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As a practicing obstetrician, I encourage my patients to consider saving their newborn’s cord blood and placenta blood stem cells for two important reasons.  First, cord blood stem cells are used to treat as many as 80 life-threatening blood disorders.  Second, important strides are being made in the field of regenerative medicine which is using these stem cells to build different types of tissue. In the future, they could potentially be used for traumatic injuries, diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, and more.

Still it surprises me that only 5 percent of parents chose to save their children’s cord blood and placental blood stem…

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