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Brit Baby Has Unique Health Insurance - Frozen Umbilical Cord Tissue
medindia 8870 Posts In a first of its kind incident, a British family have had tissue from their baby's umbilical cord frozen as a health insurance in case he falls ill in the future. The "bionic" baby, Daniel Aspinall from Cheshire, will be the first in ...Read More
Posted on : Saturday, November 7, 2009 12:00 AM

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TanyaS
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Every parent should be encouraged to preserve their baby's cord blood. It is the best gift we can give to our children. I recently saw a news segment where a stem cell bank in India, LifeCell International banked the stem cells of a baby and using these stem cells, the baby's sister was cured of thalassemia. It felt great to see how technology can be a life saviour.
Cheers.
Hasmukh

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