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1 Jul. 2010: July is "Cord Blood Awareness" month

Parent's Guide to Cord Blood Foundation is sponsoring the designation of July as "Cord Blood Awareness" month in the calendar of observances from the National Health Information Center (NHIC).
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8 Jun. 2010:Cryobanks Intnl. sold at debtor's auction

The Orlando Sentinel reports that Cryobanks owes $4.4 million, and if they cannot come up with the money by June 8 they will be sold at courthouse auction.
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4 May 2010: CORD:USE announces Family Bank

CORD:USE Cord Blood Bank, a for-profit public bank under the medical direction of Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg, announced today that they will soon offer family banking services.
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9 April 2010: Natalie Curry Endorses CorCell

Long-time transplant survivor and cord blood awareness advocate Natalie Curry is now a spokesperson for Cord Blood America Inc. (Nasdaq OTC: CBAI) and endorses their private bank CorCell as "the BEST" family bank.
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18 Mar. 2010: Robertson Foundation funds Kurtzberg's work

The Robertson Foundation will give $10.2M to Duke University to establish a Translational Cell Therapy Center under the leadership of Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg.
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12 Mar. 2010: Virginia & Parent's Guide to Cord Blood

Virginia is the first state to require that its Dept. of Health use educational materials from the Parent's Guide to Cord Blood Foundation.
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03 Mar. 2010: Cerebral Palsy - XCell Center report

This month they published a report on the internet describing 100 patients treated for Cerebral Palsy with cells harvested from their bone marrow.
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2 Mar. 2010: "Saving Henry" Published

Laurie Strongin Goldberg chronicles the life of her son Henry, born with Fanconi Anemia.
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21 Feb. 2010: Stem Cell Fraud Accusations

Agence France-Presse reports that Dr. Irving Weissman, head of the embryonic stem cell consortium ISSCR, has called cord blood banks "fraudsters".
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10 Feb. 2010: Cerebral Palsy - 1st controlled CB trial

The Medical College of Georgia announced today that they will conduct the first controlled trial of cord blood as therapy for Cerebral Palsy.
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18 Jan. 2010: Expanded Cord Blood Success

Fred Hutchinson announces the first leukemia trial in which expansion speeds stem cell engraftment.
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15 Jan. 2010: NMDP cross-race matching

The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP; aka "Be The Match") has released a study of the probability that individuals in different racial groups will be able to find a match within the registry.
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31 Dec. 2009: Is cord blood banking cost-effective?

There is a tug-of-war over the future of health care in the USA, and cord blood banking illustrates both viewpoints.
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2 Nov. 2009: Docs need transplant training

The use of stem cell transplants is rising, but there is no specialized training program for physicians entering this field.
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5 Oct. 2009: Bloggers must disclose $ backers

This ruling should impact all cord blood websites and blogs which pretend to be written by consumers but are actually backed by a bank.
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1 Oct 2009: Angie's List features cord blood banking

The October issue of the consumer magazine Angie's List features cord blood banking, both public donation and family storage.
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1 Sept. 2009: HRSA funds 12 public cord blood banks

Map of the 12 public cord blood banks funded by HRSA to collect for the C.W. Bill Young National Cord Blood Inventory.
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1 Sept. 2009: NYBC joins NMDP

As of the end of summer, NYBC cord blood units are listed on the NMDP registry.
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7 July 2009: PGCB press release re educational brochure

CordBloodEducation.org is the web portal to all translations of the educational brochure from Parent's Guide to Cord Blood Foundation. The brochure has been approved by our Sci/Med Advisory Panel and the NMDP.
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27 April 2009: Cord Blood Education and Awareness Act of 2009

HR 2107, “The Cord Blood Education and Awareness Act of 2009”, was introduced by Congresswoman Jackie Speier...
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7 April 2009: NMDP renamed "Be The Match"

Effective this date, the National Marrow Donor Program will change the name of both their registries of bone marrow donors and banked cord blood to "Be The Match".
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25 March 2009: Family Cord Blood Banking Act

