When her daughter was born, Natasha decided to donate her umbilical cord blood – two years later, her baby was diagnosed with ...

From playing Uno to dancing with her sibling, you would never have guessed that just last year, 15-year-old Sabrina Couillard was fighting for her life. "I was getting really skinny. I was getting ...

‘I donated umbilical cord blood, and another mum’s donation saved my daughter’ - Cord blood is rich in stem cells, and can be used to treat cancer, immune conditions and genetic disorders.

Patients who receive umbilical cord blood transplants for blood cancers now live equally long regardless of their race, new research from UVA Cancer Center shows. The findings, from UVA Health's Karen ...

SEATTLE — Sept. 7, 2016 — Umbilical cord blood transplants may have advantages beyond offering an alternative stem cell source for leukemia patients without a traditional donor match, according to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Natasha Kirkpatrick with her daughter Ellaria, who received a life-saving cord blood transplant in 2022 [PA Media] A mother who ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Outcomes after haploidentical transplant for severe aplastic anemia have improved significantly with use of post ...

A Brit teen with a rare cancer has had her life saved by blood taken from the umbilical cord of a baby born in Spain 12 years previously. Lyra Cassell, 20, underwent the unique transplant at age 16 ...

Umbilical cord blood transplant (UCBT) is vital for patients without matched donors, especially racial and ethnic minorities, despite declining usage due to alternative transplant options. Latinx ...

A University of Colorado Cancer Center study compared outcomes of leukemia patients receiving bone marrow transplants from 2009-2014, finding that three years post transplant, the incidence of severe ...