To view presentations from the Organisational, Technical and Clinical aspects of Cord Blood Banking conference held in Pescara, Italy, November 11-15 2009 click here.

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Authors: Colleen Delaney, Shelly Heimfeld, Carolyn Brashem-Stein, Howard Voorhies, Ronald L Manger & Irwin D Bernstein

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BBC News

January 18, 2010

When Natalie Salama-Levy gives birth to her second child at the end of next month she wanted to be able to donate its cord blood. But despite the fact that she is prepared to donate to help others, she cannot.

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SIGNIFICANT CHANGES FROM THIRD EDITION TO FOURTH EDITION

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TRANSMED is a curriculum development project funded by the Lifelong Learning Program of the European Commission. Its goal is to design a European master program in Transfusion Medicine. EUROCORD-ED and TRANSMED projects share many key partners including the University of Liège (Belgium), the European School of Haematology (France), the Foundation Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico-Mangiagalli e Regina Elena (Italy), and the Blood and Tissue Bank of Catalonia (Spain). To learn more about TRANSMED, please visit www.transmederasmus.eu

A website from one of the first patients transplanted for Fanconi Anemia with UCB from a HLA identical sister

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To view 8 presentations from The 13th ESH-EBMT Training Course on Blood and Marrow Transplantation held in Latimer, UK, May 25-28, 2009 click here.

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To view 48 presentations from the anniversary conference on The BIOLOGY AND CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF CORD BLOOD CELLS held in Mandelieu, France, October, 2008 click here. (Note: you need to be a registered member to view this content)

Published in the UK Public Service Review, Issue 17.

Article 10, paragraph 2 of the European Directive 2004/23/EC requires the Competent Authority to establish and maintain a publicly accessible register of tissue establishments specifying the activities for which they have been authorised. In addition, paragraph 3 states "Member States and the Commission shall establish a network linking the national tissue establishment registers".

The Eurocet Project, which was funded by the European Commission, has established The Eurocet Registry which will include the name and address of the Tissue Establishment, and the type of tissue and / or cell to which the authorisation pertains. More information on the Eurocet Registry can be found at: www.eurocet.org.