HR 1718, “The Family Cord Blood Banking Act”, was introduced by Congressman Ron Kind and cosponsors...
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May 2008: Novus Sanguis Launched

Novus Sanguis is a research consortium funding regenerative medicine research with cord blood stem cells. It aims to be international in scope but is based in Europe.
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8 Jan 2008: Parent's Guide to Cord Blood is a 501(c)(3)

IRS determination letter is issued, designating Parent's Guide to Cord Blood as an official 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity. This status means that all donations are fully tax-deductible.
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1 Oct 2007: PerkinElmer acquires ViaCord

PerkinElmer (NYSE: PKI) announced that they would purchase ViaCell for $300million.
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27 April 2007: Parent's Guide to Cord Blood Incorporates

Parent's Guide to Cord Blood, which has operated an educational website since the summer of 1998, incorporates as a non-profit foundation.
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Feb 2007: ViaCell halts trial of expanded CBT

ViaCell, the parent company of ViaCord, closed their "CB001" phase I clinical trial of transplanting expanded cord blood.
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13 October 2006: Cord Blood America acquires CorCell

Cord Blood America, the public company which owns the family cord blood bank Cord Partners, has acquired CorCell, a Philadelphia company which has been marketing family cord blood storage since 1996.
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28 September 2006: HRSA Awards $50 million for Transplants

Awards have been made for the components of the C.W. Bill Young Transplantation Program.
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12 March 2006: Menstrual blood to save hearts?

At the American College of Cardiology annual meeting, researchers at the Keio University School of Medicine in Japan demonstrated that endometrial cells from menstrual blood have "CardioMyogenic" potential.
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15 February 2006: VITA34 sterile processing

VITA34, a private cord blood bank in Leipzig Germany, has applied for a patent on their sterile technique of processing cord blood.
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25 January 2006: Cord Blood America buys out CORD

A merger in the private banking industry: Cord Blood America, the parent company of Cord Partners in Los Angeles, has bought out Cryobank for Oncologic and Reproductive Donors (CORD) in Middletown, NY.
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19 January 2006:Cryobanks accepts Puerto Rico donations

Today Cryobanks International announced a partnership with the NMDP to begin accepting cord blood donations from Puerto Rico. This will enhance the representation of Hispanics in the NMDP collection.
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20 December 2005: US National Cord Blood Program is law

President George W. Bush signed the cord blood legislation which Congress passed on 16 Dec. 2005, authorizing creation of the C.W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program.
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15 December 2005: Embryonic Stem Cell Scandal in Korea

Woo Suk Hwang of Seoul National University became a famous scientist and a national hero for the unprecedented success with which his lab cloned human enbryos. It all came crashing down with revelations that his workers had broken ethical guidelines and faked cell lines.
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15 December 2005: Cryobanks International joins NMDP

Today Cryobanks International in Altamonte Springs, FL, became a "participating" member of the NMDP.
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3 Nov 2005: Community Blood Services joins the NMDP

The Elie Katz Umbilical Cord Blood Program at Community Blood Services in Paramus, NJ, is now a "participating" member of the NMDP.
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1 November 2005: Stem cell transplants for breast cancer

Musa Mayer tells how clinical trials can go terribly awry through the premature adoption of an unproven therapy.
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27 Oct 2005: Crackdown on conflicts of interest at FDA

The FDA must reveal and justify any waivers of conflicts granted to scientists on the 30 FDA advisory panels.
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18 Oct 2005: First statewide public CB bank in NJ

Public donations of cord blood from throughout New Jersey would be processed and stored at Community Blood Services in Paramus and the Coriell Institute in Camden.
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27 Sept 2005: Organ transplant bribery

An audit by UNOS discovered that a patient in Los Angeles received a liver transplant well ahead of his turn, after his embassy paid a bonus price for the operation.
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7 Sept 2005: Medical Residents Act Drunk

