The law and problematic marketing by private umbilical cord blood banks

Abstract Background Private umbilical cord blood banking is a for-profit industry in which parents pay to store blood for potential future use. Governments have noted the tendency for private banks to oversell the potential for cord blood use, especially in relation to speculative cell therapies not...

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Main Authors: Blake Murdoch, Alessandro R Marcon, Timothy Caulfield
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-07-01
Series:BMC Medical Ethics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12910-020-00494-2