The five minutes it takes to save your child's umbilical cord blood could prove to be a once in a lifetime opportunity to protect your child or other family members from a growing number of life threatening diseases. Umbilical cord blood is a unique source of stem cells, like those found in bone marrow, and provide the most potent supply of these life giving cells.

Stem cells are now being used to successfully treat leukemia, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and other cancers, along with non-cancerous diseases such as dangerous anemias, and researchers are encouraged by the rapidly expanding potential of the medical applications of cord blood stem cells. In time, it will no longer be commonplace to simply discard umbilical cord blood and all of its valuable stem cells after the birth of a child.

We understand there is a lot of information - and misinformation - about umbilical cord blood storage. We want to help you get the facts you need to make the right decision:

• Expectant parents, learn more about stem cells, cord blood preservation banks, and get some helpful pregnancy tips as well.
• Then, learn why CorCell is the right choice, and the only choice, in umbilical cord blood banking.
• In umbilical cord blood banking and the medical community get the latest news and research from doctors and other health care professionals.

If you have friends or loved ones who are expecting a child, give them the gift that could last a lifetime.