JAMA publishes a study showing that medical residents working "heavy night call" exhibit impaired performance comparable to that associated with 3-4 alcoholic drinks.
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2 Sept 2005: NMDP Patient Resources website

The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) Office of Patient Advocacy has launched a new Patient Resources website.
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3 Aug 2005: First cloned dog, "Snuppy"

Scientists announced today the first cloned dog, "Seoul National University Puppy", or Snuppy, was created by the same team under Woo Suk Hwang that brought us the first cloned human embryo.
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2 Aug 2005: NJ spends $10.5 million on stem cells

The state of New Jersey will spend $10.5 million this year to establish the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey and fund research grants.
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28 July 2005: 1-800-STEMCELLS.com

U.S. BioDefense, Inc. announced the launch of the website 1800STEMCELLS.COM, said to represent a new 501c3 non-profit charity called the Stem Cell Industry Council, but there is no such charity.
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9 June 2005: Oncologist invokes child protective services

National TV has picked up the story of Katie Wernecke from Corpus Christi, Texas. The 12 year old girl is being treated for Hodgkin's Disease.
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25 May 2005: Changed FDA Rules for HCT/P Donors

The new rules take effect today and have been amended because interested parties made clear that their implementation would be impractical in some cases.
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24 May 2005: Congress Defies Bush Over Embryonic SC

By a vote of 238 to 194, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 810 to loosen restrictions on the use of embryonic stem cells.
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19 May 2005: New Human Stem Cell Lines Created

11 new human stem cell lines have been created, according to an announcment in Science magazine from the South Korea laboratory of Woo Suk Hwang, who shocked the world 12 Mar 2004 with the first human cloning.
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4 May 2005: Marketing multi-potent Stem Cells from Cord Blood

The biotechnology company BioE announces that they are the first company to begin commercially marketing multi-potent stem cells extracted from cord blood.
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28 April 2005: Rivarola Resigns as CEO of Max Foundation

Pedro Rivarola resigns as CEO of The Max Foundation, a charity for cancer patients that was founded in memory of his son.
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14 April 2005: IoM issues Cord Blood report

At 4PM EDT, the Institute of Medicine releases the report from the Committee on Establishing a National Cord Blood Stem Cell Bank Program.
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11 April 2005: Stem Cell Legislation in States

Many states have introduced legislation about stem cell research and/or cord blood banking.
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11 April 2005: Free Cord Blood Banking to Siblings

Sibling Donor Cord Blood Program at Children's Hospital of Oakland is the only program in the USA that is federally funded to offer free cord blood banking to siblings of chidren with transplantable diseases.
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11. April 2005: Umbilical cord blood scandal in Korea

Donga.com reports that OB/Gyn's are harvesting cord blood from mothers who are unconscious for C-section, without their knowledge, and selling it for research use at the price of 150,000 won (about $560) per collection.
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6 April 2005: Veterinarian offers stem cell transplants

The Seattle Times reports that dogs can receive stem cell transplants for $25,000.
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27 March 2005: Breast Implants From Stem Cells

British newspaper reports that researchers are developing breast implants from stem cells.
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24 March 2005: Pluristem patent on 3D Stem Cell growth

Pluristem (Nasdaq OTC BB: PLRS) obtains a US PTO patent allowance on their 3-dimensional method of growing stem cells.
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1 March 2005: Partnership Between Viacord and Genzyme

ViaCell (parent company of Viacord) and Genzyme will partner to conduct a clinical trial on the use of islet stem cells to treat diabetes.
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2 March 2005: CBR Files Suit Against Viacord

Cord Blood Registry files suit against Viacord for "false and misleading advertising". After years of all private banks disseminating advertising full of hyperbole, this is the first time one private bank has actually sued another over its advertising.
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3 February 2005: NIH Policy on Enhancing Public Access

The language is released for the NIH Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research.
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7 January 2005: Conflicts of Interest Among Researchers?

"Studied Interest" reports that the nation's medical schools have been heavily infiltrated by pharmaceutical companies, eroding the objectivity of university researchers.
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31 December 2004: Can Cord Blood Transplants Cure AIDS?

