More Joys of Socialist Healthcare: UK Women May Not Keep Own Umbilical Cord Blood
Britain • March 2009 • Views: 224
SOME NHS hospitals are banning mothers from collecting umbilical cord blood from their babies to use as a possible source for their future medical treatment.
Parents seeking to reserve the blood for themselves so that they can derive stems cells from it in the future are being told they must instead donate it to public blood banks.
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