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Cord Blood
Cord blood bank operational in San Antonio, Texas, now accepting donations
September 1st, 2005
The Texas Cord Blood Bank (TCBB), a publicly and privately funded program established to create a public supply of umbilical cord blood, announced that it has begun collection and storage of the resource. TCBB, a division of the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center, is the state's only public bank for umbilical cord blood. Although usually discarded after the birth of a healthy baby, umbilical cord blood is rich in blood-making cells that can be used, like bone-marrow transplants, to treat a number of potentially fatal diseases. These include cancers, such as lymphoma and leukemias; disorders of the blood-making system, such as sickle-cell anemia; severe immune-system...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-09-01)
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