A Phase II clinical trial is treating HIV patients using gene therapy in conjunction with an autologous stem cell transplant.
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12 December 2004: Can we cryopreserve entire organs?

Several species of tree frog freeze solid in the winter but come back to life in the spring. What can we learn from these frogs?
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4-7 December 2004: 8 autologous Cord Blood Transplants so far

At the American Society of Hematology 46th meeting, Thornley et al. present a poster paper on family cord blood banking.
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4 December 2004: Harvesting Embryonic Stem Cells Without Destroying Embryos

Scientists testify to the US President's Council on Bioethics that there are two ways to harvest embryonic stem cells without destroying viable human embryos.
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December 2004: Miracle Cures With Stem Cells

"Miraculous" cures with blood stem cells are announced, in time for the Holiday season. The blind can see, the paralyzed can walk, etc.
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1 December 2004: Fighting Cancer With Radio Waves

Cancer survivor John Kanzius is on the fast track to start animal testing of his invention which destroys cancer tumors with radio waves.
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29 November 2004: Scandals rock FDA

FDA surveillance of drugs is described by whistleblowers and Congressmen as grossly inadequate.
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November 2004: Lobbying by Cord Blood Companies

Reported only on this website: Cord blood banks and their allies are spending a small fortune to lobby for control of the proposed National Cord Blood Program.
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2 November 2004: California Voters Approve Proposition 71

California voters approve Proposition 71, "California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative", a $3 billion bond issue to fund stem cell research.
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November 2004: Buying Cord Blood stem cells on-line

In Nov 2004, Cambrex Corp. was selling mononuclear (stem) cells from cord blood donations to on-line. You could add them to your shopping cart and pay by credit card.
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October 2004: Controversy over national CB program

Sue Stewart, patient advocate, writes up "The Controversy" over the structure of the National Cord Blood Program for the Oct issue of the Blood and Marrow Transplant Newsletter. Stewart is the editor of the newsletter.
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24 September 2004: Wharton's Jelly is rich source of Stem Cells

Press release from Kansas State University says that the cushioning material or matrix within the umbilical cord known as "Wharton's jelly" is a rich source of primitive stem cells.
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16 September 2004: Registration Of All Clinical Trials Mandated

The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) has mandated registration of all clinical trials.
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14 July 2004: CorCell merges with Vita34

Two of the oldest private cord blood banks form an international merger: CorCell of USA and VITA34 of Germany now belong to the holding company VITA 34 International AG.
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2 July 2004: Cryo-Cell Class Action Settlement

Counsel for both sides have reached an agreement in principle to settle a class action lawsuit filed against Cryo-Cell by stockholders.
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1 July 2004: CIBMTR created

Effective July 2004, IBMTR and ABMTR have merged to form CIBMTR, and formed a partnership with NMDP.
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25 June 2004: Kenneth Worth Lawsuit

Private cord blood banks reply to a lawsuit by Kenneth Worth (docket# 04cc05566 - California Civil Court, Orange County).
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14 June 2004: Recipients Want Contact With Donors

American Medical News reports that transplant recipients increasingly want contact with donor families.
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29 May 2004: "Promise Mired in Bureaucracy"

Article by the NYTimes condemns power struggles between public cord blood banks.
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6 May 2004: Access to medical journals: Free versus Fee

Over the past few months, the journal Nature has published a series of articles on the "free versus fee debate" regarding access to the scientific literature.
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5 May 2004: Preimplantation Genetic Typing Successful

Preimplantation Genetic (HLA) Typing is an IVF option that allows parents to conceive a baby which genetically matches a sibling. After three years, the success rate is the same as standard IVF.
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April 2004: Creation Of NMDP/ASHI Cell Repository

A contractual agreement between the NMDP and ASHI creates the NMDP/ASHI Cell Repository.
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26 April 2004: Profile of the bank NewBorn Blood Banking

