NHS maternity units should not encourage commercial banking of umbilical cord blood
- 12 October 2006
- Vol. 333 (7572) , 801-804
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.38950.628519.68
Abstract
Storing cord blood at birth as insurance against future disease may sound like a good idea to parents, but it has worrying implications for NHS services and little chance of benefitKeywords
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