NHS maternity units should not encourage commercial banking of umbilical cord blood.
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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 benefit
Medical subject headings
- Blood Banks
- Fetal Blood
- Hospitals, Maternity