The St. Petersburg Times publishes a profile of the "Mom & Pop operation" Newborn Blood Banking , a couple who operate a private cord blood bank in a building adjacent to their family home.
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6 April 2004: Proposals for split Public/Private banking

Both Pozen and Langer in the US and Nietfeld etal. in The Netherlands have proposed banks which split each cord blood harvest into units which are stored for both Public and Private banking.
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31 March 2004: EU quality standards for tissue banking

The European Parliament issues its Directive on quality standards for all stages of processing human tissues and cells.
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9 March 2004: First Birth from Frozen Ovarian Tissue

A 37 year old woman was able to give birth seven years after undergoing a stem cell transplant, thanks to a successful transplant of frozen ovarian tissue.
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13 - 17 February 2004: FACT merges with Netcord accreditation

The Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT) has combined with NETCORD to develop quality standards for public cord blood banks.
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16 February 2004: CB Stem Cells Repair Heart Tissue

Researchers with Joanne Kurtzberg's team at Duke University announced molecular evidence that cord blood stem cells can infiltrate and repair damaged heart tissue.
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10 February 2004: NMDP will spend $8 million on CB

The National Marrow Donor Program will spend $8 million to expand its cord blood inventory, which is currently 30,000 units, the largest in the United States.
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23 January 2004: Congress requests IoM report on CB

Congress passes $10 million appropriations for a National Cord Blood Inventory. The first $1 million will commission an Institute of Medicine (IoM) study which will decide how best to distribute the funds. The remaining $9 million will not be released until the study is complete.
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21 January 2004: CB banks must register with FDA

Starting today, all cord blood banks must register with the FDA, but they still do not receive any FDA oversight.
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20 January 2004: Political scandal rocks INCA in Brazil

A political patronage scandal rocks INCA, Brazil's national cancer institute. One of the allegations is that politicians used their influence to arrange for constituents to receive free bone marrow transplants ahead of other waiting patients.
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1 January 2004: First State Law Promoting CB donation

As of 1 Jan, 2004, Illinois is the first state in the nation to automatically offer pregnant women the option of cord blood donation.
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6 - 9 December 2003: Wagner admits private banks have merit

Quote: "This case suggests that the private UCB banks' contention that family-directed storage of UCB is a form of biological insurance is not without merit."
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3 October 2003: CDER takes over part of CBER

FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research has officially taken over responsibility and oversight for 59 biologic therapeutic products from the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.
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19 September 2003: Cryo-Cell Europe is now Cryo-Save

All European affiliates of the private American bank Cryo-Cell International have changed their names from Cryo-Cell to Cryo-Save and now describe themselves as subsidiaries of the Life-Sciences Group.
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5 August 2003: Fight for free access to medical research

The Public Library of Science (PLoS) wants to eliminate the subscription fees of medical journals by increasing the charges that researchers pay to publish.
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31 July 2003: NMDP Inventory & Transplants

Current cord blood inventory is 28,220. At any given time, 3,000 patients are searching for stem cells for a transplant.
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24 July 2003: Cord Blood Stem Cell Act of 2003

The House of Representatives introduces H.R. 2852, an amendment to the Public Health Service Act called the Cord Blood Stem Cell Act of 2003.
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5 June 2003: Scandals Plague Gleevec Charity

The NY Times business section reports on scandals plaguing the world-wide program to give impoverished cancer patients access to the revolutionary cancer drug Gleevec (also known as Glivec or Imatinib mesylate).
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13 May 2003: Stem Cells Found In Baby Teeth

A small number of multi-potent stem cells have been found in baby teeth.
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12 May 2003: Selling Donated Cord Blood

The St. Petersburg Times reports on "Mining medical waste", the practice of selling cord blood that was donated for free, by parents who think they are stocking a bank for transplants.
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8 April 2003: Britain will allow a "Designer Baby"

BBC News reports that their Court of Appeal will allow the parents of a child with the blood disorder thalassaemia to conceive a "designer baby" which is a genetic match for a stem cell transplant.
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29 March 2003: FDA stops illegal CB transfusions

