Celgene closing site (The Advocate)
Celgene Cellular Therapeutics, which owns patented processes for harvesting stem cells from placentas for potential life-saving medical treatments, is closing its Baton Rouge facility despite the state?s offer of a $1.5 million grant and tax credits for research and job creation to keep it here. (Read More)

Stem-cell bank gets help from new moms; ProMedica collecting umbilical cord blood (The Toledo Blade)
Hoping to help patients with leukemia and other life-threatening conditions, Toledo?s ProMedica Health System is collecting umbilical cord blood from volunteer mothers after their babies are born. Umbilical cord blood, which otherwise is disposed of as medical waste, is being donated by healthy mothers who learned about the process during their pregnancies and granted consent at Bay Park . (Read More)

Cord Blood America Reports Six Month Financial Results (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Cord Blood America, Inc. , the umbilical cord blood stem cell preservation company focused on bringing the life saving potential of stem cells to families nationwide and internationally, today reported that revenues for the first six months of 2008, ended June 30, totaled $2.4 million. (Read More)

Tags: cord blood transplants, cord blood registry

Update: Statewide Umbilical Cord Blood Bank (KTHV Little Rock)
When you fill out your state tax forms this year, you have the chance to help save lives. Doctors at UAMS are trying to launch an umbilical cord blood bank, but they need your help. Arkansas could be the first state in the nation to have such a bank. (Read More)

Family Cord Blood Services Provides Free Infant CPR Training (PRWeb)
Cord Blood Bank Provides Free Infant CPR Training and Certification to Expectant Parents (PRWeb Mar 11, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008-cord-blood-bank/infant-cpr-training/prweb754994.htm (Read More)

SA stem cell bank set for grand opening (The Star)
Cape Town - Africa's first human cord blood stem cell bank will be open for business in Cape Town from September 1 this year, according to a media statement from Lazaron Biotechnologies on Sunday. (Read More)

State tax forms have box for donation to form cord blood bank (Pine Bluff Commercial)
LITTLE ROCK - Arkansas state income tax forms have a box this year that allows filers to donate all or part of their refund to help build a statewide cord blood banking system. (Read More)

Tags: donate cord blood, umbilical

Family Cord Blood Services Provides Free Infant CPR Training (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Cord Blood Bank Provides Free Infant CPR Training and Certification to Expectant Parents (Read More)

Cord Blood Banking in Arkansas (KARK Little Rock)
It's deemed a life saver and now Arkansas health leaders want your help to establish an umbilical cord blood bank. On your state 2007 tax return, you have the option of donating all or part of your refund to help the effort. (Read More)

Family Cord Blood Services Provides Free Infant CPR Training (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Cord Blood Bank Provides Free Infant CPR Training and Certification to Expectant Parents (Read More)

Tags: cord blood cells, donating cord blood

Family Cord Blood Services Provides Free Infant CPR Training (PRWeb)
Cord Blood Bank Provides Free Infant CPR Training and Certification to Expectant Parents (PRWeb Mar 11, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008-cord-blood-bank/infant-cpr-training/prweb754994.htm (Read More)

Family Cord Blood Services Provides Free Infant CPR Training (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Cord Blood Bank Provides Free Infant CPR Training and Certification to Expectant Parents (Read More)

Health: Umbilical Cord Blood Tests (CBS 3 Philadelphia)
The potential to cure diseases with stem cells from umbilical cord blood is being tested at Duke University. The experimental research is bringing hope to many families. (Read More)

Tags: cord blood storage, cord blood

Family, friends seek marrow match (Kane County Chronicle)
ELBURN ? Kim Urquizu already had beaten cancer once. But the chemotherapy that successfully treated one form of leukemia three years ago now has caused another, fast-growing form of the disease to emerge, said Jill Cramer, her cousin. (Read More)

News of the Weirdby Chuck Shepherd (Provo Daily Herald)
In February, a Mississippi judge released two convicted rapists of children, who had each been in prison for more than 12 years, based on DNA. The men had been convicted primarily by the "bite mark" analysis of since-discredited dentist Dr. Michael West, who used iridescent lights and yellow goggles to demonstrate that scratches on the victims were bites by the two men. Subsequent independent . (Read More)

Creating a Cord-Blood Lifeline (Time Magazine)
A baby is lifted out of the uterus while the surgeon severs the umbilical cord. The decision to donate a newborn's umbilical-cord blood is, for many expectant mothers, a simple checkmark on a long list of prenatal choices. But for Noel Beninati, one donor's checkmark offered a lifeline. (Read More)

Tags: cord blood transplants, cord blood bank

Environmental speaker sheds light on toxins (Daily Southtown)
When the Environmental Working Group commissioned a study of 10 people to find if any of 413 toxic chemicals were in their bodies, the group was surprised 287 chemicals were detected. Make that "very surprised," president and founder Kenneth Cook said, because the tests were conducted on umbilical cord blood from 10 newborns. (Read More)

NeoStem Reports Positive Stem Cell Industry Research Trends From The Journal of the American Medical Association and . (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
NeoStem, Inc. , which is pioneering the pre-disease collection, processing and long-term storage of adult stem cells for future medical need, today reported on several positive research conclusions and industry trends presented in The Journal of the American Medical Association and at the recent Third Annual Stem Cell Summit hosted by RRY Publications LLC, in New York City. (Read More)

Saving cord blood (The Trenton Times)
Dr. Margaret Lambert-Woolley has a warning for expectant parents. "You only have one chance to do this," she says. "There's no second chance." That single opportunity? (Read More)

Vietnam to establish first stem cell bank (People's Daily)
Vietnam's first stem cell bank will be set up in southern Ho Chi Minh City by the end of April, local newspaper Vietnam News reported Tuesday. The bank, to be established by Vietnam's Mekophar Chemical Pharmaceutical Co. and Singapo . (Read More)

Tags: donate cord blood, cord blood cells

Creating a Cord-Blood Lifeline (Time Magazine)
Recognizing the treatment potential of stem cells harvested from discarded umbilical cords, some states are pushing to expand cord-blood donation (Read More)

Creating a Cord-Blood Lifeline (Time Magazine)
Recognizing the treatment potential of stem cells harvested from discarded umbilical cords, some states are pushing to expand cord-blood donation (Read More)

Creating a Cord-Blood Lifeline (Time Magazine)
A baby is lifted out of the uterus while the surgeon severs the umbilical cord. The decision to donate a newborn's umbilical-cord blood is, for many expectant mothers, a simple checkmark on a long list of prenatal choices. But for Noel Beninati, one donor's checkmark offered a lifeline. (Read More)

How about a Y? (Asia Times)
I wrote in two previous articles about the destruction of the global financial system ( In gold we trust , Asia Times Online, December 8, 2007) and the vast value destruction in G7 countries Dear dinosaurs , Asia Times Online, October 20, 2007). The plant that grows out of the soil is from the seed that was thrown in, and thus we should see all of G7?s grand errors come back and bite them in the . (Read More)

Tags: donate cord blood, cord blood storage