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September 24, 2009

KQED, LA Times report on UCSF cost-benefit analysis of cord blood banking

San Francisco public radio station KQED featured Aaron Caughey, MD, PhD, a UCSF associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences, and director of the UCSF Center for Clinical and Policy Perinatal Research, in a September 24 report on new research showing limited cost-benefit to private cord blood banking. Findings of the analysis appear in the October issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Caughey is a co-author of the paper. The study also was cited in a September 22 blog in the LA Times.

http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R909240850/b

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2009/09/banking-umbilical-cord-blood-costs-1374246-per-life-year-gained.html