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Article: Umbilical cord blood bank offers new hope
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- October 23, 2001
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JUDY SIEGEL
Jerusalem Post
10-23-2001
Headline: Umbilical cord blood bank offers new hope
Byline: JUDY SIEGEL
Edition; Daily
Section: News
Page: 05
Tuesday, October 23, 2001 -- More than 5,000 people around the world unable to get compatible bone marrow to cure their cancer or other serious diseases could be helped if there were enough tissue banks storing umbilical cord blood.
Now Israel has its own central umbilical cord blood bank, dedicated yesterday at Tel Hashomer by Magen David Adom in cooperation with the Israel Cancer Association. New mothers in most hospitals will be asked to donate their baby's umbilical cord.
Eilat Shenar, director of MDA's blood services, said the world's umbilical ...