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the FDA has seized the records of Dr. Mitchell Ghen, who was giving cord blood transfusions to patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis for $25,000 each.
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7 February 2003: Danger of transplant with the wrong graft

In "a tragic error", Jesica Santillan is transplanted with a heart and lungs of the wrong blood type. Has mis-matched cord blood ever arrived for a transplant?
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7 January 2003: 15 yr old cord blood good as new

Proc. of the National Academy of Sciences publishes a report comparing cord blood frozen 15 years ago versus fresh cord blood .
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December 2002: State Of Cord Blood Transplantation

Review article comparing CBT to BMT.
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31 October 2002: Customer Suit Against Viacord

Voelker v. ViaCell, Inc. et al, Santa Clara Superior Court, Case No. CV812378. A couple in California has filed suit against Viacord for losing the cord blood shipment from their twins.
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26 August 2002: FDA shuts tissue bank CryoLife

TIME magazine reports that the FDA has partially shut down the tissue bank CryoLife, Inc., a leading supplier of body parts from cadavers.
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8 August 2002: Sibling Donor Cord Blood Program

Report on the federal program offering free private cord blood banking to families where a sibling needs a transplant.
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Summer 2002: 1st Transplant Unrelated MSC

Baby Sydney had a transplant for leukemia, receiving both cord blood stem cells and Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSC).
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9 July 2002: First adult CB Transplant in Britain

The Guardian reports on the recovery of the first adult in Britain to receive a cord blood transplant.
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18 April 2002: Clinical trial SCID genetic engineering

New England Journal of Medicine reports 2.5 yr follow-up on five boys treated for X-linked SCID.
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16 April 2002: Stem Cells successful for Multiple Sclerosis

A press release from the American Academy of Neurology announces that stem cell transplants can slow the progression of multiple sclerosis.
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25 February 2002: PharmaStem Lawsuit

PharmaStem Therapeutics Inc. files a lawsuit for patent infringement against private cord blood banking companies.
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26 January 2002: Verfaille finds MAPC's

A team led by Dr.Catherine Verfaille at the University of Minnesota announces that they have extracted "multipotent adult progenitor cells (MAPCs)" from adult bone marrow.
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December 2001: Transplants of multiple cord blood units

Several clinical trials are using multiple (from 2 to 6) mis-matched cord blood units to transplant adults. Surprisingly, although these patients initially show a mix of HLA types, over time most survivors display a single dominant cord blood type.
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1 July 2001: Story of Molly and Henry

The Sunday NY Times chronicles the struggles of two families, the parents of Molly and Henry, who sought to create a designer baby which could serve as a donor for a sibling with Fanconi anemia.
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June 2001: Over 1500 Cord Blood Transplants to date

More than 65,000 cord blood units are banked in public registries in the US and Europe. More than 1500 patients have received cord blood transplants from these banks.
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June 2001: First study of adult Cord Blood Transplants

First study of cord blood transplants in adults published: 90% of transplants engrafted.
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19 April 2001: First Canada transplant of private CB

The first autologous transplant of privately banked cord blood in Canada. The parents of Jesse Farquharson banked his cord blood "on a whim" using the Toronto Cord Blood Programme of Mount Sinai Hospital.
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2 April 2001: First US transplant of privately banked CB

The first autologous transplant of privately banked cord blood in the United States. The parents banked cord blood at Viacord without any family history of marrow disorder.
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April 2001: "Whose blood is it, anyway?"

