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Umbilical cord blood banking

Australia, New Zealand

• Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Umbilical cord blood banking [2009]

Canada

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Umbilical cord blood banking : implications for perinatal care providers [2005]

Europe

• European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies to the European Commission
  • Ethical aspects of umbilical cord blood banking [2004]

Sweden

• Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care
  • Transplantation of stem cells from umbilical cord blood [2001]

United Kingdom

• Department of Health
  • Cord blood banking in the UK: an international comparison of policy and practice [2009]

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Umbilical Cord Blood Banking [2006]

United States of America

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Cord Blood Banking for Potential Future Transplantation [2007]

• American Society of Hematology
  • Statement in Support of a Federally Funded National Cord Blood Bank Program

• National Academy of Sciences
  • Cord Blood: Establishing a National Hematopoietic Stem Cell Bank Program [2005]

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Cord blood banking for potential future transplantation. American Academy of Pediatrics [2007]

• Office of Health and Human Services, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
  • Cord Blood Banking

Articles in journals

• Blood
  • New trends in umbilical cord blood transplantation [2005]
  • Unrelated cord blood transplantation for childhood acute myeloid leukemia: a Eurocord Group analysis [2003]

• Hematology
  • Umbilical Cord Blood (UCB) Transplantation: An Alternative to the Use of Unrelated Volunteer Donors? [2007]
  • Stem Cell Transplantation (Cord Blood Transplants) [2004]

• Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Untying the Gordian knot: policies, practices, and ethical issues related to banking of umbilical cord blood [2005]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Can Routine Commercial Cord Blood Banking Be Scientifically and Ethically Justified? [2005]

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