Banking on the future

• Autores: Jessica Hamzelou
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3139, 2017, págs. 20-21
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Hamzelou discusses if private banking of the baby's umbilical cord blood should be discouraged or at least recommended, according from organisations including the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Private banking seems like an unnecessary expense, wherein there is only a small chance that someone whose parents banked their cord blood will end up using it for such conditions. However, there could be a lot more to cord blood than just treating rare diseases according to a new wave of research. Among other things, David Allan and his colleagues at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute in Ontario assessed the research into cord blood,wherein there were lots of small reports, with no control groups, meaning no one was given a placebo treatment for comparison, which could be harmful.