Qatari firm inks deal on cord blood banking (AME Info)

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HMC signs pact with cord blood bank (Gulf Times)
Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), which hosts as much as 90% of childbirths in Qatar, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Virgin Health Bank QSTP (VHB) for private cord blood stem cell banking from the end of January. (Read More)

Private cord blood banking by January (The Peninsula)
DOHA: The much awaited national stem-cell banking system in Qatar will become a reality by the end of January 2010, when Virgin Health Bank QSTP (VHB) will offer private cord blood banking services to Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) patients. (Read More)

CORD:USE Cord Blood Bank awarded contract to supply blood units for the NCBI (News-Medical-Net)
CORD:USE Cord Blood Bank is proud to announce that the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded CORD:USE Cord Blood Bank a three-year, multi-million dollar contract to expand the supply of cord blood units for the National Cord Blood Inventory (NCBI). (Read More)

Cord Blood Transplants [The World in Medicine] (Journal of the American Medical Association)
JAMA. 2009;302(23):2531. Outcomes of stem cell transplants using umbilical cord blood to treat blood disorders could be improved by use of a technique that refines the matching of potential donors with recipients, report researchers from Netherlands and the United States (van Rood JJ et al. (Read More)

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