Medical Article
December 21, 1999
The Hope, and Hype, of Cord Blood
By DENISE GRADY
Should parents pay a blood bank to store the blood from their newborn baby's umbilical
cord and placenta, in case that child or another family member ever needs it to treat cancer
or leukemia?
Expectant parents are being urged to do so by companies that have sprung up during the
past few years to sell cord-blood banking as a form of "biological insurance" against …
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…of the cord-blood companies. "My concern is that it be presented
fairly to expectant mothers, who are already fairly vulnerable," he said. "I have a lot of
obstetricians and parents calling me and complaining it's too late, they missed the
opportunity. Others call saying, 'Should I do this?' It's hard to answer. I don't want to bias
them. We have someone now who takes the calls for me because it got to be
overwhelming."
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