An article in Scientific American points out that the number of annual births in the US, each a potential source of cord blood, is equal to the cumulative number of potential bone marrow donors.
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5 January 2001: Human Tissue Bank Expose

The Office of the Inspector General of the US Dept of Health and Human Services reports that nearly one quarter of the 154 non-profit tissue banks have never been inspected by the FDA.
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Dec. 2000: Bone marrow has multipotent stem cells

We are learning that bone marrow contains not just hematopoietic stem cells that produce blood cells, but also more multi-potent stem cells which can grow into brain neurons or liver cells.
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October 2000: Adult survives expanded CB Transplant

Moving story of the first adult to survive a cord blood transplant in which the blood was first grown in the laboratory to "expand" the stem cell count.
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26 September 2000: IVF sibling provides Cord Blood Transplant

A child with Fanconi anemia receives a cord blood transplant from a designer sibling.
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July 2000: Over 10,000 NMDP stem cell transplants

Since 1987, the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) has facilitated more than 10,000 stem cell transplants for patients in 25 different countries.
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2000: About 1200 Cord Blood Transplants to date

About 1200 cord blood transplants performed to date world-wide.
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1998: First CB Transplant from private bank

The first ever autologous transplant of privately banked cord blood. A family in Brazil had a son with leukemia, and decided to bank cord blood from a subsequent daughter.
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1998: Leukemia cells date back to birth

"Backtracking leukemia to birth": Children who later developed leukemia had cancerous cells in their blood as newborns.
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1998: Over 600 Cord Blood Transplants to date

Over 600 UCB transplants have been performed to date world-wide (includes some adults).
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1997: 143 Cord Blood Transplants 1988 - 1996

Publication describes 143 cord blood transplants performed 1988-96 at 45 medical centers.
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1996: Cord Blood Transplantation Study (COBLT)

National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of NIH launches 5-year, $30 million study of cord blood transplants from unrelated donors. Study involves 3 donation centers and 7 transplant centers.
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1995: First success in SCID genetic engineering

Donald Kohn, M.D. & colleagues at Children's Hosp. L.A. announce the first successful treatment of ADA-SCID using genetically-engineered cord blood.
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1993: First Unrelated Cord Blood Transplant

The first cord blood transplant using blood from an unrelated donor was performed in the United States in 1993.
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1992: First private Cord Blood storage

The first cord blood unit placed into long-term private storage, just in case the family ever needs it.
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1991: Hematopoetic growth factors approved

FDA approves the use of hematopoetic growth factors G-CSF and GM-CSF. These drugs will revolutionize the practice of chemotherapy and transplantation.
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1990: E. Donnall Thomas Wins Nobel Prize

E. Donnall Thomas, M.D., who performed the first bone marrow transplant, wins the Nobel Prize in medicine, along with Joseph Murray, M.D., who performed the first kidney transplant.
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1988: First Cord Blood Transplant

First successful transplant of umbilical cord blood is performed in France for Matthew Farrow , a 5-yr-old American boy with Fanconi's anemia.
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1988: Cord Blood can be transplanted

Studies led by Edward A. Boyse indicate that umbilical cord blood can be transplanted instead of bone marrow to reconstitute the human immune system.
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1984: National Transplant Act

The National Transplant Act legally mandates the fair distribution of donated organs in the United States. It does not cover blood or tissue.
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1980's: First periphal blood transplant

First transplant of stem cells collected from peripheral blood by apheresis.
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March 1970: First leukemia patient to receive Cord Blood

The first attempt to treat a leukemia patient by transplanting umbilical cord blood, drawn from 8 different babies.
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1970's: First autologous bone marrow transplant

The first autologous transplant, using the patient's own bone marrow, was performed in the 1970's for a lymphoma patient.
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1969: First Bone Marrow Transplants of Humans

E. Donnall Thomas, M.D., led the Seattle team which performed the first bone marrow transplants on adults with leukemia.
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July 1963: First cancer treatment with Cord Blood

The very first human cancer treatment with umbilicial cord blood. The blood from 17 babies was infused into an adult woman with metastatic sarcoma.
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1950: Bone marrow transplants can save animals

Medical research shows that bone marrow transplants can save animals exposed to lethal doses of radiation.
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1939: 1st US Nurse-Midwife School Founded

The teaching of Nurse-Midwifery was introduced to the US by Mary Breckinridge (1881-1965), who founded the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing in 1939, which is in operation to this day.
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