Sentences with phrase «public cord blood bank»

Also in my background I should mention that I created and run the Carolinas Cord Blood Bank, an FDA licensed public cord blood bank that is located at Duke.

And when you donate your baby's cord blood to a public cord blood bank there are no collection or storage costs.

You can store cord blood privately so it's available for your baby or another family member, or you can donate it to a public cord blood bank where it can be used to treat anyone with life - threatening illnesses.

Two Ways to Bank Cord Blood Cord blood is preserved by your doctor immediately after your baby is delivered and can be sent to private and public cord blood banks to be preserved and frozen for later use.

However, it's highly likely that you'll find yourself in an area with no access to a public cord blood bank.

A public cord blood bank could save your child's life or someone else's.

«The quality of the public cord blood banks is far stricter and better than the private system,» says pediatrician William Shearer of Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital.

So if everyone donated their cord blood to a public cord blood bank, there is a much greater chance of cord blood being a useful therapeutic product.

That second unit would need to come from a public cord blood bank.