Virgin Health Bank. We provide a unique approach to safe, secure, storage of your new babies  cord blood stem cells supporting access to both today's and tomorrow's stem cell therapies. As you'd expect our team provide families with clear and honest information about this exciting area of medical science, we operate to the highest regulatory and ethical standards are licenced by the UK Human Tissue Authority and our customers come first in everything that we do.

Umbilical cord-blood stem cell transplants are increasingly being used in preference to bone marrow for conditions such as leukaemia and thalassemia.  Evidence shows that umbilical cord blood stem-cell transplants are as effective as bone marrow, result in fewer complications, reduced occurrences of graft-versus-host syndrome, and importantly, they are more readily available.

Because Virgin Health Bank's process collects stem cells from ordinary umbilical cords, ethical considerations related to other sources of stem cells are avoided.

In March 2009 Virgin Health Bank launched it's operations in Qatar from where it will be able to support the development of ethical cord blood stem cell banking in the Middle East.

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