Waiting two minutes to cut cord 'can give babies health boost' (Daily Mail)

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Umbilical Cord As Spare Parts Warehouse? Controversies On Private Blood Banking (Medical News Today)
Blood from the umbilical cord is considered to be a valuable "biological raw material" today that can help to cure illness. An increasing number of parents have private blood banks freeze the stem cells from the blood in their child's umbilical cord and spare no expense to do so. [click link for full article] (Read More)

Sealed with a Kiss: The 2008 Budget (Gotham Gazette)
Years ago, council members would have been biting their nails and eyeing the clock as it ticked toward midnight on June 30, the deadline for reaching a new city budget. (Read More)

Umbilical Cord Beats Marrow for Leukemia Transplants (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
FRIDAY, June 8 (HealthDay News) — Transplanted blood cells from umbilical cords appear to give better results than the bone marrow transplants that have been standard for leukemia patients, a new study finds. (Read More)

Study compares cord blood to bone marrow for transplants (News-Medical-Net)
Umbilical cord blood transplants may offer blood cancer patients better outcomes than bone marrow transplants, according to an analysis of outcome data performed at the Statistical Center, Center for Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR), Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. (Read More)

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