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

A mother who donated umbilical cord blood after giving birth has described how her own daughter's life was saved by a similar ...

Natasha Kirkpatrick donated her daughter’s cord blood when she was born in 2017. In 2022, she needed a blood donation of her ...

A student who was diagnosed with leukaemia at the age of 16 has credited a "tiny vial of blood" taken from a placenta and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A transplant of stem cells from the umbilical cord has resulted in a mixed-race woman going into remission for HIV for the first time. With any stem cell transplant, recipients can only receive ...

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 ...

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 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 ...