth. Once stored in “banks,” its stem cells can be ...

DOCTOR, IF YOU’RE INTO YOUR SECOND TRIMESTER OF PREGNANCY, SEE YOUR DOCTOR MAY HAVE TALKED ABOUT BANKING YOUR CORD BLOOD AND DOCTOR ROBERT ATLAS IS HERE TO TALK MORE ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS AND WHAT ...

IN TONIGHT’S WOMAN’S DOCTOR, IF YOU’RE INTO YOUR SECOND TRIMESTER OF PREGNANCY, YOUR DOCTOR MAY HAVE TALKED WITH YOU ABOUT CORD BLOOD BANKING. THAT’S WHEN YOUR BABY’S UMBILICAL. CORD BLOOD IS ...

Before you got pregnant, you may not have given umbilical cords much thought. But did you know it's full of cells that could save someone's life? Not to brag, but cord blood is a pretty big deal, and ...

If her social media accounts are any indication, model, cookbook author, television personality, and entrepreneur Chrissy Teigen is a wonderful mother. Many parents regard her as a role model. That’s ...

Cord blood banking was all the rage about a decade ago. Companies pitched it almost as an insurance policy for a child’s future health, preserving the stem cells in the blood for life-saving ...

Lab operations manager Beth Mapother reaches into a dewar at the Cord Blood Registry offices in Tucson, Ariz. The growing number of parents who bank their children’s cord blood believe it is a form of ...

OLDSMAR, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cryo-Cell International, Inc. (NYSE American LLC Symbol: CCEL) (“Cryo-Cell”), the world’s first private cord blood bank to separate and store stem cells in 1992, ...

PHOENIX — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against one of America’s biggest “cord blood banking companies” for predatory practices toward parents and their newborn ...

OLDSMAR, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cryo-Cell International, Inc. (NYSE American LLC Symbol: CCEL) (“Cryo-Cell”), the world’s first private cord blood bank to separate and store stem cells in 1992, ...